Do you have any sort of sources to back those claims up? I’m not American, and I can only speak …

Well as someone who has had corporate jobs for 20+ years you need to read a little between the lines. She was goaded into the response, you hear it from the question already it is from someone who is fed-up! Because the little bit of information going around is that she received her bonus and then there sits in a call claiming that they aren't meeting targets, if the company is failing to meet targets there is no bonuses even if you are the CEO. It is why she receives the pointed question of "how are we supposed to be motivated if we don't get a bonus?" no one professional asks it like that unless they are after a response. Oh boy did they get a clip.... I'm guessing that she has rationalized her own bonus in the past by saying that she needs it to be motivated.

I’ve never met a CEO or any sort of manager they match your description. A few were assholes, more (managers) were incompetent but none of them were backstabbers, liars or cheats, because you genuinely can’t lead people if you are. Sure. I worked for a company where the money ran out. Turns out the CEO was embezzling the money and eventually went to jail for fraud related stuff. Or look at Theranos. Nikola? Here's another ten. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/markets/10-ceos-who-went-bo...

Every **ing CEO is like that, dude. Just look at all the massively profitable companies laying people off by the thousand so they can cow whoever's left into working harder for less in the way of bonuses/promotions. CEOs are also extremely charismatic. When a random doofus nerd runs across one in person, they charm the hell out of the nerd and seem like the coolest, nicest person said nerd has ever met. Same goes for politicians. The fact that you're friends with a couple of CEOs basically means nothing at all.

> I’m not American, and I can only speak from anecdotal experience from the Danish digitalisation sector, both public and private This is specifically why I mentioned the American corporate system. The cultures are very different. For an example that you might specifically identify, most American corporate managers would consider anything approaching Janteloven extremely woke and socialist.