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.
What kind of psychopath enjoys working?
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.
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.
He's not wrong, IF companies were worker controlled by law. Like a cooperative. Workers would enjoy their work more and would want to work more if they had agency. We are supposed to be a democracy, so why don't get workers the right to vote on who their managers are, what to do with the profits (after paying back loans) and how many working hours there should be?
Imagine if you'd mandate that even shitshows like fox news were suddenly worker controlled instead of by incorporated demons of greed. Workers generally want to create a good product and make customers happy, and in the case of news agencies they'd want to inform their readers well.
Meh, there's no world where people are going to actually enjoy doing tedious, repetitive tasks even if they fully own their surplus labor. This was always my beef with the antiwork subreddit. "Socialism is when nobody digs ditches."
There will always be shitty jobs until we fully automate society. The guy doing hard labor in the hot sun is always going to resent the guy working in AC even if they both own their surplus labor. This is why socialism is still just harm reduction on the path to achieving a post scarcity, post labor society.
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'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.
I hate that we are in a timeline that I can't be absolutely sure that this is satire anymore.