Moar overtime, you lazy serfs!

top 71 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 141 points 6 months ago (19 children)

“I enjoy thinking about business things on the weekends,” the 61-year-old admitted. “I do emails, and I read my papers and all of that. Do I feel that that is a big pressure? No … I enjoy doing that. So I don’t feel I need to think about how I balance my life.”

His advice for anyone who lives for the weekend? “I think the advice here is to take some time to think about what you like doing,” he added. “Don’t do a job that you don’t like, so then you need balance.”

Utterly severed from the reality of the working class.

  • source
  • hideshow 19 child comments
  • [–] 49 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I imagine very few of us work a job we actually like doing more than spending time with family and friends. That seems unhealthy by definition, somehow.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [+] 21 points 6 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    Fully agree. Same situation. I have a job I actually enjoy doing. If I was in prison being forced to do what I do, I would have fun. But I'd still want to be with my family more and have free time with them. I give more of my time to my work than my family and that's pretty fucked up if you think about it. You spend more time with colleagues than you do with your family, going through life. So bad, so wrong.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 24 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    Just get a job you like… sure, no problem. What if even getting a job of any kind is hard. Billionaires probably never thought of that.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago

    I do have a job I like. But I still need balance. Because my job isn't reading some mails and reading the fucking papers.
    But nothing new from those type of people and it shows yet again why you shouldn't trust their proclamations of how much they "work".

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

    I like my job because it allows for work life balance (mostly because of a long respected union culture).

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    I’m beginning to see a pattern here. Billionaires say we don’t need balance or unions, but those are the things that actually improve the quality of my life. So, the billionaires are effectively saying I shouldn’t enjoy my life.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    I do actually like my job, but I sure as shit don't give it a single thought when I'm not at work.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I fucking love my job.

    But every minute after 4 pm is overtime. And I won't let myself even think about that shit not on the clock.

    I know I have some issue with nutanix I gotta troubleshoot today but I won't go deeper than that til I've sat down at my desk.

    I bring my laptop with me when I leave the house because if something clicks, I wanna get it done and get paid.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    These fucking billionaires are so stupid they don't realise we're fast approaching a time in history that's not going to end pleasantly for greedy, self-serving, narcissistic parasitical... I could go on, but you probably get the idea. Or feel free to add to the adjectives!

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Hey, if I got his salary, dividends, property, political power and privilege, I'd be happy with working overtime as well... or if I had my morals intact, I'd be hunched over in the corner convulsing wondering how tf I got myself into that situation.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 85 points 6 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago*

    This is the best thing I have seen in ages

    The time for rrrreeeeaaaaaalllll close french haircuts is coming

    Just wait till you see our "work ethic" then

    How many today?!? Gee, you musta worked ALL DAY

    Yes, yes I did

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 51 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Iñaki Ereño

    Is his name. Why that information is paywalled?

    As if we can afford JavaScript in this economy.

    Iñaki Ereño Is that dudes name.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 38 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Yeah sure but these are the guys who walk around on the floor where the people who actually do the work are currently working and they call that work.

    These guys just fucking jerk each other off on golf courses and believe they put in a full days work.

  • source
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    My boss brags about never taking any vacation, yet posts pics on LinkedIn of him fishing with other C-levels of the company on a Monday...

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Boss came to talk me about how i looked tired yesterday. We talked for some time and he said that i need to look fresher, like he. He told how in reality he was also tired because he was golfing day before and his legs were so sore, but he does not let it show.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 31 points 6 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 31 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I need to leave on time, you cunt, because I don't have a maid, an au pair, and a personal chef.

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 23 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    How's being weak bad?

    That's the true fallacy being put into our minds here. Some people are strong and some are weaker. I think solidarity is a great thing and we should help each other out.

    If some people are not made for working as much we should let them. Leave them be. You work your ass off all you want if you like. Both is fine.

    Let people love their own lives and don't judge.

    People are born different. We should make a world where everyone can live decently.

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 19 points 6 months ago

    There's a typo, work life balance is for the week. The weekend you shouldn't have to balance it because that's life time.

  • source
  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago

    Financial obesity is neurotoxic.

  • source
  • [+] 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago

    What a moron

  • source
  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago

    True, it is life balance.

    Work is always secondary.

  • source
  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago

    The message is clear - "Be strong and throw yourself off a cliff for your overlords".

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

    He isn't wrong though, if i got paid 8 or 9 figures or more per year in euro/usd i wouldn't mind working 8 days a week.

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    Bupa is a British multinational health insurance and healthcare company

    Maybe he should reflect on what happened at United Healthcare

  • source
  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    Work to live, don't live to work.

  • source
  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    You like to spend time with your wife? Loser, get a better job! Family?.worse, even! You need a job you enjoy!

    You love to walk around in nature? You must really hate your job!

    You like to spend time looking at art? JOB, BITCH!

    Mind you, this is coming from a person who loved most of his jobs and who spent way toouch time working. I lost so much time doing shit for others, i lost so much time being with people I don't like, I've given so much ofy time to others and for what? Money?

    I've been a CTO multiple times now, the money ait worth it. I now work 9-5 and spend all my free time with my wife and it's the best time I've ever had in my life

  • source
  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    “For the weak” more like for those of us who don’t have a love of money that we’re totally devoted to?

  • source
  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    Lol. Ok. Slave away instead of living. Cause that makes sense to be your life objective...

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

    No one needs the validation of a billionaire.

  • source
  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    Hahaha, proudly telling everyone you don't have your life priorities straight, and so old you'll probably die thinking: I was right all along, I'm dying now but at least I had all this wealth and power.

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

    The CEO who might do 10 hours of actual work a week.

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    They actually do work a ton, usually, but work also involves a lot of traveling and socializing and steak dinners, so working 70 hours a week often involves a good amount of play baked into it. "I had a business meeting then a business lunch then a business golf game then another business meeting then a business dinner with some business wine. I work so much harder than you peons!"

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Yes, "I'm weak. And what's wrong with that?" Weak - AJR

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

    It doesn’t say anything like the headline, it just says that if you’re living for the weekend you probably don’t like your job and should find a new one.

  • source
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [–] [S] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    They're saying that if you don't enjoy being exploited by billionaires enough to put the interests of the corporation before your own wellbeing, family and personal pursuits, then it means you just haven't found the right billionaire to exploit you yet.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • 77 comments in c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world view that post
    73 comments in c/antiwork@lemmy.ml view that post
    18 comments in c/antiwork@lemmy.ca view that post