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( Severance package song lyrics )
TOUGH JOB
Copyright © 2007 - mickterry.com

1: On the job for only six years,
he'd already made a hundred forty million.
On the job for only six years,
yes, and now he's been asked to leave.
Stocks would sink twelve percent
as he raked in all his zillions.
Who would think he's worth that much
when I work almost for free?

CHORUS:
It's a tough job, but somebody's got to do it.
How do I get a job like that? Who do I have to kill?
It's a tough job, but somebody's got to do it.
Don't tell me I'm overqualified. I know I fit the bill.

2: On the job for only six years,
compensation was a problematic issue.
On the job for only six years,
his performance was not that great.
They must be mortified.
Let me get his wife a tissue.
How will she begin to live
a lifestyle that's second rate?
CHORUS:

BRIDGE:
It's a nice job if you can get it.
It's a nice job. It'll keep you off of the streets.
It's a nice job if you can get it.
It'll put a roof over your head
and some shoes on your children's feet.

3: On the job for only six years,
there's no way to know what maybe can be pending.
On the job for only six years,
yes, a CEO's life is rough.
There'll come a day you might be fired
and your cushy job is ending.
Severance pay: two hundred mil.
You think that might be enough?
CHORUS:

CODA:
The high cost of leaving in failure.
How would it have been if he'd done a decent job?
The high cost of leaving in failure.
As a worker, customer and human,
I feel I'm being robbed.

Copyright © 2007  MICK TERRY  Silent Tree Music  All rights reserved
[ Reprinted here by permission of the composer-lyricist ]   BMI
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3-29-08:
Top two Countrywide Financial Corp. execs to get $19 million+
from Bank of America after fostering catastrophic mortgage crisis.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/29/countrywide.ceo/index.html

8-7-07:
Chrysler hires Home Depot ex-CEO Bob Nardelli.

1-4-07:
Home Depot CEO Bob Nardelli forced out by Board of Directors
with a severance package totaling $210 million.
Only the latest in a recent series of
exorbitant severance packages for ousted CEO's.

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