A place to post ridiculous posts from linkedIn.com
(Full transparency.. a mod for this sub happens to work there.. but that doesn't influence his moderation or laughter at a lot of posts.)
We offered the CEO $550 million as a benefit. A gesture. A show of vision only a Super Board can have.
Instead, they treat it like a right. Like pay is something they're owed.
Some cash those checks. Some have it direct deposited. Different labels, same result, money leaves the company.
And that's when it hit me. If you really enjoy your job, why would you ever want to be paid for it?
Or am I the only one who sees it this way?
If you really like running why would you ever stop running?
bad knees.
Guess you dont like running then
What kind of psychopath enjoys working?
I enjoy working. I just hate being told what to work on
For own personal growth or the general benefit of my local society absolutely.
Don’t even need a salary as long as the means to live happy are otherwise provided.
For the profit of a corporation? No, yuck!
People who sit at a desk for 4 hours a week doing jack all and making 100x what their full Time employees make.
i kind of love my job, and kind of love working. it can be fun
Enjoy it! I was lucky to have 10+ years at a job I loved. Great coworkers, awesome boss, reasonable expectations.
Then the VP left. Within two years everything went to complete shit (except the coworkers although they either left or retreated into being bots at work)
Nothing last :/
you sure are right, a big part of why i enjoy it is a very good boss and coworkers
I've seen lots and lots of discussions on whether people like or not working, and it always sums up to people giving different meanings to the word "work". When it comes to do things as a hobby, for a cause, or for fulfilling any objective we have, most people will say that they enjoy it, but when it comes to serving someone else on a schedule, just to afford to stay alive, I've never seen anyone say that they enjoy it.
Edit: some combination of words from my comment and the general theme made me somehow think about the music stayin' alive, and I can't get it out of my head anymore!
If I have to work Im going to find something that stimulates me in a way I find interesting. Or you could just say I like it.
If you really enjoy your job, why would you ever want time away from it?
Good point, maybe you should think about that a little harder bro.
I have such a hard time imagining this is actually a real person writing a real post.
It’s way easier if you assume that any LinkedIn post you see is satire.
definitely better for my image of humanity
USA needs some worker rights laws(apart from free healthcare, free education and others), in normal countries you'll be in trouble if you somehow didn't take your 28 days(more in some) of vacation, or were spotted at work in those days.
I could tell it was satire because of his title, "probably the weirdest CEO of a recruit", but it's one of those cases where you just know a significant amount of bosses looks at that and sincerely agree
After being America pilled I moved to China and had a British roommate. My mind was blown when he told me his mom took paid vacation days to tidy the house. I would NEVER dream of using the 14 days of vacation I had in the USA to clean the fucking house. Just IMAGINE having so much time off that you'd even consider using some to clean the house. It seemed awesome to me.
As a Brit that's crazy, that's what WFH is for ;)
"I offered my employees a salary, they then expected the full salary paid out. Miserable, ungrateful wretches."
I hate that we are in a timeline that I can't be absolutely sure that this is satire anymore.
"I'm an insufferable rich cunt who doesn't do much at work, I have enough money to pay other people to do everything for me in the rest of my life, so I spend my free time persuing any hobby or interest I want, I'm also very empty inside so spend most of my time working."
Sounds like a real stupid guy.
Even if you love doing something, you'll eventually want a break. What this guy is describing is addiction. Work addiction is one of many types of addiction that isn't even seen as such because while it can destroy everything else in your life, it likely won't stop you from being financially successful and that's the only measure of success anyone actually gives a fuck about, it seems.
You can't be financially successful if destroying everything else left you with mental health issues that prevent you from working. A work addict can keep on for a while but they'll crash.
Even though I live what I do, getting paid is literally the only reason I go to work. If they did not pay me, I would not go.
I like my job. If I wasn't getting paid, I'd still be doing it. Just not for them.
The places to watch out for are the ones who have “unlimited” vacation time. That actually means “ooh, now’s really not a good time…”
I had a boss like this once! Fucker pushed for overtime every night, argued against taking vacation, and would bitch people out for taking sick days, calling anyone who took time off lazy.
Turned out he fucking despised his wife, but didn't want to go through the "shame of divorce"(his words, after she kicked off the divorce).
Hope that dude stubs his toes every morning.
I’ve definitely noticed a correlation of people “married to the job” because they don’t like the person they’re legally married to at home. It seemed to lead to a spike in divorces when the lockdowns hit during COVID.
I love my field, I hate the majority of jobs in my field because while tech can do many cool and wonderful things and could be solving many more issue, most companies are busy doing what one percenters want and pushing for the least effort solutions and everything is always a cram. No breathing space, no time to enjoy the product and reflect on what to do next. Just cram, enshittify, add tracking, automate away your peers, do more with less people so we can fire more people.
I'm so sick of the efficiency rat race that capitalist investors demand.
The really weird thing at that is that the efficiency that is demanded from the lower levels is squandered by the higher ones.
I'm working for a large corporation, and while I'm doing my job quite well (at least I think am), my work is useless. On the one hand, management constantly pivots. Today feature X is super important. Let's invest multiple millions and crunch time to get this done as fast as possible. It's almost done now, so now it turns out it's really not important any more. Shelve it for a few months or years and do something else instead that's super important until we don't care about it any more.
But not only is the work useless because "agile means upper management can change their mind twice daily", but the thing I'm working on is a marketing app that nobody wants anyway. People just use it because they get some small discounts, but really nobody has an actual benefit of the app itself.
You could probably close down the whole marketing department of the corporation and nobody would notice an actual difference.
The same holds true for most corporate jobs. It's so much politics and so much thinking firmly inside my own little drawer that there's really no point to all of that.
And with all of that waste happening, it's really ridiculous that anyone in upper management even dares to utter the term "efficiency", let alone pressures employees into anything for the purpose of efficiency.
I love my job. I really do. I also love other things more. It’s not rocket surgery.
