If you judge the CEO without knowing them you are no better than judging the Janitor without knowing them. Project managers and Directors; or security guards and fast food workers are a good example. In these ranks you will find some of the hardest working, most dedicated and reliable people you will ever meet- who are often the one person who is actually making things work. You will also find some of the laziest, most useless people who are just there to show up, get paid, and go home- and man’s times can’t even be bothered for the “show up” part- and for the most part no one really would notice if they didn’t.
Respect the CEO, respect the janitor. Always have a basic respect for any living being- but start with a default of respect and adjust it from there based on the person- not their job title or social class. Not every millionaire inherited their money or sits around all day. Some went to prison and after years of work bought a food cart or a box truck and worked for every dollar they have. So “don’t judge a book by its cover..”
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· 4 years ago
CEO is 10x more likely to be a clinical psychopath.
They are- but we could say so many general groups of people are statistically more likely to be XYZ bad thing than whatever other group. Sociopathy is itself a mental condition anyway- there is no “cure” and only questionably effective treatments like therapy- but saying we can’t or should t respect sociopaths for having been born with or developed a personality disorder is like saying that we can’t respect people with Autism- or that because you work for SAP or Microsoft or Freddie Mack (who have programs specifically to recruit and hire autistic workers and are more likely to employ autistic people) that you should be treated a certain way if you hold one of the positions more likely to employ autistic people.
There are also lines between respecting, liking, admiring a person- and you can do one or two or all- but don’t need to do one to do the others necessarily. A more important distinction is that I am treat you with respect- but not have respect for you. That’s crucial because we could say that a person might lose our respect or show US disrespect- and some feel that’s a reason to not show THEM respect- but then showing you respect is about their character- you showing them respect is about YOUR character. You can still be respectful of a disrespectful person- show that you have class and respect that isn’t just superficial but that your respect actually has some conviction to it.
Why do people hate CEOs so much? They have to work really really hard and work insanely long work weeks, rarely see their families, and have an insane amount of stress all the time.
I’ve also been employed at two companies where the CEO deliberately ran the company into the ground and got a multimillion dollar severance package AND one where the CEO deliberately lodged a false complaint against my colleague because my colleague reported his assistant to security for nearly running down a small child (of an employee) in the parking lot.
It appeals to the darker parts of people's minds