What’s infuriating is that having no work-life balance is promoted as a positive. Sure there are people who are really devoted to their work and thrive on it, but that should be seen as voluntary and not expected. Working long hours also doesn’t necessarily mean you are working efficiently or using your full potential the entire time.
It’s meant to deify these CEOs. Gullible schmoes see this and think “well that makes sense, he spends every hour of his day working. That’s three times more than me! No wonder he makes a million times my salary! See, the only reason I’m not making billions is because I don’t have the divine skills and talent to work on my company all day.” (Or, “I choose to have a work-life balance cause I don’t mind making a little less money”)
These CEOs have PR teams dedicated to slipping out stories like these so it keeps the CEO looking like a king.
Also to convince gullible idiots to put in more hours and make more sacrifices because “that’s what it takes to make it to the top” not realizing that sacrificing your time and energy for a multi-billion dollar corporation won’t make you a billionaire. Rich people love the “hustle and grind” culture because it convinces people that if they just keep producing for the machine, the trickle down will finally come
Ugh. People wasting company time by thinking about their health and welfare and if they can afford their bills. When they should be thinking about the company. Won’t someone think of the profits. Theft. Theft all of it! Makes me so sick I have to take a mental health day away from checking my investments. /s /s /ssssssssss
One of the perks of my job is that we have 50 hours a year in addition to our holidays that we can cash in whenever we need them.
Everyone takes them, but my boss uses a handful each year, stays late every night, only uses half his holidays and loses the rest. I’ll never understand it.
It’s short-sighted not to realize that treating people with dignity will improve their motivation and productivity. My work also has a generous policy for time off, but my colleagues are still considerate when they use it by making sure the important things are done before they leave and that the rest of us will be able to handle things in their absence. There will always be a handful of people who abuse the privilege, but they need to be dealt with individually.
From my observation, the types to work late and have no time off either take an immense satisfaction in working or are avoiding something to come home to.
Yes I understand that for some people out there, being a tech executive is their highest passion and true calling. But I hate it when those people turn around and expect everybody to act that way, and act like they’re just more virtuous for doing so. I have a very successful tech career but it’s a job, not my whole life. This society values money, so we keep asking rich people for life advice, as if they have tapped into something deeply human and universal. They haven’t.
And if its voluntary I would more likely categorize it as a hobby rather than work. I think we need a better definition for “work”. Work, to me, is an obligation. People work in order to feed and house themselves. So let’s says someone has $10mil. That is more than enough to easily live off the interest. I would say anyone at that level of wealth never actually works because they have the option to stop at any time, which in my mind makes it a hobby.
Thinking about work is not the same as working. Maybe he should invest some money into therapy for his work anxiety.
Maybe I can start building up savings if I work overtime by zoning out of movies and thinking about stocking the grocery store for half an hour…
Honestly the CEO behavior sounds like a mental illness.
It honestly sounds like a really horrible life. I’d rather be a cleaner.
That was my first thought. Why the fuck do ceos get a pass for making their mental shit everyone else’s problem? When I do that, I get an expensive trip to the psych ward.
And by work they really mean “jerks off to his leather jacket collection”
Working hard, or jerking hard?
i like how its counted as work just thinking about work for him. but it only counts as work for his employees when they are online under the supervision of their manager.
Online? They were probably forced back into office.
Imagine believing that just thinking about your job, equates to “working”. Give me a break.
Poor guy doesn’t even have time to take in a Coldplay concert!
Where does he have his affairs then?
In the executive suite bathroom.
This is anyone running a business and a limited juxtaposition. It does not mean he always slaves away at a job. It means he must always be available and always conscious and aware of the business. Anyone that has actually run a successful business with employees has experienced this. You’re not your own boss, you’re a slave of your customers with responsibilities, decisions, and must live with the consequences of making mistakes. It really sucks unless you’re super lucky in the world, and a really shitty person if you want to make it profitable by hurting people and being unethical.
I’m sure he “works hard” like in that CEO workweek graph.
If 20 hours of your 55 hour work week is “miscellaneous personal stuff”, you have a 35 hour work week. 🤦🏻♂️
Worse: they don’t point out how unhealthy it is to live this way and what terrible family life he must have.
He also owns a significant portion of the company and makes millions when the stock price goes up.
An employee however makes a fixed income and may very likely be laid off after the next investors call to make that stock price go up.
Comparing the work ethic of a ceo and an employee is complete bullshit. By their own logic, a 1/1000th ownership in the company should in fact mean 1/1000th of the CEO’s work.
lol success? Like like self abuse and self slavery.
He works so much, he doesn’t even have time to find a new jacket. What a cringe lord.
I highly suspect he’s full of shit, too. Most likely, he counts all kinds of non-work activities as work, because he does them in an executive-ly capacity. And, in general, claiming you’re a hyper-optimised work machine is fashionable in Silicon Valley.
No he doesn’t. He pays someone to say he does.
And if he does (he doesn’t), that’s obviously terrible for every reason you already understand.
