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I don't care how many years you have on the job, not knowing the CEO's face/name of a company you're just joining is weird.

Aloha 6y ago
I work for a 200 person company, I didn't figure out who the CEO was for about two weeks from when I was hired
- artsyca 6y ago
  My biggest peeve is that everyone dresses the same and I know I'm an outlier but it would be super helpful to be able to identify people's rank based on their outfits but I guess this isn't the army, huh? Edit: by dress I mean the older sense of the word: The older sense survives in military dress ranks "align columns of troops." We've gone so anti-corporate that we don't even know who the leadership is any more it's a rotten proposition that serves the worst of both worlds
- dkersten 6y ago
  As a counterpoint, I work for a 1500 company and was told/shown who the management and such were in my first week. I guess it depends on the company, you and your boss.
  - Aloha 6y ago
    I think it depends on how layered the company is, I have never interacted with someone above the VP/Director level, my job just doesnt call for it.
    - dkersten 6y ago
      I haven't interacted with the executive team either, but I still know who they key people are.
- sergiotapia 6y ago
  How do you accept a job at a company where you don't know who the CEO is?
  - Aloha 6y ago
    Why is the CEO important - if I took a job at Motorola Solutions or Harris, why would their CEO be important for my daily role? I currently work for a moderately sized company, and its unusual because the CEO actually knows who I am, and knows my name - but before this role that was not a thing I would expect.
    - Lammy 6y ago
      My employer's CEO's reputation loosely affects my owns, since they are the most public face of any company. I can think of several CEOs whose public persona would at best make me think long and hard before taking a job with their company. And of course there are plenty of CEOs who have no "public persona" to speak of :)
    - sergiotapia 6y ago
      It's not about how they affect your day to day, it's about just knowing it lol. It's weird to not know it. You don't know who you're working for? Weird.
alpaca128 6y ago
Some people are just not good with remembering names or faces or some other details. I need weeks to memorise faces and names of a group of people. But if you tell me to setup wifi on some devices with a long alphanumeric password I'll have it in my head by the third time. Different people have different brains.
- sergiotapia 6y ago
  We're talking about two different things. I was talking about the OP, who seems like goes out of her way to not learn "names and faces of these people". >As for why I didn't recognize the CEO: I had just started, and it's not like I memorize names and faces of these people. Hello, stalker-ville or ass-kisser-ville, and I am neither.
toyg 6y ago
Why? In many cases, you’ll never interact with him (it’s a him, obviously), and even if you do it will likely not be as peers. For most people, C-level executives might well be living on a Mars colony - they are typically never in the office, they often don’t go to company events open to the hoi polloi, they dress differently, they don’t live in the same areas, they talk about Grand Ideas like they are actionable for them (because they can call on BillG or Zuck; but it’s just hot air for everyone else), in short: they have nothing in common with the average grunt. Even the pain points of internal tools are shielded from them by PAs. And they have no real positive power in a grunt’s everyday situation: going over your manager is usually a recipe for internal ostracism and career destruction. So, after all this, what is the point of knowing the C* guy?

Aloha 6y ago

I work for a 200 person company, I didn't figure out who the CEO was for about two weeks from when I was hired

artsyca 6y ago
My biggest peeve is that everyone dresses the same and I know I'm an outlier but it would be super helpful to be able to identify people's rank based on their outfits but I guess this isn't the army, huh? Edit: by dress I mean the older sense of the word: The older sense survives in military dress ranks "align columns of troops." We've gone so anti-corporate that we don't even know who the leadership is any more it's a rotten proposition that serves the worst of both worlds
dkersten 6y ago
As a counterpoint, I work for a 1500 company and was told/shown who the management and such were in my first week. I guess it depends on the company, you and your boss.
- Aloha 6y ago
  I think it depends on how layered the company is, I have never interacted with someone above the VP/Director level, my job just doesnt call for it.
  - dkersten 6y ago
    I haven't interacted with the executive team either, but I still know who they key people are.
sergiotapia 6y ago
How do you accept a job at a company where you don't know who the CEO is?
- Aloha 6y ago
  Why is the CEO important - if I took a job at Motorola Solutions or Harris, why would their CEO be important for my daily role? I currently work for a moderately sized company, and its unusual because the CEO actually knows who I am, and knows my name - but before this role that was not a thing I would expect.
  - Lammy 6y ago
    My employer's CEO's reputation loosely affects my owns, since they are the most public face of any company. I can think of several CEOs whose public persona would at best make me think long and hard before taking a job with their company. And of course there are plenty of CEOs who have no "public persona" to speak of :)
  - sergiotapia 6y ago
    It's not about how they affect your day to day, it's about just knowing it lol. It's weird to not know it. You don't know who you're working for? Weird.

alpaca128 6y ago

Some people are just not good with remembering names or faces or some other details. I need weeks to memorise faces and names of a group of people. But if you tell me to setup wifi on some devices with a long alphanumeric password I'll have it in my head by the third time. Different people have different brains.

sergiotapia 6y ago
We're talking about two different things. I was talking about the OP, who seems like goes out of her way to not learn "names and faces of these people". >As for why I didn't recognize the CEO: I had just started, and it's not like I memorize names and faces of these people. Hello, stalker-ville or ass-kisser-ville, and I am neither.

toyg 6y ago

Why? In many cases, you’ll never interact with him (it’s a him, obviously), and even if you do it will likely not be as peers. For most people, C-level executives might well be living on a Mars colony - they are typically never in the office, they often don’t go to company events open to the hoi polloi, they dress differently, they don’t live in the same areas, they talk about Grand Ideas like they are actionable for them (because they can call on BillG or Zuck; but it’s just hot air for everyone else), in short: they have nothing in common with the average grunt. Even the pain points of internal tools are shielded from them by PAs. And they have no real positive power in a grunt’s everyday situation: going over your manager is usually a recipe for internal ostracism and career destruction. So, after all this, what is the point of knowing the C* guy?