Been saying this on lemmy, and getting varying degrees of love and hate. “Look at this man! (Please don’t look behind the curtain.)”
All y’all hating on CEOs and pointing fingers are behaving and believing exactly as the boards of directors wish. This also ties into golden parachutes. They sound obscene to those of us with “real” jobs, but think on it. You take a high-paying CEO slot, but you’re not so much in control. The board can order you to pull some heinous shit to get what they want, then fire you when the public backlash hits. (Remember reddit doing exactly that with Chao?)
Yeah, I want a fucking parachute. It’s an insurance policy, nothing more. At least at my shit job, I won’t get fired for following my manager’s orders. (Yes, we can make up scenarios where that’s not true, I know.)
Yes, but you’re leaving out the bit where the ceos are just as shitty a person / people, morally, as the board you talk about. They aren’t forced, they go along and agree. They hire people who align with their interests, aka agree with the shitty things they’re willing to do. It’s not like they’re some poor hard done by millionaire / billionaire who’s forced to do bad things to survive. They could also leave at any time and they wouldn’t suffer financially for doing so. They’re not being forced to do anything. They agree with their own decisions. Don’t fool yourself that they have morals, money to that degree turns your morals off entirely, if you ever had them.
Been saying this on lemmy, and getting varying degrees of love and hate. “Look at this man! (Please don’t look behind the curtain.)”
All y’all hating on CEOs and pointing fingers are behaving and believing exactly as the boards of directors wish. This also ties into golden parachutes. They sound obscene to those of us with “real” jobs, but think on it. You take a high-paying CEO slot, but you’re not so much in control. The board can order you to pull some heinous shit to get what they want, then fire you when the public backlash hits. (Remember reddit doing exactly that with Chao?)
Yeah, I want a fucking parachute. It’s an insurance policy, nothing more. At least at my shit job, I won’t get fired for following my manager’s orders. (Yes, we can make up scenarios where that’s not true, I know.)
Yes, but you’re leaving out the bit where the ceos are just as shitty a person / people, morally, as the board you talk about. They aren’t forced, they go along and agree. They hire people who align with their interests, aka agree with the shitty things they’re willing to do. It’s not like they’re some poor hard done by millionaire / billionaire who’s forced to do bad things to survive. They could also leave at any time and they wouldn’t suffer financially for doing so. They’re not being forced to do anything. They agree with their own decisions. Don’t fool yourself that they have morals, money to that degree turns your morals off entirely, if you ever had them.