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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.
Is lemmy made up of 15 year olds? You think a hospital can run itself with no one in charge? The comments on this thread are amazing.
Ceo implies it’s a for profit institution. Director, director general, overseer, those are titles appropriately here. CEO is a title of a corporation.
Nope, nonprofits have CEOs too. Especially nonprofit hospitals.
If all janitors disappeared, you’d notice the dirty facility.
If all CEOs disappeared you’d get paid better.
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.
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
Janitors put in an honest day’s work.
"I am the eyes and ears of this institution, my friends. By the way, that clock is twenty minutes fast. "
I didn’t know your dad worked here.
Did more than the principal back in hs, most of us did.
Always gonna respect the person with a real job
This can be interpreted in both ways
^This, but the best I’ll do is upvote and comment, I’m not reblogging shit for nobody!:-P
You treat the CEO with the same respect as Rodney Dangerfield.
I respect folks that take the time to learn my. And part of that respect is learning their names as well.
Thanks for all your hard work, Peeta!
What with the display order on these screenshots anyway? Can we pick one chronological sort order and stick with it?
This one isn’t confusing, though. Top to bottom.
I don’t think that’s correct. It goes bottom > top > middle.
The bottom one is the person who is sharing a meme, I think? I don’t understand the idea of reading their commentary before looking at the image. I know what you are talking about, but I think that’s more when it is replies, isn’t it?
