In an interesting article I picked off of Google News
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/03/08/BUG8QHK6S01.DTL&type=business
it seems HP is being sued by Stockholders because they gave their last CEO a huge bonus for/after leaving of ~$42 million.
I don’t know about you, but it has always confused me why an exec who hurt a company gets any kind of bonus upon leaving. [...]