BillyS - 4:17 pm on Dec 23, 2009 (gmt 0)

>>I don't know why in the world people expect Google to act differently than almost every other corporation on the planet, but somehow they sure seem to.

Agree. And folks act like Google is a person. It's a corporation that answers to shareholders.

>>I figure the PIP team at Google are all pretty well off and consider the monthy payouts just part of the routine and thus, probably never gave it a single thought.

This has been mentioned numerous times in that forum. Google doesn't even have to send out these payments until the 5th of the following month. I did the math in this thread [webmasterworld.com] and Google loses about $10M a month by sending checks two weeks earlier than necessary.