“You’ve heard of this guy Mark Hurd, right? The Hewlett-Packard CEO forced to resign late last week because of a sexual harassment investigation? Lots of his employees apparently didn’t like him very much,” Caleb Hannan reports for Seattle Weekly. “At least according to his record-low approval rating of 34-percent on Glassdoor.com, a site that lets employees anonymously dish on their bosses.”
“Also not terribly well-liked: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer,” Hannan reports. “At 52-percent Ballmer rates lower than just about every other tech CEO out there not named Hurd.”
MacDailyNews Take: This gives us hope. If 52% of Microsoft employees actually “approve” of Steve Ballmer, maybe the other shareholders are just as misguided and he actually can remain CEO for as long as it takes!
Hannan continues, “[That’s] an especially tough figure to swallow given the near-universal love for his rival, Apple’s Steve Jobs who is, perhaps unsurprisingly, the most beloved boss of all: 98-percent of Glassdoor’s anonymous Apple employees report that they ‘approve’ of Jobs.”
Full article here.
More details and ratings for other tech CEOs via TechCrunch here.
MacDailyNews Take: If you work for Apple and don’t approve of the greatest tech company CEO in history, please quit. You’re too stupid to work for Apple. Try Dell, you’ll fit right in.
52% for Ballmer??? You gotta be kidding. Has to be a rounding error. 0.52% I’d believe.
wow MDN, you really recall me my childhood in a communist country where the dear leader was “elected” unanimously – the only difference was that you were not allowed to leave
At least HP’s stockholders did well under Hurd, even if the employees didn’t like him. Under Ballmer, Microsoft is about where it was 10 years ago.
I bet people are too scared to speak otherwise of Steve.
@ Nicu
Wat
@ Wha ?
MDN’s take, the absurd wish of 100% approval, instead of cheering the unbelievable 98%
Someone rated lower than Ballmer? Maybe Microsoft and HP could work out a trade. “For as long as it takes” could come sooner than we think.
The fearless leader was voted in unanimously. Bullets were spared. We all learned our lesson the last time when blood was shed and he was reelected anyway.
I’m proudly among the 2% who DO NOT believe Steve Jobs is the greatest – he lied to me and that matters. I realize it doesn’t matter to the world of Steve Jobs lemmings but I refuse to be among them.
I’ll be one of the very few standing on the ledge of the abyss looking down at the carnage below made up of the other 98% of brainless fools.
Does anyone else think that this war between Apple-haters and Apple-lovers is getting more and more bitter?
I seriously think that as Apple grows and becomes more ubiquitous, the Apple-heters are all going to burst blood-vessels.
I meant to say ‘verbal’ war (at least so far!)
Wow. Just WOW.
Another gleaming trophy on the shelf of internet anonymity! Your undocumented, unconfirmed, unattributed, righteous indignation VAINLY attempts to shame and degrade the 98% of Apple, Inc. employees who, apparently, have NOT been lied to during their tenure at the company . . . and, brother, have you EVER failed in that attempt!
Just another troll here trying to elevate himself by criticizing his betters. Truly pathetic.
Two Percenter:
Why do you work at Apple then? Are you one of those people who looks at their job as just a paycheque, allowing him to sustain the lifestyle he likes? Don’t get me wrong, I have no problem with that; for most people, the primary purpose of life is enjoying it with their family and friends, pursuing diverse activities that make them happy. However, there are those who are so passionate about their work that it defines their primary life purpose. Jobs seems to be one such person, and apparently, so many of other employees at Apple are too. My guess was that probably ALL of those 2% of Apple employees who don’t like Steve are from some administrative/support division, and don’t really understand the reasoning behind Jobs’s way of thinking and doing.
I wonder what type of work do you do at Apple, “Two Percenter”?
Also, ‘Two Percenter’, would you be able to tell us what kind of a lie did your boss (Steve Jobs) tell you that you now believe that 98% of Apple’s employees are ‘brainless fools’!!!?
And considering that Apple has over 34,000 employees, according to our ‘Two Percenter’ here, over 33,000 of them are ‘brainless fools’…
@Predrag
I’ll tell you the lie! Steve once told me it was Fishstick Day at the cafeteria. When I got down there all I found was Deviled Crab Puffs. The bastard. He’s taken advantage of me for the last time!!!
@ Macaday
It’s no surprise given the level of vitriol from politics that has spilled over into normal activities.
Speaking of Dell, I wonder what Mikey “hypoteloric” Dell scores?
@ Cubert
Mikey got a 51% approval rating.
Nicu,
I can see where you’re coming from (“the land of the workers and the farmers, the achievements of our socialist revolution”). There may be a slight difference, though, since Apple staffers who don’t like their ‘dear leader’ are free to leave. Your old ‘dear leader’ (be it Causescu, Husak, Zhivkov, Honecker, Castro or someone else) would shoot you if you tried to leave.
@Two Percenter
Not that I believe you are actually an Apple employee but even so, you have got some balls. Are you kidding me, you have to be the most egotistical prick on the planet.
You’re right and everyone else is wrong?!
Dude! You need to get a refill on those meds.
@iGads
What??? Are you saying that Crab Puffs are a suitable replacement for Fishsticks??? Geez! Talk about egotistical!!
@Two Percenter
What are the facts? Tell the story of what happened.
Otherwise, it’s just an opinion.
And everyone has one of those…
@thethirdshoe
I’ve already explained. Don’t you read???!!! Fishsticks are nothing to lie about. Tell Steve that!!!
MacDailyNews Take: This gives us hope. If 52% of Microsoft employees actually “approve” of Steve Ballmer, maybe the other shareholders are just as misguided and he actually can remain CEO for as long as it takes!
Unless Ballmer got all his brown-nosed toadies to go there and vote for him.