Darth Vader: “You are in command now, Admiral Plett”
Plett: (nervously) “Thank you, Lord Vader”
Not at all. They’ll just beef up security.
No doubt the other insurance companies are doing the same. CEOs are probably hiring personal body guards to follow them too. I’d imagine this extends to CEOs of other industries outside of insurance too. They know they’re all seen as unpopular with most people.
Step 1, get hired by security company…
:D
I was going to say, no fucking way does this work like they hope it will.
Numbers are against them. Far, far against them.
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I think they forget that people below them value their own lives. I don’t know any security guards who are willing to lay down their own lives for some CEO for moderate pay. If it’s that or continuing to live? Idk, it’s a feel good measure in my book.
The security these people hire aren’t the same security you are thinking of.
These are PMCs. PMCs make quite a bit more cash, and have military training to ignore some of that self-preservation.
That being said - it’s still a game of numbers.
Countries have dead leaders that get replaced all the time, what makes corporations replacing CEOs any different?
Nah, money is money… but they’ll probably need to include a security detail in the package.
Passed on to the insurance premiums
Trouble? No, but they’ll raise the compensation to compensate for risk, which will only attract greedier more sadistic candidates.
Or…
They’ll hire a woman to clean up the mess (possibly at reduced compensation), because that’s the virtue signaling what corporations do when they are in a tight spot. Then, once she has turned things back around, they’ll swap a man back in and give him a bonus for all her hard work.
They’ll just keep a security detail. It won’t even be a consideration. They’ll just do it, and not even care that it happened.
I think the situation is quite the opposite. There is now an opening and I bet several people see this as an opportunity at advancement.
There will always be people who overestimate the rewards and underestimate the risks of an undertaking.
Not until 3 or 4 replacements are murdered. Then they will attempt to operate without one. (For as long as legal.)
Imagine holding the title of “CEO of the healthcare company whose CEO got fucking iced last week”
There were 15 underlings hoping this would happen on a weekly basis for their shot.
They literally don’t care. They aren’t like us. They don’t care what working class people think. They don’t care if we suffer. They don’t care if they die. We aren’t worth anything to them beyond what they can extort from us.
“I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.”
–Jay Gould
This statement reflects Gould’s view of exploiting divisions within the labor force to maintain control and suppress labor movements during the Gilded Age. Their attitude since then hasn’t changed, except to become even further entrenched in their apathetic greed.
I was interested in that quote, since it seems incredible:
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/10/29/hire-half/?amp=1
tldr: it originally appeared in slightly different form in a newspaper article by a critic of Jay Gould about his failure to get a particular policy through, and was probably not something Gould said in so many words.
Interesting though!
To be fair, “president of the country whose president got iced last week” is a common enough job. In fact by murders per capita I heard US president is the most dangerous job in the world.
“In fact” and “I heard” don’t go well together in a sentence. Unless you’re saying it’s a fact that you’ve heard it of course.
Also, sorry for the pedantry.
Also, just to give a source, 8 US presidents have died during office, which results in a mortality rate of about 18%. That is of course way higher than any other job.
They’d better do it soon too. The stock has already dipped 10% in two days.
No, someone is jumping for joy at the promotion.
Contrary to popular belief, CEOs aren’t necessary for a company to run, but they do maximize the profits while they’re there
No, some other psychopath will just demand the company provide 24/7 private security and take the job with a raise. Then (likely he) will just kill more people to pay for it.
So many CEOs on LinkedIn calling for more security for executives. None of them have the self awareness to think “is my company doing anything that would warrant such a response?”. Maybe stop being evil fucks?
I’ll take the job. But, fair warning, a lot of people will receive free healthcare.
Yea… That is what is the most funny. A CEO that knows how to play his cards could easily turn the system around and still have a profit… Like of 30% instead of 98%…
I sure as shit wouldn’t take that job.
I would, then I’d just shitpost on LinkedIn about not doing evil things until they fire me for not being evil.
Golden parachute here I come. Honestly, this was on them, they clearly don’t do enough background checks.
I love the idea of somehow becoming CEO of such a company, then working tirelessly to make it honest and transparent and good for both employees and customers.
Of course they’d never hire me, even if I was qualified.
