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The word retention is being mistaken too.
They "retained" some of their top employees so they would finish their jobs, instead of them all leaving as a herd when the company was clearly going down a mountain on a bicycle with no brakes. By promising them a bonus, they agreed to stay on until their job was complete.
It's not that the employees were going to stay indefinitely, people are mixing that up.
Think of it like this. You're building a big home, the contractors are all there working. Then a hurricane hits, and they're like fuck this, the whole job has changed, and we have other shit to worry about now.. So you promise them a bonus to stay and finish the home.. Once the home is finished, they leave..
In this case "completion" is not AIG back on its feet and the government paid back, it's simply whatever their job was to mitigate damages to AIG etc, they completed their portion, and now it's over.
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