Yeah....that's the brilliant thing to do. Take your discussion right to the top with a minimum-wage employee at the bottom of the food chain.
I sometimes joke around with the drive-thru people here but it's all friendly stuff.
Example: a couple days ago I was getting iced tea with my order and requested "UN-sweetened". I'm in the South where it ain't tea if it's not sweet. When she told me they were out of unsweetened tea, I asked her to just give me sweetened tea and throw in a couple packets of "unsweetener". The poor child believed me and asked her manager if they had any in stock.
You’re my kind of evil.
That’s the real problem keeping him out of the C-suite. If a C-suiter treats a front-liner at another company like that, how’s he going to treat the front-liners at his own company?
It’s like the boyfriend-waiter test. If your boyfriend trats the waiter like crap, the odds are he’ll treat you like crap too.