Amazon.com, The Bodyguard

theodp writes "While the press is running Amazon's standard we-can't-make-our-CEO-accept-more-than-$81,840 line again this year, the e-tailer's recent SEC filing does disclose an interesting new compensation tidbit. On top of what it spends to provide security for its CEO at business facilities and during business travel, Amazon shells out an estimated $1.1 million a year to cover the cost of security arrangements for billionaire CEO Jeff Bezos. Holy Jack Welch, Batman - that's a lot of door desks!"

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he needs it.. duh

[Toba82]

Things we know:
1) A lot of people on slashdot hate patents.
2) Jeff Bezos loves patents.
3) A lot of people on slashdot hate Jeff Bezos.

4) A lot of people on slashdot are libertarians.
5) Libertarians approve of gun rights.
6) A lot of people on slashdot have guns.

And:
7) Profit!

Re:he needs it.. duh

[rethin]

Freaking l00z3r. A *real* geek would just hack into NSA or SAC and arrange for somebody to be accidently dropped on his head.

No a real geek would fill his house with popcorn. Then hack an orbiting space laser ...

Oh wait, that's a real genius

Re:Seems reasonable

[jdcook]

"Better than the $160,000/hour some ceos make"

That's just the sort of blinkered philistine pig-ignorance I've come to expect from you non-capitalistic garbage. I'll have you know that outgoing Exxon CEO, to whom you obliquely refer, was earning a mere $26,384.62/hour. ($686 million over 13 years, assuming 2000 working hours a year.) And I bet you pretend you'd be willing to handle the demanding tasks of a planet-raping CEO for half that. As if! It'll be a sad day for America when our CEOs are outsourced to India. Won't someone think of the billionaires?