She's the same kind of CEO who complains "people just don't want to work any more" when they can't fill a position for which they're offering $10 an hour.
I still don’t understand how can this CEO lecture about being kind and having empathy while earning 100x+ the median salaries and then have guts to suggest bonuses don’t matter to low income families. Sounds so entitled and damn right stupid if I am being direct.
A much better response would have been something like: "I regret we are not able to pay bonuses this year, believe me, I fought for it for you all. If we concentrate on our profit over the year, we can work towards it for next year'. Instead she scolds people as if they are 10 year old kids for even asking.
The CEO class thinks we don't understand their perspective. They fail to realise the reason they are despised is because we DO understand their perspective.
She made $5 million last year. I only made $60,000. I'm gonna make $3 million my 50yrs working over 100,000hrs. And "smile" doing it. Just "smile" knowing it's a ponzi scheme. How can I when I understand it is impossible math that only the 1% can be at the top of the ponzi scheme. Not even God himself deserves $5 million in one year.
@@ERG173 Taking one's future into one''s own hands and being responsible for your personal outcome is silly? I guess so if you still live with mommy and daddy and play your video games instead of maturing. Perhaps the loser strategy of praying on a long shot lottery win or staying on the parental teat is an option for some but not me.
@@patland1762 .... If you WERE taking your future into your hands I could agree, but you are not. About 95% businesses will have disappeared over a 5 year period. At least with a lottery ticket you are not going to lose everything. I speak as a moderately successful, retired business owner. Perhaps I should be glad I lost my young family, because I could never have put in the hours required to succeed otherwise.
@@careymathews5981 that’s true. Can’t argue there. However, it is MUCH easier to hire new employees if they leave. If management leaves, then that’s a pain. Truth of the matter is that there will ALWAYS be employees available. Management is much harder to come by so you keep those employees happy.
About as responsible for economic well-being as the landlord class. "If only I had stolen their 401K's. Man, I wish there were still pensions to steal."
Apple nearly ceased to exist before Steve Jobs returned to take over. Worthless CEO's are worthless. Those that excel provide us all with our jobs and means to pay the bills.
@@patland1762 In other words, don't change the system. Just be a nicer wage-slave master than the other wage-slave masters. How about you head back over to the Fox News CZcams channel.
The irony of telling her employees to “lead by example, treat people well” while giving herself a bonus at their expense lol. That is literally the opposite of leading by example.
Corporate leadership these days wants to travel to the moon on 87 octane, minimal vehicle maintenance, oversized payload and then wonders why engines won’t get their vision off the ground! These people are unbelievable! Smh
I lived on a rich street growing up and half my neighbors were like this, they pretend to be nice but the moment you infringe on their luxury they treat people like trash below them.
She wants serfs not employees. Who isn’t sick of CEO pay being in the stratosphere? She and many other CEOs don’t seem to understand that they are nothing without the employees who actually do the work.
I'm a business owner myself and I know that I do not make a dime for my company. My employees make me my money. Screwing my employees just so I can get a couple extra bucks I don't really need makes me sick to my stomach and every CEO and owner that thinks that way should immediately go back to business school and learn how business actually works.
@@sandrasnow-balvert7766 I tend to think that's maturity at work. Much respect to you. And if you don't mind disclosing, what industry are you in? Just curious.
@@ryancox5097 When I got fired from my job as a waitress and bartender I looked around to see if I could open up a similar type of place. But everywhere there were family restaurants but I did notice that there was only one strip club in the city and it was very low class and almost no one went to it so I set up my own
More than 20 yrs ago I was employed by a Fox owned TV station ... in December we each received a holiday card from Herr Murdoch explaining that he'd planned a cash bonus for each of us but instead donated it all to an obscure charity ... a station producer said, "I expected nothing, and I got less".
Would I be wrong to assume that this charity's main beneficiary through an unfathomable network of letter-box companies is a certain Rupert Murdoch himself?
@@mogon721 Fox felt compelled to inform its workers that their hard, diligent work had resulted in enough to grant a bonus but that bonus was denied ... they could have kept quiet and we would have enjoyed the holiday without the bonus but Fox needed to make us feel badly ... that may be considered evil....
My grandfather, my father, and my great uncle worked for this company when it was known as just Herman Miller. They used to be a great company to work for. They were kind to their workers. Things started changing in the late 90s. They stopped giving Christmas bonuses, and my dad was overworked and miserable. I will never forget the day that he came home from work after one of his coworkers died on the floor of the factory. His face was white as a sheet. He decided he needed to retire before it happens to him.
Here's justice:: her accounts, including credit cards and dividends, should be frozen. She should then have to live 2 years strictly on the median salary of her workers. No bonuses no matter what. Then we'll see who lives in pity city. Yeah it'll never happen, but this is just another sign of wealth privilege and it's disgusting.
She simply believes that she is entitled to more millions while the workers, with their simple little lives don’t need as much as she is entitled to. What a horrible person.
As a business owner if I don't have enough in profits to bonus my sfaff, it comes out of my own pocket. When we do make profit (99% of the time)-I'm open about the numbers and everyone gets paid fairly. Nobody ever quits .
She takes home 5 million dollars and a bonus and then she has the nerve to talk to workers who make her the money. She is rude and should be fired. She doesn't work paycheck to paycheck. She heartless and ignorant.
You know CEOs never lose their bonus, They never take a pay cut , they never lose their company privileges like company cars , food and travel expenses . Employee in the US are not getting paid their value.
I spent 20 years working with CEO’s, some of the richest in the world. Majority are so out of touch with the day to day struggles of their employees. I can think of only 1 that I worked with in all that time. His name was Carlos and he had grown up in a poor area of Brazil. He came to the states and ended up owning a large franchise. He had no reason to visit every location weekly, but he did. He didn’t have to ask each employee how they were doing or know their partner and/or their kids names, but he did. I asked him why as he had managers and general managers so he really didn’t have to. He told me that the day he lost touch of what his employees were going through was the day his business failed. He died in a motorcycle accident after leaving one of his locations. His kids took over and today the franchise is still owned by them and employees start at $2 over our state’s minimum wage even if they’re still in HS. The worst I ever dealt with was the owner of a multiple championship winning NFL team and that’s really all I can say about that.
Sounds like an awesome guy. As far as bonuses go, it should never be a surprise whether you will get one or not. Bonuses should not be "if we feel like it." At my previous company, bonuses were transparent. Company and department goals were set and then "publicly" tracked. At each quarterly update you knew if we were on track to receive bonuses and how much. You work there. During the quarter, even if you don't get the daily numbers, you generally have a sense whether production/sales are strong or weak, so the quarterly update should not be a shock. I don't recall what would happen if company sales were down but you met your department (or personal) goals. I don't think that we would ever have had a situation where people were expecting bonuses and not get any. And if the numbers were weak, they would never be presented the way that CEO did.
CEOs love to preach about responsibility and entitlements, yet they make extreme amounts over the average salaries vs their employees. It is sad really how out of touch and tone deaf modern CEOs have become. When you are lashing out at people living paycheck to paycheck at no fault of their own.
@@someone-vi3gs Totally, C-Suite is often the ones who tell their lower end workers to do without, meanwhile a single C-Suite person makes enough to pay 50 workers.
In 2022, Owen earned almost $5 million in compensation, including a $1.29 million bonus. Guess we can find around 20% of the 'damn $26 million' there and the rest in the other executive salaries, huh?
The fact that she had to become irrational and shame them like children for simply asking about reasonable compensation tells me everything about how this company is run.
If the employees don’t get a bonus, then the CEO shouldn’t get a bonus either. Once again, the two tiered society shows how CEOs are over compensated while the employees are stiffed.
I worked for a large public company that told us that there would be no bonuses for anyone that year, not even for the executives. Then, when I got the annual report, on the executive compensation page, there were footnotes next to each executive’s $0 bonus, and each footnote said “The board gave Mr or Mrs. “X” a discretionary cash award”. Sounds like a bonus to me.
I worked for this company. They forced employees to work 12+ hour days, work on holidays, and not get paid extra for it. They told employees that if we hit out quotas that we would get our bonus, so basically we worked days in a row from 6 AM to 7 PM even on holidays, and still didn't get a bonus. Employees who got hired on or came in through temp agencies, were basically lied to. People came in expecting X pay with X hours, and we're misled and forced into working more hours than they were told before being hired.
US workers seem to like being treated like dirt. The richest country in the world is virtually the only one that doesn't have mandated paid time off, or maternity leave.
Who do you think took the risk investing their own money starting these companies. None of these employees are taking on any risk. It's a simple minded way of looking at things.
You owe your employer an honest day's labor and in exchange they owe you an honest day's pay. Once the employer starts to stray from that narrative, you as an employee are about to be screwed out of something.
MillerKnoll (Herman Miller) took a massive 2 billion loan to buy out competitor designer Knoll Brands. A deal that led to massive outsourcing, consolidation, and closing of plants. At the same time, this CEO took home 3.6 million in bonuses in 2020, 5.4 million in 2021, and 3.6 million in bonuses in 2022.
During the Great Recession several years ago, there was a freeze on giving teachers a cost of living raise , in the town where I lived. Yet the school board voted to give the school superintendent a raise. He refused to take the raise, saying he would take the raise when his teachers , and other school support staff could get raises. That’s how you motivate people in times of economic hardship. He was a very popular school superintendent, with teachers, parents and students.
We once had a boss who kept promising us a raise when we were more financially solvent, then when we were he quit and never gave us a raise. Meanwhile, he'd say things like, "I know you've been working hard, you're tired and sleep deprived, but look at what we've gotten done because of it. It's a good kind of tired and you should take pride in it." Also had a motivational speaker tell us we should come to work the same day we have our chemo treatments because he disobeyed his doctors orders and was able to do it. I just can't with these greedy bastards!
I was fortunate at my last sleep depriving job, in that the boss was generous with the pay.. But still 4-5 hrs/night sleep, is not enough to get me to go back.
At some point, we are going to have to make them realize that they need us far more than we need them. I wonder exactly what would happen if all of us just decided to stop working.
Actually i think that a lot of companiies would work better without a ceo most of the time they are a waste of money and the middle Management would get also long term decission usually right....
A lot of these execs are Ayn Rand fans. They think of the “walk away”, the world will stop functioning… and the rest of us will be helpless and everything will turn to “crap”. In reality… what will probably happen is that some people will just “move up a step” and take over that exec’s spot.
That is the CEO equivalence of "There's no crying in baseball". I worked for an airline during 9/11 and immediately afterward all of the rank and file lost: pay, vacation time, sick leave time, company match in our 401K and our health care costs went up. At the same time our top management team got new cars from the airline and big bonuses. We were told that they had to do that to remain competitive in the industry and to be able to retain their top people. Twelve years later we still had not regained what we lost. CEO's who tell you to suck it up but don't take the hit alongside their employees are not worth the time of day.
They preach moralty to employees, but money to themselves... They believe they are deserving of excessive compesentions. Why dont she lead by example by forgoing her bonuses. 🤔
This is what happens when you’ve been coddled your whole life, never had to do manual labor etc. - you lose the ability to relate and empathize with others.
Everyone should quit immediately. Let HER lead by example and show em how 'capable' she is of turning profits on her own, without detouring to "pity city" lol!
She sounded like an exasperated Mother lecturing teenagers. What a Karen. it's really disrespectful to talk to adult employees in such a dismissive manner but not untypical.
The staggering $5 million annual salary of this corporate executive is indeed noteworthy, but perhaps equally concerning is the purportedly low emotional intelligence displayed by this woman. Unfortunately, this is a recurring issue within corporate America where a small group of high-level executives commandeer the lion's share of the compensation, leaving the remaining employees to divide up the scraps. In fact, recent estimates suggest that the compensation ratio between CEOs and workers in the United States has reached a staggering 398.8 to 1 in 2021. This trend effectively allows top executives to amass wealth at the expense of ordinary workers who are left to toil tirelessly for comparatively meager wages.
How is she gonna be able to pay few hundred dollars bonuses to her employees, and still pay herself 4M dollars bonus for herself? Greedy selfish woman.
yeah I don't need a bonus. I want a good working environment where I go in, do my work, go home and I'm not stressing for the next day. I used to have that once and even though my pay was somewhat lower than industry standard, I had enough to pay my bills and enough left over for fun things and I never once complained about pay or bonuses. The main thing was that I actually liked going into work, it was totally stress free even when things got busy. But now too much shit just gets in the way. CEOs want to min/max everything for maximum profit when they're already thousands of times more wealthy than us.
I work for a hospital that is a NONPROFIT. I asked for special accommodations for my disability . I was told they didn’t have to accommodate me , that I should request FMLA and that “ we’re running a business “ not just by my boss but by HR .. American work culture is toxic .
She's the same kind of CEO who complains "people just don't want to work any more" when they can't fill a position for which they're offering $10 an hour.
EXACTLY
That CEO just guaranteed her employees will be working the bare minimum.
🤣totally. I know I do, and I would.
Yep. Quietly quitting.
Yep. And bare minimum productivity.
She’s not out of touch. She’s a greedy sociopath.
Unfortunately these are the kind of people who thrive in the current system. That is, until someone calls them out.
I still don’t understand how can this CEO lecture about being kind and having empathy while earning 100x+ the median salaries and then have guts to suggest bonuses don’t matter to low income families. Sounds so entitled and damn right stupid if I am being direct.
You can tell she thinks she totally killed it in that meeting. 😂😂
that last gesture of dropping the mic is a dead giveaway lol in her head this went differently
A much better response would have been something like: "I regret we are not able to pay bonuses this year, believe me, I fought for it for you all. If we concentrate on our profit over the year, we can work towards it for next year'.
Instead she scolds people as if they are 10 year old kids for even asking.
That woman sucks. Corporate America must be reformed.
Absolutely.
Here's a solution. Start your own company and pledge your own assets to do so. Then employ people.
@@patland1762 disingenuous suggestion.
@@tjk3430 LOL okay. Go back to playing your video games.
@@tjk3430 I did it so what is disingenous about it. If you have limited vision and motiviation perhaps it would seem so.
The CEO class thinks we don't understand their perspective.
They fail to realise the reason they are despised is because we DO understand their perspective.
She made $5 million last year. I only made $60,000. I'm gonna make $3 million my 50yrs working over 100,000hrs. And "smile" doing it.
Just "smile" knowing it's a ponzi scheme. How can I when I understand it is impossible math that only the 1% can be at the top of the ponzi scheme.
Not even God himself deserves $5 million in one year.
Here's a solution. Start your own company and pledge your own assets to do so. Then employ people.
@@patland1762 .... I have another plan, just as silly as yours.
Buy a lottery ticket, win huge amounts of money and go on holiday.
@@ERG173 Taking one's future into one''s own hands and being responsible for your personal outcome is silly? I guess so if you still live with mommy and daddy and play your video games instead of maturing. Perhaps the loser strategy of praying on a long shot lottery win or staying on the parental teat is an option for some but not me.
@@patland1762 .... If you WERE taking your future into your hands I could agree, but you are not. About 95% businesses will have disappeared over a 5 year period. At least with a lottery ticket you are not going to lose everything.
I speak as a moderately successful, retired business owner.
Perhaps I should be glad I lost my young family, because I could never have put in the hours required to succeed otherwise.
Without your employees, you'd have nothing but as long as you get your millions, what'd you care. She's disgraceful
Exactly! No industry or company would exist if they didn't have any workers or clients to rely on!
By the same token, without management or owners, employees wouldn’t have jobs.
@@oiboy626 neither would management or owners
@@careymathews5981 that’s true. Can’t argue there. However, it is MUCH easier to hire new employees if they leave. If management leaves, then that’s a pain. Truth of the matter is that there will ALWAYS be employees available. Management is much harder to come by so you keep those employees happy.
How much you wanna bet she cares about getting her bonus...
After she said “Leave pity city”, every employee should have logged off and quit.
She's a disgusting example of how much a CEO does for our country... notthing.
About as responsible for economic well-being as the landlord class. "If only I had stolen their 401K's. Man, I wish there were still pensions to steal."
Search for the song "Five Million Ways to Kill A CEO," by The Coup. I feel like you'd get a kick out of it.
Apple nearly ceased to exist before Steve Jobs returned to take over. Worthless CEO's are worthless. Those that excel provide us all with our jobs and means to pay the bills.
Here's a solution. Start your own company and pledge your own assets to do so. Then employ people.
@@patland1762 In other words, don't change the system. Just be a nicer wage-slave master than the other wage-slave masters.
How about you head back over to the Fox News CZcams channel.
It's great that technology exists for employees to show this behavior to the world.
Absolutely!!
The irony of telling her employees to “lead by example, treat people well” while giving herself a bonus at their expense lol. That is literally the opposite of leading by example.
She's treating herself well ...
Part of leadership is being willing to do what you're asking others to do, and leading by example.
Corporate leadership these days wants to travel to the moon on 87 octane, minimal vehicle maintenance, oversized payload and then wonders why engines won’t get their vision off the ground! These people are unbelievable! Smh
Are there any CEOs who aren't out of touch? Isn't that a requirement?
I lived on a rich street growing up and half my neighbors were like this, they pretend to be nice but the moment you infringe on their luxury they treat people like trash below them.
She wants serfs not employees. Who isn’t sick of CEO pay being in the stratosphere? She and many other CEOs don’t seem to understand that they are nothing without the employees who actually do the work.
Exactly. The people gotta show them for who they are. Corporate goon culture with the same mindset....
"Don't worry about what you're gonna do if you don't get a bonus." That's when you log out and quit.
That’s a long way of saying “stop whining about YOUR bonuses, get out there and make sure I still get MINE”
The company*
So she is basically saying forget about _your_ bonuses and focus on getting me _mine_ lol Classic
I'm a business owner myself and I know that I do not make a dime for my company. My employees make me my money. Screwing my employees just so I can get a couple extra bucks I don't really need makes me sick to my stomach and every CEO and owner that thinks that way should immediately go back to business school and learn how business actually works.
Your whats right with America 🇺🇸
Sandra Snow-Balvert gets it. ❤️🖤
@@ryancox5097 I never wanted to be rich just have enough to live comfortably.
@@sandrasnow-balvert7766 I tend to think that's maturity at work. Much respect to you. And if you don't mind disclosing, what industry are you in? Just curious.
@@ryancox5097 When I got fired from my job as a waitress and bartender I looked around to see if I could open up a similar type of place. But everywhere there were family restaurants but I did notice that there was only one strip club in the city and it was very low class and almost no one went to it so I set up my own
More than 20 yrs ago I was employed by a Fox owned TV station ... in December we each received a holiday card from Herr Murdoch explaining that he'd planned a cash bonus for each of us but instead donated it all to an obscure charity ... a station producer said, "I expected nothing, and I got less".
Gonna be a bleak year for bonuses at fox this year. I hope eveyone there drowns in their own tears in pity city.
Would I be wrong to assume that this charity's main beneficiary through an unfathomable network of letter-box companies is a certain Rupert Murdoch himself?
@@mogon721 Fox felt compelled to inform its workers that their hard, diligent work had resulted in enough to grant a bonus but that bonus was denied ... they could have kept quiet and we would have enjoyed the holiday without the bonus but Fox needed to make us feel badly ... that may be considered evil....
@@WERC-lawyer unfortunately that sounds like Fox.
He got that idea from George Costanza, Happy Festivous!
My grandfather, my father, and my great uncle worked for this company when it was known as just Herman Miller. They used to be a great company to work for. They were kind to their workers. Things started changing in the late 90s. They stopped giving Christmas bonuses, and my dad was overworked and miserable. I will never forget the day that he came home from work after one of his coworkers died on the floor of the factory. His face was white as a sheet. He decided he needed to retire before it happens to him.
How about she lives off the minimum wage for a year and see if she isn’t asking about her bonus with in a week. Such bullshit
"Be kind. Be respectful." Except from appreciating her employees. 👍
Here's justice:: her accounts, including credit cards and dividends, should be frozen. She should then have to live 2 years strictly on the median salary of her workers. No bonuses no matter what. Then we'll see who lives in pity city.
Yeah it'll never happen, but this is just another sign of wealth privilege and it's disgusting.
She simply believes that she is entitled to more millions while the workers, with their simple little lives don’t need as much as she is entitled to. What a horrible person.
She thinks her closing statement is a double mic drop.🤦🏻♀️
That ceo should take her own advice and be kind. Give your bonus as ceo to your workers .
She could probably cut her pay 5% and pay all the bonuses. She's been promoted to the level of clueless.
A 5% pay cut as she wouldn't even feel that in the slightest.
As a business owner if I don't have enough in profits to bonus my sfaff, it comes out of my own pocket. When we do make profit (99% of the time)-I'm open about the numbers and everyone gets paid fairly. Nobody ever quits .
Good for you Jack! You sound like another Dan Price.
She takes home 5 million dollars and a bonus and then she has the nerve to talk to workers who make her the money. She is rude and should be fired. She doesn't work paycheck to paycheck. She heartless and ignorant.
If workers don't get a bonus, the CEO should not get a bonus. It's called leading by example.
Yes! And that would “be kind”
This is what toxic positivity looks like.
If money isn’t supposed to be important then maybe she could take a pay cut
You know CEOs never lose their bonus,
They never take a pay cut , they never lose their company privileges like company cars , food and travel expenses .
Employee in the US are not getting paid their value.
They do lose their jobs, once they lose the shareholders money. The weak CEO's are taken out with the trash. I suspect she won't be long.
I spent 20 years working with CEO’s, some of the richest in the world. Majority are so out of touch with the day to day struggles of their employees. I can think of only 1 that I worked with in all that time. His name was Carlos and he had grown up in a poor area of Brazil. He came to the states and ended up owning a large franchise. He had no reason to visit every location weekly, but he did. He didn’t have to ask each employee how they were doing or know their partner and/or their kids names, but he did. I asked him why as he had managers and general managers so he really didn’t have to. He told me that the day he lost touch of what his employees were going through was the day his business failed. He died in a motorcycle accident after leaving one of his locations. His kids took over and today the franchise is still owned by them and employees start at $2 over our state’s minimum wage even if they’re still in HS. The worst I ever dealt with was the owner of a multiple championship winning NFL team and that’s really all I can say about that.
Sounds like an awesome guy. As far as bonuses go, it should never be a surprise whether you will get one or not. Bonuses should not be "if we feel like it." At my previous company, bonuses were transparent. Company and department goals were set and then "publicly" tracked. At each quarterly update you knew if we were on track to receive bonuses and how much. You work there. During the quarter, even if you don't get the daily numbers, you generally have a sense whether production/sales are strong or weak, so the quarterly update should not be a shock. I don't recall what would happen if company sales were down but you met your department (or personal) goals. I don't think that we would ever have had a situation where people were expecting bonuses and not get any. And if the numbers were weak, they would never be presented the way that CEO did.
I’m a CEO. I’m not out of touch. Jeff
@@batmania777 I hope that's true and that you're doing good by your producers
Another example of why the wealthiest few should be turned into Soilent Green
CEOs love to preach about responsibility and entitlements, yet they make extreme amounts over the average salaries vs their employees. It is sad really how out of touch and tone deaf modern CEOs have become. When you are lashing out at people living paycheck to paycheck at no fault of their own.
What do you expect, Jakthebomb? Most of them come from rich families. The ones that started poor can be counted with the fingers of one hand.
AND she expects ppl to be excited about the product/company. I wonder if they give the snap brochure to their employees like Wal mart.
Say the entitled.
@@someone-vi3gs Totally, C-Suite is often the ones who tell their lower end workers to do without, meanwhile a single C-Suite person makes enough to pay 50 workers.
Why didn't she just say, "The beatings will continue until morale improves."
And: "Bread and water rations have been reallocated as bonuses."
"We ARE going to allow the cot in the break room to be cleaned once a month if the employee party pool forgoes cake...or you donate more!"
In 2022, Owen earned almost $5 million in compensation, including a $1.29 million bonus. Guess we can find around 20% of the 'damn $26 million' there and the rest in the other executive salaries, huh?
When Karen is the CEO
Any CEO who talks to their employees the way that woman talked to hers does not deserve to have employees. She stinks.
She doesn’t give two craps about her employees. All she cares about is herself.
Me on the other side of the camera ...." Take this job and shove it , I ain't working here no more" ..
Did she take a pay cut?? Did she get a bonus?? It's the employees who make a company money so why aren't they rewarded?
So they are struggling but she gets millions! WTH!!!
I hope they all quit.
The fact that she had to become irrational and shame them like children for simply asking about reasonable compensation tells me everything about how this company is run.
How much did the company get in PPP loans?
I LOVE that this psychopath went viral. Whoever recorded this is a national hero
If the employees don’t get a bonus, then the CEO shouldn’t get a bonus either. Once again, the two tiered society shows how CEOs are over compensated while the employees are stiffed.
"just shut up and make my money" is what she said
Essentially yeah. PR disaster.
I worked for a large public company that told us that there would be no bonuses for anyone that year, not even for the executives. Then, when I got the annual report, on the executive compensation page, there were footnotes next to each executive’s $0 bonus, and each footnote said “The board gave Mr or Mrs. “X” a discretionary cash award”. Sounds like a bonus to me.
She got a $4 million bonus.
Yeah but she’s better than all of us.
Imagine if everyone handed in their resignation on that zoom call
I worked for this company.
They forced employees to work 12+ hour days, work on holidays, and not get paid extra for it. They told employees that if we hit out quotas that we would get our bonus, so basically we worked days in a row from 6 AM to 7 PM even on holidays, and still didn't get a bonus.
Employees who got hired on or came in through temp agencies, were basically lied to. People came in expecting X pay with X hours, and we're misled and forced into working more hours than they were told before being hired.
I just can't imagine why American workers are tired of the nonsense and are sick of this nonsense.
US workers seem to like being treated like dirt. The richest country in the world is virtually the only one that doesn't have mandated paid time off, or maternity leave.
I hope her entire Workforce walks out
Set the date
It's the employees in a company who do the real work and make the companies profits- CEO's are so overpaid it's ridiculous.
Who do you think took the risk investing their own money starting these companies. None of these employees are taking on any risk. It's a simple minded way of looking at things.
You owe your employer an honest day's labor and in exchange they owe you an honest day's pay. Once the employer starts to stray from that narrative, you as an employee are about to be screwed out of something.
How much furniture can she manufacture.. by herself, none. But all the credit goes to her, murica!
MillerKnoll (Herman Miller) took a massive 2 billion loan to buy out competitor designer Knoll Brands. A deal that led to massive outsourcing, consolidation, and closing of plants. At the same time, this CEO took home 3.6 million in bonuses in 2020, 5.4 million in 2021, and 3.6 million in bonuses in 2022.
She's sorry her comments went viral, not sorry for what she said. She meant every damn word she spoke.
She could've devided those 6 mil between all the employees but instead she gave us jazz hands... 👐 👐 👐
She could have taken $2000000 instead of 5 and given 1,000 employees a $3000 bonus
@The Happy CPA Shit you're right! I dropped a zero.
I’m so sick of CEO’s acting like this. They got theirs, but the fact that you’re not getting yours is tough shit. You need to shut up and work harder.
During the Great Recession several years ago, there was a freeze on giving teachers a cost of living raise , in the town where I lived. Yet the school board voted to give the school superintendent a raise. He refused to take the raise, saying he would take the raise when his teachers , and other school support staff could get raises. That’s how you motivate people in times of economic hardship. He was a very popular school superintendent, with teachers, parents and students.
We once had a boss who kept promising us a raise when we were more financially solvent, then when we were he quit and never gave us a raise. Meanwhile, he'd say things like, "I know you've been working hard, you're tired and sleep deprived, but look at what we've gotten done because of it. It's a good kind of tired and you should take pride in it."
Also had a motivational speaker tell us we should come to work the same day we have our chemo treatments because he disobeyed his doctors orders and was able to do it. I just can't with these greedy bastards!
I was fortunate at my last sleep depriving job, in that the boss was generous with the pay.. But still 4-5 hrs/night sleep, is not enough to get me to go back.
A lot of these people in those positions are delusional. They were raised with a sliverspoon and have never had to deal with actual hardship.
At some point, we are going to have to make them realize that they need us far more than we need them. I wonder exactly what would happen if all of us just decided to stop working.
Actually i think that a lot of companiies would work better without a ceo most of the time they are a waste of money and the middle Management would get also long term decission usually right....
A lot of these execs are Ayn Rand fans. They think of the “walk away”, the world will stop functioning… and the rest of us will be helpless and everything will turn to “crap”. In reality… what will probably happen is that some people will just “move up a step” and take over that exec’s spot.
That is the CEO equivalence of "There's no crying in baseball".
I worked for an airline during 9/11 and immediately afterward all of the rank and file lost: pay, vacation time, sick leave time, company match in our 401K and our health care costs went up. At the same time our top management team got new cars from the airline and big bonuses. We were told that they had to do that to remain competitive in the industry and to be able to retain their top people. Twelve years later we still had not regained what we lost. CEO's who tell you to suck it up but don't take the hit alongside their employees are not worth the time of day.
They preach moralty to employees, but money to themselves... They believe they are deserving of excessive compesentions. Why dont she lead by example by forgoing her bonuses. 🤔
EXACTLY..... ABOUT THAT!
Should we point out that if she gave up her six million dollar bonus (for the good of the company) then they would only need 20 million?
I they're waiting for a CEO to show empathy you'll be waiting til hell freezes over.
Records show she got her 1.2 million dollar bonus.
Pay the employees bonus in stock. Cut executive wages
This is what happens when you’ve been coddled your whole life, never had to do manual labor etc. - you lose the ability to relate and empathize with others.
Everyone should quit immediately. Let HER lead by example and show em how 'capable' she is of turning profits on her own, without detouring to "pity city" lol!
I absolutely love rich people telling non-rich people to quit worrying about money smh
She sounded like an exasperated Mother lecturing teenagers. What a Karen.
it's really disrespectful to talk to adult employees in such a dismissive manner but not untypical.
The staggering $5 million annual salary of this corporate executive is indeed noteworthy, but perhaps equally concerning is the purportedly low emotional intelligence displayed by this woman. Unfortunately, this is a recurring issue within corporate America where a small group of high-level executives commandeer the lion's share of the compensation, leaving the remaining employees to divide up the scraps. In fact, recent estimates suggest that the compensation ratio between CEOs and workers in the United States has reached a staggering 398.8 to 1 in 2021. This trend effectively allows top executives to amass wealth at the expense of ordinary workers who are left to toil tirelessly for comparatively meager wages.
Think about ME getting a bonus, not you. That's what I heard.
She is getting a multimillion dollar bonus
Wow! That CEO is straight out of an episode of Arrested Development. Furthermore, that CEO is straight out of her mind.
After that zoom meeting I am looking for a new job ASAP.
If I'm a competitor getting to see this call, I'm calling those employees and pitching them jobs.
I would have quit as soon as she did her dumb lil “boom” gesture. So condescending and immature.
Higher management bonuses shouldn't be given if the bottom line was achieved via closures and job losses
It's wage theft
Don't coddle her. Treat her like a greedy CEO!!!!
Ruin her so she is below her former employees
"Leaders eat last" was something I heard in the Army. My respect for Cenk has just increased tenfold.
“Be kind, be respectful”. Hypocrite.
That was an “eff u” to the employees if I ever heard one. Wow 😳
It's amazing that people don't quit in droves. She can earn the 26 million dollars herself.
They have mortgages and CEOs know it.
I have refused raises as a chef to give my employees raises because it was the right thing to do
How about CEO’s give up their bonus’s across the board! How about corporate kindness?!?
exactly! I can assure that she got a bonus this year, while berating others for wanting one.
@@albertstrohmaier4034 absolutely!
"Leave Pity City". So, what, she wants us to be homeless?
How is she gonna be able to pay few hundred dollars bonuses to her employees, and still pay herself 4M dollars bonus for herself? Greedy selfish woman.
She must be a Republican.
Forget bonuses. How about decent wages and benefits that employees could live on...
yeah I don't need a bonus. I want a good working environment where I go in, do my work, go home and I'm not stressing for the next day. I used to have that once and even though my pay was somewhat lower than industry standard, I had enough to pay my bills and enough left over for fun things and I never once complained about pay or bonuses. The main thing was that I actually liked going into work, it was totally stress free even when things got busy. But now too much shit just gets in the way. CEOs want to min/max everything for maximum profit when they're already thousands of times more wealthy than us.
If Christmas Vacation taught us anything it's that you can never count on bonuses.
Jelly of the month club
Lol
Be kind?! Okay, share the wealth woman!
I work for a hospital that is a NONPROFIT. I asked for special accommodations for my disability . I was told they didn’t have to accommodate me , that I should request FMLA and that “ we’re running a business “ not just by my boss but by HR .. American work culture is toxic .
What gets me is this: She is absolutely comfortable speaking this way, to adults who actually *produce* something, while being recorded.
If there was a way to make a person like this feel shame or remorse then we'd see change. Today's climate rewards awful people.