Just for the hell of it...Mattel CEO Salary

[Highway61]

This is the salary of the assmunch who is poisoning your children
Total $5,994,559

http://www.forbes.com/finance/mktguideapps/personinfo/FromPersonIdPersonTearsheet.jhtml?passedPersonId=936055

WTF.... enough is enough

[porphyrian]

1. Well, yeah, think of all the money he made the stockholders...

...by closing American factories and outsourcing to China.

[Nomad559]

3. The Highest Paid CEO

Also Outsources To China

Apple's Steve Jobs tops list of highest paid CEOs
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/05/04/apples_steve_jobs_tops_list_of_highest_paid_ceos.html
Despite a $1 yearly salary, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs still managed to top Forbes' list of highest paid CEOs for 2006, raking in more than $646 million through stock-based compensation -- more than twice that of the next highest paid boss.

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iPod maker admits breaking Chinese labor laws; says Apple approved sweatshop labor
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/9988

"Apple Computer is getting into a deep PR mess over the antics of one of its Chinese partners," Nick Farrell reports for The Inquirer.

"After denying that it was running a sweatshop that would be familiar to Charles Dickens, Apple's Ipod manufacturer, Foxconn has finally admitted that it broken Chinese labour laws," Farrell reports.

[NYC]

5. That's what counts to corporations.

That's why we need regulatory agencies to protect us from them.

[goddess40]

2. Is that yearly

or weekly ;)

and what do the people make who have to put the lead paint on Mattel's toys?

[cureautismnow]

4. A Steve Austin, astronaut wannabe.

He can buy an awful lot of chelation therapy for lead poisoning with that kind of bread.

[here_is_to_hope]

6. I will say this...

..its been a blessing in disguise for us and our little one. The Grandparents were forever dragging her to Sprawlmart to buy all of this cheap chinese plastic crap. The toys are junk, last a week and generally disappoint. I told them I would rather she focus on learning how to "use" one or two learning games than a pile of shit in the closet.
I put my foot down at least four times, even told them to put the money in a piggy bank instead. Now that they have learned of these poison toys, they seem to have come around.
A little.

[FloridaJudy]

7. His Chinese counterpart killed himself

When the scandal over the lead paint hit the news.

While I'm not advocating suicide, it seems unfair for this mercenary bastard to get off free with his millions. A small donation - say 90% of his salary to children's medical care - seems appropriate. That would still leave him with way more than his average employee ever gets.

[goddess40]

8. We just had our local fair - what was in those prizes?

I can't imagine what people were carrying around in those "prizes". What kind of vile stuffing did they use and what's going to crawl out of it in the middle of the night.

Was I the only one that even thought there might be a problem with those cheap stuffed prizes?

[Wednesdays]

9. So, if the average American salary is $40,000 that means

he works 150 times as hard as the rest of us. :eyes:

[progressoid]

10. Grrrrrr

[Mend]

11. on Keith last night, the report said that Mattel knew for 2 weeks there was

contamination before telling the public...

[Canuckistanian]

12. And the killer part is - he'll still get his bonus this year

I don't understand how CEO's can drive companies into the ground, all the while being lavished with stock options and bonuses. Then, when they leave, a giant golden parachute.

What, exactly is their motivation to do the right thing?