from the symbolically-useful dept We’ve noted how Warner Brothers CEO David Zaslav is poised to receive a $550 million golden parachute from the sale of Warner Brothers to Paramount, despite the fact that his tenure has been broadly viewed as disastrous at best. Zaslav oversaw years of dysfunction during the last wave of pointless Warner Brothers mergers, which included tens of thousands of brutal layoffs, consistent creative infighting, endlessly higher prices, cancelled programming, and a steady wave of overall dysfunction. And that’s before we even get to this latest merger with Paramount, which is expected to  see more layoffs and chaos than ever . Warner Brothers investors this week voted to finalize the merger between Paramount and Warner Brothers anyway . Though a majority of investors also voted against giving Zaslav his comically outsized compensation package.…