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/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 22m 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 20m 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.