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This is a normal post I work for one
and you really aren't there for salaries or pay offs like that, so Amnesty appears to have lost it's way. I mean for fuck's sake:

"The payment to Bangladeshi-born Miss Khan, who has a reputation as a campaigner against poverty, was more than four times her annual salary of £132,490."
 (I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Sat 17 Nov 2012, 12:31, , Reply)
This is a normal post ^this
The annual salary I can understand - if anything I'd say that was cheap for getting someone to run an organisation that large. The vast payoff seems indefensible for a charity though, especially considering the Non-Disclosure terms.
 (I helped save b3ta! wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Sat 17 Nov 2012, 12:37, , Reply)
This is a normal post I have also worked in the charity sector, which validates me as a person
You need to weigh the good that Amnesty does against pissy Daily Mail bullshit like this when making a decision about whether to donate. Plus it's an eighteen month old story. Granted, it was quite a big story at the time, but it doesn't happen often (cf. more recent similar stories oh wait).

Also, even though the size of the payoff wasn't announced, all charities publish detailed accounts. Amnesty spend 20% of every donation on fundraising, admin and governance. they don't disclose exactly how much of that 20% goes on kickbacks for greedy execs with highly paid employment lawyers, but I'm guessing it's not a lot. Meanwhile, the other 80% goes on doing really important stuff. Try not to forget about the really important stuff, because it's really important.
 (dermoth Tonton Zola Moukoko., Sat 17 Nov 2012, 12:57, , Reply)
This is a normal post My point was this was published in the Independent yesterday; I read it on the tube on the way to work
It's not about Daily Mail sensationalism, which 9/10 times I would naturally agree with you on, but those pay offs were nauseating for a charity to be making. If you make the career choice of working for a charity financial settlements like that are not what people donating to the cause would expect to be paying for, by any measure.

I work part time for my one, leaving me the rest of the week to earn money on the side off the radar of the Inland Revenue, and do my own thing.
 (I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Sat 17 Nov 2012, 13:14, , Reply)