Money makes some people crazy – in lots of different ways

As part of the process of writing for this blog, sometimes I go sailing off into the wild blue yonder of the Internet to see what’s new in the world of resumes and related job seeking activities. Sometimes it comes to me through email, and sometimes I just stumble upon it.

In the case of today’s salary-related post, a combination of the two has led me here. Amy Quinn at HR World has been letting me know about some articles they’ve recently posted, and I’ve been exploring their site a bit as a result.

This article, which I found under their Payroll section, was possibly one of the most interesting things I’ve read all year. How could you not love a piece entitled “Tales of Outrageous Compensation,” anyway? Especially when the feature by Christina Wood starts off with this attention-grabbing opener:

“The world of compensation can be strange and unpredictable. Some people do invaluable work for a pittance while others make more money than any human could possible spend simply for being who they are. Even when salaries find some normalcy, there are creative compensation arrangements out there that prove that every paycheck is as individual as the relationship between the people paying and the one receiving the paycheck. Read on for some of our favorite tales of outrageous compensation.”

And unlike the “craziest story you ever heard of” holiday party story I flagged in the last blog post, these stories either come from journalistic sources, from consultants who were there when it happened, to managers and executives who went through it and lived to tell about it.

What’s the craziest compensation tale you know? And to keep it honest, make it yours or someone you know personally (no “I heard a friend of a friend of a colleague said…” stuff). Do tell!

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