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I have never understood why these C-suite types feel like they need to share their lives and experiences with employees. Who truly cares? My current employeer

I have never understood why these C-suite types feel like they need to share their lives and experiences with employees. Who truly cares? My current employeer, in europe, has a new c-suite figure from abroad who likes to regale us with tales of his life at every meeting. This person is good at their jobs, but this behaviour is just buying them ridicule from the employees. Get it through your head C-suites. We do not care, as we do not know you closely enough (as we do not work with you).

wepple 5y ago
This type of comms internally is simply a respectful notification that you won’t see someone on campus or be able to book in-person meetings. Someone as high profile as Urs making this kind of move and not letting his team know would create infinite tensions. The fact that it made a CNET article and then HN discussion isn’t the execs fault, if anything you’re feeding the fire by adding to the discussion
- MrDresden 5y ago
  I am not talking about the internal comms, as obviously those are required and make perfect sense to send to who ever might interact with him on a regular basis. It is this little tidbit that caused me to write that comment: "If things go well, we may decide to stay longer," he continued in the memo. "I'm looking forward to this adventure and to sharing the results of our relocation 'experiment' with you." In the light of having stood in the way of others doing exactly what he was doing, this comment leaves an even worse taste than it would have otherwise.
  - johnnyanmac 5y ago
    humans, even billionares, are still social creatures. Same reason people share their family or sometimes personal details on team slack channels, even if I personally wouldn't tell anyone past immediate co-workers I affect. Maybe not the best choice of words, but I don't think there's as much smoke here as people on social media are making of it outside your typical mega rich person not being in touch with the not mega rich. But empathy is a much bigger problem than the tech industry.

wepple 5y ago

This type of comms internally is simply a respectful notification that you won’t see someone on campus or be able to book in-person meetings. Someone as high profile as Urs making this kind of move and not letting his team know would create infinite tensions. The fact that it made a CNET article and then HN discussion isn’t the execs fault, if anything you’re feeding the fire by adding to the discussion

MrDresden 5y ago
I am not talking about the internal comms, as obviously those are required and make perfect sense to send to who ever might interact with him on a regular basis. It is this little tidbit that caused me to write that comment: "If things go well, we may decide to stay longer," he continued in the memo. "I'm looking forward to this adventure and to sharing the results of our relocation 'experiment' with you." In the light of having stood in the way of others doing exactly what he was doing, this comment leaves an even worse taste than it would have otherwise.
- johnnyanmac 5y ago
  humans, even billionares, are still social creatures. Same reason people share their family or sometimes personal details on team slack channels, even if I personally wouldn't tell anyone past immediate co-workers I affect. Maybe not the best choice of words, but I don't think there's as much smoke here as people on social media are making of it outside your typical mega rich person not being in touch with the not mega rich. But empathy is a much bigger problem than the tech industry.