Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil?

• jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But you don’t stay working for them. You move on. Then they find no one wants to work for them and they spend their whole time complaining they can’t get the staff. Psychos are bad news for a company long run.

  There is a book about it, “Snakes in Suits”.

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  • Omgpwnies@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Psychos aren’t the ‘scream in your face and belittle you’ type of people, it’s the silver-tongued devils that talk about family values and the environment and how their thing helps people, all while making backroom deals and lobbying governments to pass laws in their favour or any other number of shit. Psychos will appear on the surface as the nicest goddamn person you ever met, and you won’t think otherwise until you find the knife in your back.

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    • jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think they are more like Musk. It’s obvious if you look he’s a wrong’un. It’s not possible to stay lying about yourself, especially when the ego get boosted so much. The mask slips.

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      • Womble@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Right, but even taking Musk the mask has only slipped over the last five or so years. Before that he was often treated as a darling for pushing EVs to help fight climate change and SpaceX for reigniting people’s fascination with space. It’s only after he’s got huge amounts of wealth and exposure that its become clear to people what an awful person he is.

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  • kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Then they find no one wants to work for them

    At which point the board fires them, they add another golden parachute to their collection, and they get hired to be CEO at another company for a few years until the cycle repeats.

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    • Omgpwnies@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Precisely. Maybe small companies have decent owners, but anything with a value of over a few million is likely to be run by one of these types.

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    • jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m sure that happens. But this why you look how long people have worked at places and get a reference.

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