'They were all fired': CEO gets $7.5 million bonus one day after laying off 1,200 employees

It has become an unfortunate standard practice for companies to lay off a handful (or two) of employees, show investors a speckless graph, and give themselves bonuses. CEOs, board directors, and management, in general, are becoming greedier as time goes on, and are also becoming less ashamed about it. The polite thing to do would be to hide such avarice, but the fact of the matter is, they just don't care. And how could they? 

They're not even seeing the people they fire face to face; they send someone else to do their dirty work. Instead, they just sit on their high horse at one of their million-dollar beach houses somewhere in Florida. In this case, an employee took to Reddit and shared his fury over the fact the CEO and board director of his company received a $7.5 million bonus one day after laying off 1,200 employees.

Commenters were outraged… scroll down to read the full discussion. For more stories like this, here is an employee who got back at a rude customer when he accidentally bumped into him at his workplace. Turns out they both worked in retail…

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