High'em High
Yet Another Greedy CEO Lays Off Employees While Walking Away With Billions 3/20/2012 5:00AM Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Could there be a worse person than Oprah? She's worth Billions, yet when the numbers don't add up, she kicks her loyal, hard-working employees to the curb.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2012/03/layoffs-and-restructring-at-oprah-winfreys-beleaguered-own-channel.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+newsandbuzz+(News+%26+Buzz)
Hang'em High
RE: Yet Another Greedy CEO Lays Off Employees While Walking Away With Billions 3/20/2012 7:27AM - in reply to Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Maybe I as a little tough on her. I guess even the billionaires are struggling and deserve our sympathy, too.
Uncle Bud
RE: Yet Another Greedy CEO Lays Off Employees While Walking Away With Billions 3/20/2012 7:44AM - in reply to High'em High Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
[quote]High'em High wrote:

Could there be a worse person than Oprah? She's worth Billions, yet when the numbers don't add up, she kicks her loyal, hard-working employees to the curb.

All the richer billionaire are worse persons than Oprah
Mitt Romney
RE: Yet Another Greedy CEO Lays Off Employees While Walking Away With Billions 3/20/2012 7:53AM - in reply to High'em High Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
I like firing people.
come at me BRO
RE: Yet Another Greedy CEO Lays Off Employees While Walking Away With Billions 3/20/2012 7:53AM - in reply to Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

U American idiots wrote:

This is Obama's economy, dumb@ss. He can't blame Bush anymore.


The impacts of a president do not end at some predetermined time after they have left office. Policies and actions can affect matters 10-20 years down the road. Defining an economy as one presidents is stupid. Both Obama and Bush have had hands in where our situation is right now.
Brick Nick
RE: Yet Another Greedy CEO Lays Off Employees While Walking Away With Billions 3/20/2012 7:59AM - in reply to come at me BRO Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

come at me BRO wrote:

Both Obama and Bush have had hands in where our situation is right now.


Yeah. Bush brought us to the depths and Obama is gradually bringing us back to the light.
In Another Light
RE: Yet Another Greedy CEO Lays Off Employees While Walking Away With Billions 3/20/2012 3:36PM - in reply to High'em High Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
What does her wealth have to do with retaining employees? Are they employees for life just because she is loaded?
The Thing from Another Thing
RE: Yet Another Greedy CEO Lays Off Employees While Walking Away With Billions 3/20/2012 3:43PM - in reply to In Another Light Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Well, this new Oprah Network, whatever it is called, ain't working out so well. Offhand, if you asked where it was on my cable system, I couldn't even tell ya.
Twitched
RE: Yet Another Greedy CEO Lays Off Employees While Walking Away With Billions 3/20/2012 3:49PM - in reply to High'em High Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Worth does not equal income nor cash on hand.
Oprah does not have a billion dollars to spend.
J. Buffett
RE: Yet Another Greedy CEO Lays Off Employees While Walking Away With Billions 3/20/2012 3:54PM - in reply to High'em High Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
she will get a pass because she is a lib. and has the best of intentions, no business common sense, but deep pockets that she can throw money at the problem until her financial advisers say it's time to cut back the work force and restructure

Just ask the man at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,
no business experience or common sense, but he likes to spread the wealth (your wealth, your tax dollars) as he bets on winners and losers. If he lucks out and these green companies actually turn a profit and keep from going belly-up he wins re-election, if they lose, people start noticing how incompetent he is and retire him.

Those that drank the Kool-Aid in 2008 will never notice his incompetence, they will just say he's really, really unlucky.
What we need now is more hope and change.
A. Liberal
RE: Yet Another Greedy CEO Lays Off Employees While Walking Away With Billions 3/20/2012 4:17PM - in reply to High'em High Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
The CEO's personal wealth and the business structure that works best for a particular business venture are unrelated.

Do you think that a CEO with $10 Billion in personal wealth should be making different business decisions than one with $10,000 in personal wealth when overseeing the exact same business? If you do you must be one of those cons and there is simply no hope for you.

Cons will be the ruin of this nation.
I am an Icahn
RE: Yet Another Greedy CEO Lays Off Employees While Walking Away With Billions 3/20/2012 6:14PM - in reply to High'em High Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
You can blame Oprah, but even she is not the boss...
the Discovery Channel people invested $300 million
and all these Oprah hanger-oners who had little to
no network programming experience are being let go.
These are overpaid ($100,000 a year salaries) and
underworked paper pushers and mid-level execs.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118049296