'We fear a second Trump term would be bad for business and the U.S. economy.'
  • @[email protected]
    3•59 minutes ago

    In his first term, Trump was surrounded—at least at the beginning—by strong, qualified leaders working to pull the country together and make us stronger, such as Gary Cohn, Rex Tillerson, Generals John Kelly, James Mattis, Mark Milley, and others who stood for service before self

    Hahahahaha

  • Icalasari
    23•8 hours ago

    “Our secretary reminded us that fascists usually take control of companies to further fatten their wallets, and we suddenly realized we are also vulnerable to nazi boots on our necks”

    • BakkodaEnglish
      1•1 hour ago

      CEOs are people too ya know. Delicious, normal working class type people. They might even be organic. I don’t know these things.

  • Em Adespoton
    27•9 hours ago

    CEOs tend to be people who have worked their way up through large organizations, unlike billionaire entrepreneurs or hedge fund managers.

    I’ve worked under 9 CEOs at companies from very small to very large multinational. Of those, a grand total of TWO worked their way up; the rest all had business degrees and buddy connections and no actual experience working FOR a company. Most were hired via the buddy network because of their history of navigating stock exchanges.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•44 minutes ago

      Bezos is a great example of a CEO.

      Sold books out of his garage, became one of the richest people on earth.

      Yes he worked hard to make his business grow, and took risks. But if that’s all it took to become a billionaire, most entrepreneurs would be billionaires. Nobody risks their life savings to start a business and doesn’t work hard.

      CEOs are not smarter, harder working, or more qualified in any way than your average employee. It’s luck of the draw.

    • @ChowJeeBai
      9•8 hours ago

      That’s pretty much it. As an engineer, I find the state of affairs demoralizing.

    • @[email protected]
      3•6 hours ago

      The qualities that make one a good worker do not make for a good CEO. A good worker thinks the best way to make money is to produce better quality product or produce it more efficiently.

      A good CEO thinks the best way to make money is to lay off quality control and use their salaries to buy up company stock to increase the stock price for shareholders knowing the increase is instantaneous while the problems caused by not having quality control anymore won’t be realized for months if not years. Even better if they can force employees who didn’t do quality control to now be responsible for it, on top of their regular duties, while receiving no additional pay.