Chief Chump

Another boss with nothing better to do:

I've watched corporate America for 30-plus years — from comfortably afar — but somehow the position of CLO had never crossed my desk. So I asked ChatGPT, which told me that the CLO is a "senior executive responsible for an organization’s learning, development, and knowledge strategy. Think of them as the C-suite champion of professional growth — making sure the workforce keeps adapting, innovating, and improving." That sounded like meaningless corporate-ese, so I asked Grok for a harder hit. It told me to "Think of them as the person who forces you to sit through those mind-numbing e-learning modules but with a fancier title and a corner office. Their job is to keep the company’s brainpower from flatlining while pretending it’s all part of some grand strategic vision." This is why Grok is my usual go-to over ChatGPT. If, like me, you thought the idea of a Human Resources busybody having a C-level position was already too much of a drag on a company's core functions, I'm reasonably certain after today's brief research that, whatever it is the CLO does, it's probably worse.

People without any ability usually get these kinds of jobs...