Moar overtime, you lazy serfs!

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[–] 92 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Says a guy who's never worked a job in his life.
When you can expense a 2+ hour lunch with your friends as "working", he's right.

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  • [–] 47 points 6 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Hey now, medical leeches provide important services to the community and are often essential for reattaching limbs.

    I’d say he’s a lot more like a mosquito. Or a horsefly.

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  • [–] 44 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    The truth is that CEOs DO have work life balance. They have a kid sick? Nanny takes care of it. Need an short notice dr. visit? Just take a long lunch. Need to take care of those errands you forgot about? Just take care of them because who the fuck is going to say anything.

    They get freedom to deal with life that us regular workers would get written up for and fired. Their position allows them to do whatever the fuck they want because they aren't doing actual work.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    CEOs don't do errands, they have people doing it for them. Imagine your entire life is just talking out your ass all day and any menial task can be handed off. Of course they think work life balance is overrated because what they call "work" most people would call "living the life"

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    I wasn't a CEO or anything, but I left my job where I could literally do all of those things because I thought if I worked hard and tried to improve things it would actually work out, I was so bored but I would totally go back now

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  • [–] 38 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Allowing billionaires to exist is for the weak.

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  • [–] 34 points 6 months ago

    Then sell all your yachts and work in a mine, coward.

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  • [–] 31 points 6 months ago

    He's right, it should be way unbalanced to the life side.

    Anyway, kill all billionaires

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  • [–] 29 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    Classic sheltered rich white guy:

    "I have a lot of money and nobody contradicts me, therefore my every opinion and how I do (or pretend to do) things are always correct!

    Everyone claiming otherwise have less money, which proves them incorrect! I know this because having a lot of money is proof that I'm the best at everything and always right, which is the reason I have all that money, not any privilege I was born with or otherwise got handed to me that the vast majority of people do not!"

    Anyways, what's the going rate for a guillotine these days?

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  • [–] 22 points 6 months ago*

    Player 2, please connect your controller. We need Luigi to beat this.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago

    Heads attached to bodies needs to become optional for these people.

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago

    so is nepotism

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    [–] 24 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Give this guy a minimum wage job

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago

    Good! If he thinks it's weak, let's send him to the mines for the 996 treatment. Oh, and cut him off from society while we're at it. I call it "work retreat".

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago*

    I want to see him work two twelve hours days in a row, operating a jackhammer.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    No. 1 priority, Iñaki Ereño, the chief executive of one of the world’s largest health care companies, says if you’re obsessing over balance, your problem isn’t the hours. It’s the job.

    A healthcare ceo, no less

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  • [+] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I do have to agree on one thing, if you like your job, you don't watch the hours tick down to 5. I am lucky that I always ended up working jobs that I enjoy doing. But I also know, that this is not true for many people where a job is just a means for paying rent and groceries and do whatever job they can manage to hold on to.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    I mean, I've also had jobs I loved and would go back to work for free if I won the lottery.

    But I would still clock out at 5 and not answer the phones on weekends. It doesn't define me, I have other priorities to put above it.

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  • [+] 7 points 6 months ago (21 children)
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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (14 children)

    Yeah, I'm sure those workers in the slaughterhouses and coal mines will be happy to work there once they're un-alienated.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (10 children)

    So socialism isn't obtainable with current technology?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (8 children)

    And who's going to clean the toilets?

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  • [+] 3 points 6 months ago* (7 children)
  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (6 children)

    Yeah, that's totally how it works in real life.

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  • [+] 3 points 6 months ago* (5 children)
  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (4 children)

    No. What I'm saying is that I haven't seen it work in reality. I can imagine a society where it might work. I can imagine anything. That doesn't mean it's attainable.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    The capitalism hellscape that is Japan has the children cleaning their schools to teach them autonomy and mutual respect. You can easily organize a company like that with correct education.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    And Japan is an example of a society that functions without coercion?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    I think I made clear that Japan is not an example of society when I said "capitalism hellscape that is Japan". But it's a real life society that made something like Pissed proposed work.

    If you call education coercion that is a you problem.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    That's the whole point really, the people who start the company will gladly work 6 days a week and stay up late at night if they have to, and travel through different time zones. Which is fine if they enjoy it, but in an ordinary job for minimum wage I'm not going to act with that amount of loyalty to the company lmao. I'll just resign if they pay me minimum and want me to attend meetings and pretend I'm some kind of executive. When I worked with timber they wanted me to meet suppliers to gain product knowledge but it never proved useful in my 5 months. It just took me away from customers or delayed my lunch break even further.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago*

    How many companies is Elon Musk a CEO of? CEO is a part time job at best.

    I'm not going to take mental health advice from someone with untreated mental illness.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago

    A CEO is someone with a cakewalk job, who, if they can be said to do any actual "work" at all, certainly doesn't work full time doing it in the same sense that their employees do (how else would you have someone who is CEO of multiple companies?). They have absurd incomes that frees them from absolutely any financial concerns. They travel the world like it is nothing. They have time to spend talking to interviewers and on panels like this douche about how we don't work enough.

    Any CEO tries to tell me that they are in the position they are because they "wake up and start work at 5 am, don't sleep until 1am, never clocked out, blah blah blah" and that's why they deserve to be paid more per year than I'll make in my lifetime will be lucky to not limp away from that conversation.

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    I'm dreaming of a red christmas

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    I agree when you’re the ceo.

    But regular people shouldn’t care that much about other people’s businesses.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    Yeah, I'm married and would like to stay that way so I'm going home after 8 hours

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    These billion assholes are the one that have never washed a dish, cleaned their toilet, grown up their kids, renovated their home with their own hands, looked after their vegetable garden so that you eat decent food without spending o fortune ... they just live at another level so they cant compare themselves to ordinary people. They are what i call "the super-ego-idiots"

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Good. Let them work themselves to death, then. Less billionaires would be good for the world.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago*

    "If you don't like your job don't do that job."

    Says a guy rolling in money with no financial worries. Lol.

    Some people are so out of touch from the real world.

    Cool if you can go like hey let's take the jet to Jamaica for the weekend. You do you bro but don't pretend you know how we have to live our life.

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    "I would very much like to be next"

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    The billdren long for the mines

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Work-life balance is for the capitalists

    Work-life synergy is the future - we need to build a society+economy that focuses on doing work that promotes life. When did the two become separated?

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    I feel like a test of strength is in order

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    To be fair, he does have a point about the job. If your job does not suck, you might want to do more overtime in it?

    Sadly, that's like one in 10 million jobs where you are like a chocolate taste tester, or bed tester.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    I guess we should get our lazy asses to the guillotine.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago*

    Billionaires like this guy seem to forget that they’re born with nothing, & will die with nothing. You can’t take money, power & materalistic shit with them when they die one day, as none of that shit lasts forever as legacies does.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    If it is your own company then sure do whatever the fuck you feel like with your life (at the expense of your kids growing up emotionally deprived). Don't expect others to the same for your fucking company unless you are sharing the profits you turd for brains and take your diarrhea of ideas elsewhere.

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