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.
And my wife wondered why I busted my ass to get a union IT job at a college.
No no. He had to assign some... Wait, he told his admin assistant to assign someone to write denial letters.
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.
What about tapeworm? I feel like that’s more fitting
Sorry to sully the name of the leech.
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.
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"
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
Allowing billionaires to exist is for the weak.
Hail Luigi Mangione
Then sell all your yachts and work in a mine, coward.
He's right, it should be way unbalanced to the life side.
Anyway, kill all billionaires
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?
They are paid for in blood unfortunately, both those deserving and non deserving.
Player 2, please connect your controller. We need Luigi to beat this.
Heads attached to bodies needs to become optional for these people.
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.
so is nepotism
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".
I want to see him work two twelve hours days in a row, operating a jackhammer.
Ok boomer.
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
Translation: "The rest of you losers should work your lives away so us billionaires can enjoy ours".
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.
Honestly I agree that if people were not alienated from their labor they would probably want to work more.
Absolutely fucking not.
I think it really depends, if I were to work at a workers co op where I'm a part owner of the business I really probably wouldn't mind working more. All these CEOs get insane compensation for their work, why do you think they don't mind working more? Obviously I wouldn't want to have to spend 7 days a week in a steel factory a coal mine or a slaughterhouse etc.
They don't "work more;" they play more and call it work.
Eta:
“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."
🙄🤡
I mean who knows maybe he does spend more time on his work, whether his work is productive for society is another matter. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with work, there is something wrong with being exploited.
Good. Let them work themselves to death, then. Less billionaires would be good for the world.
Unfortunately his job is getting glazed 24/7.
Oh come on now, he also has to play a lot of golf, have dinner meetings at expensive (but paid for by the company and tax deductable) restaurants.
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.
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"
I'm dreaming of a red christmas
I agree when you’re the ceo.
But regular people shouldn’t care that much about other people’s businesses.
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.
If you work unpaid overtime, you're loosing at capitalism. The whole point is to make more money and work less time?!?
"I would very much like to be next"
Yeah, I'm married and would like to stay that way so I'm going home after 8 hours
"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.
We're trying to reduce the numbers of hours a person has to work.
We talk about the end of paid work being mandatory for survival.
Partnerships:
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