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A Boring Dystopia

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45976558

Moar overtime, you lazy serfs!

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[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 130 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

I worked 50-100 per week for years and after 60 hours or so there is very little "life" left to be had, the time remaining is almost all dedicated to chores.

What do you want to bet that this guy has had a staff his whole life and never had to deal with laundry, cooking, shopping, cleaning, bills, or any of the other dozens of tasks necessary in an average person's week?

A billionaire's life consists of nothing but work and leisure with serfs to do everything else, so screw him and his condescending "work- life" lecture. He doesn't even know what that means.

[–] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 54 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

And his "work" and your "work" are WILDLY different.

[–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago

Do you not clock inl for the time you spend dining with your coworkers at a Michelin star restaurant? That totally counts, and should go on your time card...

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[–] toxicbubble@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

seems everytime an emergency pops up like car repairs, I'm set back to $0 and suddenly working 6+ days/week become meaningless and tiring. at this point, just working the rest of my life towards cars and rent. almost hoping for a disability at this point cuz it's the only way to retire early

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I could totally do 80 hours a week if I had people to clean my house and raise my kids.

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Imagine someone cooking all your meals, changing your sheets every day, paying your bills, and full time staff to manage your home, children and every other aspect of your life? Doctors on staff, home and office gyms, personal trainers, private jets, helicopters and limo drivers too.

I was lucky to get 10-12 hours of "life" when working 60 hours a week. If I had the kind of life this billionaire lives I could put in 100 hours and still have more leisure time.

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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I still wouldn't. Fuck that.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean, he’s a CEO so his “work” is getting drunk and eating shrimp cocktail with other assholes who pay people to raise their kids.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago

Sounds awful.

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[–] ZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.ca 67 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You need to be Luigied Mr CEO.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 62 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

He "happily works through weekends"...because his idea of what "work" is isn't really fucking work.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 39 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He mentioned reading the newspaper and sitting there reflecting on things as work.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Some of these assholes consider the commute or exercise as work time. Must be frickin' nice.

[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 15 points 2 weeks ago

Was in a startup where the founder did this. I started to copy and commit things while entering the train and scheduling call in transport. He forbade us to do that and kept doing small hours buy never spoke about it to us again XD

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[–] xSikes@feddit.online 51 points 2 weeks ago

Says the guy with work life balance

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Bupa is a global health insurance and healthcare company Sounds biased. I'd say he wants you to work yourself sick so he can bill hospitals.

How many times are we gonna have to teach you guys this lesson?

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 31 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It’s easy to say when you’re a CEO and “work” consists of a series of meetings over lunch that you don’t pay for and making decisions based on data that has already been processed and analyzed by multiple layers of underlings.

[–] AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm not sure he even does that, according to the article, he goes to meetings from business open to close then fires off a few emails here and there. This dude's most marketable skill is filling space in a chair while people talk around or at him for 10 hours. Fucking billionaires.

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I guarantee that several times a week at least one of those “meetings” is a €500/plate lunch that lasts 3 hours and involves maybe 5 minutes of business talk.

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[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 7 points 2 weeks ago

And pay personnel to do all the time consuming chores in life. He never did mention cleaning, doing laundry, groceries or mowing the lawn in that support busy schedule of him.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I also don’t believe in work-life balance.

I believe in life-work balance.

If you don’t have time for work you shouldn’t be expected to do it.

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[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago

Parasites shouldn't give their opinion on anything. They don't matter.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 21 points 2 weeks ago

Get fucked, parasite.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That's cool, but when you say shit like this, when you position yourself as an enemy to normal people, you certainly have no right to get upset when people say they want to treat you like an enemy.

[–] Ophrys@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

One of the best aspects of the presence of media everywhere is that these ghouls think they're so smart that they have to express their opinions. And the more they talk the more everyone realises they are mediocre at best, they're working overtime to dispel the notion of meritocracy lmao

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[–] wavebeam@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

Really? Because from my perspective it’s only possible if you’re strong enough to set and stand up for your boundaries.

I think that anyone who makes more than 500k/yr should be banned from commenting on the work-life balance of others, and anyone that shits on work-life balance will have all their bank accounts seized and immediately put into an account that funds unemployment in their home state.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 17 points 2 weeks ago

Pay us like you pay yourself and we might agree.

[–] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf 17 points 2 weeks ago

Ugh, stop making your mental issues my problem.

Bunch of weirdos.

[–] icedaemon0@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Since %95+ CEOs dont actually work at all, but just pretend to; no wonder he doesnt gets tired so doesnt needs to rest much as rest of us.

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[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 14 points 2 weeks ago

Meanwhile all that extra work for the love of the job means nothing. There'll be no raise at the end of the year in these difficult times because . They've shown the world loyalty means nothing and you'll be replaced with AI out robots the moment they think it's possible and cheaper.

[–] MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's easy to have work life balance when you haven't worked a day in your life. (And not in the rock n'roll kind of way.)

[–] TVA@thebrainbin.org 8 points 2 weeks ago

RIght?! Also, when you count golfing as 'work', yeah, other people complaining about how difficult it is when they work all the time might seem weird.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

No, work life balance is for the week. We should only be working part of the week. Like, how about 40 hours a week? Sounds more than reasonable. If you don’t like that, how about 32 hours a week, and we don’t burn down any warehouses?

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Jokes on you, Bupas whole business model is shitty contracts, they have no warehouses.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago

Lynchings it is, then.

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[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

People who say shit like this didn’t get beat up enough as a child.

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[–] HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 weeks ago

I'd like to see these loudmouth motherfuckers actually put in a camp and forced to do real work, then I'd like for them to report back to me about work life balance.

[–] Hackbraten@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Am I being too extreme if the first thing that springs to mind is ‘kill him’?

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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago

Shut up money hoarder.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 8 points 2 weeks ago

Add this guy to The List.

We'll be back, dickhead.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 weeks ago

If you’re obsessing over work-life balance, your problem isn’t the hours—it’s the job, says Bupa’s CEO. And some of the world’s most powerful people agree.

There's some truth to that. But the conclusion is just that most jobs suck.

[–] teslasaur@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Classic psychopatic traits.

I wonder what the percentage rate of psychopatic traits are in CEO's compared to the general public.

Found this article that refers to numbers in the 20th percentile. Like prisoners.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gautammukunda/2024/09/26/the-psychopaths-who-lead-us/

[–] StillAlive@piefed.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Iñaki Ereño, kill yourself

[–] damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Does this bastard work 300 hours a week? If not, he’s a weak shit.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Bupa, the international healthcare company headquartered in the United Kingdom. He was previously CEO of Sanitas, the Spanish health insurance company

Two countries with some of the better public health care system in the world.

He's in charge of companies dedicated to selling you what you already have. So you know he's an absolute POS.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Like they know people wouldn't actually be working for their shitty asses if it wasn't for the money, right? They won't even be doing the "work" that they are doing if they were making $15 an hour.

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 4 points 2 weeks ago

Such rage bait and they know it.

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