For those of you who have been following along with the Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) that our CEO Jerry Stritzke participated in yesterday \u2013 thank you.<\/p>\n
Here are a couple words from him on the conversation that continued through the evening:<\/p>\n
\u201cI enjoyed being on Reddit. It\u2019s an incredibly passionate and engaged community. I value and encourage transparency from the people who work with me and the people whose lives we touch. We do a huge number of things at REI to engage with employees and drive transparency and so discussing things like what it means to be a membership organization are normal practice. That\u2019s vital because our members are actually the owners of REI.<\/span><\/p>\n About the Reddit thread specifically \u2013 this is a completely legitimate conversation\u00a0(how we invite people to join the co-op and how we measure employee performance). It\u2019s an issue we\u2019re currently focused on and so I plan to dig into the question more deeply.\u00a0We will have a collective conversation about this issue. This will include conversations in our stores. If I\u2019m not happy with what we find, we\u2019ll make a change.<\/span><\/p>\n Bottom line, though, an open and transparent conversation is something CEOs should not be afraid of. I, for one, welcome it.\u201d \u2013 Jerry<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For those of you who have been following along with the Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) that our CEO Jerry Stritzke participated in yesterday \u2013 thank you. Here are a couple words from him on the conversation that continued through the evening: \u201cI enjoyed being on Reddit. It\u2019s an incredibly passionate and engaged community. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[347,320],"internal-tag":[],"class_list":["post-6158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social","tag-jerry-stritzke","tag-social"],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/rei.com\/blog\/social\/rei-reddit-ask-me-anything-follow-up","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"REI Reddit AMA Follow Up","url":"http:\/\/www.rei.com\/blog\/social\/rei-reddit-ask-me-anything-follow-up","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.rei.com\/blog\/social\/rei-reddit-ask-me-anything-follow-up"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.rei.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/11\/21022792335-ab7bf3faab-o.jpg?resize=150%2C150","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.rei.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/11\/21022792335-ab7bf3faab-o.jpg?fit=1500%2C960"},"articleSection":"Social","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Angela Crampton"}],"creator":["Angela Crampton"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Uncommon Path \u2013 An REI Co-op Publication","logo":""},"keywords":["jerry stritzke","social"],"dateCreated":"2015-11-12T01:46:44Z","datePublished":"2015-11-12T01:46:44Z","dateModified":"2015-11-12T01:51:28Z"},"rendered":"