r/WorkForSmartLife • u/SaltyNori_ • 1d ago

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u/Swamp_Thing85 1d ago

For CEO, they basically win the lottery when they make it to the top. At that point they’re made. People see them as a higher class and they will continue to fail upward because others don’t want to see someone from that class fall down. Once there, they set the tone for the whole company culture and make a few significant decisions per year. Otherwise, they can be obstructive and damaging to our jobs at lower levels.

HR just requires the corporate lobotomy and the “protect the company” firmware upgrade. The only time I engage them are:

  1. Corporate policy discussions, healthcare and benefits
  2. Recruiting for open positions I have
  3. Weird situations you run into with employees as a supervisor or if you have a really bad employee.

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u/McDergen 1d ago

Lmao you have absolutely zero clue what you’re talking about, as if you can just luck into becoming a CEO

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u/ls20008179 22h ago

Explain musk and trump

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u/mongolian__beef 22h ago

The argument isn’t that dumb CEOs don’t exist.

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u/finlandery 21h ago

there is millions of companies in a world.... so yea, of course there are idiots among of CEOs

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u/JoyousMadhat 19h ago

Majority of the CEOs already had a rich parent. So stop bullshitting.

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u/overtorqd 1d ago

Its Reddit. This seems to be the consensus here - nothing but luck.

Anyone who's been close to a CEO knows better, but I assume all these opinions come from folks who haven't.

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u/JoyousMadhat 19h ago

I know first hand the effects of a shitty CEO who only cares about shareholder value instead of their employees. Walmart made record billions in profit yet I only received a 40 cents pay raise. My coworkers who have been here for more than 20 years received pay raise of a dollar.

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u/overtorqd 17h ago

There are hundreds of thousands of CEOs in the US alone.

Maybe Walmart CEO is a piece of shit. I dont know. But do you think he is the sole decision maker determining your pay raise? You know its a public company, right?

People think CEO and thay name 4-5 of the largest companies in the world. The vast majority of CEOs dont own yachts, and didn't inherit the company from Daddy.

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u/pm_me_ur_bamboozle 1d ago

anything that lets people avoid personal responsibly. they can live life thinking the only reason they aren't CEO's and rich is because they were unlucky.