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Your mistake is believing you and the CEO are similar. You are only both employees in that you can both be removed from a position. You are a resource. He is a

• polygamous_bat 3y ago
  > You are a resource. He is a point of connection to resources. All I am getting is “you’re getting conned, he is the conman.”
  • svnt 3y ago
    It depends on your goals and perspective. Cynically it could also be true. Cooperatively viewed he provides an environment for you to do what you expressed a preference for training to do. What do you want to be?
• lobsterthief 3y ago
  That really depends on the company. In many companies, work and worth don’t correspond to the org chart. And everyone knows who’s actually doing the work and why the CEO is there/how they got there. Most companies aren’t large tech companies. Source: Been there, doing that
  • svnt 3y ago
    I think we are talking about different things in very different contexts but yes, there are exceptions to everything. My point is not about relative contributions of value necessarily, which are difficult to compare, but about the structure of employment. The value of a CEO who is doing a good job is not measured by the number of hours they spend on a project. They cannot iterate on solutions the way an engineer can. The skillset and behavior are different at the meta, macro and micro levels.