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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 wel

by 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?
      - 29athrowaway 4y ago
        OK, fuck it. Please go become a CEO of a large corporation if you can. And then try to find peace in your dumb Trump hotel themed world, surrounded by fake smiles, cringe, and living in constant fear and being forced to make decisions you don't want to make, being legally liable for the mistakes of each one of your 100,000 employees and losing all your humanity in the process. Try to be happy knowing that you could change the life of a family by just giving them $500 but instead you spent $5,000,000 on a renovation for a stupid boat that you don't even have the time to use. I get more satisfaction sharing with others than driving a luxury car.
        rcarr 4y ago
        > OK, fuck it. Please go become a CEO of a large corporation if you can. And then try to find peace in your dumb Trump hotel themed world, surrounded by fake smiles, cringe, and living in constant fear and being forced to make decisions you don't want to make, being legally liable for the mistakes of each one of your 100,000 employees and losing all your humanity in the process. If this is your view of what a CEO’s life is I think it’s pretty warped. It’s a job. Yes you have to make some big decisions. But at the end of the day they still have a life outside of work, and a pretty fucking good one at that. And I’d argue that they very much want to be making those decisions which is why they became CEOs in the first place. > Try to be happy knowing that you could change the life of a family by just giving them $500 but instead you spent $5,000,000 for a renovation for a stupid boat that you don't even have the time to use. Well in defence of the CEO he probably contributed far more good to the world employing a bunch of people to renovate his yacht for $5 million than a one off donation of $500. I’m going to stop replying to you now because if you think that a CEO has it worse on any level than a kid who works in a sweatshop and keels over before they turn 30 you’re absolutely delusional.
- JohnFen 4y ago
  > And one day the board makes you let go 10,000 including disabled people and people coming out of parental leave. And you refuse to do it and resign as a hero.

by rcarr 4y ago

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?
    - 29athrowaway 4y ago
      OK, fuck it. Please go become a CEO of a large corporation if you can. And then try to find peace in your dumb Trump hotel themed world, surrounded by fake smiles, cringe, and living in constant fear and being forced to make decisions you don't want to make, being legally liable for the mistakes of each one of your 100,000 employees and losing all your humanity in the process. Try to be happy knowing that you could change the life of a family by just giving them $500 but instead you spent $5,000,000 on a renovation for a stupid boat that you don't even have the time to use. I get more satisfaction sharing with others than driving a luxury car.
      - rcarr 4y ago
        > OK, fuck it. Please go become a CEO of a large corporation if you can. And then try to find peace in your dumb Trump hotel themed world, surrounded by fake smiles, cringe, and living in constant fear and being forced to make decisions you don't want to make, being legally liable for the mistakes of each one of your 100,000 employees and losing all your humanity in the process. If this is your view of what a CEO’s life is I think it’s pretty warped. It’s a job. Yes you have to make some big decisions. But at the end of the day they still have a life outside of work, and a pretty fucking good one at that. And I’d argue that they very much want to be making those decisions which is why they became CEOs in the first place. > Try to be happy knowing that you could change the life of a family by just giving them $500 but instead you spent $5,000,000 for a renovation for a stupid boat that you don't even have the time to use. Well in defence of the CEO he probably contributed far more good to the world employing a bunch of people to renovate his yacht for $5 million than a one off donation of $500. I’m going to stop replying to you now because if you think that a CEO has it worse on any level than a kid who works in a sweatshop and keels over before they turn 30 you’re absolutely delusional.
JohnFen 4y ago
> And one day the board makes you let go 10,000 including disabled people and people coming out of parental leave. And you refuse to do it and resign as a hero.