20 Employees Who Caught Their Rich Boss Behaving Badly

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“I was in charge of the video production team. … For one project, I was doing a video with the CEO of the company… The board had just made the decision to bring on a private equity firm…for an infusion of cash in anticipation of taking the company public. The CEO and the other partners got a HUGE bonus when the equity firm came on. We’re talking millions of dollars.”

“The purpose of this video with the CEO was to tell that staff that everyone was going to need to ‘tighten their belts’ and understand that things were going to be lean for awhile. Benefits were going to be cut. The sick leave and time off policies were going to change, etc. During a break in shooting, the member of the CEO’s staff that was coordinating the shoot asked the CEO, ‘How’s your Bentley treating you?’ The CEO went on a rant about how his Bentley was in the shop again, he hated the car and he had so many problems with it, and it was always having little issues. When he finally finished his rant, the guy asked the CEO, ‘So what did you drive to work today?’ The CEO answered, ‘Oh, my other Bentley.’ He was doing a video about the rank and file staff needing to tighten their belts; meanwhile he had half a million dollars in cars.”

—Anonymous