They’re trying to tell their “stakeholders”, employees, customer, shareholders, what to believe, what to think that’s the bullshit dazzle spell to preserve your suspension of disbelief just a little longer.
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lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks agoAgreed. What even the fuck is that string of complete nonsense? These C-suite dipshits say it so much, someone is eating it up.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
That’s the thing though. If I as an employee heard the CEO spout this crap, I would laugh at them. It’s ridiculous. Use real sentences with real meanings.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
That’s why they’re at the podium and expect peer pressure to keep everyone quiet until they can retreat back into their lair
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The “someone” is the investors, or generally speaking, the market.
Major CEOs can’t say they’re taking a financial hit, for whatever reason. This is why I like working for small companies, and most Americans work for small businesses.
Last company: CEO announced to the board that he intended to lose money in order to build staff and products. Yes, he even included tech debt. The board applauded him.
Meh, we fucked around and still made a profit, so he gave the board the same report the following year, same results. We fucked around a made a profit. Again.
tl;dr: Don’t mistake all CEOs for the bullshit you hear from Nadella and Musk and the like. Remember; You only hear crazy talk reported, because it’s crazy talk.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I would say Nadella is the biggest bullshitter of them all. I don’t think I’ve heard him speak a single non-bullshit sentence.
onslaught545@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Kinda like HMOs. You only hear about the bad ones because people in good ones don’t bitch about them at every opportunity.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Worked for a company like that, but not everyone was happy. Investors were brought in and place went to shit. Sucks, but I got out just as it started getting worse.