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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why are most of the stories here about dickhead executives

[–] Hazdaz 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The janitor doesn't usually have to address an entire room full of people.

I know hating on CEOs is par for the course for Lemmy, and I tend to agree most of the time, but being fair here, it isn't that often that lower (or even middle) ranking employees have a chance to speak to 10, 20 or 100+ coworkers at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends. I work for a company that uses the SAFe methodology (whether that's a good thing is a different discussion) there are tons of opportunities for people on the bottom of the org chart to do this.

[–] jj4211 1 points 1 year ago

Even in those contexts, the time is limited, tends to stay on point of some work, and in practice the audience can and will largely ignore the speakers.

Meanwhile, executives schedule regular mandatory meetings for them to spew words for 2 hours to an audience that is expected to have laptops put away and sit there and listen to the executive ramble on. That's a whole lot of people stuck in a meeting they didn't want anyway and a whole lot of time for the executive to go on self-involved tangents that are completely at odds with the bad news he might have to say.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

A lot of the stories are fake, but also a lot of execs are dickheads

[–] jj4211 5 points 1 year ago

Dickhead executives are exactly the sort of people to get in a large room of people forced to be in it, and explicitly not care about "reading the room", therefore the most likely to be in the situation, with the largest forced audiences to go talk about it.