kradeelav | corporate war stories

was in a conversation with some server recently about CEO's and handlers, given the twitter meltdown and the description of 'child king' being extraordinarily accurate. (honestly, it's a rare CEO who isn't a child king. their "handlers", aside from key people in HR and IT, are the three people that are arguably the most useful to know first in a new company.)

anyway, one of the better corporate war stories I have is, once upon a time, there was this CEO who got pissed at $bigbank because they screwed with some loans of his, in a big way, during one of the recessions in the last decade. something like that, the details don't matter. point was, these types have big personalities who hold big grudges when it comes to big money.

this dude with a grudge with $bigbank decides he wants to make a Statement. this statement would be the words [FUCK $BIGBANK] custom-designed and plastered alongside one of those massive street-view store front displays by his headquarters of one of the busiest intersections in one of the US's largest cities.

:D

it got to the point where the design team had designed, started production, and was about to sign the invoice to the vendor to install said [FUCK $BIGBANK] sign on his orders (aka the point of no return), when saner minds prevailed and his handlers basically told him "fucking no you twat, don't do that".

(needless to say, I'm genuinely surprised these stunts don't happen more.)
(~~the best part was the design team 100% agreed with [FUCK $BIGBANK], just for wildly different reasons. insert that handshake meme.)~~