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[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 178 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (7 children)

sometimes you bring on a ceo just to get some controversial thing done. they can eat the blame and then leave

[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 27 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 5 points 1 hour ago

Tacit racism. She is a US citizen of Chinese background. Why have her face on the flag of the Empire of Japan if the subliminal message wasn’t yellow peril?

[–] Kuma@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago

Exactly this, they are usually young too and they know their only job is to fire ppl and/or do decisions that will make most if not all unhappy. I have only seen it once my self but a lot of friends went through that at their company.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 26 points 11 hours ago

They called it an Axe Man, in my time. I've been at two companies hit with them, and I follow them AND the CEO who stepped down (once a reverted permanent one and the other a long-term leave) to see which companies are fucked next.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 63 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I'm embarrassed it took me so long to realize this. Somebody explained that to me recently, within the context of a conversation about layoffs. That CEO had no prior CEO experience, was only there for less than a year, and was part of the board of directors. In hindsight it seems so obvious.

[–] Bojack411@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

It's what boeing does everytime a plane goes down.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 5 points 12 hours ago

That must be quite a list of ceo's

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 30 points 17 hours ago

So like a corporate sin eater?

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 2 points 17 hours ago

Don't worry though, they'll fail towards.