Frontier Airlines CEO says the pandemic made workers 'lazy' and less productive: 'People are still allowing people to work from home, all this silliness, right?'
Frontier Airlines CEO says the pandemic made workers 'lazy' and less productive: 'People are still allowing people to work from home, all this silliness, right?'
Frontier Airlines CEO Barry Biffle blamed higher overhead costs on workers being less productive, calling it a "society-wide" problem.
The pandemic made it clear to us that our literal lives don't matter. Record profits have pretty much never made their way into worker's pockets. Wages have been stagnant against forty years of inflation and record housing costs, while shareholders and C-suites struggle to decide between a private jet or a second yacht. And climate change is coming for all of us. Given all that, why the fuck should we care about some job that has literally never cared about us? Why wouldn't we get to pursue some work-life balance, and spend what little time and money that are being left to us on something that makes us happy?
"I'm perfectly happy in my large, quiet office, sitting in my $2000 executive chair in front of my mahogany desk and using my private executive bathroom. I don't know what these people on the fourth floor are complaining about. We give them cubicles and a ping-pong table (do not use during work hours), don't we?"
Sounds like something a lazy, entitled, unproductive CEO would say.
This dude can't talk about laziness he's got more chins than a Chinese phone book.
Can we just fucking eat the rich already? How many useless cocksuckers do they need to stick a microphone in front of to call us lazy before we just fuck them all up?
It seems like a daily occurrence at this point that some rich cunt who hasn’t actually done any of the work that makes them rich is saying some brain dead shit like this.
These lazy fucks who "work" for me got a taste of empowerment, and now they want me to do shit like respect their time.
He seems like the kind of guy that wants slaves.
Oh no, a crazy world event made people start caring about themselves rather than being the most efficient resource for you, their benevolent employer. Won’t somebody think of the CEO and shareholders?
THE PEASANTS WILL COMMUTE DAILY TO MY OVERPRICED GLASS DILDO DOWNTOWN WHERE THEY WILL HAVE TO PAY FOR PARKING AND THEY WILL LIKE IT AND THANK ME.
- American CEOs
Crazy coming from a man who's unofficial job description is " kissing ass and sucking dick of board members"
Does he have actual evidence that employees have become less productive or is this just things he personally feels out of the case.
We really need to stop reporting every time one of these idiots says something dumb otherwise we're just going to fill the front page with "another idiot CEO made another idiot CEO comment" posts
This dude is a fat fuck and he’s calling other people lazy. Roflcopter
Just FYI:
Barry Biffle 2022 pay: $3.75 million
https://skift.com/2023/06/13/highest-paid-u-s-airline-ceos-in-2022/
Frontier Revenue 2022: $3.3 billion
https://www.statista.com/statistics/765504/operating-revenues-frontier-airlines/
This is from when people were working from home.
I question the 'less productive' part of his claim here
If I commute (2 hours, one way) the time I can spend in the office is bounded by how early I have to leave in order to catch the last train home. Not only does that mean a 5-day week involves 20 uncompensated hours, it literally limits my time in the office to about 45 hours.
Today, working remotely, I can bill 50 hours in the week and still see my kids. I get more done this way and they know it. If they want me in the office every day, they can pay me my hourly rate to commute
Alternative headline: Motherfucker who made his fat grip killing the planet mad his grift is dying.
Chief fatass of the second worst airline in the world said something? And you think I care?
The wealthy yearn for the guillotine!
He's in desperate need of a woodchipper accident.
Man, sounds like somebody didn’t get his $7 coffee this morning the way he likes it
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Reminder that non-democratically (i.e. not 1-person-1-vote) elected CEOs are not only unnecessary, they're lazy and less productive:
In general terms, research shows that productivity in worker's cooperatives is higher than in conventional firms. For example, Fakhfakh et al. (2012) show that in several industries conventional firms would produce more with their current levels of employment and capital if they adopted the employee-owned firms’ way of organising
People are still allowing non-democratic, unelected CEOs to run businesses, all this silliness, right?
Just so you know since nobody brought it, biffle means dickslap
This is why we must unionize
Another one that’s been leant on by the bank
Biffle baffles me...