My insurance companies and government definitely share that opinion of responsibility. So, yes. But my answer remains "take responibility and mean it".
I'd love to hear you explain how I can get out of paying my car insurance of alimony though with this line of reasoning, though. Could be useful one day.
CEOs are responsible to the board of directors and shareholders. The BoD and shareholders are who choose and remove CEOs and you can bet both are considerably displeased when the company isn't as profitable as they expect.
That's the best part of modern tech markets in a not-recession recession. They are still profitable but will layoff because it's fashionbble or to make more money.
> but acting like petulant child and lashing out at CEO won't do much.
I don't think anyone is attacking the CEO with the expectation that he's got his iPad in-hand, reading every comment through his tears. What we are saying is that corporate doublespeak is unbelievably fucking grating when it doesn't correlate whatsoever with tangible change at the company. This kind of repeat behavior is what makes people (justifiably) laugh when CEOs walk out onstage.
Like when Tim Cook steps out on and insults us all perennially with his "best iPhone yet" comment. Like, duh, of-fucking-course it is! Why don't you tell me something I don't know, show me some form of change in your posture or the way you provide your products and services to me. Don't just advertise to me - convince me that you're not steering the company in a direction that sucks for everyone but the CEO.
> Tim Cook steps out on and insults us all perennially with his "best iPhone yet" comment
I loved this sentence and the sentiment behind it. Nowadays whenever I get the urge to upgrade my old iPhone 13, I go and rewatch old recordings from 2021 of Tim Cook gushing about how the phone I already have is such a huge leap forward for humanity and why everything that came before it is garbage.
Applying this to CEOs and layoffs, every time you join a new job and start to drink the company kool-aid about how you're part of this wonderful family, go and reread that CEO talking about how he took personal responsibility for throwing hundreds of his "family" out on the street right before the holidays.
If you knock a girl up and you "take responsibility" it means you getting married.
If you are in a car wreck and you "take responsibility" it means you are paying for repairs.
If you commit a crime and "take responsibility" you are going to jail.
So if a CEO is "taking responsibility" it should be something like that second case, dollars from their own pocket to the effected party.