Yahoo CEO: No more working remote -- get to the office or quit

No. She built and paid for daycare at the office.

Other employees will pay for daycare in the manner in which they can best afford.

No different than a CEO who buys a helicopter to fly him to the top of his building, while the rest of the employees have to figure out how to get to work and/or park their cars the best way they can.

I think pink slips serve this purpose, in a much more painful way than this daycare nonsense ever could.

Which makes all CEOs guilty of the nose rubbing.

 

I've had that happen before.

 

Exactly. I get that it's hypocritical. It is.

But, I'll bet she has a better parking spot than any other Yahoo! employee, and a whole lot of other perks other employees don't have.

If you want the perks a CEO has, work towards becoming a CEO.

 

I sure hope I can't find any posts in which you wonder aloud why Congressmen have good health care plans.

 

Working towards becoming a CEO ain't gonna get it ... you gotta become a CEO.

Or you (not you, of course, YF) could pursue a wiser strategy ... quit worrying about what the CEO has that you don't.

 

Seeing as how YF (and a few others) pay those Congress-persons' salaries, it seems entirely appropriate for YF to wonder about the benefits they're offered (no, wait ... the benefits they ensure for themselves).

 

Well, a CEO is answerable to a board, and to shareholders.

Congress grants itself perks, and while they are answerable to voters, there's no one Congressman for voters to hold responsible. Between gerrymandering, pork, and pay for play access to campaign donors, most Congressmen are popular in their own district, or at the very least in a tough position to get beat by a challenger.

I was going to say that, but you have to take certain steps to become a CEO. If you never take those steps, you won't become a CEO, and get the perks that come with it.

So, if you are not taking those steps, you might as well take your advice, and quit worrying about the CEO.

 

I'd sure like to know what those steps are.

Stated without irony.

 

Posted with tongue firmly in cheek ...

1) Become a vicious, back-stabbing, Machiavellian, self-interested, tax-dodging, Cayman Island bank-account holder

2) Brush up on your corporate buzzwords

3) Wait for lightning to strike

 

I'm pretty sure I've told this story before but...

When I was at Continental Airlines, our CEO (at least when I first joined) was Gordon Bethune.

Gordon (and we were all told to call him Gordon) was very popular with the workforce, and he would regularly hold Town Hall style meetings with employees.

You could ask him anything, and you could also write down your question, so you could ask it anonymously.

Occasionally someone would complain about there work rules, or benefits, or pay in relation to his.

Gordon would simply reply that he got in the CEO line, ant they got in the flight attendant (or whatever) line, and that if they wanted to be CEO, they should have gotten in that line.

(The nice thing about Gordon, and part of why he could get away with i,t was because he was a guy who joined the Navy, and worked his way up from a naval mechanic to airline CEO.)

 

Work like Marissa Mayer, for one.

She is a different beast -- and I mean that in a non-gender-specific way. Like all of these CEOs, she works and works and works and then when she's not working she works some more. She basically "worked from home" through her actual labor and delivery -- and I think she was back on the clock like three days later.

So I don't find the whole nursery thing to be all that big of a deal, because I can honestly say I would not want her life, no way, no how. The kid is there so she can go in and hold him for 10 minutes and then get back to working 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.

When she took the Yahoo job, she and her husband were worth close to a billion dollars combined. I guaran-fucking-tee that if I am ever fortunate to reach, say, $4 million -- or 1/250th of what Mayer has -- I'm never working again. I'll just live off the interest and I will live better than I ever imagined I could.

Those folks have different wiring.

 

I've wondered before if I would or not. More than the money, I'd enjoy the rush of running something big. I've never gotten to be in charge of anything. I'd love to give it a whirl.