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HankB

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Being a CEO isn't allways fun and games . . .
« on: September 23, 2008, 11:09:31 AM »
Wonder if anyone over here will take notice . . .

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Corporate India is in shock after a mob of sacked workers bludgeoned to death the chief executive who had dismissed them from a factory in a suburb of Delhi.


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4810644.ece

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Re: Being a CEO isn't allways fun and games . . .
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2008, 12:21:22 PM »
Let them eat cake!

And the blood of incompetent CEOs.
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Re: Being a CEO isn't allways fun and games . . .
« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2008, 12:33:16 PM »
Quote from: HankB on September 23, 2008, 10:09:31 AM
Wonder if anyone over here will take notice . . .

Yeah, because it would be great if American workers would start doing stuff like that, and if every CEO lived in fear of reprisal for down-sizing. 
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Re: Being a CEO isn't allways fun and games . . .
« Reply #3 on: September 23, 2008, 12:33:59 PM »
Quote from: fistful on September 23, 2008, 11:33:16 AM
Quote from: HankB on September 23, 2008, 10:09:31 AM
Wonder if anyone over here will take notice . . .

Yeah, because it would be great if American workers would start doing stuff like that. 

I wouldn't be opposed to the old American practice of tarring and feathering con artists when they were caught, though.
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Re: Being a CEO isn't allways fun and games . . .
« Reply #4 on: September 23, 2008, 12:37:22 PM »
Quote from: Manedwolf on September 23, 2008, 11:33:59 AM
Quote from: fistful on September 23, 2008, 11:33:16 AM
Quote from: HankB on September 23, 2008, 10:09:31 AM
Wonder if anyone over here will take notice . . .

Yeah, because it would be great if American workers would start doing stuff like that. 

I wouldn't be opposed to the old American practice of tarring and feathering con artists when they were caught, though.
Any indication that this particular CEO is was a con artist?
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Re: Being a CEO isn't allways fun and games . . .
« Reply #5 on: September 23, 2008, 12:47:23 PM »


Looking for the reference....  and didn't find it...  disregard, not sure where I read that.
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Re: Being a CEO isn't allways fun and games . . .
« Reply #6 on: September 23, 2008, 05:51:11 PM »
I'll tell you one thing, I met an Indian guy a long time ago who ran a motel in Joisey. He was formerly a chemical engineer in a little place called Bhopal and worked for a little company called Union Carbide, you may have heard of it. He was hiding out in Joisey because his life wasn't worth a plugged nickel in India anymore. Yep, they got no problem with reprisal over there.  shocked
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Re: Being a CEO isn't allways fun and games . . .
« Reply #7 on: September 23, 2008, 05:57:32 PM »
So what did he do to warrant that? 

The way I heard it last was a worker the govt forced them to hire left some water lines turned on and left the plant.  But I guess there are probably a lot of stores running around.
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Re: Being a CEO isn't allways fun and games . . .
« Reply #8 on: September 24, 2008, 12:09:49 AM »
Didn't companies in the 1930's in America buy Maxim guns for such events?
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Re: Being a CEO isn't allways fun and games . . .
« Reply #9 on: September 24, 2008, 01:15:45 AM »
Quote from: 41magsnub on September 23, 2008, 11:47:23 AM
From what I read this guy was trying to do the right thing.  The employees were laid off because of the violence in the region preventing them from being safe at work. 

Quote from: HankB on September 23, 2008, 10:09:31 AM

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Corporate India is in shock after a mob of sacked workers bludgeoned to death the chief executive who had dismissed them from a factory in a suburb of Delhi.


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4810644.ece



Irony....thy name is Delhi.....  laugh
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Re: Being a CEO isn't allways fun and games . . .
« Reply #10 on: September 24, 2008, 03:42:38 AM »
Quote from: Manedwolf on September 23, 2008, 11:33:59 AM
I wouldn't be opposed to the old American practice of tarring and feathering con artists when they were caught, though.
Hear hear!  grin

Was just watching the DVD of the miniseries John Adams the other day . . . the scene where a crowd of Colonials had a dispute with one of the Crown's port officials was most instructive, especially after the cry of "Tar Him!" was raised.
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Re: Being a CEO isn't allways fun and games . . .
« Reply #11 on: September 24, 2008, 06:30:22 AM »
Quote from: MechAg94 on September 23, 2008, 04:57:32 PM
So what did he do to warrant that?

You talking about this guy?
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He was formerly a chemical engineer in a little place called Bhopal and worked for a little company called Union Carbide, you may have heard of it.

Do a search for 'Bhopal' and 'Union Carbide'.  Hint:  It makes Chernobyl look like TMI.

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