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Technology Stocks : Vari-L (VARL) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RobertSheldon who wrote (2203)	5/16/2000 1:58:00 PM
From: John J. Riley	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2702

Another point of view from the Yahoo Board that seems to take the middle ground. I too think the CC was loaded with softball questions. Can't we at least agree that management has dropped the ball here???? Management compensation by: kreic45 5/14/00 1:12 pm Msg: 4822 of 4827 Alcoa Paul O'Neill $6,400,000 for 107,700 employees = $60/employee Vari-L J. Kiser $613,000 for 219 employees = $2,800/employee Granted there are economies of scale for Alcoa, but with such high pay shouldn't management doing a bang-up job for the shareholders? Five-year record: Alcoa - from 22 to 66 - a 200% increase Vari-L - from 12 to 16 - a 33% increase Management expects shareholders to be docile, take whatever management gives them and throw them softball questions. I think that shareholders work hard to save money, to investigate stocks, and we all put our time in at our jobs for much less pay. I could sell my Vari-L stake but I think they have the best engineers and products in the wireless business and has tremendous potential. With a little prodding management might wake up to the fact that shareholder value does matter and everybody would benefit if they were more responsive to shareholders. I have sent emails and snail mails to Dave Sherman with absolutely no reply. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------