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by wruza 651 days ago
What I learned is that that last email didn’t do a good job explaining the changes, so what I plan to do is start a forum for folks to post their questions and our CEO will answer them every Tuesday.

I know it’s only an example, but hahahahahahahaha, ha. Start with something realistic if you do that. The worst thing you can do is to teach them you’re a bag of funny promises.
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xnorswap 651 days ago
At a former company we once had an away day workshop where they allowed anonymous questions for the company director which would show up on a screen for everyone (it was a ~40-50 person company).

We were a management consultancy and trialling what they thought was cool new tech to use with other companies. ( This was a while ago, smart phones were newer and apps were still "cool" )

Well, they very quickly learned to never do that again. Even in a small company there were a lot of tensions unresolved between the lowest and highest rungs. It was a fairly formal hierarchical structure where the common worker didn't tend to ever interact with the big boss.

"Where's the pay rise we were promised last year?" was perhaps the mildest of the embarrassment, and it quickly devolved from there.

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watwut 651 days ago
>Where's the pay rise we were promised last year

Sounds like an extremely valid complain if such promiss was made last year.

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tgtweak 651 days ago
Uncomfortable truths are no less a truth when spoken.
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b3lvedere 651 days ago
Ooh, some lifetimes ago at a company we had a CEO that did a company wide presentation where he kept mentioning that the shareholders are the most important thing of the entire company and we all should do everything to please the shareholders. The instant hate towards him could almost be touched and tasted.
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pistoleer 651 days ago
It is both inspiring and depressing that intelligence is not a prerequisite for high up roles.
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b3lvedere 651 days ago
Yup

https://www.savagechickens.com/2024/09/decisive.html

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antognini 651 days ago
"I don't think you understand what the product is. The product isn't the platform, and the product isn't your algorithm, either. And it's not even the software. Do you know what Pied Piper's product is, Richard?"

"Is... Is it me?"

"Oh God! No! No. How could it possibly be you? You got fired. Pied Piper's product is its stock."

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