“We only hire slave labor here. You aren’t nearly subservient enough for the honor.”
God I hope he knows he ended up on LinkedIn lunatics
You think people like this have enough self-awareness to be ashamed?
Not inherently, but I’d hope that a public mocking would still cause a reaction
Founder/CEO/Designer - Micro…
Unless that ends in “soft” you’re a failure and you’re trying to bring everyone else down with you.
If it is “soft”, you’re a known pedophile and you should be in prison.
We all know it’s not MicroSoft but rather MicroPenis1
The guy can’t even start his sentences with a capital letter. And you’re supposed to take him serious as a CEO?
“Sorry I’m not even interested. You behave like a child, don’t understand life and clearly treat your employees like shit.”
Begin banana metaphor.
Bananas are great. If I ate a healthy amount of bananas a week, I’d be happy with my banana consumption. I’d enjoy bananas.
However, if I ate a lot of bananas each week, let’s say 80 🍌/week (that’s 16 bananas a day, from Monday to Friday!), I would HATE bananas, regardless of how much I previously enjoyed them. With so many bananas a week, I’d probably suffer from malnutrition and related health problems.
End banana metaphor.
I don’t think it’s possible to be happy when working 80+ hours a week, even if it’s something you used to enjoy. “The dose makes the poison.”
That’s because workaholics think they’re normal and everyone else is lazy. In reality they usually either trying to hide from something in their personal life, or they really are just that boring of a person that they can’t think of anything better to do than work.
This is not the same as being passionate, since that usually involves doing something for yourself rather than for another persons business.
I used to be a software developer and I enjoyed being a software developer, but I honestly couldn’t give a crap about the proprietary accounting system or whatever it was that we were developing for the client. That stuff was hella boring
Exactly, loving your job doesn’t prevent burnout. No matter how much you love it, if you are doing actual work (not some exec shitposting on linkedin all day) then past a certain point your body/mind will just get too tired to function well.
I genuinely love my job. I would do it for free if I could afford to. I sometimes (especially lately) work well over 60 hours a week. But I need to be careful about how much OT I let myself put in because I will burn out. I know that when I push myself too hard I will eventually start fucking up. I will start missing obvious things. I will start making stupid mistakes. With my job I am also far more likely to seriously injure myself when burned out. Allowing myself to become burned out results in worse outcomes for the customers and costs my company more money. Not to mention that if I did injure myself badly enough to be out of work then all those extra hours I put in would be outweighed be the time I miss.
A good manager recognizes that a burned out employee does more harm than good and works to prevent it. A good manager knows that keeping their employees happy, well rested, and fulfilled is in the company’s best interest. Sometimes demands pop up that will require a bit of burn out to deal with but the benefit of meeting those demands needs to be weighed against the harm of that burnout. Shitty managers always severely underestimate the harm burnout causes not just to their employees but also to the company.
I don’t think it’s possible to be happy when working 80+ hours a week
I think there’s a certain element of “do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life” in this.
If you’re really deeply invested in a project and doing it brings you joy, then you very well might find yourself investing every waking moment working on it.
But that’s not a “job”, that’s a “passion”. You typically don’t get to pursue your passions unless you already have a big passive income or a sugar daddy willing to cover your expenses.
“love the uncertainty”
Yeah, nothing like insecurity. Everyone fucking loves the shit outta that fucking shit! Gimme it all. I want nerve wracking, potential poverty around every corner. That’s the ticket!
Seriously though, WTF is wrong with this person?
They believe the bullshit they have been fed.
I didn’t read the entire message but I think the response is simple:
“That is all well and good, but come IPO time, it is you, not me, who is getting paid. Make this a co-operative or give every employee a reasonable percentage of the company, and we can all decide if your idea is worth the risk.”
You get this with startups. There’s always some pillock who reckons that just because your employee number 17 means that somehow you should be as invested as they are despite the fact that you’re getting the wage you’re getting regardless. If you weren’t a founding member, then it’s just a job.
Sure if they do really well as a company maybe you could ask for a raise, but it’s not a guarantee and it’s not directly mapped to the company’s success, so who cares.
If you ever work for a startup in the software industry make sure the base salary is good, because there’s no guarantee that any shares in the businesses will ever be worth the paper they’re written on. If the company does well, then great, but if it doesn’t you still need to have been compensated for your time, after all it’s not your fault that subscription-based water fountains didn’t catch on.
Entrepreneur brain, stage 4, terminal
Imagine being psychotic enough to brag about this.
“They are not glorious enough to work for my wonderful company and with my pure genius!”
It’s basically the same thing that scammers do - they know they have a terrible approach, but that’s fine because they are only looking for the easy marks who are too oblivious to sense anything is wrong.
This CEO is preventing anyone with self preservation or a sense of actual industry norms from applying, increasing the proportion of aps from the gullible.
My husband is at the point of his career where he seeks out startups because he like passion projects. He’s actually worked for several that have become huge multibillion dollar companies
The look on his face rn as i read this out to him is hilarious
I can’t tell what his reaction is from this!
Any stories ? I’d love to hear
And how much equity are you providing for this role
We haven’t figured out the details yet but we’re passionate about our business family and we’re sure we’ll have good news for you at
ChristmasEasterThe New YearThe next AGMhey wait why are you leaving what about those shares? We’ve nearly sorted out the details!
Tar and feathers… some ‘CEO’ make me to think about that old tradition.
A simple “we are going a different direction” would have been enough. Fuck this CEO and cue* the Mario Bros theme!
*thanks, citizen Train.
queue
Actually in this case “cue” is the correct form of the word. It’s reference to cue sheets for plays
Fixed, just for you, big boy!
DO THE MARIO
*cue, as in “this was her cue to step onto the theater stage”
RUN!!! To the closest golf course, that new CEO is probably there and just walk up to them and say “fuck you and “your company” I am out!” Then yell to the people around them to not give money to him… “he’s a grifter who is exploiting workers so he can play golf with you!”
If you want to hurt him, say something along the line: “The product doesn’t work and most of the code is plagiarized”. Something that implies that the company is about to hit a rough patch. Something that suggests that investors shouldn’t invest, lest they lose their money.
It should also go something like this as well.
100%!!
Never seen that movie but now I wanna! Thank you!! 😊
The main character is sort of the prototypical modern incel rage fantasy.
I really enjoy this movie it has a lot of awesome scenes of outrage at normal life, but much like the fight club movie or the novel ‘Catcher in the Rye’ I feel like people often get the wrong idea about what problems it identifies in society and why the main character is a deeply unhealthy response to a sick world.
Agreed, he’s just a horrid person in and out of acting so it’s savage that he’s trying to pretend he’s not an incel who is a trash actor and hasn’t had anything since his little fame. He’s basically a “D” actor and everything since has been a straight up cash grab because it’s all TRASH!
Yikes, I did not know the dude was a bad person in real life! Thanks for pointing that out!
Also, D-fense, D-list actor! get it?
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I feel like anyone who says they love their work so much it doesn’t feel like work just doesn’t have an actual life that they like to live so work just beats out not working everytime.
I mean there is people who work for organizations like Doctors without Borders. Being deployed in a zone of natural disaster or war, they probably rack up 60+ hours a week easily. However their pay is much smaller than what they could get in the “market”. Turns out people can love their job, if it does something meaningful, rather than make some rich people more rich.
they also aren’t doing any actual proper labor, just at the 19th hole having a “business lunch” with a “possible investor”
or “securing partnerships” by spending 2 days travelling for a 3 hour meeting
Does golf actually have more than 18 holes, or is this a sex joke?
Be kind: I don’t know golf…or jokes.
The 19th hole is the traditional joke name for the bar/restaurant that you go to after you finish playing. Not sure where you got sex from, but no, there is no sex involved in golf.
Oh that makes sense, thanks!
It’s the internet; it’s pretty safe to assume sex (or sex jokes), especially when holes are mentioned.
there is no sex involved in golf
Rule 34 says otherwise
I love my work, and at times I work long hours, nights, weekends, to meet specific goals or when there is an emeegency.
That is however the exception, not the rule.
I need my day to day to be smooth, I need my blend of work from home, so that when the high energy bursts do happen, I can handle it.
The idea of working at crisis levels all the time as standard is just insane to me, and suggests bad time management and expecations.
I really enjoy my job. I spend my time solving problems and work on projects that improve the water supply for the country. I enjoy working late because I don’t have any meetings, so I am unburdened enough to actually work. I don’t think I could work more than 50 hours a week though.
na, they’re just lying. people at the top work far less than anyone else.
Their work is primarily flogging the slaves to work harder.
I fucking love not working! I prioritize time spent not working over time working every day of my life.
sits back and waits for people to insinuate about my work quality
I can see a young bachelor with no hobbies choosing that but if you have a family and do this then you might as well just say that avoiding them is your only hobby.
There are exceptions to every rule. There are super lucky people for whom their job really is their hobby. Then, even if they do have a life , they can still find their work doesn’t feel like work. Life is not fair - it’s not shitty for everyone equally.
People who say that have ‘jobs’ where they blather and other people do work then money comes in.
I think there are people who love their job me included. The clients and co workers make it a bad experience.
Exactly. Not a life worth having.
Seems like the worst of hustle culture to be honest.
