Thread: CEOs - love 'em or hate 'em?

I hear ya, but its a bit of a cycle aint it.

A company needs to attract the best, to get the best they have to pay more.

and those figures are skewed anyway. cos a lot of those CEO's get paid bonuses if they perform or the company performs well and also a lot of that pay might be stock options etc....

^I read Forbes and the Economist regularly and get the impression that very few of those high-paid CEOs are actually the best at anything other than asslicking their way to the top, company politics, screwing up companies, and bilking shareholders.

Originally Posted by DrB0b

I read Forbes and the Economist regularly and get the impression that very few of those high-paid CEOs are actually the best at anything other than asslicking their way to the top, company politics, screwing up companies, and bilking shareholders.

Quite an impressive list of accomplishments I think.

Originally Posted by kingwilly

A company needs to attract the best, to get the best they have to pay more.

Yeah, that's a line that gets trotted out with monotonous regularity. The best at what, though? Driving companies into the ground while raking off tens of millions for themselves?

Originally Posted by DrB0b

^I read Forbes and the Economist regularly and get the impression that very few of those high-paid CEOs are actually the best at anything other than asslicking their way to the top, company politics, screwing up companies, and bilking shareholders.

Damn it pains me to say this....



well stated...

Originally Posted by benbaaa

Yeah, that's a line that gets trotted out with monotonous regularity.

I reckon there is some truth in it though. cos a bad CEO is really bad.

I'm sure there are good ones that have a conscious. Just as there are many without a shred of integrity in their soul.

I'd no sooner lump all bosses in one category than I would all workers. There are good ones, like me, and then there are poor ones -- like ... well, you know.

CEO/ Senior Executive remuneration is out of control imo. What do you expect when they get to vote each other their own pay rises.

Shareholders should be a lot more activist about this, because it is them who are being robbed mainly.

Originally Posted by Texpat

I'm sure there are good ones that have a conscious. Just as there are many without a shred of integrity in their soul.

I'd no sooner lump all bosses in one category than I would all workers. There are good ones, like me, and then there are poor ones -- like ... well, you know.

Like me! Proud of it too. Death to the boss class. Subversion from within!

Oh dear . . . well, I'm a CEO and I certainly don't earn 344 times as much as the workers.
Actually, some salespeople have a higher take-home pay than I do.

There are CEOs and there are CEOs . . . the few at the head of large MNCs and the rest at companies from 10 people to 1000 . . . mine has just over 300.

344 times? In the 'normal' world? Hardly.

^ You should give yourself a whacking pay rise. Go on, you know you deserve it.

Originally Posted by benbaaa

^ You should give yourself a whacking pay rise. Go on, you know you deserve it.

Can I take that to my chairman with your support?

Most CEO's get their bonuses in shares. I watched with glee when some shares slumped to less than 90% of their original value.
However CEO's seem to work less and get paid more. Most are found on the golf courses these days with their secretaries runnning the companies for them.
Damn it hard at the top.

Sorry, can't respond further . . . I have a tee-off at the Royal Selangor Country Club at 13.00 . . .

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Like me! Proud of it too. Death to the boss class. Subversion from within!

are you advising any Indian workers at the moment b0b ?

SACKED employees beat to death the India head of an Italian industrial gear manufacturing company near the nation's capital, police said today.
Lalit Kishore Choudhary, the 47-year-old chief executive officer of Graziano Transmissioni India, died yesterday after sacked employees beat him up in the company's office in Greater Noida in Uttar Pradesh state, a senior officer said.
The confrontation followed a long industrial dispute at the factory, which led to the dismissal of hundreds of employees.
"The dismissed employees turned violent during a meeting with the management," R.K Chaturvedi, a senior police officer said by telephone, adding that 63 people had been arrested.
Angry workers damaged office property and singled out Mr Choudhary when he tried reason with the mob, he said.