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80% of CEOs are indistinguishable from Sydney Bing, change my mind.

by rcarr 4y ago

nathanaldensr 4y ago
Maybe you could ask ChatGPT to help with that.
29athrowaway 4y ago
CEOs are just a punching bag. They get punched on behalf of the board of directors. Everything they say will offend someone so they can't say anything. And they have to live in hiding with bodyguards. Being the CEO of a large corporation is probably the worst job in the world.
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- rcarr 4y ago
  Writing a speech filled with meaningless buzz words then clocking off early to play golf with a client is such a rough gig. So much pressure if you fail as well. Imagining having to resign from your CEO job and then take a position as the chairman of another globo corp. Doesn't even bear thinking about.
  - 29athrowaway 4y ago
    And one day the board makes you let go 10,000 including disabled people and people coming out of parental leave. And read the news and see people talking shit about you for weeks. And everyone you know wants your money as if you won the lottery. And some people will hate you and want to harm you beyond insulting you online. If you walk in the streets without bodyguards again someone will surely brutalize you, because we live in a messed up world. So in the end you just make yourself a big visible target for everyone to throw shit at. On the other side, people on the board have none of that liability for the most part as nobody knows them.
    - rcarr 4y ago
      Yes but you have the money and resources to live in an entire different world. You eat in the finest restaurants. You get ferried about on private transport and stay in the finest hotels. You have the finest clothes and consumer goods and you probably have the most dating opportunities out of anyone on the planet save top athletes and celebrities. Look, I'm not saying that there aren't any downsides to the job. But saying being a CEO of a large corporation is the worst job in the world is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Find me a single CEO of a Fortune 500 company that wants to swap his job to become a rare metals miner with a pick axe in the Congo then come back to me.
      - 29athrowaway 4y ago
        Yes, but you cannot trust anyone, sometimes not even your own family. You become increasingly paranoid that you will be stabbed or poisoned or taken hostage or something. You, or your family. So you isolate yourself, and all the shit you mentioned is really the cost of your freedom. I don't give a fuck about being in a mansion, superyacht, private island or plane if the cost of that is my freedom and the ability to socialize with other humans. My conscience has a price too. If the price of my fortune was having a large amount of people making minimum wage, using medicare/medicaid and wearing diapers to avoid productivity penalties for taking a restroom break, I would not fucking do it.
        rcarr 4y ago
        > Yes, but you cannot trust anyone, sometimes not even your own family. You become increasingly paranoid that you will be stabbed or poisoned or taken hostage or something. You, or your family. This really isn't any different to anyone else on the planet save the hostage situation. There are plenty of people living in rough areas who could easily be in the wrong place at the wrong time and be a stabbing victim. I would argue that your chances of being a victim of violence as a CEO are significantly lower than your average citizen. > So you isolate yourself, and all the shit you mentioned is really the cost of your freedom. I don't give a fuck about being in a mansion, superyacht, private island or plane if the cost of that is my freedom and the ability to socialize with other humans. I'm pretty sure they have healthy social lives. In fact, the reason they can do what they can do is precisely because they have healthy social lives. They constantly network with other people at the same level and help each other out. > If the price of my fortune was having a large amount of people making minimum wage, using medicare/medicaid and wearing diapers to avoid productivity penalties for taking a restroom break, I would not fucking do it. So why are you trying to make out that the people who don't have to do these things have a worse time of it than the people who do?
- SunghoYahng 4y ago
  Interrupting: I assume you are a wealthy, healthy person living in a wealthy, pleasant city. If you compare a CEO to a normal person living a wealthy, healthy life in a wealthy, pleasant city, I think being a CEO is actually a bad choice. Most parts of the world are so bad that for people who live in them, the idea that being a CEO is actually a bad thing sounds mocking or ridiculous, and it's hard to get past that.

80% of CEOs are indistinguishable from Sydney Bing, change my mind.

by rcarr 4y ago

80% of CEOs are indistinguishable from Sydney Bing, change my mind.

nathanaldensr 4y ago

Maybe you could ask ChatGPT to help with that.

29athrowaway 4y ago

CEOs are just a punching bag. They get punched on behalf of the board of directors. Everything they say will offend someone so they can't say anything. And they have to live in hiding with bodyguards. Being the CEO of a large corporation is probably the worst job in the world.

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rcarr 4y ago
Writing a speech filled with meaningless buzz words then clocking off early to play golf with a client is such a rough gig. So much pressure if you fail as well. Imagining having to resign from your CEO job and then take a position as the chairman of another globo corp. Doesn't even bear thinking about.
- 29athrowaway 4y ago
  And one day the board makes you let go 10,000 including disabled people and people coming out of parental leave. And read the news and see people talking shit about you for weeks. And everyone you know wants your money as if you won the lottery. And some people will hate you and want to harm you beyond insulting you online. If you walk in the streets without bodyguards again someone will surely brutalize you, because we live in a messed up world. So in the end you just make yourself a big visible target for everyone to throw shit at. On the other side, people on the board have none of that liability for the most part as nobody knows them.
  - rcarr 4y ago
    Yes but you have the money and resources to live in an entire different world. You eat in the finest restaurants. You get ferried about on private transport and stay in the finest hotels. You have the finest clothes and consumer goods and you probably have the most dating opportunities out of anyone on the planet save top athletes and celebrities. Look, I'm not saying that there aren't any downsides to the job. But saying being a CEO of a large corporation is the worst job in the world is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Find me a single CEO of a Fortune 500 company that wants to swap his job to become a rare metals miner with a pick axe in the Congo then come back to me.
    - 29athrowaway 4y ago
      Yes, but you cannot trust anyone, sometimes not even your own family. You become increasingly paranoid that you will be stabbed or poisoned or taken hostage or something. You, or your family. So you isolate yourself, and all the shit you mentioned is really the cost of your freedom. I don't give a fuck about being in a mansion, superyacht, private island or plane if the cost of that is my freedom and the ability to socialize with other humans. My conscience has a price too. If the price of my fortune was having a large amount of people making minimum wage, using medicare/medicaid and wearing diapers to avoid productivity penalties for taking a restroom break, I would not fucking do it.
      - rcarr 4y ago
        > Yes, but you cannot trust anyone, sometimes not even your own family. You become increasingly paranoid that you will be stabbed or poisoned or taken hostage or something. You, or your family. This really isn't any different to anyone else on the planet save the hostage situation. There are plenty of people living in rough areas who could easily be in the wrong place at the wrong time and be a stabbing victim. I would argue that your chances of being a victim of violence as a CEO are significantly lower than your average citizen. > So you isolate yourself, and all the shit you mentioned is really the cost of your freedom. I don't give a fuck about being in a mansion, superyacht, private island or plane if the cost of that is my freedom and the ability to socialize with other humans. I'm pretty sure they have healthy social lives. In fact, the reason they can do what they can do is precisely because they have healthy social lives. They constantly network with other people at the same level and help each other out. > If the price of my fortune was having a large amount of people making minimum wage, using medicare/medicaid and wearing diapers to avoid productivity penalties for taking a restroom break, I would not fucking do it. So why are you trying to make out that the people who don't have to do these things have a worse time of it than the people who do?
SunghoYahng 4y ago
Interrupting: I assume you are a wealthy, healthy person living in a wealthy, pleasant city. If you compare a CEO to a normal person living a wealthy, healthy life in a wealthy, pleasant city, I think being a CEO is actually a bad choice. Most parts of the world are so bad that for people who live in them, the idea that being a CEO is actually a bad thing sounds mocking or ridiculous, and it's hard to get past that.