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.
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You don’t see articles like this about moms with two jobs who still manage to take care of their kids
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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.
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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...
Hell wait, if I just think about being Nvidia CEO, can I split Jensen's salary?
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It is a lie that CEO's publicize about themselves. He has two children. If he actually was working 7 days a week from the moment he woke up he would have never had a chance to get married and have children- which is the life his workers lead.
Musk used to brag about working 7 days a week one day, and the next day brag about how he never missed his children's soccer games.
They don't understand the actual concept of working. They think taking a call once in a while while out at a soiree counts entirely as work time.
“I had to sit through a 3 hour lunch at Nobu and a visit to a whorehouse with that dreadful bore Altman. What an exhausting 16 hour day.”
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Most are sociopaths who definitely do not think about other people, so it's probably true that he does nothing else but think about the work. Eg Elon
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Lol nvidia CEO couldn't do my job for an hour.
I am absolutely confident that I could do his job for an hour.
The empty chair in his office does his job just as easily, too.
You can tell me all about the meetings and deals they have to worry about but ultimately, by the time a company gets that large, it could run itself without a c-suite for quite some time.
Very large companies run themselves by inertia alone.... until the c-suite fucks it up trying to make more money.
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My boss says he has not taken a day off in 6 years.
Posts pics of him on a boat fishing with our CRO on a Monday . . .
Most CEOs are so useless, but their idea of "working" is just thinking about work and money all day but not actually doing anything.
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Sounds like mental illness but its epic because money.
he cant even sit through a movie without thinking about his $4.2 trillion tech giant
I'm so close to starting to feel sad for him
Dudes counting thinking about work as work.... Which means so many 40 hour jobs should be paid for 80 hour weeks then.
I need a Jira epic for "thinking about work" on my activity timeline.
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Pathetic! Is this nvidio guy an amateur? i think about work while i SLEEP. i'm easily putting in 140+ hours PER WEEK. is this guy browsing tictac while on the shitter or what? get your numbers up lil bro, someday you'll make it big. i swear nobody wants to work anymore, bunch of entitled slackers
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I know your joking but I have had nightmares about work. I hate it.
These are people that count a three hour business lunch as 'working' though. Also, I don't give a fuck about people choosing to work themselves to death. It's the ones that don't have a choice that I care about.
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Omg guys I'm so addicted to working! I just can't stop workinggggg I think I'm addicted with how much I workkkk! I'm just so exploitable ;)))
I'm definitely not at the golf club while I write this.
I do wonder what these guys count as work. It's like when elon musk said he works 14 hours a day 7 days a week, while also playing a lot of overwatch and binge watching anime while caring for his child.
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If you’re in a position to walk away from almost anything you are doing at work and have someone else do it instead, and you’re still paid, it’s not work. If you are in this position, have family, and work 7 days a week, you have a self-regulation problem. See a fucking therapist.
You don’t see it about single fathers either. Why harp on a gender factor that isn’t relevant when the real issue is class and wealth disparity?
You're getting hung up on the gender of a hypothetical person brought up as an example in this one instance, where I can't see why any result would be cause for consternation when, as you say, the focus here should be on the class factor.
I assume the example here was a poor woman in order to maximize juxtaposition of the example versus the subject matter of the cited article, which is about a rich dude. Whatever the reason, this seems irrelevant.
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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.
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.
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Was there even an article to go with this headline, or do we just publish any off–hand remarks made by rich tech dudes now?
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Imagine believing that just thinking about your job, equates to "working". Give me a break.
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And by work they really mean “jerks off to his leather jacket collection”
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Wat a sad life.
A mother who works two jobs and can't sit through a movie without thinking about her kids is also sad, but at least she does it for something good
Won't someone please think of the poor billionaires. :(
Cool I can't do that without thinking about my job either. Thinking about your job isn't work unless you fuckers want to start paying for it.
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Here's something for your toolbox: our society commits idolatry constantly.
The most upsetting part of this is how little time he spends fearing for his fucking life while his buddies’ news stations print articles like this.
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. 🤦🏻♂️
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Replace "4.2 trillion tech giant" with "the future of humanity" and that's basically me with depression.
TIL I'm the CEO of Worrying About the Sky Falling Inc. (because the sky really is about to fall lol)
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he should work while he sleeps in order to come up with a better gpu that doesnt fuckin suck ass
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I mean I would probably categorise myself as a bit of a workaholic but even I'm not that dedicated.
What's he do on Sundays? You can never get anything done on Sundays even if you want to. Everybody else has a social life and is busy experiencing it, so they're not processing orders, or completing paperwork. Which by extension means there is sod you can do as well.
You may as well go outside.
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