[gaius]

With a golden parachute and his pension fully intact? That is conspicuously absent from the article but it is usually the way. And no bar in being a director of another firm. The executive class are a law unto themselves.

What happens to the lowly engineers pressured into cutting corners to meet an arbitrary deadline and denied the resources they needed? No such lavish rewards for them.

[crunchlibrarian]

Even the Wells Fargo execs responsible for actually breaking laws and stealing from customers got their compensation. If you can afford a top drawer law firm then why not steal everything that isn’t nailed down? There is no rule of law once you get to this level.

[sarreph]

> why not steal everything that isn’t nailed down?

I like that phrase a lot, I think I might use it :)

[heavenlyblue]

>> What happens to the lowly engineers pressured into cutting corners to meet an arbitrary deadline and denied the resources they needed? No such lavish rewards for them.

What makes you think they didn't get their overtime paid well enough?

[meowface]

Do you know of any developers who get paid overtime?

[rimliu]

I know. It was in Europe, and the employer in question is a bank. Overtime needs to be authorised, and if it is, it’s paid according to the law.

[heavenlyblue]

Nope, but I know quite a few who get paid enough not to care about overtime.

[philjohn]

I mean, the IT platform switch was forced on him by the Spanish parent bank that owns TSB.