I once worked at a hospital in the ER where the department director was a union-busting bastard, but the CEO was pretty reasonable. After I left, one of the other ER techs went to the CEO about our pay being messed up and got everyone $5-6/hour raises to actual market rate. Also, there were a few weeks when we were really understaffed that the hospital encouraged admin folks to volunteer as “candystripers” in the ER to do stuff like help clean/turn over rooms, and answer patient call lights for water, blankets, etc. And the CEO was down in the ER for a couple hours every evening helping out most of that time period. It was encouraging to see the CEO of the hospital putting on some gloves and helping us with basic stuff like cleaning and stocking.
to me, just the thought of having a CEO for a hospital is enough to put a bad taste in my mouth though.
It was a legitimately nonprofit hospital and he probably was overpaid, but at least he was a practicing physician at one point and did seem to give a damn about his staff.
Good point. He earns exponentially more than anyone else in the hospital yet he can do whatever he wants. If he feels like being a candy-striper today for a few minutes, great. Then he can do whatever he wants after that. He’s not stuck doing one repetitive job day in and day out. He can do whatever he wants and earn exponential amount of money. How did he even get in that position?
Family connections most commonly.
Hospitals still need an executive for decision making. Could be a president or ceo. It’s “for profit” that’s going to reverse the incentives and run the whole thing.
^This, but the best I’ll do is upvote and comment, I’m not reblogging shit for nobody!:-P
If all janitors disappeared, you’d notice the dirty facility.
If all CEOs disappeared you’d get paid better.
And the company you work for will no longer function, so soon you won’t get paid at all and cry like a bitch. What a lovely world <3
Alas, if all CEOs disappeared, the company would fall into ruin and you’d need another job. CEOs are important people too, even if they’re overpaid and over-respected and overalls (wait, that should be the janitor? Or the Germans?)
There are actually examples of quite big companies without CEO at all.
But it really depends on what type of company we’re talking about. In small and medium companies usually (not always unfortunately) CEOs do a terrific job and, depending on the company’s financial condition, might even earn less then some of their employees while bearing a huge responsibility (financial and moral).
Even in small companies it is sometimes a case that managers do all the work and the CEO is eating profits - there are stories where employees actually prefer the boss to not show up in the office because they only mess everything up.
Yet if we’re talking about big and huge companies then CEO existence is much harder to defend. If CEO disappeared then by pure inertia the company would work for at least months. Then there’s the Peter Principle and numerous studies how MBAs are actually rather bad boses, in which case if the company keeps existing or even growing then someone else is doing all the management.
And then, you can’t convince me that someone like Musk, who spends days on posting hateful tweets and attending meetings promoting reproduction, does a meaningful job at all.
What companies actually need is some decision making body. And that body doesn’t have to be a rich white asshole, but can be for example board representing (proportionally) all the groups in the company, which then can use deliberative democracy to make decisions. Virtually any other solution is better than old rich white sexists CEO.
CEOs aren’t the genius level visionary you’re making them out to be. They’re a legal requirement of having a corporation. Doubly so if the company is publicly traded and has a Board of Directors. Fact is, without a CEO at the helm, there are tons of SVPs and VPs at most companies that know exactly the strategy to increase sales or decrease costs (the root of a CEO’s responsibility). So while executive leadership is important, it’s not thousands of times more important than any given worker at the company. Not by a long shot.
"I am the eyes and ears of this institution, my friends. By the way, that clock is twenty minutes fast. "
Janitor ain’t gonna fire 1000s/10,000s of employees while getting a $20 million bonus or run the company into the ground and get rewarded with a generous golden parachute on his way out. If anything, the janitor usually toils in relative obscurity, only seen in passing or called upon when people need help cleaning their shit.
If the CEO stops going to work for a month nobody cares if the janitor doesn’t go to work for 2 days it’s mayhem. 5 days in and we will be in Lord of the Flies.
I’ll be far too full after eating the rich to also eat the janitor.
Share the platter w/ the janitor. Then you can eat twice the rich
That’s solidarity right there
Janitors put in an honest day’s work.
