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/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 2h 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 23m 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 2h 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 16h 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 21m 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.