RIP Society of the Day

Former Duke Energy CEO Bill Johnson made out like a bandit after resigning from his position with the company -- 24 hours after assuming the head honcho role. Johnson submitted his letter of resignation the first day on the job, and is now qualified to receive up to $44.4 million in compensation, as long as he doesn't disparage the company and the board decides he resigned for "good reasons."

That list of reasons probably contains about 44.4 million bullet points.

[thinkprogress]