Despite spreading recession, US CEOs demand huge pay raises so why not RENT A CEO ?
DITCH THE OLD CEO with his FIFTY MILLION DOLLAR GOLDEN PARACHUTE. HIRE A KID OUTTA STANFORD a new CEO you rented! WILL WORK TWICE AS HARD and only demand 3,000$ a month salary!
I've been pondering long and hard how to save Wall Street from the coming T$unami and by Jove, I got a super idea out of my morning paper! Two gals opened a high tech kitchen that passed inspection with the city, two steel sinks, slatted floors that could be pulled up and cement below hose-washed, a solid steel, l0 burner stove with two industrial sized ovens. They rent it out to dozens of food based businesses, wannabe boutique-line food producers, whether caterers, bakers, vendors, wholesalers to food shops.
The kitchen ladies get 25$ the hour and they have fudge makers, jam makers, quiche and cookie bakers lined up to get in! They had to rent the space all day and all night long. A shift arrives at midnight and there's another shift at 3 am, all by appointment. The reason is that even the tidiest entrepreneur in the food marketplace with a kitchen at home is forced to create the food in a 'certified kosher kitchen' with that city's licensed seal of approval to sell goods at even a crummy, dusty outdoor farmers market, so the cooks all come up with the money somehow, and add cost to the finished product. (Now I know why Jam is 8$ a jar at the farmer's market!)
When I read that article, I swear, a light bulb went off over my head! Every corporation in American is forced to pay the USURIOUS going-rates for CEOS to get a semi-savvy captain at the helm. These days, the going rate is 11 million a year -- not even counting bonushes and stock options. Even the ones who do that nasty 'creative' bookkeeping (which of course ends up making the corporation tank!) get that sum.
Most big corporations can't even attract a CEO unless they pay the going rate, so they're stuck with owners and idiot nephews running things. Most owners never even went to business school! Idiot nephews never went to school period!
So....It occurred to me, why not start a "RENT A CEO" BUSINESS and lease out hotshots with MBAS by the day, hour or even the year? Maybe just have' em show up for the board meeting. Hourly rate!
This high concept Rent-A-CEO business would skim off the real cream, savants and geniuses fresh out of egalitarian, Public College business schools with a sleek, A-grade point average. Then RENT A CEO would offer them up to the marketplace for a neat 100k a year and hustle the meat by putting snapshots online with a big grinning photo, kinda like an online dating bureau. "KEVIN, got 850 on his SATS, then a scholarship to UC Berekely, got his MBA June 07 with a Modern music Minor, plays flute, Grade A average, speaks fluent Chinese, single, can travel, loves moonlight walks, will live anywhere but particularly fond of the Rockies so Denver, take note!"
As most entry level college grads can only make about 40 thou a year tops, if they get l00, the MBA kids are happy as clams. Corps will love it. Fresh, honest young numbercrunchers, on the hoof! The Corporation gets someone who is not a part of that corrupt 'good ole boys' Yale/Harvard Club of Greed. A Win Win situation!
And just HOW BAD is the CEO THING these days? PRETTY BAD! Found this online, by Jim Lanier
"Amid the onset of a recession sparked by the ongoing collapse of the mortgage bubble, and calls for massive wage and benefits concessions from workers, US corporate management is continuing to award
itself immense salaries and golden parachutes.On April 6 the New York Times reported on a survey by research firm Equilar of chief executive officer (CEO) pay at 200 companies with yearly revenues over $6.5 billion. Equilar found that average pay for CEOs with two years’ experience or more in 2007 was $11.2 million, up 5 percent from 2006. Including newly hired
CEOs, average pay was $11.7 million. By comparison, US median household income in 2006 was $48,000.CEOs in larger firms typically rake in far larger salaries, even when they have presided over financial catastrophes for their firms. Equilar’s report found that the CEOs of the 10 largest financial firms in the survey were collectively paid $320 million, while their firms reported mortgage-related losses of $55 billion and the market price of their stock fell by over $200 billion.
On March 19 Business Week reported on the compensation of top executives at Bear Stearns, the major Wall Street investment bank that failed in March due to a collapse in the value of its mortgage-backed securities. The Federal Reserve intervened to take Bear Stearns’ obligations onto its books, organizing a bailout with JPMorgan Chase. Tens of thousands of workers have lost their jobs and, with the collapse in the value of Bear
Stearns stock, their retirement.From 2002 to 2006, Bear Stearns
Chairman James Cayne, CEO Alan Schwartz, and former Co-President Warren Spector
received total compensation—in salary, bonuses, restricted stock, and stock options—of $156 million, $141 million, and $168 million, respectively. Their bonuses between 2002 and 2005 ranged between $9 million and $12 million.Business Week writes: “Then came the fattest year of all, 2006. Bear’s mortgage origination and other credit products grew at a 27 percent clip, and the company’s expansion into these areas really paid off, at least for those at the top of the pay pyramid.... Cash bonuses jumped to more than $16 million for Cayne, Schwartz, and Spector.” Less than 18 months later, the “credit products” underlying these bonuses were worthless.
Payoffs to CEOs when they accept or resign a position are often even larger. Citigroup, which wrote off over $20 billion in losses in 2007 and whose shares fell 47 percent, paid $216 million to hire its new CEO, Vikram Pandit. This included $165.2 million in connection with Citigroup’s $800 million acquisition of Pandit’s former firm (“alternative investment” specialists Old Lane Partners), $2.7 million salary for Pandit’s six months as head of
Citigroup’s alternative investments division, and $48 million in stock options.In recent months, the pay packages of a number of financial executives have gained public attention, especially in the light of the collapse of mortgage-backed “alternative” or “exotic” investments. Despite Citigroup’s disastrous performance, its former CEO Charles Prince retired in November 2007 with a $68 million retirement package. In October 2007, after investment bank Merrill Lynch had written down over $12 billion in bad mortgage debt, its
CEO Stanley O’Neal left with a severance package of $161 million, on top of his $48 million salary.Exorbitant CEO pay demands are prevalent throughout the entire economy, going far beyond financial firms. In January 2007 retailer Home Depot ousted its CEO, Bob Nardelli, for poor stock performance and an abrasive personality. Nardelli, who went on to become CEO of automaker Chrysler, took a $210 million severance
package. When pharmaceutical firm Pfizer fired its CEO, Hank McKinnell, in July 2007—amid layoffs of thousands of workers and $4 billion in losses—McKinnell took a severance package of over $180 million.Such stories demolish commonly repeated claims that CEOs’ exorbitant pay is justified by the value they add to their companies, or by the enormous cost of hiring an executive capable of expert stewardship of a major corporation.
Instead, top executives are each looting tens or hundreds of millions of dollars from their companies, as their irresponsible management—perhaps best symbolized by the failed gambling on large-scale issuing of subprime mortgages, which are by definition very risky investments—decimates their companies’ bottom line
and stock value.To the extent that companies cannot find replacements for such executives who do not demand similar compensation and behave in similar ways, this simply points to a broader social problem: all major decisions at large corporations are taken by representatives of an elite class whose immense wealth effectively shelters
them from the consequences of their actions.The cynicism and complacency of this layer were highlighted in an April 6 column in the New York Times by Ben Stein, titled “In the Boardroom, Every Back Gets Scratched.” In the essay, Stein noted that CEOs’ salaries are approved by corporate boards, which are periodically nominated by CEOs and approved by shareholders. This effectively gives CEOs huge power over board members who will set their salaries.
Stein gives a remarkable description of the life of the members of a corporate board—often members of top management at other corporations. He writes: “To be a member of the board of a large company is a little example of paradise. You get good pay for just sitting in a meeting and listening to summary presentations.
You get insurance and a pension. You can go to luxurious resorts and play golf. What the heck are [airport] security lines? You fly in private jets. Sometimes you get stock options, and these can be meaningful. In other words, it’s nice to be the director of a public company. How do you keep your job? You are really nice to the person who put you in that job.”Even having observed, however, that “the nation has become, to some at the top, far more of a looting opportunity than a family,” Stein cannot bring himself to condemn the situation. Instead, he blandly concludes: “Your basic human is not such a hot item—and the structure of the joint stock company does not bring out the
best in us.” Though Stein is unquestionably correct regarding the behavior of the CEOs of today’s joint stock companies, as to his toxic pessimism about humanity one can only reply: speak for yourself. To masses of people who work for or depend on the decisions of major corporations, the looting carried out by top executives is not the inevitable reflection of human nature, but a direct threat to their jobs and living standards. For them, the behavior of CEOs and boards at joint stock companies will reveal above all the destructiveness of placing private profit above the needs of society."
When Money is the national religion, every CEO
wants to be the Pope. That's my excuse. What's YOURS?
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