Left this job very recently, due to the toxic environment and the fact they just didn’t care about anyone on my team at all.
Getting into the story, my coworkers family is very well-off, so his dad and the founder would tend to be in the same circles and my team had to work directly with him as he still felt the need to approve EVERYTHING going on in the company. Like charges for things less than $500 – company events, team building, etc. He would approve ALL professional hires. Head of HR literally had to fight with him on that one so we could improve our hiring speed. His compromise was that he still gets to approve all the new hires for the new business line he’s building. Keep in mind, this company has 10k+ plus employees, billions in revenue, and dude is worth more than a billion himself. He won’t even trust the CEO to make decisions.
Anyway, they’re apparently out at a dinner and he starts going on about how little he gets to pay his employees, literally laughing at it, making jokes, etc. My coworker was stunned, but his dad told him that this was not the first time he would talk like that.
Obviously, I’m not even close to surprised by that. Everyone at the company talks poorly of him and his family. The first event I attended that he was at, he said to the all the employees that “if you like working from home, you’re a sociopath.” THIS was his justification to get us back into the office.
So in the end, just another couple of examples of billionaires that couldn’t care less about the people that build them. Funny because when I started in that position, they told me in the interview that I would get to work with the founder of the company. I thought that would be a good thing.