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Overstock CEO extends open invitation to staff for Tuesday lunches but few show up
Posted on 6/23/22 at 11:14 pm
Posted on 6/23/22 at 11:14 pm
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If the CEO invites you to lunch... GO!!!
At min you will learn something and get an opportunity to ask questions.
At max you'll make an impression and potentially open career opportunities for yourself.
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Posted on 6/23/22 at 11:16 pm to rickgrimes
Maybe he’s a shitty micro-managing CEO that thinks “edgy” ideas will garner him favor, but in reality his employees don’t like him.
Maybe
Maybe
Posted on 6/23/22 at 11:17 pm to 0x15E
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Maybe he’s a shitty micro-managing CEO that thinks “edgy” ideas will garner him favor, but in reality his employees don’t like him.
Maybe
sounds like an OK dude to me - IDK
At one of my first decent jobs - as an intern at a fortune 500 company - we had lunch every Wednesday - nobody ever missed one.
This post was edited on 6/24/22 at 5:41 am
Posted on 6/23/22 at 11:27 pm to cable
I once saw in my college newspaper an ad to "Meet the Presidnt" (of the University) at the Student Union in a conference room. I was the only person who showed up so he ended up taking me to ice cream. Man did I get some looks.
A month later. SAME ad. Me again. This time with my then girlfriend (who didn't believe me that it happened) and my roomate. This time he took us all downtown for burgers and a beer. He was a wonderful guy.
To top if off I overslept and was rushing to make graduation when a Caddy pulls up next to me, it's him, he picks me up and I was driven to my graduation by the President of the Univesity.
RIP Artie.
A month later. SAME ad. Me again. This time with my then girlfriend (who didn't believe me that it happened) and my roomate. This time he took us all downtown for burgers and a beer. He was a wonderful guy.
To top if off I overslept and was rushing to make graduation when a Caddy pulls up next to me, it's him, he picks me up and I was driven to my graduation by the President of the Univesity.
RIP Artie.
Posted on 6/23/22 at 11:33 pm to rickgrimes
Our company had one of those, but it was supposed to be a personal AMA of 15 minutes where you could ask the CEO anything but the CEO could also ask anything of you.
I thought it went great! He canceled his next couple of meetings and we talked for over an hour. After that, everybody was like, "How did you do that? He intimidates the hell out of me."
Dude, I'm in sales engineering. I know how to listen and ask questions. Turned out, the CEO is a gear head. He's building an AC Cobra tribute car in his garage. My son and I have modded and tuned multiple cars together and enjoy driving in motorcross events. So we had a lot of fun talking garage mechanics. Also got to really lay out my vision for new areas of opportunities that the company can easily move into with an already built-in demand. I also discussed what I see as the internal impediments and risks. He seemed to really enjoy our visit and getting down in the weeds of business.
I thought it went great! He canceled his next couple of meetings and we talked for over an hour. After that, everybody was like, "How did you do that? He intimidates the hell out of me."
Dude, I'm in sales engineering. I know how to listen and ask questions. Turned out, the CEO is a gear head. He's building an AC Cobra tribute car in his garage. My son and I have modded and tuned multiple cars together and enjoy driving in motorcross events. So we had a lot of fun talking garage mechanics. Also got to really lay out my vision for new areas of opportunities that the company can easily move into with an already built-in demand. I also discussed what I see as the internal impediments and risks. He seemed to really enjoy our visit and getting down in the weeds of business.
Posted on 6/23/22 at 11:45 pm to rickgrimes
This reminded me of a Christmas party the firm I was clerking for in law school had. There were about 100 employees in the firm and the head table had 6 seats. You would expect it to be the managing partner and the two most senior partners and their wives but no... I showed up and the seating chart had the managing partner, his wife, his daughter (an attorney at the firm) and her husband at the head table along with my date and I. Literally no one wanted to sit with him even at a Christmas party.
I got to know him better over the years and had drinks with him several times at CLEs etc and he was a nice guy, always mentioning things he had read in the trades about me and asking about my family but he was an ogre to his employees. He made everyone's life in the office from partners to file clerks a living hell. I would imagine his friends would be aghast at how people in his office actually viewed him.
I got to know him better over the years and had drinks with him several times at CLEs etc and he was a nice guy, always mentioning things he had read in the trades about me and asking about my family but he was an ogre to his employees. He made everyone's life in the office from partners to file clerks a living hell. I would imagine his friends would be aghast at how people in his office actually viewed him.
Posted on 6/24/22 at 12:36 am to rickgrimes
Nothing like grown adults having a pizza party as a gratitude for your success.
This post was edited on 6/24/22 at 12:37 am
Posted on 6/24/22 at 12:40 am to rickgrimes
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If the CEO invites you to lunch... GO!!!
Having said that: If you get invited to the White House, you go.
I don't care who's currently holding the office. You go.
People declining to go started under Bush, continued under Obama and through Trump.
You get invited, you go. Politics is left at the door.
It's an honor very few receive.
Posted on 6/24/22 at 12:46 am to 0x15E
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Maybe he’s a shitty micro-managing CEO that thinks “edgy” ideas will garner him favor, but in reality his employees don’t like him.
Micro-managers are the ones who usually are willing to listen to ideas someone has to try and make improvements.
They are usually the ones who will recognise the issue you want to improve.
Aloof managers don't even know there is a problem needing to be solved/improved upon.
And if you are willing to stand up to a micro manager, you will probably gain more respect, instead of just bitching about them behind their backs.
And I say this as someone who got in a yelling match with my GM in front of the owner tonight.
I'm still employed and am not the party that got reprimanded by the owner.
Posted on 6/24/22 at 12:51 am to rickgrimes
Nobody gives a frick about eating lunch with the CEO. All they want is to do their work and go home while being paid a livable wage with decent benefits. Not everyone gives a damn about office politics or climbing the corporate ladder
This post was edited on 6/24/22 at 12:52 am
Posted on 6/24/22 at 2:03 am to 0x15E
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Maybe he’s a shitty micro-managing CEO that thinks “edgy” ideas will garner him favor, but in reality his employees don’t like him.
Maybe
You know what is not a maybe? It is not a maybe that he is the CEO of the company that signs their paychecks.
Not Maybe
And I bet, regardless of whether he is a shitty micro-managing CEO or not, he knows this.
Posted on 6/24/22 at 2:08 am to Henry Jones Jr
Nobody gives a frick about eating lunch with the CEO. All they want is to do their work and go home while being paid a livable wage with decent benefits. Not everyone gives a damn about office politics or climbing the corporate ladder
—Hope your CEO doesn’t see this.
—Hope your CEO doesn’t see this.
Posted on 6/24/22 at 2:13 am to magildachunks
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It's an honor very few receive
If Joe Biden invited me... I think I'd have to decline.
He's been in Washington for 50 years...
Our country is about to suffer greatly...he's diabolical.
Hard pass
Posted on 6/24/22 at 2:52 am to rickgrimes
A lot of the replies to that tweet were absolutely pathetic. They're all too busy and important to have lunch with a "boomer" ceo playing "mind games," and are sure it would be too "awkward." I loathe the obsession that zoomers have with the quoted words.
This guy will never have to worry about having his time wasted by eating with a millionaire ceo:
Most ceo's now are Gen x and not all that conservative, but whatever.
This guy will never have to worry about having his time wasted by eating with a millionaire ceo:
Most ceo's now are Gen x and not all that conservative, but whatever.
This post was edited on 6/24/22 at 2:53 am
Posted on 6/24/22 at 3:40 am to 0x15E
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Maybe he’s a shitty micro-managing CEO that thinks “edgy” ideas will garner him favor, but in reality his employees don’t like him.
Maybe you should still suck it up and attend if you plan on advancing within the company.
Maybe.
Posted on 6/24/22 at 3:51 am to cypresstiger
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being paid a livable wage with decent benefits. Not everyone gives a damn about office politics or climbing the corporate ladder
take a wild guess at what helps you get more money....
You voluntarily agree to a wage upon hiring. If you aren't happy with that wage, you should either decline it or work to improve your stock within the company.
Your laziness doesn't entitle you to a higher wage.
Posted on 6/24/22 at 4:25 am to pankReb
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being paid a livable wage with decent benefits. Not everyone gives a damn about office politics or climbing the corporate ladder
If you consider your work a 'job' instead of a career, you aren't going anywhere in life, you are a perpetual victim with no future. I started at the bottom and took every boring, dead-end job I had seriously, it always inevitably led to something better.
I wanted something better for me and my family, doesn't everyone? But unless you pay your dues, you can't get there.
Posted on 6/24/22 at 4:35 am to Henry Jones Jr
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Nobody gives a frick about eating lunch with the CEO. All they want is to do their work and go home while being paid a livable wage with decent benefits. Not everyone gives a damn about office politics or climbing the corporate ladder
Agreed, especially if you are in your 30s,40s, or 50s. Me in my 20s wouldve considered it….maybe
Posted on 6/24/22 at 4:37 am to 0x15E
If he eats PB&J Sammitches, he’s ok with me.
Posted on 6/24/22 at 4:39 am to andouille
quote:
being paid a livable wage with decent benefits. Not everyone gives a damn about office politics or climbing the corporate ladder
If you consider your work a 'job' instead of a career, you aren't going anywhere in life, you are a perpetual victim with no future. I started at the bottom and took every boring, dead-end job I had seriously, it always inevitably led to something better. I wanted something better for me and my family, doesn't everyone? But unless you pay your dues, you can't get there.
Not everyone wants to climb the career ladder, though. What’s wrong with that? What is good for you may not be for others.
People have differing viewpoints on what constitutes success and happiness.
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