CEOs LinkedIn post are the absolute most tone deaf garbage I've seen. A decade or more of raises that don't keep up with cost of living, but hey, the CEO says if you're feeling burnt out, take a trip to Italy!
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Does anyone know what his family was doing in the late 30s/early 40s before there was EdTech?
Why should they? All companies do is shuffle things around a bit. There is no growth and most long term employees are lifers with no translatable skills.
Many companies worry about employee retention. Cengage does not. Make of that what you will.
This but unironically.
I said hello to MH and he grunted at me once, which shows he knew I existed!
MH’s LinkedIn posts are bad enough. What’s worse though are the sycophantic replies of the Cengage employees trying to curry favor. The whole thing is just an embarrassing display.
10 percent of CEOs are sociopaths. He’s clearly in that 10 percent.
CEOs of large companies are generally elitist and out of touch, but Hansen takes it to another level altogether. The fact that he opened a NYC office when the company was bankrupt just because he had to live in Manhattan was absolutely galling. He is a coastal elitist to his core and never hid his disdain for Cengage’s operations in the Midwest. He was never in FH for more than 12 hours and I don’t think he once stepped foot in our offices. I interacted with him personally on several occasions and he was arrogant and rude. He made it clear that frontline peons weren’t worth a minute of his time. The other C-level execs could at least hide their arrogance but Hansen never bothered to try. He is an elite creature of private equity circles and their view of employees is nothing more than a cell on a spreadsheet.
That’s why nothing aggravated me more than the cult that developed around him at the company. People supporting families on a $60k salary and 1% merit raises somehow believed that this effete elitist cared about them because he spoke well at the yearly town hall he was forced to attend. Hansen posting pictures of himself staying on the Riviera while the average ace gage employee scrapes by is about as surprising as water being wet.