Senior executives often don't feel inflation's bite the way frontline workers do. When gas prices spike, a CEO might not notice, but their dishwasher has to choose between fuel and groceries. The speaker argues these essential workers deserve respect, not dismissal.
What I find is most of the senior leaders who are making policy decisions, pay decisions, all these things, they don't even live in the same part of town that their staff live in. For a senior executive, they fill up their gas tank with a credit card and walk away and don't even notice that gas is a dollar more this month per gallon. Yeah. And so, the staff, unfortunately, they might go to the gas pump. They see that it's that much more expensive and they're freaking out. Like, did I only fill half my tank? Or should I just not get as many groceries this week? They have to make that kind of life decision. And yet, you'll hear somebody say, well, dishwasher, what's it matter? That's all he needs to know. Well, he can quit because I can get anybody to come in and be a dishwasher. No, you can't. Yep. First of all, no, you can't. And second of all, we need to respect
