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CNBC has gotten nauseatingly terrible

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 137 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

I mean, she makes enough money to say that. Most everyone under her, not so much. The self-centeredness of these CEOs is staggering.

“I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance,” says Morris, who oversees the experience of over 2.1 million employees. “I call it work-life integration. There are times that your life requires a lot more, and there are times that your work requires a lot more. … I don’t think that’s a bad thing.”

“You might be [at your kid’s] soccer game, but you happen to look at a few emails,” Morris says. Maybe you’re chatting with your boss via text while waiting for an appointment, or tying up a few loose ends at work before you put the kids to bed. That doesn’t necessarily mean you’re a workaholic who lacks boundaries — rather, you find ways to combine your personal and professional duties that work for you, instead of being strict and inflexible with your time.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 120 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

This still sounds awful. Never unplugged, never tuning down. What the fuck kind of life is that?

[–] ThisSeriesIsFalse@lemmy.ca 80 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It's the life that all these corporations want their workers to be forced to live. In their eyes, if you're not producing value for the one on top, you should either be sleeping or dead. Oh, and they'll only be paying you for 8 of those 18 hours you'll be working, at the lowest possible rate they can, if you get the luxury of payment at all. If you're a prisoner, tough luck.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 18 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Prisoners get paid. It's like $0.08 an hour or some shit, but they get paid. And the funds are used exclusively to buy temporary products like toothpaste, and deodorant.

[–] ThisSeriesIsFalse@lemmy.ca 8 points 22 hours ago

True, not much better though.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 51 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Here's the thing though, 90% of her life IS tuned down. Every time she's not worrying about how to pay the bills. How to get to work. How many presents there will be for Christmahannukwanzakkuh. Hell even how much this week's groceries are going to cost from her own store thst she almost certainly doesn't get most of her groceries from.

She just doesn't realize it, because that's not a life she's experienced. She has absolutely no way to empathize because it's as foreign to her as a guinea pig flying an airplane.

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[–] grte@lemmy.ca 57 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I notice none of the examples involve taking care of life stuff while on the job. Only the one direction.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 42 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

That's because as an executive she has no issue being able to just "work remotely" or leave "early" on a random day to go to a doctor's appointment, or parent teacher meeting mid-afternoon. She's only accountable to (maybe) the other executives who do the same shit. She doesn;t even realize she's doing it. That's just how life works.

Meanwhile Maria and Bobby are getting written up for coming back from break 2 minutes late.

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[–] SARGE@startrek.website 17 points 21 hours ago

Executives should be forced work their lowest paid company position, and be dumped in an apartment with absolutely nothing.

See how long they survive.

You can talk to me about my work-life balance when I'm not putting the healthy option back because it's more expensive than the cheap unhealthy ultra processed bullshit and I can't justify the expense.

[–] Foreigner@lemmy.world 13 points 7 hours ago

I once heard the following which struck a chord for me and I always keep it in mind when it comes to work:

"20 years from now, the only people who will remember you stayed late at work are your kids"

Obviously this doesn't apply if you have to work late to survive. If you have the choice though, don't give these companies more time than they really deserve. You won't be remembered or rewarded for it.

Being able to even afford having children is privilege these days. No way I would squander it by prioritizing a company that would fire me at the wrong gust of wind.

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 79 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

“You might be [at your kid’s] soccer game, but you happen to look at a few emails,” Morris says. Maybe you’re chatting with your boss via text while waiting for an appointment, or tying up a few loose ends at work before you put the kids to bed. That doesn’t necessarily mean you’re a workaholic who lacks boundaries — rather, you find ways to combine your personal and professional duties that work for you, instead of being strict and inflexible with your time.

OK but Walmart retail staffers clock in and clock out with a time card, and require to be on site to fulfill their duties.

“If I never take a holiday, the tone that I set for everybody is, don’t take a holiday — you can’t do that. And I don’t think that that’s right,” says Morris. “As leaders, we have a responsibility to role model what we expect of others.”

Oh how generous of this person to take a vacation. Do they pay their Walmart retail staff to take a vacation too?

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 47 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Oh is she ok with her employees texting their loved ones between tasks or is it only work that's supposed to encroach on everything else?

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 14 points 17 hours ago

Ooooh I think we know the answer

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[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 24 points 21 hours ago

Morgan Freeman: “They did not.”

[–] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 59 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

That doesn't necessarily mean you're a workaholic who lacks boundaries

That’s pretty much the definition of a workaholic.

This is literally Peter’s arc in Hook (1991).

[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 48 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I hate the fact that money is equated with success. Like, what's her K/D ratio on CS:Source?

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 15 points 17 hours ago

Like, what's her K/D ratio on CS:Source?

Significantly lower than her K/D ratio in real life

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 47 points 19 hours ago

People with a money addiction will insist that you don't deserve a comfortable life because you insist on balancing work and life

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 40 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

New suggested title for the article:

"Billionaire executive can't understand why their minimum salary employees don't want to sacrifice their personal lives to make her even more money".

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[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 33 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

This bitch wanna volunteer to clean my house and pay off my massive debt? Because my scale is tipped so far into work that I can't keep up with the life parts on my own, but I can't stop work because I need to eat.

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 20 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Have you tried not being poor?

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[–] Rachelhazideas@lemmy.world 29 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

This privileged CEO thinks what she does is 'work' when she never as to work a day in customer service.

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[–] slothrop@lemmy.ca 26 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

No one on their death bed says, "I wish I'd done better at work-life integration."

[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 14 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 8 points 21 hours ago

Can't forget the OOO message either

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[–] EndOfLine@lemmy.world 24 points 22 hours ago

sigh Another narcissist CEO who cannot grasp the idea that "life", in this context, is just an employees working for themselves and pursuing their own interests instead of working for others to pursue corporate interests.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 24 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

“You might be [at your kid’s] soccer game, but you happen to look at a few emails,” Morris says. Maybe you’re chatting with your boss via text while waiting for an appointment, or tying up a few loose ends at work before you put the kids to bed.

That literally just sounds like she's always working, even when she's supposed to be focused on family.

That doesn’t necessarily mean you’re a workaholic who lacks boundaries — rather, you find ways to combine your personal and professional duties that work for you, instead of being strict and inflexible with your time.

Ummm, yeah...that's actually the definition of being a workaholic who lacks boundaries. She may as well be saying, "I don't think sipping from a bottle of vodka in my purse while I'm picking my kids up from school, makes me an alcoholic...I think of it more like multitasking."

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Ah yes, a person who was parachuted into high level positions right out of university lectures everyone on hard work.

[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 20 points 21 hours ago

oh shut up. I hate it when these rich fuckers are all "I got to where I am because I work hard." no you got to where you are because you're wealthy. Unlike EVERYONE fucking under your ass you can afford to hire a private chef to cook your meals, maids to clean your house(s) and do your laundry/chores, nannies for your kids, assistants to run your errands, all while you pull out your phone and write some god awful poorly written emails because that's all you fuckers do and I know this because in my field I deal with morons like you. None of you idiots work hard. An LLM could do your job, in fact that's the goal.

Couldn't write an email to save your life. they all write them like they're in an ICQ conversation.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 15 points 21 hours ago

Thanks for letting us know that you have no life. There will be an age when you realize what you have missed and your unhappiness will consume you. And it will be your fault. Real Humans know that a full life involves having personal time separate from a job.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 14 points 2 hours ago

It's always "do a 'little more' here and there" for work, but if you ask to be paid a little more for that work then they lose their minds. These parasites are the most entitled pieces of shit ever.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 hours ago

Actually I think work/life balance is an outdated concept.

These days it's more like work/survival balance.

[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

Wal-Mart exec can go suck a fuck!

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 11 points 4 hours ago

Just wait until her neglected kids rebel and turn into miserable drug addicts.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 10 points 21 hours ago

This kind of useless performative busy-ness is one of the stupidest forms virtue signalling.

[–] shittydwarf@piefed.social 10 points 21 hours ago
[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 10 points 4 hours ago
[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 10 points 21 hours ago

They need to propaganda extra hard bcs gen-Z saw irl what happened to millennials & now execs don't know how fuck them extra over.

[–] MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 10 points 2 hours ago

The people are just myth making: Musk and this woman first stretch the definition of work to mean everything they ever do…expensive business lunches or exotic vacations (that include a zoom meeting!) are considered work. But then difficult or stressful work gets discounted by association because the surfs only do it for 12 hours a day.

[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago

I never believe her also.

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago (2 children)
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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago

CNBC has gotten nauseatingly terrible

It’s Comcastic!

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