# Occupy Wallstreet

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**Created:** [September 29, 2011, 12:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/occupy-wallstreet/260647 "2011-09-29T12:57:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cossey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Cossey](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Cossey)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/occupy-wallstreet/260647/103 "2011-10-06T14:38:53Z")

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> [@Run your car with water?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/run-your-car-with-water/45873/15):
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> and that’s fine.
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> so you are aware what a bonus is, right? bonuses are rewards for hard work and over reaching your company’s goals.
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> these banks failed. without the help of the government, they wouldn’t be in business. the bailout money was to keep them from failing. so in the end, the executives did not reach the goals as the companies were on “welfare” and thus they should not have received a performance based bonus.

Do you know if they were performance based bonuses or not? Were you there when they were reading their contract and could note any clauses regarding performance and bonuses?

I’m well aware of what a bonus is. Sometimes, there are performance based bonuses, sometimes there are not.

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