Bill Owens: Telecom Wheeler and Dealer

So this is what Comrade Owens has been up to.

He also reminds one alot of Mister Rogers..an older one at that.
Just listen to one of his speeches.
Would you be, Could you be my boat anch...er neighbour.

Internally, he was called Admiral Gilligan.

The Admiral kind of reminds me of Captain Crunch on a heavy dose of qualudes
and valium. He just wasn't all there.
He looked like a man overboard and is acting like that now while collecting a hefty paycheque. Same crap happens at cisco or lucatel.
Even worse in the government.
Joke.

Captain Crunch on a heavy dose of Qualudes and Valium. He just wasn't all there.

That's a keeper.

John Roese doesn't understand a single thing about Nortel; he doesn't have to, he's hyper-connected...--bb

Probably underwater he was a submarine commander.....

Ya know, this is the kind of nonsense (and not the worst example, by far) of why people are so down on nortel. I hope John Roese reads this and then understands why people make snide comments on his blog.

Yah, Owens gets $99,073 dollars a month... how many employee jobs could Nortel pay for $99,073/month? Probably about 10 or 11 North American jobs gone to pay Bill Owens 'pension'

And the rich continue to get rich on the backs of the middle class.

The worse part of Bill Owens getting ridiculous amounts of money monthly,is that now he is essentially competing against Nortel by participating in a group that wants to bring Huawei into North America,a place where Nortel still holds an edge over Huawei.

Imagine that a $100k a month and competing against the company who is actually paying this amount of money to him.

Some human beings have no conscience,and there has actually been a study that examined the brain processing of individuals who are viewed in our society as people who have an immense sense of self entitlement,like certain business leaders,politicians and other public figures.

Maybe this package awarded to Bill Owens was the part of the BOD of Nortel,but to be involved currently with a group of investors that want to bring a competitor of Nortel's to North America with the hopes of taking away some of Nortel's pie just shows that Mr.Owens falls into that category of little or no conscience along with a disproportionate sense of self entitlement.

Most of these individuals also have no sense of shame,does that remind you of any other public figure that has been on the receiving end of absurd amounts of money?

Does it really matter if his stock options are underwater? He's still making a killing at NT employee's expense. When I see these execs raping the company like this after no visible positive contributions during their tenure it makes me wish NT would just go bankrupt so they can't milk it anymore.

2.9 million stock options...which have to be underwater...unless he REALLY got a sweetheart deal.