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Bankrupt Toys “R” Us wants to pay $16M in executive bonuses

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This is incredibly common to see in a company on the long tail of failure. Attracting and retaining executives in such a company is difficult, but you'll often see board members and significant investors take executive positions in the company and extract and sell off whatever wealth the company has left -- for their own gain.

You can see companies like Support.com doing this now, for example.

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#12

Sears Canada had a similar approach... millions to a bunch of sr. execs and complete default on pensions to the workers. "We need this to save the company" was their cry. We need those sr. executives to get us out of this situation that they've been in charge of for years. Oh, Sears Canada is now out of business and the workers got nothing... but don't worry the executives that the company was so worried about receiv…

Basically, "we need to make sure they are incentivized to perform". "I won't do my job well without a few extra million dollars." And this, "it is the employees - and more particularly the senior management team - that must execute at this critical juncture" ... "Screw you, people actually working the stores, you'll be lucky if we have a pension fund at the end of this. You need to be executing. Bonus? Haven't you he…

Yea I mean it sucks to be a commodity worker vs an executive with experience, connections and ability to join any other company with way less risk and pressure.

You pay them the bank because if they screw up if proliferates all the way down and they lose even more.

Re: Bankrupt Toys “R” Us wants to pay $16M in executive bonuses

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Sears Canada had a similar approach... millions to a bunch of sr. execs and complete default on pensions to the workers. "We need this to save the company" was their cry. We need those sr. executives to get us out of this situation that they've been in charge of for years. Oh, Sears Canada is now out of business and the workers got nothing... but don't worry the executives that the company was so worried about receiv…

I think it would be a good principle to fire the people who ran a company into bankruptcy. Same should have happened during the 2008 crisis. The way it seems to work is that execs need a lot of money if they are successful. And they also need a lot of money if they are unsuccessful.

Re: Bankrupt Toys “R” Us wants to pay $16M in executive bonuses

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post #10

If your business is failing what else are you going to do? The company is asking executives on a sinking skip to not jump and even trying to get some people to jump on. We're talking hiring from a population who would be risking their future careers if TRS goes under and could find much lower risk well paying work somewhere else. Paying a premium is expected. Don't fall for the clickbait on this one -- the company's…

All the politics and chicanery or a fucking kids toy store

You want to understand why the American dream is dying, it's because we prop up this bullshit but not healthcare for everyone

Re: Bankrupt Toys “R” Us wants to pay $16M in executive bonuses

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post #10

If your business is failing what else are you going to do? The company is asking executives on a sinking skip to not jump and even trying to get some people to jump on. We're talking hiring from a population who would be risking their future careers if TRS goes under and could find much lower risk well paying work somewhere else. Paying a premium is expected. Don't fall for the clickbait on this one -- the company's…

All the politics and chicanery or a fucking kids toy store You want to understand why the American dream is dying, it's because we prop up this bullshit but not healthcare for everyone

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Re: Bankrupt Toys “R” Us wants to pay $16M in executive bonuses

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post #10

If your business is failing what else are you going to do? The company is asking executives on a sinking skip to not jump and even trying to get some people to jump on. We're talking hiring from a population who would be risking their future careers if TRS goes under and could find much lower risk well paying work somewhere else. Paying a premium is expected. Don't fall for the clickbait on this one -- the company's…

You don't know the backstory, which is that Toys R Us is a bust-out private equity ploy, where KKR acquired them and larded them with debt, which pushed them into bankruptcy when they would have very likely been solvent otherwise.

Toys R Us Downfall Due to Debt, Not Competition http://fortune.com/2017/09/20/toys-r-us-bankruptc-debt-lever...

Re: Bankrupt Toys “R” Us wants to pay $16M in executive bonuses

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post #10

If your business is failing what else are you going to do? The company is asking executives on a sinking skip to not jump and even trying to get some people to jump on. We're talking hiring from a population who would be risking their future careers if TRS goes under and could find much lower risk well paying work somewhere else. Paying a premium is expected. Don't fall for the clickbait on this one -- the company's…

You don't know the backstory, which is that Toys R Us is a bust-out private equity ploy, where KKR acquired them and larded them with debt, which pushed them into bankruptcy when they would have very likely been solvent otherwise. Toys R Us Downfall Due to Debt, Not Competition http://fortune.com/2017/09/20/toys-r-us-bankruptc-debt-lever...

Perhaps it was the only way the company was able to get sold? If anything, blame the old shareholders for selling to an LBO player.

Re: Bankrupt Toys “R” Us wants to pay $16M in executive bonuses

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post #10

If your business is failing what else are you going to do? The company is asking executives on a sinking skip to not jump and even trying to get some people to jump on. We're talking hiring from a population who would be risking their future careers if TRS goes under and could find much lower risk well paying work somewhere else. Paying a premium is expected. Don't fall for the clickbait on this one -- the company's…

Perhaps having them jump ship would be beneficial, ya know, given their horrible performance.

Re: Bankrupt Toys “R” Us wants to pay $16M in executive bonuses

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I understand that it's hard to read these headlines, but if Toys 'R' Us wants to retain key qualified executives during these delicate times, they must do that and even greater bonuses than a company where an executive also has equity as an incentive.

Re: Bankrupt Toys “R” Us wants to pay $16M in executive bonuses

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I understand that it's hard to read these headlines, but if Toys 'R' Us wants to retain key qualified executives during these delicate times, they must do that and even greater bonuses than a company where an executive also has equity as an incentive.

Perhaps they shouldn't retain those executives.
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