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"Or that the company spent half a million this year in severance costs to terminate employees?" That's not much. Is Wired trying to make me think that is a lot
by Danieru 12y ago
"Or that the company spent half a million this year in severance costs to terminate employees?"
That's not much. Is Wired trying to make me think that is a lot? Or are they trying to play it against the salary figures? Considering they spent valuable words in the first sentence to make it clear that the top brass is "mostly" white males I get the impression the comparison was supposed to mean something.
- legohead 12y agoFrom another article I saw [1] it appeared that there was half a million spent in severance for a single employee. Others were listed as well, in 100k range, and the article author left out the names of the employees. [1] http://fusion.net/story/30850/ http://fusion.net/story/30850/
- b3tta 12y agoIMO if an article starts with > Who knew that Sony’s top brass, a line-up of mostly white male executives, earn $1 million and more a year? I'm already putting my expectations for the rest of it on the same level as those for this famous one: > I don't care if you landed a spacecraft on a comet, your shirt is sexist and ostracizing. (http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/13/7213819/your-bowling-shirt-is-holding-back-progress http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/13/7213819/your-bowling-shir...) I wonder when it's time to start yelling "Oh no the overly politically correct youngsters, which are offended by everything are coming! Hide yo kids! Hide yo wife!"
- GFK_of_xmaspast 12y agoTake it to stormfront.
- foldor 12y agoActually the "mostly white males" comment struck me as an interesting side note. Sony is a Japanese company, so for it to be run by "mostly white males" is something that seems noteworthy in itself. Though I doubt that's what they were going for when they wrote that.
- RaptorJ 12y agoNot Sony but Sony Pictures Entertainment which is an american subsidiary.