More Crazy Severance Packages

from the oh,-these-are-fun dept

Since people seem to enjoy hearing about the ridiculous severance packages execs have been getting as their companies collapse, here's another good one about the payoffs that two top Lucent executives received. It seems they're getting nearly $10 million between the two of them. I wonder how much the 40,000 or so employees they've been laying off this year have been given in severance.

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