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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/67674748

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45976558

Moar overtime, you lazy serfs!

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[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 hour ago

Urge to kill rising

[–] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] dejova281@lemmy.world 3 points 47 minutes ago

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

[–] RQG@lemmy.world 11 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 hours 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.

[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 7 points 2 hours ago

Work to live, don't live to work.

[–] Plum@lemmy.world 12 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 32 minutes ago

And you also do actual labor when you're working instead of client lunches and golf.

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours 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.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 51 points 5 hours ago (2 children)
[–] HeroicBillyBishop@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours 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

[–] muxika@piefed.muxika.org 7 points 5 hours ago

It's got that Chris Hansen lean...

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 hours ago (1 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.

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 8 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Sure. But don't forget this cunt thinks work is going golfing, calling his secretary to get more coffee, or go to expensive dinners.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 hours ago

Don't forget going to gym with his kids, replying email, and gasp, reading news.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 90 points 8 hours ago (6 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.

[–] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago

Then he goes on month long vacations leaving the actual people who work to continue working for far worse pay than he claims.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 9 points 4 hours ago (3 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.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 1 points 1 hour ago

This is the way.

[–] gigachad@piefed.social 2 points 2 hours ago

I am so happy I quit my career in academia. Now I just clock out and do the Bob Kelso. Not having to think about work in your free time is a bless

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 hours ago

Right. I'm also lucky in that I like my job, but I like my family more.

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 13 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 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.

[–] pleb_maximus@piefed.zip 7 points 1 hour 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".

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 34 points 7 hours ago (1 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.

[–] bonenode@piefed.social 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Right. I actually like my job and I appreciate that is a rare occurrence these days. But I also like my private life. If I had a choice I still would spend more time on what I do in my private life than in my job, since right now the balance is still heavily on the job side (if we exclude sleeping since well, I don't get the choice to do that at my job).

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours 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.

[–] muxika@piefed.muxika.org 4 points 5 hours ago

Shit, why didn't anyone else think of that? It's so simple!

[–] Hapankaali@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Or even the reality of anyone who has a real job.

[–] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 40 points 7 hours 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.

[–] testaccount372920@piefed.zip 7 points 4 hours ago

CEO of Bupa in case you want to avoid (working for) that company.

[–] GardenGeek@europe.pub 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Susaga@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 hours ago

You think these fuckers are giving us cake?

[–] RockBottom@feddit.org 6 points 6 hours ago

Technically just being employees, CEOs only job is saying what shareholders want.

[–] soaringbirdie@lemmy.zip 12 points 7 hours ago

What a moron

[–] haroldfinch@feddit.nl 3 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] twinnie@feddit.uk -1 points 6 hours ago (3 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.

[–] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 2 points 2 hours ago

And if everybody did that, society would utterly collapse as almost no necessary work got done.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 13 points 6 hours ago (1 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.

[–] lauha@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I read the article. Where did he say "Only work for billionaires"

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 5 points 5 hours ago

In between the lines

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 1 points 4 hours ago

It still a stupid take.