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- jggube, on 04/03/2008, -0/+13"Is Chris Albrecht gonna have to choke a bitch?" :)
- pcpimpster, on 04/03/2008, -0/+13Seems as if all these guys are good for is getting drunk, playing golf and tanking their employee's 401Ks. I wish would have gotten a better education...
- inactive, on 04/03/2008, -0/+11LOL. Trolling a finance forum.
- erydan, on 04/03/2008, -1/+8Buried for being another slide show.
- plizard, on 04/03/2008, -0/+6ahh man i was going to use the dirt eating scam :(
- pinetree, on 04/03/2008, -0/+5Interesting idea for an "article" (slide show), but the writing is incredibly half-assed.
For example, item #5:
"Chuck Prince - Not so flush - Citigroup CEO Chuck Prince resigns after the company takes an $11 billion write-down."
Care to explain why this is a boss behaving badly? At a glance, the guy was doing a bad job and he quit, instead of continuing to collect a paycheck while running the business into the ground. So, what is bad about it? Did he get some obnoxious bonus when he left? Fortune doesn't say.
Another example, item #4:
"Doug Parker - Fly the well-at-least-he-didn't-have-to-use-an-air-sickness-bag skies - Just hours after US Airways comes up short in its $9.8 billion bid to acquire Delta, CEO Doug Parker is pulled over by police in Scottsdale, and arrested for drunken driving."
OK, drunk driving is a dick-headed thing to do, I'll agree with Fortune there. But, what is Doug Parker the CEO of? Is he the CEO of US Airways, Delta, McDonalds, or what? With all of this talk about a failed acquisition, you would think Fortune would explain what Doug Parker had to do with it. We could guess, but how about some clear writing? - CaptainKimo, on 04/03/2008, -1/+6It seems like the only people who succeed are those with no morals or ethics.
- 6minuteabs, on 04/03/2008, -4/+7I expected to see numerous references to hookers and blow. Buried.
- BoneheadFarker, on 04/03/2008, -0/+3Bosses are people too...but when bosses ***** up, they get a golden parachute. When everyone else ***** up, they end up in the gutter. That's the difference...
- blakespot, on 04/03/2008, -0/+3It's the soul's midnight.
- julialopez, on 04/03/2008, -0/+3"I like Mackey's haircut. I think he looks cute" - at least he had his priorities in order.
- dupswapdrop, on 04/03/2008, -0/+2I worked at one company that the CEO was drunk so much that we sometimes didn't get our paychecks till Monday because it took two days to sober him up enough to sign checks. I am talking 500 people waiting.
- PresRob, on 04/03/2008, -0/+2They should have included salaries with each story.
- JAG731, on 04/03/2008, -0/+2Next to the over-used "Hack" term, and the beaten dead horse "After the jump" phrase, multi-page lists are friggin' annoying!
- The_Dude, on 04/03/2008, -0/+2 James Cayne
Remarkably, he has yet to be weeded out
In July, as Bear Stearns executives futilely attempt to prop up two hedge funds that ultimately collapse amid the subprime meltdown, CEO James Cayne spends ten of 21 workdays out of the office, playing golf and competing in a bridge tournament in Tennessee. According to The Wall Street Journal, his fellow bridge enthusiasts claim that Cayne sometimes smokes marijuana at the end of tournament sessions.
SEE! Weed is bad for ya! Bear Stearns goes under because of pothead. - luchid, on 04/03/2008, -0/+2There is a "." and "," button in your keyboard for a reason. Please learn about punctuation.
- agent42, on 04/03/2008, -1/+3gotta hand it to the guy who started "VaporTech" and lied (and succeeded) in getting all that investment cash.
- webyatri, on 04/03/2008, -1/+3I worked for a small company who hired a ceo who was supposed to sell the company. I got this from our IT guy that he would browse porn, russian mail order bride sites. He hired an assistant he kept as his local mistress(his family lived on the other coast). He sold the company for peanuts and I would hear him lie about his current company , inflating all figures by x10 to get another CEO position through his golf buddies. He would personally lie in front of the whole office about being somewhere else while he would be in office,etc. And he was a god fearing , 65 year old family man who would never stop lecturing about ethics and morals.
- surKaz, on 04/03/2008, -0/+2you gotta hand it to him... and he did get handed a 30 month term...
- MattB123, on 04/03/2008, -0/+2Meh. Some of it was pretty bad but it's not all that shocking or unusual IMO. Pretty shallow "article".
And who cares if James Cayne smokes pot? It doesn't seem to me like that matters in the big picture. Stuff like taking investor's money is what people need to be concerned with. - Zaggynl, on 04/03/2008, -2/+3quite right, SCREW SLIDE SHOW WEBSITES
- joshhan, on 04/03/2008, -3/+4In this case, *it's too* late for you.
- buschyboy, on 04/03/2008, -3/+4No Bill Clinton? Oh, it's a CNN article. My mistake.
And apparently it's not true that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, just ask Chris Albrecht. - blakespot, on 04/03/2008, -1/+2http://www.workingamerica.org/badboss/
- SkippyDoorknob, on 04/03/2008, -0/+1Didn't the guy from Overstock.com do a bunch of crazy stuff? Or am I thinking of another guy?
- gsadamb, on 04/03/2008, -1/+2Funny, yes, but also a little sobering. These are the people who head giant corporations and are in a position to affect the livelihood of thousands of people directly, and the economy as a whole more indirectly. These are the kind of people who our current administration trust to be self-policing.
- smek2, on 04/03/2008, -0/+1Wow, so many *****.
- retawd, on 04/03/2008, -0/+1If you go to the 'Sex, Drugs, Celebrities' part the second item is a toy made of beads that when ingested turn into GHB. Made me think of Michael Jackson.
- flashingcurser, on 04/03/2008, -0/+1Startup company called "VaporTech" that steals money from eager venture capitalists.
So beautiful I almost cried. - twoblink, on 04/03/2008, -0/+1I looked in wikipedia under "Peter Principle" and it gave a link to the story..
- fani, on 04/03/2008, -1/+2"HBO President Chris Albrecht allegedly punches and chokes his girlfriend while drunk at 3 A.M. in a Las Vegas parking lot."
WTF is it with this 3am everywhere? Is that the most happening time of the day now ? - WoollyMittens, on 04/04/2008, -0/+1The content you have to wrestle 7 pages through could have fitted on ONE screen. Are they retraining powerpoint creators as webmasters?
- inactive, on 04/03/2008, -4/+5What we need to find out is if these guys are Rep or Dems, because if they are Dems its OK.
- ArachnidDude, on 04/03/2008, -0/+0which means he's now getting it stuck to him.
- pcpimpster, on 04/03/2008, -2/+3You're the guy who critiques everyone's spelling. CaptianKim is the other guy.
- espek, on 04/03/2008, -2/+2And if they're repressed homosexuals that like to have sex with Senate pages they got to be Republicans, right?
- mahdaeng, on 04/03/2008, -2/+2[[And he was a god fearing]]
Uh, no he wasn't. - chanop, on 04/03/2008, -2/+1I saw the title, and was expecting a "girls gone wild" type video. I wanted to see these CEO's getting down and dirty
- CaptainKimo, on 04/03/2008, -3/+2Its never to late.
- fulibs, on 04/03/2008, -5/+1who hasn't wanted to choke their girlfriend from time to time, he is just living the dream...
- fulibs, on 04/03/2008, -5/+0Who hasn't wanted to choke their girlfriend from time to time, he is just living the dream...
- inactive, on 04/03/2008, -6/+0so what bosses are people too you wouldnt be so mad if it wasnt a boss so why be haters pathetic
- lnxfi, on 04/03/2008, -19/+10Digg me if your boss is a giant douche.
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