I highly suspect he’s full of shit, too. Most likely, he counts all kinds of non-work activities as work, because he does them in an executive-ly capacity. And, in general, claiming you’re a hyper-optimised work machine is fashionable in Silicon Valley.
You mean a lunch-business-meeting, a shit-business-meeting, a mastur… ok, I think I get the idea.
Here’s something for your toolbox: our society commits idolatry constantly.
That sounds absolutely fucking miserable.
Only difference between this and a drug addict is the drug addict doesn’t generate value
I question how much value this guy actually generates, too. Probably a normal amount for however many hours of work, but he and his immediate colleagues set the wages.
To argue the value of the man is one thing, no CEO is worth a billion times more than their employee. However, my point is moreso that the destructive nature of an addicted individual is only tolerated depending on whether that person has a certain value tied to them.
We would allow men like this to consume the world in favor of helping the drug addict.
I dunno, we shouldn’t view people in terms of generating value, but rather in terms of needs.
What the drug addict needs, is treatment. And this CEO needs a ton of it - to step down and foster a healthier work culture, where workplace democracy is present.
if you are in that position and still cant fucking stop, it’s time to see a psychiatrist
You don’t see it about single fathers either. Why harp on a gender factor that isn’t relevant when the real issue is class and wealth disparity?
You’re getting hung up on the gender of a hypothetical person brought up as an example in this one instance, where I can’t see why any result would be cause for consternation when, as you say, the focus here should be on the class factor.
I assume the example here was a poor woman in order to maximize juxtaposition of the example versus the subject matter of the cited article, which is about a rich dude. Whatever the reason, this seems irrelevant.
Absolute facts, men are often ignored in this situation, were expected to be strong and handle everything by ourselves like we aren’t humans, someone’s child tryna figure what to do in life. The real enemy of the world is the class war and if we could realise that wed realise we are the 99%
You’re the only person harping on gender.
The most upsetting part of this is how little time he spends fearing for his fucking life while his buddies’ news stations print articles like this.
He works so much, he doesn’t even have time to find a new jacket. What a cringe lord.
Won’t someone please think of the poor billionaires. :(
Wat a sad life.
A mother who works two jobs and can’t sit through a movie without thinking about her kids is also sad, but at least she does it for something good
Cool I can’t do that without thinking about my job either. Thinking about your job isn’t work unless you fuckers want to start paying for it.
Right. It’s just a salary job. He’s not special.
he cant even sit through a movie without thinking about his $4.2 trillion tech giant
I’m so close to starting to feel sad for him
Dudes counting thinking about work as work… Which means so many 40 hour jobs should be paid for 80 hour weeks then.
I need a Jira epic for “thinking about work” on my activity timeline.
My uncle was told a long time ago if they went to lunch and talked about work at all to mark the hour as paid and he said he felt bad so didn’t. There is no way I’d not mark that these days.
I’ve billed a client for thinking about their problem while commuting on a train. I don’t see much difference.
This guy?
That’s hilarious though ngl
But this man never needs to worry about anything anymore. I’d probably “work every day” knowing that I have the pleasure of stopping whenever I want, and having everything you could ever want right at your fingertips at any given moment.
Maybe he’s sleepwalking?
If i made that kind of money you wouldnt see or hear from me for a year after which i retire and spent my life without being poor for once and just enjoying being hassle free for the rest of my life.
So Tom from Myspace?
Most billionaires do keep out of sight, but that’s because they know when the revolution comes they don’t want to be the first against the wall.
Was there even an article to go with this headline, or do we just publish any off–hand remarks made by rich tech dudes now?
We can now post this post to !mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
I didn’t realise thinking about work was work.
As a researcher, a good chunk of my work is literally just sitting on my ass and thinking. Or thinking while taking a walk in the park, or thinking while mindlessly chopping wood in a video game. Now with a kid, it’s kind of switched to thinking about what to do for dinner, how I can get the chores done for the day or how to organize my time so that I can fit in a few hours of work. It’s work in the sense that it’s something that needs to be done and it has an energy cost to doing. It’s also not really something you can turn off even if you wanted to.
It’s a sure sign that you have a shitty work life balance.
As a mechanical engineer I can’t really turn it off. It’s why I work yearly jobs and not hourly jobs. But it’s a cool job where I make things, not human drama.
I was at some work dinner and talked to some guy i didn’t really know. He had a 2 year old child and said something like: “he knows that he and his wife work too much and they hardly see their child.” I gave him a look like: “that’s kinda sad.” But i think he misinterpreted it and said: “oh don’t worry, i’m not a guy who believes in WoRk LiFe BaLaNcE.” Like he was so close to say, i’m not woke or a fag, don’t worry.
More like a shitty definition of what counts as work.
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