I think the matter at hand is regardless of the views of the executive/"superior" it's that they're in a higher level above you doing fuck-all so they're probably going to talk over you regardless. The only executive I ever met was visiting at the nursing home I worked at that was already falling apart, defunded, etc and the fucker had the gall to walk up to his minimum wage lackey putting in ceiling tiles and go "Oh man, I remember when I had to do that too!". Slip of the hand and a huge chunk of ceiling dust, tile shredding and German cockroaches and their shit (was a shithole) fall out of the ceiling on both of us when the tile splits in half. Was gross but worth it.