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Why would a 40+ year old person listen to a 20-something? Perhaps because that's what they're being paid to do? CEOs do more than just issue edicts from on hig

Why would a 40+ year old person listen to a 20-something? Perhaps because that's what they're being paid to do? CEOs do more than just issue edicts from on high, they take feedback from the people running the various operations, otherwise the company falls apart.

gingabriska 7y ago
I don't know about you but a friend of mine told me he sometimes feel insulted to take orders from someone inexperienced who don't know what they are doing specially when there are female members on the team, the insult doubles. Did you watch the movie dictator where the the great general Aladdin demands the rocket be made pointy? At small companies CEOs act similar to a dictator, maybe not all? But they've the vision. It's mostly them who get it, other are called naive or stupid. Stuff like this is what drives experienced people out of the door. As you get older, it gets hard to keep up with that BS and some people prefer mental sanity over paychecks naturally the jobs gets filled by ones who are willing to do the crazy thing in order to keep the money coming in.
- gshdg 7y ago
  What does having women on the team have to do with it?
  - gingabriska 7y ago
    when faced with absurdity, he loses temper and signs of which start showing on him and women feel uncomfortable around him. Atleast he's aware of what people around him are feeling. He never said he wants no women on the team, it's just how he feels.
DanBC 7y ago
If your company is full of people who are only doing things because they're paid to do them it's going to struggle.
- sokoloff 7y ago
  If you stopped paying them, nearly 100% of employees would stop coming to work. At some level, no matter how committed they are or love the work, everyone is doing work because they're being paid to be there.
  - rightbyte 7y ago
    Ye, but following orders by the letter as a engineer or programmer is a receipe for failure. When people stop caring and just do what they are told without a fight if it is stupid chaos ensues.
    - sokoloff 7y ago
      Disagree and commit. While the decision is open, make your best arguments. Once the decision is closed, execute that decision.
      - rightbyte 7y ago
        Ye, you can't be a rogue either. It's a very thin line to balance. In general I am clear that I will follow consensus so the "other side" doesn't feel that they need to convince me for me to do it with my best effort.
  - DanBC 7y ago
    But that's not the _ONLY_ reason they're their.

gingabriska 7y ago

I don't know about you but a friend of mine told me he sometimes feel insulted to take orders from someone inexperienced who don't know what they are doing specially when there are female members on the team, the insult doubles. Did you watch the movie dictator where the the great general Aladdin demands the rocket be made pointy? At small companies CEOs act similar to a dictator, maybe not all? But they've the vision. It's mostly them who get it, other are called naive or stupid. Stuff like this is what drives experienced people out of the door. As you get older, it gets hard to keep up with that BS and some people prefer mental sanity over paychecks naturally the jobs gets filled by ones who are willing to do the crazy thing in order to keep the money coming in.

gshdg 7y ago
What does having women on the team have to do with it?
- gingabriska 7y ago
  when faced with absurdity, he loses temper and signs of which start showing on him and women feel uncomfortable around him. Atleast he's aware of what people around him are feeling. He never said he wants no women on the team, it's just how he feels.

DanBC 7y ago

If your company is full of people who are only doing things because they're paid to do them it's going to struggle.

sokoloff 7y ago
If you stopped paying them, nearly 100% of employees would stop coming to work. At some level, no matter how committed they are or love the work, everyone is doing work because they're being paid to be there.
- rightbyte 7y ago
  Ye, but following orders by the letter as a engineer or programmer is a receipe for failure. When people stop caring and just do what they are told without a fight if it is stupid chaos ensues.
  - sokoloff 7y ago
    Disagree and commit. While the decision is open, make your best arguments. Once the decision is closed, execute that decision.
    - rightbyte 7y ago
      Ye, you can't be a rogue either. It's a very thin line to balance. In general I am clear that I will follow consensus so the "other side" doesn't feel that they need to convince me for me to do it with my best effort.
- DanBC 7y ago
  But that's not the _ONLY_ reason they're their.