Darth Vader: “You are in command now, Admiral Plett”
Plett: (nervously) “Thank you, Lord Vader”
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.
No, someone is jumping for joy at the promotion.
They should make a whistleblower the ceo so they can have plausible deniability when the ceo is murdered
What?
They are referencing the “coincidental” Boeing whistleblower deaths this year. If a whistleblower was made CEO and subsequently murdered, then being the CEO of a hated corporation is now a plausible reason that could mask that of being a whistleblower.
I see, thanks!
Boeing joke?
Not if this was an isolated incident. If it turns out to be something else then maybe.
Nah, money is money… but they’ll probably need to include a security detail in the package.
Passed on to the insurance premiums
No…greed will prevail
Now how they act might be a different story.
1 is an off chance. Two more and their will legit be fear that the poor are rising up to eat the rich.
I think we need about two more within the next month to have an impact on CEO risk calculation. Of course the guy is definitely going to get caught if he strikes again.
Cops have one singular mission: protect rich folks. They will pull out stops we’ve never seen before to get this guy if he looks like he won’t stop on his own. He’ll probably get caught anyway, but if he’s smart he’ll take the W and disappear.
Of course, the most likely result isn’t a change of behavior, but having bodyguards be part of the standard CEO compensation package.
Leaders at Allied Universal, which provides security services for 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies, said their phones were “ringing off the hook” on Wednesday with potential clients. Allied covers a wide spectrum of services — including stationing guards outside offices, chauffeuring executives, surveilling their homes and tracking their families.
Protecting a chief executive full time costs roughly $250,000 a year, said Glen Kucera, who runs Allied’s enhanced protection services.
$250k a year?
That’s it?
Sounds like it needs to get a bit more expensive.
If assassins started going after the guards, those guards might want more danger money.
For legal reasons, this is an observation not a suggestion.
Protecting a chief executive full time cost roughly $250,000 a year
So it costs less than one major life saving surgery then.
Boeing managed to wave enough money to entice Kelly Ortberg to be their new CEO. Surely UHC can do similar.
Ortberg knows he’s there to be the scapegoat. He’ll eat crow in front of the media and Congress. He’ll push layoffs and cost cutting and draw the ire of the unions. When he leaves, the next CEO will point the finger at Ortberg for any remaining problems. And he negotiated a salary to match.
He’ll push layoffs and cost cutting and draw the ire of the unions.
Nope they pay McKinsey to recommend it, then use the excuse that “as CEO I have to do what is best”
If you want to know more about McKinsey ask Pete Butteigig, he was one of their “whiz kids”.
No one shot the Boeing CEO yet.
Yet
Yeah there’s a mountain of difference between getting publicly chewed out and getting publicly executed
Ethiopians and Indonesians live too far to be a threat for Boeing senior executives and board of directors
Every Boeing issue in the history of flight combined haven’t shortened as many lives as insurance CEOs on any given week of the year.
“Golly gee, getting reprimanded that one time sure did stink. Oh well.”
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There is never shortage of parasites to earn money…
Maybe if a few more of these parasites get claim to life denied things would change.
But even then, 10 Millie per year, people will take their chances
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.
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?
They’d better do it soon too. The stock has already dipped 10% in two days.
Contrary to popular belief, CEOs aren’t necessary for a company to run, but they do maximize the profits while they’re there
Imagine holding the title of “CEO of the healthcare company whose CEO got fucking iced last week”
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.
Fair point. I suppose internally I meant “in fact” as a shorthand for, “here’s an interesting thing that complements or counters what we were talking about,” and “I heard” to qualify my (lack of) certainty, without going into detail about where I got the information and quite how trustworthy it might or might not be. (Incidentally, it was on QI.)
Thanks for the source :-)
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.
