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re: Overstock CEO extends open invitation to staff for Tuesday lunches but few show up
Posted on 6/24/22 at 8:27 am to rickgrimes
Posted on 6/24/22 at 8:27 am to rickgrimes
Our CEO is weird as frick and obsessed with COVID. I don't think I'd go to lunch with him.
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Posted on 6/24/22 at 8:59 am to rickgrimes
I was working in Louisiana and fresh out of college. The General Manager of the State walked into our office and asked who could drive him to his house to pick up his wife and drop them both at the airport. He wanted someone familiar with the traffic and streets to get them there fast. I raised my hand. Off we went in his personal car, stopped at a bank while I circled the block, snatched him up and off we went to the house. Small talk ensued. He asked where I was raised, school, what I liked doing away from work. I like fishing and he asked if a I had a boat. All I had was a handmade 2 man pirogue I used for bass fishing.
He said he had one when younger and always enjoyed fishing from one. Then he asked If I would go one Saturday with him. Holy sheeeeiiiittttt!
He didn’t have time to go fishing over the next couple of months but I was his driver anytime he needed to run an errand and didn’t want to waste time parking somewhere. Most employees were afraid to be around him one on one but he really was just a nice guy on a personal level but a real arse kicker at work when he had to be.
Soon I was offered a nice sized promotion to another job in another state and I took it to move on and make $$$. I can’t help but think he helped me out.
He said he had one when younger and always enjoyed fishing from one. Then he asked If I would go one Saturday with him. Holy sheeeeiiiittttt!
He didn’t have time to go fishing over the next couple of months but I was his driver anytime he needed to run an errand and didn’t want to waste time parking somewhere. Most employees were afraid to be around him one on one but he really was just a nice guy on a personal level but a real arse kicker at work when he had to be.
Soon I was offered a nice sized promotion to another job in another state and I took it to move on and make $$$. I can’t help but think he helped me out.
Posted on 6/24/22 at 8:59 am to cable
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sounds like an OK dude to me - IDK
100% agree
but at the same time i want no part of hanging around a boss and risk, for any reason, i leave a bad impression or give them the slightest reason to think i triggered them or crossed some PC BS line
staying low and off the radar of the boss and HR and as out of sight as possible is the best practice in todays business world is a sound strategy
Posted on 6/24/22 at 9:02 am to magildachunks
I must have missed people declining to go see Obama
Posted on 6/24/22 at 9:02 am to pankReb
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Your laziness doesn't entitle you to a higher wage.
Than how does teenage girls make more than doctors by dancing like they have Tourette’s on Tik tok and accomplish nothing.
Posted on 6/24/22 at 9:06 am to rickgrimes
It is fricked no one is going, but if you offer nothing then why show up ceo or not.
Posted on 6/24/22 at 9:06 am to rickgrimes
I would take the lunch, but I understand that some people have no interest in the rat race. There’s nothing wrong with being content with what you have in your work life and then going home. There’s also nothing wrong with leveraging personal politics to better your position. The problem comes from people not being self aware enough to understand which will make them happier.
Posted on 6/24/22 at 9:07 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
Maybe if they hate their boss so much the should quit and stop acting like a victim.
Maybe.
Posted on 6/24/22 at 9:10 am to Joshjrn
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I would take the lunch, but I understand that some people have no interest in the rat race
Id go, but I'd also know that there's a 99% chance it's useless and going to suck. We all got to do shite we don't want to do, and maybe in this case it would have been the 1% it was useful since no one else showed up.
Posted on 6/24/22 at 9:10 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
This is true, unfortunately in our system you have to
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office politics or climbing the corporate ladder
in order to
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paid a livable wage with decent benefits
Posted on 6/24/22 at 9:11 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
Yes, we need more out of touch CEOs that just jet set the world and do not manage anything except their next stock compensation bonus.
Posted on 6/24/22 at 9:11 am to rickgrimes
Unbelievable. One of the things I wished I realized as a younger kid. I was intimidated by people in authority. I now run my own business and see how normal the people that run companies are.
Posted on 6/24/22 at 9:11 am to rickgrimes
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Most of the time I eat my peanut butter sandwich alone.
Dude probably chews with his mouth open.
Posted on 6/24/22 at 9:35 am to magildachunks
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People declining to go started under Bush, continued under Obama and through Trump.
It’s a business decision. I’m not gonna fault liberals who would have been canceled by their own for showing up at the Trump White House
Posted on 6/24/22 at 9:36 am to maisweh
I was a sales engineer for 10 years.
My job entailed designing, proposing and selling weld smoke filtration systems to high schools, technical colleges and union apprenticeship programs. There was nearly as much engineering knowledge required as sales experience.
My job entailed designing, proposing and selling weld smoke filtration systems to high schools, technical colleges and union apprenticeship programs. There was nearly as much engineering knowledge required as sales experience.
Posted on 6/24/22 at 9:38 am to Eurocat
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Eurocat
someone is downvoting our joy, don't let them steal it, baw!
Posted on 6/24/22 at 9:38 am to ChunkyLover54
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I used to agree with this. Now, IDK, it’s pretty bad
I'm sure you'll agree with it again in 2 or 6 years.
Posted on 6/24/22 at 11:06 am to SlickRickerz
Posted on 6/24/22 at 11:14 am to rickgrimes
Well, most millennial are entitled idiots, so this isn't surprising at all
Posted on 6/24/22 at 11:35 am to maisweh
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Is this an actual thing?
Yes.
I am a sales engineer. I do not do sales, I support sales people. My salespeople do all of the heavy lifting of the relationship building and maintaining, and I step in for the technical discussions with technical teams of potential sales. I'm at an ISP, so I engineer voice, video, internet, p2p connectivity, multipoint, VPNs, etc etc. and disseminate the information to our support teams so they know what to do.
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