He works so much, he doesn’t even have time to find a new jacket. What a cringe lord.
Wow, cool life.
he cant even sit through a movie without thinking about his $4.2 trillion tech giant
I’m so close to starting to feel sad for him
Dudes counting thinking about work as work… Which means so many 40 hour jobs should be paid for 80 hour weeks then.
I need a Jira epic for “thinking about work” on my activity timeline.
My uncle was told a long time ago if they went to lunch and talked about work at all to mark the hour as paid and he said he felt bad so didn’t. There is no way I’d not mark that these days.
I’ve billed a client for thinking about their problem while commuting on a train. I don’t see much difference.
These nutjobs will be on their deathbeds and think “I’m so glad I spent my life creating shareholder value”
Not
My boss says he has not taken a day off in 6 years.
Posts pics of him on a boat fishing with our CRO on a Monday . . .
Most CEOs are so useless, but their idea of “working” is just thinking about work and money all day but not actually doing anything.
A lot of Natural Managerial types think pointing a finger and saying “Do That” is the same as actually doing it, and they take credit for it because their Natural Managerial skills made it happen, not the actual work.
This isn’t just confined to workplace environments. Lots of people are like that in home/ family environments, relationships, friendships, etc.
Well, you know, he talked to somebody for two seconds on his phone while on vacation. ;\
Wat a sad life.
A mother who works two jobs and can’t sit through a movie without thinking about her kids is also sad, but at least she does it for something good
Replace “4.2 trillion tech giant” with “the future of humanity” and that’s basically me with depression.
TIL I’m the CEO of Worrying About the Sky Falling Inc. (because the sky really is about to fall lol)
Username checks out
His “work” is thinking in how to steal us (customers, employees, citizens). It’s a shame these journalists romanticing it.
isnt he a nepo-baby that loves trump.
Lol nvidia CEO couldn’t do my job for an hour.
I am absolutely confident that I could do his job for an hour.
The empty chair in his office does his job just as easily, too.
You can tell me all about the meetings and deals they have to worry about but ultimately, by the time a company gets that large, it could run itself without a c-suite for quite some time.
Very large companies run themselves by inertia alone… until the c-suite fucks it up trying to make more money.
Hour to hour and day to day that’s probably true. But, nVidia is actually an example of a company where their leadership made some smart decisions decades ago by understanding their market extremely well and correctly predicting what was going to be happening in the industry 5-10 years down the line. For example, he went all in on CUDA almost a decade before the AI went mainstream, and because of that decision, nVidia is the biggest company in the world today.
I would bet that if a major decision came up and you had to decide whether or not to go all in on X, you couldn’t actually do his job.
Nvidia CEO couldn’t do my job for an hour, and I work in tech
I never even had a manager who could do my job, let alone a CEO.
This must be the 10th time I comment this on Lemmy and you might already know this, but:
The reason a CEO gets paid what he gets paid is not because of the value he adds to the company (as you pointed out, anyone could do the job), but because when the company fucks up (whether due to his decisions, or those of the board, or just anything, really), he takes the fall so the company can keep on doing whatever shady shit they’re doing and the board can act like they had no idea what was going on.
I don’t think I’ve seen enough CEOs take responsibility.
I know one CEO who took full responsibility … in the back.
It’s not that they take responsibility, but rather in extreme circumstances they take the plunge and resign, or they’re fired. So the company can say they’re turning a new leaf
Examples from a quick search:
Hank McKinnell, CEO of Pfizer, received a US$188 million severance package after his resignation, even after a 44% decline in the company’s stock value since he took over in 2001.
Jeff Smisek, the former CEO of United Airlines, received a separation payment of $4.875 million in cash along with additional equity awards and other benefits for a total of close to $37 million.
United was in the middle of a corruption scandal and of course he took the fall, but I’m 100% sure he wasn’t acting alone.
Shady companies are always gonna be shady. But they’ll oust a CEO every now and then to pretend like they’re gonna change.
Does it need that much pay for someone to take the fall?
I feel like, of that’s the primary or sole motivator to pay so much, you could get someone “to take the fall in such rare cases” for much less.
I’d certainly be willing to for 2 mil. I don’t need millions for years and then a multi-million severance package.
The reason a CEO gets paid what they get paid is that they also sit on the boards of other companies and vote for the compensation packages of their CEOs, who also sit on the board of the CEO’s company. It’s literally a circlejerk.
That helps, but largely the boards consist of major shareholders, or people that the shareholders have elected to be there.
The board, representing the shareholders, needs to make sure the company maximizes shareholder value above all else. They steer the company in very broad strokes. But if the company does something illegal or highly unpopular, the board members want themselves, the shareholders and the company in general to be as insulated as possible. So the CEO is a sacrificial lamb who either resigns or is fired, and takes the golden parachute. The idea is that the CEO was at fault and everything’s gonna be better now (no it’s not lol)
And what kind of job do you think those shareholders do?
They are CEOs of other companies.
Being a CEO and being a shareholder have nothing to do with each other.
The truly rich, AKA the major shareholders, aren’t going to bother with a job, unless running their own company (probably the one they’re the major shareholder at).
Then the big institutional shareholders (Blackrock and the like) invest other people’s money - people like you and me.
Only a minority of shareholders for any given company, are CEOs at other companies.
It’s still a club for the ultra rich and we ain’t in it. I’m just saying that your average CEO is set up to be a scapegoat for even richer and shadier people (while still very much not being one of us working class citizens)
He should get help
Here’s something for your toolbox: our society commits idolatry constantly.
i like how its counted as work just thinking about work for him. but it only counts as work for his employees when they are online under the supervision of their manager.
Online? They were probably forced back into office.
lol success? Like like self abuse and self slavery.
UwU
