Pardon my venting, but what does a CEO actually do?

Platapus · 09-08-12, 06:37 PM

I work for a non-profit company. Our CEO gets $1,100,000 per year in salary and "compensation". What exactly does a CEO do?

I can tell you that she is not expanding our business area nor is she bringing in new business. She is very good at telling us that we won't be getting any CoL adjustments to our salaries. Raises are just a distant memory from years back.

She is actually reducing our business areas. She calls it "focusing" and "branding". So we are doing just what we have always been doing but now we are putting all our contractual eggs in one basket.

Hell, I can do nothing to grow the company and I would only charge $300,000 per year as CEO.

If a CEO is not growing the company by expanding business areas and/or bringing in new customers, what exactly does CEO do? Besides having her picture taken and collecting over a million dollars per year?

Her big business plan? We need to reduce the number of printers. That's how we are going to be more profitable. By the way, she flew out here First Class to tell us this recently.

Just two questions

1 Just what does a CEO do other than build business
2 How can I get a cushy job like this where I can get 1.1 M and have the business strategy of just doing less than what we did last year?

/rant

09-08-12, 06:37 PM	#1
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,361 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Pardon my venting, but what does a CEO actually do? I work for a non-profit company. Our CEO gets $1,100,000 per year in salary and "compensation". What exactly does a CEO do? I can tell you that she is not expanding our business area nor is she bringing in new business. She is very good at telling us that we won't be getting any CoL adjustments to our salaries. Raises are just a distant memory from years back. She is actually reducing our business areas. She calls it "focusing" and "branding". So we are doing just what we have always been doing but now we are putting all our contractual eggs in one basket. Hell, I can do nothing to grow the company and I would only charge $300,000 per year as CEO. If a CEO is not growing the company by expanding business areas and/or bringing in new customers, what exactly does CEO do? Besides having her picture taken and collecting over a million dollars per year? Her big business plan? We need to reduce the number of printers. That's how we are going to be more profitable. By the way, she flew out here First Class to tell us this recently. Just two questions 1 Just what does a CEO do other than build business 2 How can I get a cushy job like this where I can get 1.1 M and have the business strategy of just doing less than what we did last year? /rant __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.