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      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.

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      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…

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

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    I don’t get why he’d do that. That’s a nearly 3 hour commute each way, so about 5-6 hours in the air each day.

    Add to that, a charter jet company quotes the price for that flight at ~$18,000 each way. Maybe reduce the cost of that flight in half, but the yearly bill for transportation alone is going to be in the range $25,000,000+ per year. No CEO is that valuable.

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      Where does $25M come from? ~260 work days in a year, and using the full 18k each way, is a little under $10M: $18,000×2×260 = $9,360,000

      Still a ridiculous transportation bill, of course…

      Edit: I think you increased the 18k by a factor of two instead of decreased, and used all 360 days instead of weekdays: $18,000×2×2×360 =$25.92M

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      You’re assuming he’s going to the office everyday. He’s going to work from home 4 days a week some weeks maybe all the 5 days.

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      Add to that, a charter jet company quotes the price for that flight at ~$18,000 each way. Maybe reduce the cost of that flight in half, but the yearly bill for transportation alone is going to be in the range $25,000,000+ per year. No CEO is that valuable.

      That is sort of like arguing that “no medieval Duke or Baron is that valuable.” Guys as rich as him are part of the owning class. They live in a completely different world than the rest of us and most of those positions are decided by nepotism. The MBAs working under the C-suite do all the real work of managing the company while the C-suite types fly around the world, play golf, party on yachts, etc.

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    @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

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    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.

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    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.