Would anyone be OK with $40 Mils severance?

SSSnail

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For failing at your job? I know I would be.

Yes, it's another Coco and the Chin thread, and I am disappoint.
 

FoBoT

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no , i would lawyer up to get more

make them throw in a car at least

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DaWhim

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Feb 3, 2003
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conan is not exactly getting 40MM, right? 40MM is for him and his tonight's show crews.
 

JS80

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Oct 24, 2005
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The real fail is zucker. He probably gets paid $25m a year for leading NBC down the toilet.
 

BoomerD

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Feb 26, 2006
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Yeah...I could get by until I found another part-time bookkeeping job...:p
 

alkemyst

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for most of us i'd be insane not to take a $40MM payout.

For someone like Conan or other celebrities, it's probably not that great a deal unless they can become employed around their same level elsewhere within a few years/months/days.
 

tcsenter

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Sep 7, 2001
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Had Johnny Carson did to Leno what Leno did to O'Brien, nobody would know who Jay Leno is. NBC would have pulled his sorry ass for poor ratings within a week, because (predictably) most Tonight Show fans would've followed Johnny Carson to wherever he went (except to the place they cannot follow him - retirement).
 

her209

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Oct 11, 2000
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$40 million is nothing when talking about CEO golden parachutes. For example, the CEO of Home Depot got $210 million. link
 

JMapleton

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Find a job where you become scarce or irreplacable and you can get that much coin.
 

Eli

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Had Johnny Carson did to Leno what Leno did to O'Brien, nobody would know who Jay Leno is. NBC would have pulled his sorry ass for poor ratings within a week, because (predictably) most Tonight Show fans would've followed Johnny Carson to wherever he went (except to the place they cannot follow him - retirement).

Wait, what did Leno do to O'Brien?
 

0roo0roo

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depends how much you were paid to begin with.
its not like coco was earning 50k a year before.
loss of prestige and general ass f*ck esp since his entire crew had to upend their family/lives to move makes it all a bit sour regardless of the payout.