I can't tell you how I got this, or the real name of the CEO who wrote this diary, but it's an interesting insight into the daily routine of a serial CEO i.e. a CEO who is appointed by a company's investors and who typically goes from company to company as the CEO. I have given him the pseudonym 'Ed'.
'My tenth day with the company. I thought it might help morale (and my knowledge of the company's products) if I went to the canteen for lunch and mingled.
Sat opposite this chap wearing a loud check shirt and asked him what he did.
"No' a lot", he replied, which I took to be Scottish humour.
"So who are you?" The Scotsman asked me.
"I'm the new CEO, Edward Rushbridger. Call me Ed", I replied, offering a hand.
He ignored my hand and muttered: "So yo' don' do fookin' much either."
Mistakenly sensing a chance to engage I asked: "What would you like me to do?"
"Wha don' ya fook off outa here?"
If everything goes to schedule, we'll IPO in 452 days and I'll be out of this place as fast as I fookin' can - with my boots filled.'
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