I think back to AT&T CEO John Walter who was barely at the job 11 months before he was forced out. He made a nice tidy sum of money plus a new house for his efforts.

" Under the terms of his contract, Walter, 50, will receive separation payments totaling about $3.8 million, AT&T said. This is in addition to the $22 million provided to replace salary, pension and bonuses Walter forfeited when he left R.R. Donnelley & Co. last October after nine years as the publishing company's CEO."

article: http://money.cnn.com/1997/07/16/companies/att/ article 2: http://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/17/business/after-9-months-at...

EDIT: added another link.