shocking /sarcasm

We can only hope the shareholders that are NOT United executives show-up at the stockholders meeting on Thursday and vote the entire board out.

If this does not happen, United will be on the fasttrack to the extinct species list with such other airlines as with Pan-Am, Braniff, Eastern, etc.

Well, with that kind of company performance, those executives wouldn't ever get hired ever again, so they might as well get as much blood from that stone as they can.

@Applekid: Ha! You must be kidding. Once you hit upper management, you're set. You simply ride a merry-go-round of companies, make millions, and nobody ever questions your performance...until its too late and you get your parachute.

I'm shocked... this has been up over an hour, and no one has posted to say that executive overcompensation and the lack of any relationship between company performance and executive compensation have nothing to do with the foundering of corporate America. Where ARE those trolls?

Does this mean I should be spending my United miles sooner than later?

Unconscionable greed at its best.

I was joking going to post this before reading the article, "Damn, y'all are hating! You know the CEOs gotta stay fly and get that cheddar."

After reading it, this isn't even something to joke about.

Tilton et al will pitch a new executive-incentive plan at the airline's annual meeting in California on Thursday. If approved, it will create 8 million new shares for the benefit of the top brass.

Ben and Co., I think the Consumerist should start a list, or competition, for the worst *managed* company in America.

Not just evil companies like in your Worst Companies in America contest, those companies at least attempt to turn in a profit and keep their employees. But for companies like United and Sprint that are run by CEOs that defy common sense and continue to run their companies into the ground.

Reminds me of the list F*ckedCompany use the maintain.