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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 99 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Commuting by plane. Out with the guillotines, off with his head.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

i doubt that there's a bigger outward sign of a gap between the rich and the rest of us when you treat a jet like it's a commuter car.

the icing on this cake is that he's never fully aware of it and will be rewarded no matter what.

[–] EnderMB@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

It's sad to say, but there are people that work at Amazon (IC's, not even senior or middle management) that commute by plane.

They were hired on the basis that being 100's of miles away wasn't a problem, and were then told to commute to their nearest office 3x a week (now 5x). For many, spending their money on a commute is preferable to being unemployed, so some employees spend 3+ hours a day commuting, or fly in and get a taxi/train to the office.

It's obviously not to this level, but RTO initiatives make people do stupid shit in order to stay employed...

[–] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 47 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Imagine having a job so fucking braindead easy you can live 1000 miles away and only show up three days out of the week.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

CEO must be the fucking easier job over there, given that they are a lot of people that are CEO's of multiple companies at the same time.

[–] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 11 months ago

The only two requirements are being good at lying and believing your own bullshit.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 29 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Presumably this is more of a c/fuck_planes, because there’s no way he’s driving (19 hours nonstop) or taking a train (28–32 hours).

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 41 points 11 months ago

It says he's taking the corporate jet and he has to be in Seattle at least 3 days a week

This fucking asshole

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago

That'll last 6 months and then he will quietly get an exemption to work from home

[–] jakob@soc.schuerz.at 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@technocrit

Tell me why i don't like Starbucks...

First... Starbucks killed my beloved "Kaffehaus"-culture in vienna.

Now this.

I bought only one fucking coffee there in my whole live. It's years ago. And it will be the only one in my live.

#FuckStarbucks

[–] jakob@soc.schuerz.at 2 points 11 months ago

@technocrit

Oh... and Starbucks is master of tax avoidance

[–] TOModera@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Had a VP who was forced to do this (but with commercial flights) 15ish years ago. It was hell and she quit after 4 months. Management was surprised due to their inability to understand people or reality.

[–] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like she made the mistake of trying to do her job herself rather than delegating all the work to her underlings like most execs do.

[–] TOModera@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Nailed it. She was notorious for that.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

someone do the math on his one-trip emissions and compare it to the average commute

[–] unrelatedkeg@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 11 months ago

He'll superpollute

Might as well use Zoom instead

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Niccol successfully negotiated a similar deal when he became the CEO of Chipotle in 2018.

At the time, the fast-casual chain was headquartered in Denver, Colorado ... Chipotle moved its headquarters from Denver to Newport Beach three months after announcing Niccol’s appointment.

Checking out Newport Beach there's a John Wayne Airstrip right there, 5 minute drive. Will probably fly out of that.

[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 4 points 11 months ago

Because he's a special boy