How to 'kill' a CEO
2009-04-23
In its song "5 Million Ways to Kill a C.E.O.," the rap group The
Coup makes vicious fun of the greed of the top executive of
companies. "Toss a dollar in the river," it raps, "and when he
jump in, if you can find he can swim, put lead boots on him and
do it again." Czechs prefer defenestration and are in the process
of tossing a few CEOs out their eurowindows. What really riles
Czechs are high salaries that are kept secret from the public.
Blesk tabloid is leading the charge against CEO Petr Žaluda of
Czech Railways, who revealed his salary but conveniently forgot
to mention a big chunk of it. The tabloid hasn't fully caught up
with CEO Martin Roman of ČEZ yet. He has said in public than he
earns €1m per year, but he led reporters this week to believe
that his salary is less than a fourth of this. The Coup has a
solution. "We could let him try to change a flat tire. Or we could
all at once retire."
[Czech Republic rapper chief executive officer]
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