90 Cents of Every 'Pay-For-Performance' Dollar for CEOs Are Paid for Luck

Re:90 Cents of Every 'Pay-For-Performance' Dollar for CEOs A... by dvtv75 on Friday September 30, 2016 @07:37PM (#12615857)

The business I previously posted about robs their staff of at least 50% extra working hours every year. The staff literally give up their social and personal lives to work for free so the CEO can wander off and show the business how brilliant he is.

They were threatened with dismissal for not doing so. I was threatened with dismissal for not doing so.

I worked from early morning until early the next morning. I saved the core business on multiple occasions, my manager was working 14 hours a day 7 days a week at a minimum.

The CEO went home at 5pm every night, when I still had a full shift ahead of me, and had weekends off with his kids, when I was working at home. He was paid three times what I was paid, and 50% more than my boss.

You speak of ideology, not reality.

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Re:90 Cents of Every 'Pay-For-Performance' Dollar for CEOs A... by striking on Friday September 30, 2016 @08:03PM (#12615941)

In that case, I agree with you. I'm not a fan of paying morons to waltz around and do nothing.

But I would like to believe that for every terrible CEO, there's one that actually gives his all in growing the business.

I speak of idealism and not reality, yeah. This doesn't invalidate what happened to you, which I agree is awful. But if someone is legitimately putting work into their company, as many CEOs do, they deserve to be paid.

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