Recent revelations that many corporate executives have backdated their stock options, ensuring excessive compensation even when their companies perform poorly, are merely the latest in a stream of examples of bad business behavior. In an era of evaporated pensions and benefits for the rank and file, piggish pay packets for CEO’s have led a cynical public to wonder where big business has gone wrong.
最近，许多公司行政人员被披露将其股票期权的起算日期提早，以确保即使在公司业绩不佳的情况下也能获得超常丰厚的回报。而这仅仅是新近层出不穷的不良商业行为之冰山一角。在这个养老金和普通职员的福利人间蒸发的时代，CEO们的贪得无厌让早已寒心的公众在愤懑之余不禁要问，大公司究竟怎么了？