Moar overtime, you lazy serfs!

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[–] 162 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (12 children)

I worked 50-100 per week for years and after 60 hours or so there is very little "life" left to be had, the time remaining is almost all dedicated to chores.

What do you want to bet that this guy has had a staff his whole life and never had to deal with laundry, cooking, shopping, cleaning, bills, or any of the other dozens of tasks necessary in an average person's week?

A billionaire's life consists of nothing but work and leisure with serfs to do everything else, so screw him and his condescending "work- life" lecture. He doesn't even know what that means.

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

    And his "work" and your "work" are WILDLY different.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    I'll admit to never being c-suit, or even a manager, but even the most corporate cock gobbling, sickophantic [sic], capitalist worshipping propaganda outlets describe the average work week of a CEO as completely worthless to society and entirely free of actual work. These people, and i use the word lightly, couldn't even imagine lifting a box let alone doing an actual day's work.

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  • [–] 26 points 6 months ago

    seems everytime an emergency pops up like car repairs, I'm set back to $0 and suddenly working 6+ days/week become meaningless and tiring. at this point, just working the rest of my life towards cars and rent. almost hoping for a disability at this point cuz it's the only way to retire early

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

    I could totally do 80 hours a week if I had people to clean my house and raise my kids.

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

    Imagine someone cooking all your meals, changing your sheets every day, paying your bills, and full time staff to manage your home, children and every other aspect of your life? Doctors on staff, home and office gyms, personal trainers, private jets, helicopters and limo drivers too.

    I was lucky to get 10-12 hours of "life" when working 60 hours a week. If I had the kind of life this billionaire lives I could put in 100 hours and still have more leisure time.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Lawyer? I don't know what else could put up numbers like that

    I used to pull 300 hr months from May to December stomping though the bush and digging holes. Tiring doesn't even begin to describe my field seasons.

    My off season was working on mines as a soil monitor, and those months were 220-250 hrs. A lot easier work, but it takes its toll on you too.

    Did that for 10 years. My hips and lower back were completely toast.

    Now I work 37.5 a week at a desk. Made in the shade, baby.

    Finally rehabbed my injuries as well.

    Life is good.

    Any one who says work life balance is a myth or for the weak can come get eaten by black flies with me. That's if I don't brain them with my shovel first.

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

    He "happily works through weekends"...because his idea of what "work" is isn't really fucking work.

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  • [–] 42 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    He mentioned reading the newspaper and sitting there reflecting on things as work.

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

    Some of these assholes consider the commute or exercise as work time. Must be frickin' nice.

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago

    Was in a startup where the founder did this. I started to copy and commit things while entering the train and scheduling call in transport. He forbade us to do that and kept doing small hours buy never spoke about it to us again XD

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    Flyin around some tropical "resorts" with suspiciously young staff, fuckin models to create an army of my progeny, shitposting on twitter... but stock went up, and I made money! I must be doing that working thing! I'm working for like 6 companies full time as their boss! -- Elon Musk and other Billionaire shitheads.

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

    It’s easy to say when you’re a CEO and “work” consists of a series of meetings over lunch that you don’t pay for and making decisions based on data that has already been processed and analyzed by multiple layers of underlings.

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    [–] 38 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Bupa is a global health insurance and healthcare company

    Sounds biased. I'd say he wants you to work yourself sick so he can bill hospitals.

    How many times are we gonna have to teach you guys this lesson?

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

    You need to be Luigied Mr CEO.

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    [–] 69 points 6 months ago

    Says the guy with work life balance

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  • [–] 33 points 6 months ago

    Get fucked, parasite.

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

    I also don’t believe in work-life balance.

    I believe in life-work balance.

    If you don’t have time for work you shouldn’t be expected to do it.

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  • [–] 28 points 6 months ago

    Parasites shouldn't give their opinion on anything. They don't matter.

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  • [–] 21 points 6 months ago

    Pay us like you pay yourself and we might agree.

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

    That's cool, but when you say shit like this, when you position yourself as an enemy to normal people, you certainly have no right to get upset when people say they want to treat you like an enemy.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    One of the best aspects of the presence of media everywhere is that these ghouls think they're so smart that they have to express their opinions. And the more they talk the more everyone realises they are mediocre at best, they're working overtime to dispel the notion of meritocracy lmao

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    No, work life balance is for the week. We should only be working part of the week. Like, how about 40 hours a week? Sounds more than reasonable. If you don’t like that, how about 32 hours a week, and we don’t burn down any warehouses?

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    Their idea of work is to hire a bunch of smart people, underpay them and then terrorize them that they are about to lose their jobs at any minute, then demand ideas. Sift through the ideas, choose the best, and tell everybody to do that. When it succeeds, you declare record profits, pocket a billion dollar windfall, and lay off a few thousand losers to celebrate.

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago

    Meanwhile all that extra work for the love of the job means nothing. There'll be no raise at the end of the year in these difficult times because . They've shown the world loyalty means nothing and you'll be replaced with AI out robots the moment they think it's possible and cheaper.

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

    People who say shit like this didn’t get beat up enough as a child.

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

    It's easy to have work life balance when you haven't worked a day in your life. (And not in the rock n'roll kind of way.)

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago*

    RIght?! Also, when you count golfing as 'work', yeah, other people complaining about how difficult it is when they work all the time might seem weird.

    Also - when you don't need to worry about things like cooking, cleaning, driving, etc..., you've got a shit ton more time in the day that you can put towards 'work' if you want!

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago

    Shut up money hoarder.

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

    Am I being too extreme if the first thing that springs to mind is ‘kill him’?

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

    If you’re obsessing over work-life balance, your problem isn’t the hours—it’s the job, says Bupa’s CEO. And some of the world’s most powerful people agree.

    There's some truth to that. But the conclusion is just that most jobs suck.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago

    I'd like to see these loudmouth motherfuckers actually put in a camp and forced to do real work, then I'd like for them to report back to me about work life balance.

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago

    Ugh, stop making your mental issues my problem.

    Bunch of weirdos.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago

    Add this guy to The List.

    We'll be back, dickhead.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    Iñaki Ereño, kill yourself

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    Bupa, the international healthcare company headquartered in the United Kingdom. He was previously CEO of Sanitas, the Spanish health insurance company

    Two countries with some of the better public health care system in the world.

    He's in charge of companies dedicated to selling you what you already have. So you know he's an absolute POS.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    having no life, no family, no kids, no hobbies and no time to just be is for the weak

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    Classic psychopatic traits.

    I wonder what the percentage rate of psychopatic traits are in CEO's compared to the general public.

    Found this article that refers to numbers in the 20th percentile. Like prisoners.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/gautammukunda/2024/09/26/the-psychopaths-who-lead-us/

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    Such rage bait and they know it.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Like they know people wouldn't actually be working for their shitty asses if it wasn't for the money, right? They won't even be doing the "work" that they are doing if they were making $15 an hour.

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

    Years ago, I was in middle management for a Fortune 100 company, and some HR guy from HQ was doing some sort of presentation, and mentioned that money was not the prime motivator for workers, and I had to interrupt him to dispute that. I said, "Tell everybody on Friday that starting next week, they'll be working for free, and see how many people show up to work on Monday."

    He tried to argue about it, but nobody in the room agreed with him. We understood what he was trying to say, that there are other motivations that employees will respond to, but money is obviously the KING motivator. You can't just dismiss it with an obviously wrong premise like workers don't care about money. That's just a C-Suite fantasy that they're trying to convince us to adopt.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago*

    After making enough money to get by, money is not the prime motivator, I guess? Like if I'm making $X, where X is enough money, offering me a little more money alone won't get me to change jobs. It's a simple lesson that C-Suite types warp into "People don't work for money, they work for meaning." Perhaps because they figure "meaning" is cheaper than raises.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    they are pushing for it. I have seen thirties and even twenties. If you can't have a roof over your head and food in your belly in a decent city and be able to retain that over your life, whats the point? They go after the young with the laughable, just get some experience and you will soon make adequate pay. Except we won't hire you for this inadequate amount unless we can't find anyone with experience to fill the role.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    Does this bastard work 300 hours a week? If not, he’s a weak shit.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    It's kind of nice of them to draf target marks on themselves.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    God these new plantations somehow suck worse than those of old.

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

    It's just a dude. Who cares what he thinks?

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Who cares what he thinks?

    One of the most influential shitty publications in the world and the shitty government of the country in which it's based.

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  • Random guy on the internet: lack of work life balance is for pathetic losers who have nobody who loves them. Don't be like loser billionaires, be like random internet chad.

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