Oracle shareholders choke on Ellison's package

Your headline...

...is chock full of win, sir.

That is all.

heh

he should sell all his shares and announce "Well fuck you all, see how much money you make now you dumb shits." Walk out and buy a self cleaning sex yacht.

Hmm...

If he was running a bank I suspect a lot more people would have a lot more to say about his pay.

PS I also hate "Going forward" and pretty much all work-speak. Can we have another El Reg vote on if it'll be used, as we did with "mobe"?

Excessive.

Right, firstly, the headline is top notch.

Onto what I wanted to say: @Matt Bryant

"OK, we think you've massively over-perfromed, but we want to cut your pay."

This may be true, but he earned $83m last year. $83m!!! Thats $227,000 (£130,000) PER DAY!!!

Yes, being CEO he takes a large amount of responsibility, so he should be compensated for that. Yes, the company has done well, he should get a bonus. But this is rediculous.

Then again, same cam be said of most CEOs/Execs, Footballers, Politicians... But the shareholders have a right to say "Hold on, this is our company too, stop hogging the dough!"

As do the people working for the company who probably made more of an impact on the profits than Mr Ellison. Its quite obvious that many will be upset with the size of his package.

pay

I agree with Dr Mouse. Ultimately the CEO is just a decision maker. It's the people below him that do the actual work and make things happen. And even when it comes to decision making the CEO will have people doing the necessary research and providing him with advice. Big responsibilities? Sure. Hard work? Not really. Give less to the fat cats and more to the people that actually do the work!

@ Going Forward!!!!!!!

Nice to have a friendly visit from the Language Police, mate. Do come again when you can't stay quite as long. I was wondering, however, about the linguistic correctness of using seven exclamation marks in the title of your comment and whether the use of an entire line of text for one word in all capitals and followed by four exclamation marks be considered, um, "non-standard"? What I was wondering is how you slipped those two examples of non-standard English past your mates in the Language Police. Especially ironic in the midst of a complaint about another non-standard usage, don't you think?.

By the way, congratulations on the public display of intolerance for those you don't like, it's so reassuring to know that all one has to do is scratch the surface and one can find an unforgiving tyrant such as yourself.