CNBC has gotten nauseatingly terrible
Its always the executives that say this shit.
You know
the ones with tons of money, that pawn children off on teams of live in nannies, who can “work” (ie, check an email once a day) from their yachts, etc etc.
If they had to work like the ground level people, for the ground level pay, they would be screaming for unions and regulations.
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.
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.
*Serfs
Maybe I meant to type Smurfs?
If they’re peasant smurfs, would they be “smerfs?” 🤔
I can’t tell if “smurfing” sounds like a fun water sport, or instead, buying pseudoephedrin for Walter White
Serfs up, dude!
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.
This still sounds awful. Never unplugged, never tuning down. What the fuck kind of life is that?
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.
i had an HR person who kept saying their “wages are competative” as if that was something to brag about. you are saying you pay the lowest possible pay that still brings in employee. loved leaving that job after a decade, told that HR person to go fuck herself when she tried to talk to me my last day.
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.
True, not much better though.
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.
Do you not gly GuineaAir? Who do YOU fly with? Spirit??? Pssshhhhh!!!
I always wondered why people fly an airline effectively calling itself death.
Gonna call mine Round-Trip Airlines. You might not need a round trip, but we want to emphasize that our planes actually work, so you’ll get to your destination safe and could still return someday.
“At the end of August, I’m going away [on vacation],” she adds. “And my team will all know, [so] when they’re able to actually go off and do something, they should go off the grid and do it.”
She’s not talking about being nonstop plugged in. The corollary is that you can unplug when you need to. That sort of thing goes without saying when you have a solid job and management.
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I notice none of the examples involve taking care of life stuff while on the job. Only the one direction.
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.
You hardly have to be an executive to have those sorts of options. I have done everything you mentioned at my last two jobs and didn’t have a single soul under my name on the org chart. This comment tells me you’ve never had a good job at a good company.
This comment tells me you’ve never had a good job at a good company.
Quite the opposite, I haven’t experienced these hardships myself, but I’m able to recognize that tens of millions of people experience them every day. That it’s a reality we need to deal with as a society, and call out shitty executives that act like it doesn’t exist or that it’s the poor’s fault for not working harder (while they barely work, despite their claims). Did you mean to help prove the point that it’s extremely easy for people that don’t experience hardships like the inability to pay basic bills or afford food on a daily basis to fail empathizing with the workers that do? Because you did pretty spectacularly.
I’m talking about a majority of the everyday workforce here. Like 99% of the 2.1 million people working at Walmart stores under this executive’s leadership. Talking about the inability of corporate executives to empathize with their employees being broadcast widely without any of them realizing the hypocrisy in articles like this with their tone deaf claims.
The direction that funnels more money to the top
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.
I don’t work anymore (disability),but when i did, I went all out and over-performed at my job. It got me nothing. No pay-rises, no recognition. If i am ever able to return to work, I will do the bare minimum to not get fired.
Instead, you’ll just be used as the example of “being a team player” the manager tries to invoke to cajole others into doing free work, too.
I notice that both examples are of someone using personal time to do work and not the other way around.
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.
Yeah it’s a lot easier to say that when your work doesn’t require you to be on-site, or consists of lunch meetings and answering e-mails.
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.
“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?
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?
Ooooh I think we know the answer
Yeah, it was telling that all her examples are of work “integrating” itself into your home life, and 0 examples of things working the other way around. If you want me answering emails during my kid’s sporting event (jfk) then how about we make this a two-way street and I go home to do my laundry and watch some netflix if it’s a slow day at the office lol. These fucking people.
Morgan Freeman: “They did not.”
Actually I think work/life balance is an outdated concept.
These days it’s more like work/survival balance.
This privileged CEO thinks what she does is ‘work’ when she never as to work a day in customer service.
if you can be CEO of multiple companies, it’s hardly work. Not saying this woman in particular is, but lots of CEOs are CEO of multiple companies. It’s hardly work.
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That doesn’t necessarily mean you’re a workaholic who lacks boundaries
That’s pretty much the definition of a workaholic.
says the walton family/ceos that never worked a single day in thier life, that isnt given through nepotism, its always these people saying this.
This is literally Peter’s arc in Hook (1991).
People with a money addiction will insist that you don’t deserve a comfortable life because you insist on balancing work and life
I hate the fact that money is equated with success. Like, what’s her K/D ratio on CS:Source?
Like, what’s her K/D ratio on CS:Source?
Significantly lower than her K/D ratio in real life
I grew up in a very poor neighbourhood, then moved to a very rich one for high school, then back to a different poor one for young adulthood. I feel I can speak on this.
All the rich people I know are lazy and are constantly on vacation and play golf/whatever exclusive sport they prefer. Doesn’t matter if they’re 15 or 50…they basically all have the same life style. They will lose their minds if a peer stays at work at work or works in their home office for an extra hour or two a day as if they deserve a medal - provided the work is white collar work. They will completely disregard all the random days off and vacations they take on a whim as if they didn’t happen.
The hardest working people I know are immigrant dishwashers, hands down (just because I spent a lot of time in the restaurant industry - I’m sure there are equivalent jobs in other sectors). 6-7 days a week 10-12 hours a day, sometimes less than minimum wage, no overtime. Thankless, soul sucking, and difficult work. They will never ever complain, never ask for a raise and beg for more hours even tho additional hours have to be “off the books” and paid out of petty cash. Don’t even get tipped out like cooks. Never buy a luxury. They raise families and put kids through university. Biggest unsung sector in labour, as far as I’m concerned. Also the most exploited that allow the rich people to pretend what they do is work. If you try to advocate for them they tell you shut up and not rock the boat.
Wal-Mart exec can go suck a fuck!
how exactly does one suck a fuck
With gusto.
I’m imagining one places one’s mouth on the area where the penis enters the vagina such that they are able to create suction both in the penis and vaginal opening simultaneously.
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”.
She’s clearly not talking about that sort of job and you’ve clearly never had the sort of job she’s talking about.
you’ve clearly never had the sort of job she’s talking about.
I have. These people act like “sending a text outside of work hours to a boss” is such a heavy lift, while their time in the office is often spent just throwing wrenches into already working machinery.
What is a “new exciting service” that Walmart has provided? Nothing. All this woman does is spend time in meetings with other execs trying to figure out ways to increase their bottom line (read: bonuses) and pass the work of doing that off on people who then have to handle the weight of making these ideas of theirs a reality.
As others have said, the C-suite is the most replaceable use-case for AI. Just people that throw shit at the wall and see what sticks.
Just wait until her neglected kids rebel and turn into miserable drug addicts.
