Darth Vader: “You are in command now, Admiral Plett”

Plett: (nervously) “Thank you, Lord Vader”

  • @[email protected]
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    195 days ago

    Leaders at Allied Universal, which provides security services for 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies, said their phones were “ringing off the hook” on Wednesday with potential clients. Allied covers a wide spectrum of services — including stationing guards outside offices, chauffeuring executives, surveilling their homes and tracking their families.

    Protecting a chief executive full time costs roughly $250,000 a year, said Glen Kucera, who runs Allied’s enhanced protection services.

    NYT article

    • skulblaka
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      205 days ago

      Protecting a chief executive full time cost roughly $250,000 a year

      So it costs less than one major life saving surgery then.

    • peopleproblems
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      95 days ago

      $250k a year?

      That’s it?

      Sounds like it needs to get a bit more expensive.

      • palordrolap
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        145 days ago

        If assassins started going after the guards, those guards might want more danger money.

        For legal reasons, this is an observation not a suggestion.

        • @[email protected]
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          25 days ago

          If I ever wanted to ruin a megacorporation for ruining my life, I’d start going after the lowest wrung of the ladder. Give two warnings and then execute the plan on them. Non-fatal accidents and the like. Warn again. Move on to the next one. Warn them etc. Repeat as long as necessary. Never go for the higher ups that can afford security.

          This will probably never happen to me, because I don’t live in the late stage capitalist hell-scape.