So I'm going to tell you all a story that a bestie sent us about a tone-deaf CEO.

I love a good bestie story.

Yeah.

And of course, shocker, a tone-deaf CEO?

What are those?

That's weird.

So the CEO was the owner of the quarterly newsletter.

And on the front page, the very first article that you see is the company was the owner of the quarterly newsletter.

And on the front page, the very first article that you see is the company's record sales and profits.

Because they had a big year.

He wanted to celebrate, of course. But of course, the very next week, that same CEO directed the HR team to communicate to all employees that there was no budget

for raises that year.

That sounds about right.

Yeah.

You communicate this.

So why was there no budget, you say?

Oh, because the company decided to purchase a new piece of manufacturing equipment for

one of the nine plants. I was told that all of our

employees should be happy that one plant was getting a new machine because it would make their job

better for a very small group of employees in a department of just one of nine plants. I flat out

refused to even try to gain employee buy-in for this stupid decision.

This company is too big, and the company had 100% turnover, the manufacturing industry,

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