Comment on Water Boss Handed £270k Bonus Despite Parasite Outbreak

• tenebrisnox@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Can you explain how that works for the least paid water CEO who earns £440k + bonus? Or the highest paid who receives £3.3 million + bonus?

  I think I understand that you’re making some sort of abstract, generalised point about CEO pay - but can you explain how that applies here to the pay of water fat cats?

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  • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This applies here due to the phrasing of the headline - the headline implies that the CEO got rewarded for doing a bad job based on being paid a “big” bonus. But their pay structure is structured in a way where this is a usual and expected part of their pay.

    This isn’t really about what water company CEOs are paid but journalists using CEO pay structure for an outrage inducing headline.

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