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Re: No Paycuts at Microsoft?

Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Pay checks for Gates, Ballmer fall short of $1 million
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer may be valued in
> | the billions of dollars, but they didn't quite crack the $1 million mark
> | in annual salary and bonuses for the last fiscal year.
> |
> | Each saw slight salary hikes, to $616,667 in fiscal 2006 from $600,000
> | in 2005. But they also pulled in reduced bonuses--$350,000 in 2006, as
> | opposed to $400,000 in 2005.
> `----
>
> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6122597.html
>
> These are symbolic figures, but nonetheless...

It's pathetic what passes for "advocacy" these days.

For starters read Microsoft's annual SEC filings and you'll see that
operating expenses increased last year because of "increased employee
salaries" - Raises... not paycuts.

Somehow you manage to twist in your mind that because two of the
richest men on the planet received slightly less of what amounts to
"pocket change" for them it somehow has some significance.

Breaking news for you Roy.... Gates and Ballmer aren't going to care or
notice that their paycheck was 3% less last year. It's ironic that you
worry more about their pay than they do.

Once again, it's pathetic what passes for "Linux advocacy" these days.


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