BBB CEO leaps to death

These threads get derailed so quickly.

Being a CFO of a Fortune 500 company is not an easy job. Being the CFO of a struggling Fortune 500 company is brutal.

Still, it couldn’t be that bad unless he dumped the majority of his own money into the stock.

Tragic.

Being a CFO/finance exec/CPA firm owner is very stressful… I worked at a CPA firm and I heard from HR that a cpa partner committed suicide

Usually someone is CFO at certain companies for two years or so, gets stock options, and if the stock doesn’t perform well, for reasons outside their control, they get screwed

:-) changing narrative

I never thought bed bath and beyond was a worthy store. There were some even deals but overall value for the money never stood out at those stores. How did they last this long?

We don’t know his net worth despite his high income. It’s possible he made bets that put him deep enough in debt that he didn’t feel like he could ever crawl out of it. The richer you are, the bigger risks you can take, and sometimes people do that with their own money instead of other people’s money because of overconfidence.

It could also be a relationship, mental health, or drug abuse issue. Tragic any way.

Oh

A post about the actual thread subject.

I wonder who had the idea for the 20 percent off coupons that always send out.

This is pretty suspicious. They must have been committing financial fraud (which is 20 years in prison under RICO). Or he knew something someone didn’t want him to know. Executives don’t kill themselves unless it’s something really, really bad. Such as the CEO of American Energy who drove into a bridge at a high speed the day after being indicted for antitrust crimes.

I bet if this Bed Bath and Beyond guy would’ve landed on a stack of My Pillows he would have survived.

Karma baby.

Took less than a page for a thread about a BBB executive killing himself to devolve into Iggy whining about black people in Target ads.

Classic LRC.

Now we know. He was facing insider trading and fraud charges.