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[–] TootSweet 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Narcissistic asshole goofy bigoted public CEO who inherited all their wealth.

You all know who I'm talking about.

[–] JackDark 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Whitebrow 13 points 1 year ago
[–] Ragdoll_X 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

CEO.

And also politicians in general. They could and should play an important role in managing and improving society, but more often than not they only get into positions of power because they're corrupt and have connections to other powerful people.

[–] Death_Equity 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Corporate consultants.

Their entire job to tell a company to cut payroll and make their product worse so CEOs can maximize their bonus until it is unsustainable and then the CEO can resign and do the same thing at a new company. Then the next CEO does the same thing until the company is unprofitable so it can be bet against in the stock market. To make things worse, consultants or CEOs will sell companies on "systems" owned by a friendly partner to further errode the business model that has allowed the company to get where it is at.

Consultants and short-term CEOs are the biggest parasite of good business.

[–] psmgx 2 points 1 year ago

"850/hr to tell someone the time based on what their own what their own watch says"

They also do may more than what the parent poster mentioned, often very well, and always at insanely inflated rates.

[–] Coach 8 points 1 year ago

Supreme Court justice

[–] ThreatLevelMidnight 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Health insurance - specifically the people in the call centers. I knew a guy making $150k+ and spending 75% of the year playing video games on the clock.

[–] dingus 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Surely that must be incredibly uncommon and unusual, no? Most people working in call centers make jack shit.

[–] Lifecoach5000 6 points 1 year ago

For real??! Sign me up for these swanky paying call center jobs.

[–] Mr_Fish 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Shareholder. What did they do for the company apart from paying someone who no longer has any connection to the company. And they still get the profits.

[–] Lifecoach5000 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wouldn’t consider that a β€œpaid position” though. They can easily lose what they invest as well - it’s just high brow gambling.

[–] afraid_of_zombies 0 points 1 year ago

Not really gambling. Government just bails you out

[–] quams69 1 points 1 year ago

Ceo πŸ‘

[–] afraid_of_zombies -2 points 1 year ago

Economists, people who sit on think tanks, public policy experts, any of the shits that only hold fake jobs when their party is in power (e.g. John Bolton), political commentary, at least half of wall street, any job in health insurance.

Pretty much anyone who wears a suit for a living who isn't a criminal defense lawyer. If you can't explain your job to a 6 year old and they think it's cool get a new job.