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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

What prevents anybody from calling? Or any self employed from giving themselves the title of CEO? Are they going to reject CFOs and other Cs?

Why do I think this will end up being "hotline for rich bastards"?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 17 hours ago

Someone should hack it so it just redirects to Kitboga's scammer-trapping labyrinth.

Or better yet, it detects which CEO is calling, and it just dumps the bastards into their own company's AI-hell phone tree.

I prefer my punishments to be ironic.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Can women who are threatened by abusive exes use this hotline? Or is it only for capitalist murderers?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago

Strictly for those that don't need it. Just like most of what the likes of Hochum and Adams prioritize.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago

There's a good chance that if this gets enough push back they'll just implement it quietly and call it something else. Nobody will even know.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago

the rich always get a fast pass

[–] [email protected] 21 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I hope it's just a recording of Nelson Muntz saying "Ha ha!"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago

That would be..

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm sure no online community would constantly prank call that hotline 😎👍

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I mean, it's not hard to become a CEO. It's not expensive to register an LLC. And you can give yourself whatever stupid title you want.

And, whose to say I, a newly minted CEO, don't feel in fear for my life due to my health insurance company? Make yourself a CEO, and any time they deny a claim, call in to report your health insurance company for threatening your life.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

Ironically, if you really wanted to make healthcare CEOs safer, you'd set up a hotline for people who have been denied medical coverage.

Hope leads to peace, despair leads to bullets.

[–] [email protected] 135 points 1 day ago (1 children)

if ceo assassinations were a tenth as common as school shootings, the usa would have the toughest gun control laws in the world.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hmm... wait a minute, are you suggesting that we [Redacted by lemmy.world admins]?

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If there's anything that the bourgeoisie has told us in the last month

It's that [Redacted by lemmy.world admins] Is our absolute most effective path forward.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lmao, theres actually a term for this

The "White Paper Protest"

Protestors would just show up with sign that is blank, because it would be illegal to actually write the words, and everyone already know what you meant. Funny thing is that blank sign itself also became illegal. Seems like the US could be heading that way under Project 2025.

Remember folks, there's only way out of this, it's to [Redacted by lemmy.world admins]!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Thanks for reminding me it’s time to move to another instance.

My last straw was when one of the mods sent out a mass message (prior to the recent events in the news) that [Redacted by lemmy.world admins]

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Man i would love to read a transcription of that call hahaha!

"I walked into my private bathroom during the 15 minute "return to office pizza party and some animal had written DDD on the wall! I pay good money for this service, want a police escort for my coffee run!"

-Seeo the Clown

I hope being a CEO becomes the most dangerous job in the country making the job untenable until they all get replaced with wallstreetbets AI algo.

“No matter how angry we are, you cannot take a weapon, a ghost gun, put a silencer on and target someone and shoot them. That’s the bottom line,” said Adams

Actually big guy? Turns out you can

[–] [email protected] 8 points 21 hours ago

Someone needs to leak that number.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago

Hard to call when you have a bullet in the head.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Tap for spoiler....3

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Totally calling that line (from a Google voice number obtained on a VM) to chat with the underpaid folks about the inanity of their job but how they should take that paycheck and also demand more because the lines are flooded.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Just make sure you use burner number.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thoughts and prayers. 👼 Maybe they need more mindfulness seminars.

[–] possiblylinux127 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

What we really need is a murder support group

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

"We have to get over it."

Illustrious Donald Trump

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

sigh well that was a real nice secret CEO hotline we had once.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

My head went to the exact same place.