I love this and, phrased obliquely to not step on Amazon’s moment, it is standard practice at many emulation-worthy tech companies, with varying levels of CEO involvement.
Pro-tip: almost all BigCo will l do this for paper letters addressed to the CEO or office of the president.
Pro-tip: almost all BigCo will l do this for paper letters addressed to the CEO or office of the president.
https://twitter.com/zacharydewitt/status/1332365977334452225
“Are you sure?”
I used to ghostwrite letters to banks as a hobby, and the prototypical subject of them was a grandmother in Kansas in financial distress. The reply was usually from someone like “Senior Vice President, Consumer Lending.”
I used to ghostwrite letters to banks as a hobby, and the prototypical subject of them was a grandmother in Kansas in financial distress. The reply was usually from someone like “Senior Vice President, Consumer Lending.”
Unfortunately, and this is a useful thing to know about the sociology of large corporations, sending a letter to the CEO addressed to the PO Box on your statement is not nearly as effective, since it will go to the standard peon with limited capability to do anything but usual.
This is one of those class competence checks, where “If you can’t figure out how to route a letter to the CEO you’re not worthy of their assistant’s attention” is a proxy.
It’s trivial for some people and might as well be on the moon for others.
It’s trivial for some people and might as well be on the moon for others.
I think I am in an interesting position if life where rough thirds of my family/social network would bucket into:
a) Wait what about this is supposed to be hard?
b) Ooh that’s a good interview question.
c) Literally impossible also they’d clearly never read it.
a) Wait what about this is supposed to be hard?
b) Ooh that’s a good interview question.
c) Literally impossible also they’d clearly never read it.
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