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(In the same meeting he was asked about the bonus scheme that year, he said our bonus was "Continued employment". Ho ho ho.)
I worked for a big IT recruitment group (as a developer, not a recruiter) and the founder was very much like that. Turned up in a brand new Ferrari the same day as 10% of the company was made redundant.
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A former CEO (several companies ago) once told a long rambling anecdote in an attempt to rally the troops about how he got pulled into a deal as it just wasn't closing, and after listening to the endless back and forth between the customer and sales team he asked how much they were quibbling about. The answer came as $1500.
"But that's just a pair of shoes!" he says!
This, of course, went down like a bucket of sick in a room full of lowly developers some of whom $1500 is probably the total they spend on shoes in 20 years.
(In the same meeting he was asked about the bonus scheme that year, he said our bonus was "Continued employment". Ho ho ho.)