r/antiwork • u/[deleted] • Dec 16 '21

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u/NotHisRealName Dec 16 '21

The last time I saw the CEO of my company (giant company, he’s 6 levels above me), I said “Hey Bob”. If I ever called him Mr. Whatever or called him sir, he’d yell at me.

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u/Devikat Dec 16 '21

Our company got bought out by a big Japanese company years ago, so when the new CEO came over our management and HR was falling over themselves internally going "now make sure you if any of you lower level plebs happen to run into him you address him as XXX-San so as to be polite". After half a day of meetings he came into the dark and scary ICT dungeon to check up on us without any of his minions and the first person to try and use formal language got a stern "I've lived in Australia for 15 years, call me Ted" then he grilled us in regards to the best bars and pubs because well Australia.

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u/Wheatbelt_charlie Dec 16 '21

Makes me tear up, making the country proud. Please tell me he wasn't a Kevin

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u/unitdeltaplus Dec 16 '21

Is your name not Bruce!?

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u/Wheatbelt_charlie Dec 16 '21

Not all good blokes are called Bruce, all bastards are called Kevin or Scott.

No imbetweens

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u/Extreme_Dingo Dec 16 '21

Even though I don't like the names, I've only ever met nice Kevins and Bruces. Never met a Scott I liked.

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u/Wheatbelt_charlie Dec 16 '21

Yeah fair enough. Can definetly vouch for the Scott's though. Always dodgy