Fuck, dude. I just hope this is a satire account and some doctored image.
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I work with tech bros.
They flex nonstop about how many life events they miss to be at work. It's like a badge of honor to say stupid shit like "Ah my 4 YO is in the ER but I know how important this meeting is..."
βAh my 4 YO is in the ER but I know how important this meeting isβ¦β
And the meeting is just some dumbass monthly progress review where section heads brag about what 'they' (their team) accomplished in the last month, with at least half of it being bullshit, exaggeration, or preemptively taking credit for what they're probably totally going to do next month.
It's all about quantity in corporate. Performative employees get further quicker compared to quiet ones that actually deliver quality output.
I have missed work events to be at something that's important to my kids and I'll continue doing that. In 20 years the only ones who will remember late hours and time spent at the office are my children.
Lol, when my coworkers plan meetings at noon I tell them to have fun without me cause that's when I eat lunch. They don't do that anymore.
Right. Or Friday after 2pm. Fuck off with your work shit, some of us want to leave for the weekend.


We have a 'Lunch & Learn' at noon every other Friday... "No Actual Lunch Provided". There's no set agenda, just for people in IT throughout the company to get together and talk about anything tech related they want to discuss. It doesn't even have to be work related.
It actually sounds like a fun meeting that I'd love to attend, but... Friday is my Pad Thai day, and I'm not missing that.
I can't wait to meet my peers that used the grindset mindset in the retirement home. Don't worry, I don't have kids, so neither of us will have visitors. The key difference will be them tethered to their computer striving to launch one last product.
I'll be on year 40 of my retirement.
What gives people feelings of power
Forcing your coworkers to sing happy birthday to your daughter, whose birthday your missing, during a meeting that already could've been an email.
Posting about it on LinkedIn
You decide!
I was at a local live show. The singer was talking about how she sacrificed so much to make the show, and tonight is her daughter's birthday which she is missing.
Without missing a beat, a highly intoxicated woman slur-shouted "YOU'RE A TERRIBLE MOTHER!!!"
It was like all the air was sucked out of the room and we were in the vacuum of space and could not hear a single vibration of sound. The rest of the show was super low energy.
Was she wrong though?
Wow. What a douchebag.
Probably no one there wants to be at your shitty meeting anyway. Go be with your daughter and donβt make the rest of those assholes act like they care about your bullshit. Fuck this guy.
The comments are equally deranged
Great idea Rick. Well done!!
Very wholesome post π And really great idea!
Happy 12th birthday to your daughter ππ Thatβs such a lovely and thoughtful gestureβso adorable! Sheβll definitely remember that one.
I hope they are satire and/or LLM generated slop.
LLM generated slop.
The good ones are. I best most are just the suggested auto-replies that appear under the post that people use because they're too lazy to read/type anything themselves. Comments on that site are nearly all just another way to trigger one's own profile to show up in others' feeds one more time than it would have otherwise.
Not sure what is more depressing: missing your childβs birthday or posting about missing your childβs birthday.
people on linkedln are a freak of nature. they'll post anything for views.
it's similar to the "infinite energy" claim some linkedln users post that make me question if they have ever attended a university physics lecture. the ironic thing... people fucking believed it.
I could probably vaguely rephrase flat earth conspiracy theory and linkedln would agree on that premise as fact. I'm not even talking about changing it much, just adding a little bit of jargon here and there, and they'd believe it.
Missing your child's burthday after already having missed it all the years before and your child already complained about it.
Ah yes, supporting the people behind by forcing you to work on your child's birthday.
That's one of the saddest things I've ever heard
So many people are ragging on this guy, but they don't understand what it's like to have 131 middle managers sing you happy birthday before they go splurge their per diem on two mai tai's and try to get the waitress, who's actually your daughter's age, to drink one.
I see this as they are so inefficient and bad at their job that they have to work all the time. Or they are so poorly respected that they aren't allowed the time to take off work.
They should be shamed and made fun of every time they say shit like this.
My wife's and my 12th anniversary is this week... and she reminded me (again πβπ¦) that I usually miss our anniversaries because I'm out fucking mailboxes every night.
Not helped this year that there are still mailboxes in the world.
So I improvised instead of figuring out a solution.
This year, instead of making my wife sad, I wrote "I was at my own wedding" on every mailbox just before I fucked it.
If my wife isn't satisfied with this solution, that's her problem, not mine. I'm not here to compromise with things that aren't those fuckable mailboxes.
Moments like this remind me how lucky I am that the mailboxes I fuck can't move or talk while I tell them about my wife and then fuck them. It's like they're forced to be there.
We are all mailbox fuckers. For some people, shirking fatherhood is their mailbox fucking. For me, fucking a mailbox is my mailbox fucking.
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Cut to 20 years later "Why does my daughter never visit doesn't she know how much I sacrificed?"
"I gave her a whole slide at the beginning of the deck where people still pay attention! Kids are so ungrateful these days"
Looking forward to the posts in ten years on aitah "my daughter told me i was a horrible father and cut all contact"
I am blessed to have my current job. It was my daughters birthday earlier this week and on the morning of her birthday she came to me (I WFH btw) a bit upset as the plans she had made for the day had fell through as both her friends cancelled.
I was able to book that PM off work with 90 minutes notice and have it approved. Daughter and I had a great day :)
"Growing up, my dad was always there for me, he would record strangers singing me happy birthday and sometimes even come home to see me!"
So much for keeping her off the pole.
I think the nanny coached the daughter's reaction.
And that nanny? Missing her own son's graduation at the same time. Doesn't matter, cuz the son missed his own graduation to cater the boss's team meeting. Full productivity
This person sucks. Priorities in life wrong
I missed a major life event one time to travel for work. Top ten dumbest thing I ever did. I don't remember a damn thing about the trip, still remember missing the anniversary though.
It's apparant that his daughters birthday is important to her. If he or they supported or even slightly cared the people behind it he wouldn't be missing his daughters birthday.
Fuck this corporate white washing bullshit.
I was angry until I noticed what community this was posted to.
I'm a parent, just at the start of that journey really, certainly I have a lot to learn and I'm sure I'll make a lot of mistakes.
That said, it seems like quality time and shared interests is foundational. Like if you watch her ballet class every week (not playing on your phone) then I don't think she will care very much about a missed birthday and certainly not interested in a happy birthday from the team.
I doubt I'll have time to go to every ballet class but I'll sure as shit try.
I can't miss your birthday because of work if I make your birthday part of my work.βοΈ
Gross.
It's truly heartwarming that he painted a smiley face on the front of the baby crushing machine.
Poor guy, at least he did what he could.
Note to self, never work for or with rick
But will his daughter ever be able to recreate the SEGMENT MANAGER memories? Hmm?
A meeting? Seriously?