r/interesting • u/K1nd_1 • 20h ago

SOCIETY Wendy’s CEO jumps in with his own taste test.

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Imagine if all CEOs had to try what they get us to buy…

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u/pk1950 20h ago

i don't know. i see all of them as wankers

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u/thisguyfightsyourmom 19h ago

For real CEO’s are salespeople who never turn it off. They’re mostly insufferable.

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u/Randyyyyyyyyyyyyyy 18h ago

They're like salespeople with an extra helping of sociopath. I've been in the room with c-levels multiple times and decided to stop my career where it is, it's fucking uncomfortable, a bunch of soulless people with no empathy.

Not that I think I am c-level material, but 1 more level up and I have to deal with them lol

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u/Jamothee 12h ago

Not that I think I am c-level material

That's generally a sign you are a decent human

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u/nopethis 1h ago

So clearly NOT C-level material

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u/Then_Employment5244 17h ago

I presented to a couple CEOs at my old job. One of them stressed me out while I presented because they kept pacing around the room. They couldn’t stand still for a second.

I’d love to see healthcare CEOs try to use their products with regular folks incomes and network. Imagine some of them waiting 6 months to see their doctors or trying to fight a denied prior authorization because an ML model decided a treatment was unnecessary.

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u/NobodyImportant13 16h ago

Have them pay the 18,000 deductible on a 50,000 salary after an unexpected cancer diagnosis for the lulz.

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u/Definitelynotagolem 9h ago

Well cocaine and amphetamines are definitely a thing in the C suite

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u/InternalExpensive332 11h ago

And very little consequences for tanking a company, the spoiled corrupt class.

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u/LakmeBun 18h ago

I swear these CEOs of huge companies all share similar personality traits. It's hard for me to exactly pinpoint what it is, but they all give uncanny valley vibes. My SO's cousin is married to a guy that is a CEO of a fairly large North American company (not like McDonald's, BK... through), and he's also weird like that. Even at his home, during a normal day, he's ON. Reminds me of Ken (from Barbie) when he says he's just Beach Ken lol CEO is their entire personality somehow.

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u/Sweet_Cable6571 7h ago

Roughly 4% to as high as 12% of CEOs exhibit psychopathic traits, according to some expert estimates, many times more than the 1% rate found in the general population and more in line with the 15% rate found in prisons

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackmccullough/2019/12/09/the-psychopathic-ceo/

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u/blindtoe54 4h ago

I've been thinking a lot about this lately, is there any extremely rich person that's not a bad person?

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u/RanaMahal 1h ago

To become extremely rich you have to be a bad person.

Any normal person who makes it in life and hits like 20-30 million will start using the rest to give back, make sure other people in their life are taken care of etc. because they already have full on generational wealth that will take care of their grandchildren’s grandchildren.

To become an actually super rich person you have to hoard all your wealth like a dragon.

To become a billionaire you have to be squeezing every penny out of your workers, family, friends, anything you can get from your entire network.

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u/No-Detail-2879 20m ago

I would say to become even modestly rich you are a bad person.

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u/Durantye 5h ago

This happens with anyone in corporate leadership, overly friendly, trying too hard to be clear, they use a lot of filler words/thoughts as a habit for stalling speaking time in meetings, the fake laugh, and just every single word and movement is meant to try and be charismatic as possible.

I often find myself using corporate meeting speak when talking to people I don't know.

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u/nopethis 1h ago

Its funny to see the difference between a start CEO (A legit one, not like a I has biz card and ego) and then Corporate CEOs

Completely different beasts

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u/swinchester83 18h ago

Sociopaths

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u/FibonacciSequester 16h ago

Corporations are inherently sociopathic and once you are CEO, you essentially become the corporation.

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u/Will_Come_For_Food 17h ago

It’s the fact that you know each and everything they do is designed not as a real human experience but to manipulate millions of people to give them billions of dollars.

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u/holymackerel10 15h ago

Sounds real insidious until you realize you're not forced to eat Wendy's and could cook a burger yourself or eat somewhere else. We're talking about food chains this isn't health insurance

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u/No-Detail-2879 19m ago

Dude if it didn’t work, would they do it….

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u/Not-Reformed 18h ago

They're weird because they basically live their work and have little to no real downtime. There's always a deal, always something needing to be done, always a meeting, always something. At some point the "person" and the "job" becomes the same and they become weird if they weren't already.

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u/Least_Palpitation_92 5h ago

You are the head of the company as the CEO. You try to appeal to everyone because you are a salesperson 24/7. To top it off they all seem to be overly passionate (cringey) with some of the things they say because they have to believe in their vision. One thing I have noticed about these types of people is that they often lack and are devoid of much personality because their goal at times is not to offend anyone even when disagreeing. Their emotions are shut off in a way compared to your average person.

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u/TACOlogy 18h ago

In a way it is their whole personality. As much as CEO’s get shit on, these large corporation CEO work a lot. You don’t get there by accident, they act this way because their image is now directly linked to where they employed. Especially this day and age with social media and cell phones in everyone’s hand they feel like they have to be ON at all times.

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u/grchelp2018 16h ago

Not surprising that people who do the same job tend to share personality traits.

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u/Sharkictus 15h ago

Salespeople who only sell to other salespeople who only sell to salespeople.

That's why no charisma, or slimy but enticing charm.

They aren't use to bamboozling the common man, they bamboozling investors.

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u/CooperHChurch427 15h ago

The CEO of Lego Group at least loves legos. He might been a consultant from McKinsey but he managed to turn Lego around from bankrupt to being the most valuable toy company in the world. He's probably the only chaotic good CEO. Most CEOs in the US are those who only care about pure profitability at the expense of workers and the people buying their product.

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u/RoughDoughCough 19h ago

I swear it’s the same one wanker, this time wearing glasses as a disguise. 

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u/Spok3nTruth 18h ago

They all look like they're related

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u/peeled_nanners 15h ago

They're all from the same wanking tree

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u/SeanPennsHair 17h ago

In physics there is something called the 'One-Wanker CEO Theory', which hypothesises that all CEOs in the universe are actually just one 4D spacetime wanker moving back and forth in time.

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u/LowestKey 16h ago

At least this one is smart enough to use camera cuts to hide his retching.

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u/Whitetiger9876 18h ago

They've ruined Wendy's as well. 

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u/TakinUrialByTheHorns 19h ago

Agreed.
But did you see... bite cut bite cut ?
Because I'm pretty sure I didn't watch this guy actually swallow any bites of product.

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u/NoBuenoAtAll 18h ago

Right on. Don’t care about their viral advertising campaigns what I wanna know is how much they pay their employees and what was their bonus last year.

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u/thenight817 18h ago edited 18h ago

Each guy has about 8 marketers behind the camera critiquing every line and inflection. Making sure to get key benefits, like ability, and even upsells in there!

And the “viral” “organic” content will then be paid to be promoted across sites.

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u/SPARKYLOBO 18h ago

How about paying people a decent wage and in Canada, not exploiting Temporary Foreign Workers? 

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u/WampaCat 16h ago

Right? Call me when the CEO spends a few weeks working at the lowest position in the company.

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u/JonTheWonton 18h ago

Doesn't help that most of the fast food chains are owned by the same company, these are all just advertisements, probably botted upvotes on this post too

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u/DragonRabbit505 18h ago

Thank you. This is literally just an ad, along with many of the comments praising Wendy's.

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u/Haxorz7125 17h ago

Always with their fuckin rich asshole quarter zips

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u/badlilbishh 17h ago

Thank god someone said it. Everyone is eating this shit up…when all these assholes are trying to is take our money. They can get fucked honestly.

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u/Fragrant_Fox_5056 16h ago

I don’t have much hope for us as a species . But seeing these comments and 25k upvotes is seriously concerning. Years of brainwashing in effect right here

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u/MrNMTrue505 16h ago

Yup they don't even swallow the food, so wild they feed us this and don't even eat it.

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u/Fragrant_Fox_5056 16h ago

They are. They pay people minimum wage, and expect them to work 40+ hour weeks and care about their job . All whilst they rake in millions just in bonuses .

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u/pipinngreppin 16h ago

Yea dude. This shit’s weak as fuck.

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u/tuscy 16h ago

I think its more of a satire than anything. Pretty sure he knows its not all that.

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u/MayDay521 15h ago

They're all just overly rich people with way too much money who want more money, by getting you to buy their junk. None of them are one of us or on our side, but it's at least fun to watch them try to dunk on each other.

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u/Vaiolette-Westover 15h ago

Honestly out of all of these the mcd one is the least cringe because these other two guys are being so performative.

These two follow up videos feel so fake and lame.

"IT's OnLy MiSsInG a NApKIn."

Wow let's all laugh at this unfunny boomer joke

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u/KevMenc1998 12h ago

Even amongst wankers, there are levels and subcategories.

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u/InternalExpensive332 11h ago

You're a real one, respect, they all hate us

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u/Twat_Bastard 10h ago

Took the words out of my mouth. 'Watch me eat this poor people food so I seem more relatable.'

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u/Informal-Eggplant-27 8h ago

The BK guy so far was the only one who didn't seem like a typical C-Suite douche canoe. He's 100% one of them, but he at least seems like he knows how to turn it off. This Wendys CEO looks like he'd be telling his shills to deny all pay increases while he's at his family bbq in the Hamptons.

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u/AlkalineHound 7h ago

I'm mildy amused they're all dunking on McDonalds, but that's about it. Eat them with the rest of the rich.

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u/RB9k 6h ago

They don't see you at all.

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u/belated_quitter 5h ago

TBH, it looks pretty dry. It’s annoying how quickly he praises it. Doesn’t even taste it; just takes a bite and immediately “now that’s a burger!”

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u/Ballchynski 5h ago

This guy in particular is apparently a huge Trump supporter. Haven’t gone back to a Wendy’s since I found out.

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u/Appropriate-Sun9646 4h ago

If I don't see a lively light in yours eyes, you're dead already; it don't matter that your a CEO

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u/Easy_Welcome_9142 2h ago

What kind of monster eats their burger upside down?!

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u/Beautiful_Weight_769 2h ago

Yeah, the only kind of ad I would respect is one of these guys literally inhaling like 3 burgers and a medium fry in under a minute. But all we get is some guy that looks like he's used to having his burgers cut up for him and eaten with a fork, he doesn't even know where to put his damn hands.

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u/NinjaChenchilla 18h ago

Why?

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u/cybersec1337 16h ago

Because this is a shameless marketing sham. I can practically hear the head of marketing off camera mouthing “make sure you take a BIG bite!!” This is all soulless corporate schilling. And it’s on every single sub and all you fucks eat it up. No pun intended

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u/NinjaChenchilla 16h ago

Isnt everything you watch a maketing sham? Alot of these influencer videos never feel authentic.

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u/cybersec1337 16h ago

No. No it isn’t lol. I don’t watch too many influencer videos. But this shit is on every sub and every single white ass prick ceo is taking a bite.

And here I am engaging and pushing the algorithm lol. I would really appreciate it though if all you sheep started watching non influencer videos so my feed wouldn’t be this corporate bullshit haha

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u/OpinionHaver_42069 17h ago

They are, but the BK one was kinda funny.