jesus fuck i cannot wait for these old bags to fucking croak and take their outdated logic with them.
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Hate to break it to you, but the old bags will be replaced by new younger douchebags.
Unless employee owned companies become the norm and CEO driven companies are seen as outdated relic of feudalism.
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The pandemic made it clear to us that our literal lives don't matter. Record profits have pretty much never made their way into worker's pockets. Wages have been stagnant against forty years of inflation and record housing costs, while shareholders and C-suites struggle to decide between a private jet or a second yacht. And climate change is coming for all of us. Given all that, why the fuck should we care about some job that has literally never cared about us? Why wouldn't we get to pursue some work-life balance, and spend what little time and money that are being left to us on something that makes us happy?
Plus the increased work life balance has been proven by studies to be more productive because people working shorter hours and/or from home are more productive then the regular 40 in the office.
"But I can't recognize it by looking at it so everyone must be lazy" some rich jackass.
Also, a lazy worker at home will be lazy in an office too.
If someone likes to procrastinate, you can't really change that via environment alone.
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"I'm perfectly happy in my large, quiet office, sitting in my $2000 executive chair in front of my mahogany desk and using my private executive bathroom. I don't know what these people on the fourth floor are complaining about. We give them cubicles and a ping-pong table (do not use during work hours), don't we?"
Cubicles? In this economy?
Cubicles break things up. To maximize synergy we need an open floor plan so everyone can hear and see everyone else.
I've never been so angry reading something I had to go through at 3 different jobs.
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Now they're all about open floor plans for collaboration (read: for squeezing more people in the same space).
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Having done cleaning in offices such as these for at least one of the top companies in the world, I fail to see why even this sort of office is all that compelling. Look, a miniature golf statue...
They're not compelling to you and I. They're a way to show fellow executives how powerful you are. A huge office with expensive furniture means you're important.
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Sounds like something a lazy, entitled, unproductive CEO would say.
He just pissed that business travel is still down. Sorry, it’s never going back to the way it was.
He is mad because the pandemic allowed people to review their priorities and turn towards their personal lives rather than focusing on career lives. People today are less willing to work overtime, less willing to go above and beyond because they don't care about that. It means less money for the fat cats which is why they are bitching so much.
Yeah promotions don’t exist anymore, raises only come when you threaten to quit, and the only reward for loyalty is vacation time to use on getting sick. I’m not gonna show unrequited loyalty.
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He's also slightly mad because he now has to compete in a labor market where people can choose between:
A shitty waiting job that has you flying out of town daily, pay is about as much as a gas station clerk, has you dealing with some of the craziest ideologies on the planet because no one respects your authority. High Stress, low reward situation.
Then you have work from home: Right off the bat, you get 2 extra hours back from your daily commute. If you have kids, you are now saving hundreds of dollars monthly on child care. Car care costs go down. Gas costs go down. Less stressful situation, and more mentally stable.
The problem isn't just that he is having to compete with work from home jobs, but he is now having to compete against the benefits of work from home. And there is only one way to do that: $$$.
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This CEO should be forced to work a minimum wage job for the airline to show him what life is like when you're not a spoiled fat fuck.
Nah he would still have so many safety Ney's that he'd never actually feel real fear or hunger
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Not biased at all. A transportation CEO wanting people to use transportation to get to work. I can't smell any bias.
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This dude can't talk about laziness he's got more chins than a Chinese phone book.
Can we just fucking eat the rich already? How many useless cocksuckers do they need to stick a microphone in front of to call us lazy before we just fuck them all up?
It seems like a daily occurrence at this point that some rich cunt who hasn’t actually done any of the work that makes them rich is saying some brain dead shit like this.
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These lazy fucks who "work" for me got a taste of empowerment, and now they want me to do shit like respect their time.
He seems like the kind of guy that wants slaves.
Oh no, a crazy world event made people start caring about themselves rather than being the most efficient resource for you, their benevolent employer. Won’t somebody think of the CEO and shareholders?
THE PEASANTS WILL COMMUTE DAILY TO MY OVERPRICED GLASS DILDO DOWNTOWN WHERE THEY WILL HAVE TO PAY FOR PARKING AND THEY WILL LIKE IT AND THANK ME.
- American CEOs
What has gotten into all these rich pricks recently? I mean are they all of a sudden without PR folks to keep them from saying just absolutely stupid shit.
Or are they just scared 🤔
They have poor management skills in the first place and only really luck into where they are, because of this they have zero adaptability and all they see is a bill for unused office space and with all the easy money recently drying up investors are gonna put the squeeze on c-suite pricks who would rather shoot up prices than eat their golden parachute.
Middle managers are on board because, similarly, they don't know how to manage remote work and can't adapt, which should just mean their salary appropriately adjust downward but lol.
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Crazy coming from a man who's unofficial job description is " kissing ass and sucking dick of board members"
This dude is a fat fuck and he’s calling other people lazy. Roflcopter
Just FYI:
Barry Biffle 2022 pay: $3.75 million
https://skift.com/2023/06/13/highest-paid-u-s-airline-ceos-in-2022/
Frontier Revenue 2022: $3.3 billion
https://www.statista.com/statistics/765504/operating-revenues-frontier-airlines/
This is from when people were working from home.
Does he have actual evidence that employees have become less productive or is this just things he personally feels out of the case.
We really need to stop reporting every time one of these idiots says something dumb otherwise we're just going to fill the front page with "another idiot CEO made another idiot CEO comment" posts
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Another company I won't be spending with in the future. Running out of whiteboard space for these pricks haha
I swore off Frontier long before this triple-chinned douche bag started bitching about unproductivity. The reason his company is making less money is not because his employees work from home, it's because Frontier charges fees on fees on fees. Passengers are sick of it. This is the company that charges you $25 to talk to a fucking counter representative at the airport. You have to pay for everything--seat assignment, overhead bag, carry-on, water, snacks. The only thing they don't suck out of your wallet is a fee for a stroller and a car seat, and that's only because law prohibits it. Fuck this guy and his asshole company.
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I question the 'less productive' part of his claim here
If I commute (2 hours, one way) the time I can spend in the office is bounded by how early I have to leave in order to catch the last train home. Not only does that mean a 5-day week involves 20 uncompensated hours, it literally limits my time in the office to about 45 hours.
Today, working remotely, I can bill 50 hours in the week and still see my kids. I get more done this way and they know it. If they want me in the office every day, they can pay me my hourly rate to commute
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Alternative headline: Motherfucker who made his fat grip killing the planet mad his grift is dying.
Chief fatass of the second worst airline in the world said something? And you think I care?
The wealthy yearn for the guillotine!
Reminder that non-democratically (i.e. not 1-person-1-vote) elected CEOs are not only unnecessary, they're lazy and less productive:
In general terms, research shows that productivity in worker's cooperatives is higher than in conventional firms. For example, Fakhfakh et al. (2012) show that in several industries conventional firms would produce more with their current levels of employment and capital if they adopted the employee-owned firms’ way of organising
People are still allowing non-democratic, unelected CEOs to run businesses, all this silliness, right?
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