Sentence examples for absurd pay from inspiring English sources

Tournaments also demand increasingly absurd pay packages as workers get higher up the hierarchy.

7) Loss of confidence in leadership: In some companies, a combination of layoffs, financial scandals, and absurd pay gives employees the impression that CEOs are helping themselves at the trough at the expense of the other employees.

The same situation, over and over again -- CEOs and executives make off with insane, almost comically absurd pay packages while workers are laid off and shareholders watch their investments vanish into the ether.

One answer is that it seems absurd to pay several hundred dollars for a cotton T-shirt from a "name" designer when a virtually identical garment can be bought in a supermarket for $10; or to spend almost $300 on a bikini so tiny it would hardly serve as a handkerchief.

This sounds like a bit of a markup, but it is probably small potatoes when you consider some of the absurd prices paid for new works by contemporary artists.

If this version of the afterlife is a metaphor for art, it's a grim one, even if it's also amusing: the implication being that striving for immortality in art is as absurd as paying a fortune to have someone freeze your dead body.

Since there are no issues of principle at stake for the university, it seems like an absurd price to pay".

"This is absurd; you cannot pay someone this much," said Peter Paul de Vries, director of the Dutch shareholders association VEB.

As if shopping with teenagers isn't bad enough, now we can barely see what they want us to pay absurd amounts of money for.

In other words, Mr Messier would have financial ratios little better than those he is struggling to improve today an absurd price to pay for such a strategic retreat.

But none of us are willing to pay absurd rates for cable, and thus we can't have HBO GO.