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January 22, 2009
One WHALE of a Chicken Apparently
...is in his pot.
H-P chief's family sure likes to eatThe excellent Footnoted blog digs up a curious item in Hewlett-Packard's (HPQ) new proxy filing. CEO Mark Hurd was reimbursed $80,000 for taxes on meals eaten last year while on business travel with family members.
Lemme repeat: $80K on JUST the meal TAXES. I have also appropriated the picture accompanying the article...
...since one of the comments following the article is so...pithy.
Nothing says 240K worth of food like a picture of corn dogs...
Indeed.
Posted by tree hugging sister at January 22, 2009 12:10 PM
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80K in TAXES on meals? Where's he eating, Sweden?
I smell a rat. And not the stir-fried kind either.
Then again, I may just be bitter because my "travel meal plan" when I travel for work tends to be "a jar of peanut butter and a box of crackers."
Most of us don't get expense accounts these days.
Posted by: ricki at January 22, 2009 12:26 PM
And didn't the government just pull your peanut butter...?
Posted by: tree hugging sister at January 22, 2009 12:30 PM
No, just the pre-made cheez cracker thingies, apparently some plant in Ga that churned out PB for food processors had a bad batch.
Luckily my Skippy is still OK.
(I used to buy Peter Pan, but they had problems of their own...then I switched brands and decided I liked Skippy.)
Posted by: ricki at January 22, 2009 01:56 PM
This guy probably had the actual Peter Pan hand-making the peanut butter for him, in order to ring up 80 grand just in taxes on it.
Posted by: nightfly at January 22, 2009 02:03 PM
Huh. I didn't know Michael Jackson had that as a sideline.
Posted by: ricki at January 22, 2009 03:54 PM