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Many people observe reality, where the workers end up being the ones held accountable for the CEO's decisions, not the CEO.

matchbok3 1mo ago
Workers are not legally or financially accountable for any of that. That is the whole point of a "job". I think you are confused.
- rideontime 1mo ago
  Are you confusing CEOs with founders, shareholders, etc.? Chief Executive Officer is, in fact, a "job."
- NegativeLatency 1mo ago
  Neither are CEOs in our present society
- JDups 1mo ago
  When the worker loses their jobs over bad executive decisions, they sure feel like they were pretty harshly financially penalized for those decisions.
  - matchbok3 1mo ago
    And they can get a new job? Or should people be in the same job all their life?
SpicyLemonZest 1mo ago
Many people observe a limited subset of reality. It's highly visible when a company hits a crisis and people lose their jobs; it's much more common, but much less visible, for a CEO to get an after-hours call about a brewing problem which they must immediately work to smooth over.
- UqWBcuFx6NV4r 1mo ago
  It’s amazing how many people on this website harp on about nobody noticing their hard work, nobody caring unless the server is down, etc, and not being able to conceive of the remote chance of this same phenomenon applying to other roles in an organisation.
- rideontime 1mo ago
  You truly don't see the difference between those two examples?
  - SpicyLemonZest 1mo ago
    I'm not quite sure why you ask that? I'm not arguing that these two very different examples are the same, I'm explaining more concretely what it means to say that a CEO's job is to "to be responsible to the business".
    - rideontime 1mo ago
      And you don't see being laid off due to the business's failure as being "responsible to the business"?
      - SpicyLemonZest 1mo ago
        I do. It’s on the CEO’s shoulders the other 95% of the time. (Which again, I agree is not some horrible deal, it’s much more fun to be a CEO who’s stressed with too many calls than a blue collar worker who’s stressed about feeding their family.)

matchbok3 1mo ago

Workers are not legally or financially accountable for any of that. That is the whole point of a "job". I think you are confused.

rideontime 1mo ago
Are you confusing CEOs with founders, shareholders, etc.? Chief Executive Officer is, in fact, a "job."
NegativeLatency 1mo ago
Neither are CEOs in our present society
JDups 1mo ago
When the worker loses their jobs over bad executive decisions, they sure feel like they were pretty harshly financially penalized for those decisions.
- matchbok3 1mo ago
  And they can get a new job? Or should people be in the same job all their life?

SpicyLemonZest 1mo ago

Many people observe a limited subset of reality. It's highly visible when a company hits a crisis and people lose their jobs; it's much more common, but much less visible, for a CEO to get an after-hours call about a brewing problem which they must immediately work to smooth over.

UqWBcuFx6NV4r 1mo ago
It’s amazing how many people on this website harp on about nobody noticing their hard work, nobody caring unless the server is down, etc, and not being able to conceive of the remote chance of this same phenomenon applying to other roles in an organisation.
rideontime 1mo ago
You truly don't see the difference between those two examples?
- SpicyLemonZest 1mo ago
  I'm not quite sure why you ask that? I'm not arguing that these two very different examples are the same, I'm explaining more concretely what it means to say that a CEO's job is to "to be responsible to the business".
  - rideontime 1mo ago
    And you don't see being laid off due to the business's failure as being "responsible to the business"?
    - SpicyLemonZest 1mo ago
      I do. It’s on the CEO’s shoulders the other 95% of the time. (Which again, I agree is not some horrible deal, it’s much more fun to be a CEO who’s stressed with too many calls than a blue collar worker who’s stressed about feeding their family.)