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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 84 points 1 week ago (2 children)

CEO here (seriously). I would like to officially state that avoiding actions that would entice someone to assassinate me has not put an undue burden on my career. Just want to put that out there.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Consider giving your company to your employees.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 62 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

It is a C Corp. Ownership is split between the senior staff, and I am not a majority holder and I am nowhere near the highest paid employee. Every senior staff hire gets ownership.

CEO doesn't mean owner. In my case I am more of club coach managing a bunch of star athletes.

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sounds like you did consider it, youre definitely one the good ones.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Thank you but I need to reiterate that I do not own or start the company. I am an employee serving the role of Chief Executive Officer. The ownership scheme was discussed and voted on by the then shareholders (myself included).

This strategy makes business sense. We are a small, boutique firm that competes directly with some of the biggest companies in the world. By offering a stake in the company we are able to hire top talent away from the big guys and we can protect ourselves from poachers.

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

Nah, I was not being sarcastic. It seems you have thought about the well being of your employees. I understand that theres nothing you can do personally to improve their lives any further, but the fact that you have entertained the idea long enough to come to the conclusion that you cant help puts you a cut above the rest. My boss effectively tried to kill me and two other employees two days ago, i was directly responsible for all three of us not dying. My boss then screamed at me for allowing the situation to occur in the first place(it was mostly their fault, but also partially our drivers fault.) They then attempted to call me in the next day because they failed to properly schedule employees. I make 10/h with no benefits.

[–] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Out of interest what does your company do? I might consider buying something from you guys just because of the employee ownership part.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Thank you! I genuinely appreciate the gesture, but we are not a consumer products company. We offer highly specialized optimization services to companies that are dependent on enterprise spanning applications. The example I like to use is the Amazon shopping cart. If Amazon's shopping cart becomes sluggish or starts dropping items, the company stands to lose millions of dollars per hour. We make sure that the cart, and everything the cart depends on, is working at peak efficiency.

EDIT: If you consume electricity in a major American metropolitan city, odds are pretty good that you are interfacing with our work.

[–] Bacano@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Maybe look into seeing if everyone else would be ok with that as an exit strategy? It's being tried in a few places and there's a firm(s?) that guide ownership who wants to sell to the employees.

Very context dependant, I'd imagine

[–] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This is the same as owning a car, and then someone walks up to you on the street and says "consider giving your car to that man who is walking".

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

That was really stupid.

He doesn't contribute to your car. Your employees contribute to your company. "That man who is walking" makes no contribution to your life. Your employees do.

[–] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I see what you're saying, but the point I'm trying to make is that neither of them own the company or the car, so why should they receive that sort of benefit? If I pick trash up from the side of the road, should that land become mine? If I'm a handyman and I've been paid to work on someone's fence, do I deserve a share of that fence? No.

[–] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This isn't a good analogy. The man who is walking is not directly contributing to the car or having anything to do with the car.

[–] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

See my response to the other comments. I what I'm getting at is that the premise of the original comment was ridiculous and nobody will ever get on board with it, much less politicians. Instead of offering ridiculous, impossible solutions that make us look like idiots, why don't we just go for something reasonable like a better minimum wage? Then people will be prosperous enough to start their own companies, if they desire. Not everyone wants to own their own company or share the responsibility of such a thing.

[–] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Okay, but if that was your point, you should use an analogy that drives your point home. What you're saying now is nothing like your original comment lol.

[–] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago

Not true. The original poster was suggesting that someone just randomly give away something to somebody else. Analogies are always imperfect, and I'm surprised that I have to explain that to you.

[–] dnick@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What? Whatever else it is, it is nothing like your car example

[–] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago

Neither of them own the original thing. Just because you contribute to something, doesn't mean you deserve part of it. Contribution was optional in the first place, and in the case of the employee, they are paid.

Instead of posing ridiculous arguments like trying to distribute companies among "the workers", most of which probably don't even care in the first place, why not just fight for a better minimum wage so its a non-issue?

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Does that mean you don't do bad shit, or you're just not afraid of being shot? 🤔

[–] BluesF@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Can't scare me out of my vicious business practices with a threat of assassination if I hate myself so much I want to die 😎

[–] MJKee9@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"bad shit' is relative. Who among us are without sin? I think conflating the CEO of a local retail business with CEO of a national company specializing in collecting medical debt is not healthy to increasing support for systemic change. Could the local ceo pay the cashier's more? probably.... But so could small business owners in general. Should we get mad at someone for choosing a repair person that charges less for a job? Why not pay someone else more for their labor? How much more? Pretty soon the finger pointing is so ubiquitous it's irrelevant.

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

...did you just answer a direct question to someone else?

I guess we'll find out all of your mysteries the second he replies.

[–] MJKee9@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I didn't answer a question. I commented on the use of the term "bad shit" in reference to a question to op.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Guys I think he's bulletproof let's try shooting him