About a year ago my company hired a new Chief Executive Officer (what the kids are calling a C.E.O.). One of the things he started doing is taking five randomly selected people from the company out to lunch every month. I was randomly selected for this month, so I get to have lunch with the CEO tomorrow (presumably at his expense, since he probably makes more than my annual salary every month). I don’t really have any hard-hitting questions. I suppose I could ask if we plan on hiring any more programmers in not-India.. but I probably won’t. Or I could ask something completely irrelevant, like what his opinions are on British literature from the early eighteenth century. But I probably won’t do that either. I might post an update later this week, if there is anything worth blogging about. I do think it’s a pretty cool thing for a CEO to do, even if he’s not exactly Bill Gates or Larry Page (we are something like a two billion dollar company though... I think). He also has a rule that none of the people invited to lunch can be the boss of any of the other people (so I guess it isn’t purely random). Which is good, I’d say.
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Lunch with the CEO |
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Written by on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 at 9:53 am (EST) Tagged as: brags work |
January 24, 10:48 am
It’s like in middle school when they selected people from each “pod” to be the student of the month and they took you out to eat at Geppeto’s for lunch. I totally got to do that...twice.
January 24, 12:04 pm
It’s always a good career move to start doing his laundry.
That is all.
Dwight
January 24, 12:56 pm
I don’t think I was ever sent to Student Of The Month lunch in middle school.. But I did totally go to sent to silent lunch... twice.
January 25, 5:35 pm
Update: Not really enough to blog about. Still a pretty cool thing for the CEO to do, he was open to anything we wanted to discuss. He talked about a lot of business strategy things that I really don’t care about (mainly because I don’t really have any control of where our company goes, I just write and fix code). I was surprised at how much information he openly gave us, stuff that we normally don’t hear about until after it has happened and we get e-mailed a copy of the press release.