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Old 03-26-2009, 09:22 PM   #323
classicman
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Originally Posted by sugarpop View Post
As I said before, this could have been avoided if the company had just agreed to pay them the bonuses AFTER they paid back the taxpayers. It isn't right for that burden to fall on taxpayers, when they are themselves losing jobs and having to take cuts in pay, etc.
Yup, they could have just hired a bunch of outside contractors from some temp agency to figure it all out - That would have been much cheaper, faster and more efficient - right?

And call them what they were - retention payments not bonuses.
If that word was not used this would never have been an issue to begin with.
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