This is despicable, but titling "Tech CEO" for a digital marketing company is a stretch. FWIW, no one(very few?) actually in tech company would make fun of working mom's or applaud someone for selling their dog.
Tech CEO applauds an employee selling their dog to accommodate return-to-office
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#12Won't comment directly on the strange rant.
But it highlights the reality that something has seriously changed since the pandemic. I have multiple employees that insist on staying home due to their dogs. The amount of discussion around employees' dogs is on another level now, partially due to the anxiety these dogs have when their owners go into the office.
It's all very different than prepandemic, I for one never heard "i need to work from home to stay with my dog" as something people used to say
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#13This guy seems really unhinged, and i HATE when people with more skin in the game and potential upside act like they're somehow more virtuous for working harder
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#14To work at a provincial digital marketing agency no less - CEO clearly thinks he is gods gift to something, just not his employees.
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#15This title doesn't do it justice- I hope his rant about how working moms aren't fair to the company gets him sued.
No kidding. Joshua Fluke plays the whole thing with commentary[1], and it gets really bad. This guy goes on for like ten minutes and just keeps sharing bad take after bad take. If I were his assistant I would be giving him the 'wrap it the FUCK up' signal nonstop after like, three minutes.
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#16I was wondering what kind of business this company was in because the guy sounded so serious and they run blog and review spammy type websites that act as sales funnels for personal finance, high speed internet and moving companies. Like I am not going above and beyond in personal sacrifice for that.
a jobs a jobs. but I would be looking for a new one in the process...I'm coming to get you fluffy.
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#17In everything you do in life, ask yourself: “Is this good for the company?”
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#18Won't comment directly on the strange rant. But it highlights the reality that something has seriously changed since the pandemic. I have multiple employees that insist on staying home due to their dogs. The amount of discussion around employees' dogs is on another level now, partially due to the anxiety these dogs have when their owners go into the office. It's all very different than prepandemic, I for one never he…
Before the pandemic most of the startups I worked at allowed people to just bring their dogs in. I got bit by one of my coworkers dogs when I worked at Vicarious (that job really tried to kill me- while there I got electrocuted, bit by a dog, and food poisoning).
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#19"In the video, Clarke levies some big accusations at his staff. Among them: that 30 remote employees had entirely stopped logging on in a “quiet quitting” coup. He expressed suspicions that some of Clearlink’s developers had been holding down positions at other companies without Clearlink’s knowledge. He told content writers they should be using AI to increase output “30-50 times our normal production.”
This sounds like the CEO just read a bunch of tech/life blog articles and assumes that all of these trends are happening at his company too. Not a great sign when your boss believes everything he reads.
Feel bad for employees who feel like they they need to continue working there and can't risk quitting.
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#20They say the CEO role is a top contender for the most psychopaths. This makes me believe it more.