several AT&T executives won big bonuses for closing the Time Warner merger. General Counsel David McAtee got $5 million, and twelve others got $2 million each. Stephenson got $8 million one-time payment.
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Studied harder? It is an old boys club and hard to crack the code and get in....I have an ivy league education multiple masters and probably better educated then most execs but no chance of movement here....Peace out... I am looking...
Kind of ironic, the executive crew that LOST $4 BILLION on the T-mobile deal gets rewarded.....
I should have studied harder. Meanwhile, I will just keep waiting for one of those senior executive positions to pop up in the My Career portal so that I can put in for it.
I wish it was me! Admit it, deep inside you're upset not being part of this group.
I’d like to say good for them, but really I just don’t get it. Who in their right minds would agree to stuff like that? Oh that’s right, it’s a big club and none of us are in it. How many investments could have been made with that money? How many jobs saved or budgets increased? You pay some dufus figureheads all that cash for what?
the top five Time Warner executives the wait has been worth it.
Together they'll walk away with combined exit packages of $180 million.
CEO Jeffrey Bewkes will collect a little more than half of that money – about $97.7 million , and $33.2 million in severance, and the retention bonus he received
yep pretty disgusting.
A fish rots first from the head.
We are taught as parents not to reward our kids for bad behavior. The BODs are bad parents and the c-suite bad kids.
in the jungle everyone is rich