Here they are, courtesy of the AFL-CIO. Number one? Aubrey K. McClendon of Chesapeake Energy, who made a cool $100,069,201 in 2008. That’s 100 million. I bet he gets his own parking space too. Number two, at $59,834,630, is Eugene M. Isenberg of Nabors Industries, which I believe manufactures merchandise featuring the picture of fan [...]

At 12pm ET today, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka is holding a live webcast discussion on executive pay Just a hunch, but I’m guessing he thinks they make too much. Watch it here. And here is the union’s Executive PayWatch web site, where you can search for your favorite CEO and his compensation by company name, [...]

Well lookie here, we have one more OddTodd toon up our sleeve. Here’s the Tuesday Morning Coffee Show: Business Edition, in which OddTodd discusses corporate criminals and personal finance in typical vulgar fashion.

From the advertising and marketing blog Thought Gadgets, this post called “Sometimes it makes sense to ignore your customers,” which debunks the notion that customer feedback through social media will provide the answer to all business problems.

Some academic research is obviously very dry, but boy, some isn’t. From the March 19, 2010 issue of European Sociological Review: : Erotic Capital by Catherine Hakim, Department of Sociology, London School of Economic Introduction We present a new theory of erotic capital as a fourth personal asset, an important addition to economic, cultural, and [...]

I guess some freelancers had a little too much time on their hands. From Phil Gyford’s website:

A few times over the past couple of years I’ve discussed with freelancing friends how we miss out on some of the aspects of working in a proper company: the Christmas lunch, the after-work drinks, the fire alarm tests. All that bonding. A couple of us thought that maybe we should start an email list to compensate in some way, although we weren’t quite sure what it would be for. Maybe we’d just send round stupid videos and fail to organise a get-together in December, but it might be fun. So I set up the Pretend Office mailing list with no expectations.

And a weird thing happened.

With no planning, we all started acting as if we were people in a real office. Almost immediately we began to adopt characters and send officious announcements. Soon we were referring to characters in the office who didn’t exist in real life. Meeting rooms were booked, couriers arrived, servers went down, timesheets were requested, and embarrassing emails were accidentally sent to everyone in the company.

If you’re into the visual representation of deep data, Blytic is a site you should be hanging out at. From the About page: Blytic acts as a real-time archive for time series data, providing users with “at-your-fingertips” access to quickly search and navigate the current library of over 20 thousand data series, as well as [...]

From the book How to Keep Your Cool if You Lose Your Job, via Recessionwire, a chart designed to help you visualize your current level of job satisfaction, or desired level if you’re unemployed.

Click on an image to see it full size. More photos here

The head of a management consulting firm writes on his Harvard Business Review blog that companies sometimes lay off relative underperformers simply because nobody understands exactly what they do. When the wrong person is fired, it hurts everyone involved — the person and his or her company. There’s a better way to solve this problem [...]