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Its almost as if the more real work you do, the less you matter.
I wonder what would happen if the higher up in a company you get, the less you got payed. I’d imagine more actual work would be accomplished.
The higher you go the closer you get to the people who actually controls the capital. The CEO can have a personal relationship with the board, people who do actual work are merely a number to the higher-ups.
The CEO is usually on the board and a lot of the other board members will also be CEOs but yes
It saddens me the fact that there are people out there wanting to do more work.
The game is rigged. Do nothing and get paid.
Agree with you but depends on where someone work. It’s rare but some work are undeniably positive to the society.
Have you been watching me at work?
Just had a conversation with someone on this last weekend. They’re what I call someone dependent on corporate daycare. They need to be working or they lack self value. Their boss is an ass, hardly works and this guy thinks he’s slacking at 12 hours a day (exaggerated only a little).
What are you doing that is so important? Is it saving someone’s life? Life changing cancer drugs? No no, it’s a PowerPoint that shows the progress on the projects of equally less important tasks that is only making your boss look good.
And the fucker still thinks he’s not WORKING HARD ENOUGH!!
Yeah it is truly sad. I wish with all my heart that I could have one of those government jobs where I would do the minimum and still get paid well, but sadly, I am stuck in the corporate world.
Thankfully, I just give them my 1% and do the Barr minimum to get the annual increments…but fuck I just hate wasting 8 hours of my life a day doing worthless computer shit. It pays the bills though.
I wouldn’t be in the field if I didn’t enjoy the work.
However I’ve positioned myself to make sure no work is ever unpaid, unless it’s for my own future startup idea.
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Perfecting the art of brown-nosing.
I have three monitors. FUCK.
I have eight. 🤡
Most monitors has got to be the security guard’s CCTV, so it does track!
Ok I just wana know your hardware setup. Not really the monitors but what you are doing for video output. Assuming either specialized cards with alot of dvi outputs(mini dvi?) or multiple gpus or even just dvi dasiychain?
I’m counting laptop screens as 1 and externals as 1.
3 laptops all with secondary monitors and two surface devices attached to my wall.
the surfaces are displaying system monitoring and portfolio details
laptop a is for job a
laptop b is for job b
laptop c is personal
They got you taking care of the cockroach problem in the basement?
And they took his stapler
Same. No wonder I’m burnt out. The human brain can only handle so many screens at the same time :/
I bring a portable screen from home, bringing me to a total of 4 with the laptop screen.
But I just like lots of monitors
There are exceptions. My ex CEO and his nepo kids demanded ultrawides so they could more efficiently watch Fox News and get scammed by horny MILFS in their area that want to hook up NOW.
This is true up until a point, and then the pattern starts to reverse. Like, the receptionist isn’t going to get 2 monitors. They’re likely to get one monitor and a very old desktop, or an old laptop.
Edit: Also an intern / co-op student / work experience student, etc. is probably as low as you can go on the totem pole of office work. I bet in many cases they’re not even assigned a permanent office / cubicle since they’re expected to shadow / be mentored by a variety of people. As a result, they probably get a second-hand, used laptop.
And, if the company has retail sales, techs who do installations, etc. they’re often very low on the totem pole, and they’re often not getting a computer at all. Maybe in some cases they’d get a “work phone”, so they’d have the same kind of equipment as the CEO, but effectively be at the opposite end of the pole from them.
And sometimes you have techbro CEO who has like a video wall for no particularly good reason.
Sometimes, rich people like to cosplay being poor and unimportant.
It’s like, I have a 13" laptop, a 15" inch one, and two monitors at my desk with a dock… But so the my director… Actually, he doesn’t have the 13" one! Am I actually the director?
Which do you use most often?
A CEO might have a nice desktop, but is always out playing golf and so mostly uses his phone.
Forget using his phone screen, all an important CEO needs is wireless earbuds
Heh, I bet if you’re the CEO of a megacorp, you might not even carry your own electronics. You just have a gaggle of assistants around you who you bark orders at, and then they use their electronics to do something.
The amount of screen size reflects the amount of work you do. So a smaller size has become a status signal. Showing you do not actually work.
You do meetings
Value is not the same as importance
Hi, it’s me. Two Monitor Man.
I’m ultrawide…
And nobody would have known if you never said anything.
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Mid manager replacement prompt
You are a mid level manager tasked with creating a McKinsey-style, action-led PowerPoint pack. The input is [insert source: report, transcript, dataset, notes, etc.]. Your task is to transform it into a concise, executive-ready presentation that drives decision-making. Follow these rules:
- Overall structure:
Title page (client/project context).
Executive summary (3–5 key takeaways, action-oriented).
Situation analysis (context, data, and insights).
Key findings (use MECE structure: Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive).
Recommendations (clear, prioritized, action-led).
Implementation roadmap (phases, timeline, responsibilities).
Risks & mitigations.
Appendix (supporting detail, charts, data tables).
- Slide design principles:
Each slide has one clear message in the title (action-oriented, ‘so-what’ statement).
Use the pyramid principle (top-down storytelling: answer first, then supporting evidence).
Keep text minimal, favor charts, diagrams, and visuals.
Apply MECE logic to group insights.
Recommendations must be specific, actionable, and prioritized.
- Tone & Style:
Professional, concise, fact-based.
Focus on clarity and impact.
Avoid jargon unless essential.
Make it CEO-ready: every slide should be understandable in under 10 seconds.
Today just got an email to connect with McKinsey about something… My company likes to occasionally piss money away on McKinsey and it always just sucks…
Somebody in your company who used to work for Mckinsey is now in a position to spend money on Mckinsey. If they spend enough over a long period the they will be invited back to become partner.
Which is to say that you could replace them with a see n say wearing a tie.
Eh, as a dev I prefer just notebook screen over multiple screens
Same, I’m also a dev who prefers working off a notebook screen. This fact boggles the minds of my coworkers, especially my boss who seems mortally offended that I only work on one screen.
I guess that means I’ve broken the social norms of a corporate slave?
It’s okay to have a wrong opinion.
(Don’t take this seriously)
I feel it. I excitedly set up my side monitor in portrait mode for coding ages ago, but turns out I barely ever use it. Instead, I just use it for Discord or random youtube videos playing on the side while I do all my work on the main monitor…
Every time the CEO walks by he thinks “that guy has upper management written all over him”.
Here is the expendability graph
📉
If the guy with the “don’t-turn-off”-server gets fired everyone know that the ship will sink
It’s funny when a big exec leaves and other execs are rushing to reassure us they are to to the challenge of dealing with such a key person departing…
We do not care at all. We have zero confidence in any of them and do not care about any of them
We didn’t have a CEO for half a year… What changed? Nothing…
Then we got a new CEO… His new policies caused loss of revenue so we had to fire 50 people…
Thank god for that save
Oh we were similarly “rudderless” when a major executive left.
Adding to the amusement of the constant panic of missing leadership, was when someone asked about simply promoting one of the interim executives to full time and just getting on with it. This was in a town hall with the CEO and the interim executive in question and in front of everyone the CEO said simply that the interim executive wasn’t competent enough to do the job.
Quite an effective way to destroy someone’s reputation and ego.
What a colleague! Haha!
4 monitors & 2 compiters at my last job; 1 computer and 3 monitors at this job… 🎵movin’ on up…🎵
*(Percieved) importance.
I beg to differ, I’m a corporate slave on a 13" laptop
What bout monitor + lappy or biblically accurate computers
When you have three monitors followed by two floating monitors above those on arms. A laptop on the side table neck to you. Your phone right below your keyboard and the tablet on top of the laptops keyboard.
You have reached peak screenage.
also smart watch
A bit higher up is an old-school dial phone. And even higher is a dial phone without the actual dial
Boss needs to get a hold of Plaza 1234 right away.
I was thinking more of a red phone kind of hotline, but this is even better LMAO
And, at the top, they just talk to people, like a mafia don.
Nah, above him is the guy who doesn’t even talk, just makes graffiti that puts the right messages directly into people’s subconsciousness.
And at the very top there’s a guy who returned to monke and only does primal grunts
Ya. The CEO has a person that has a phone and a laptop.
