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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (10 children)

“So another reason for them to come and enjoy work: drop the little tykes off next door. We’ve got doctors on board and nurses, we’re going to feed them, but mum and dad will be working in our office.”

The fact that you needed to explicitly SAY that is a little disturbing. What was your original plan? To store the kids in a fridge?

And then some minion had to tell you, "sir, children need food water and air to stay alive."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (12 children)

Maybe the guy said it a bit awkward, but are we really complaining that his company is offering a variety of amenities to make it easier for people to work in the office?

A lot of these sound similar to what my company offers except we have no childcare but do have free EV charging. Those are all good things ….. maybe it’s just how they were presented, plus we’re only being asked to be in the office 2 days/week

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Taking a quick break and going down to the gas station down the road to get coffee and maybe a pastry was one of the only things that made my last job bearable.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe it’s all colored by our experiences. I appreciate being able to take a quick break and walk down the hall to grab a coffee. Or I can walk down to the cafeteria for more choices plus a variety of snacks. I don’t have to pay anything nor get in my car and I still have that convenience regardless of weather

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

But wouldn’t both options be preferable? We bar people from going somewhere on their break? Sometimes you need to get out to clear your head.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago (1 children)

History has shown overworked, burned-out, desperate-to-hold-the-job people make the BEST employees!

Go hardcore or go home! No, wait, not home...

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago (6 children)

In any office job I've worked, I would have been able to accomplish jack shit for the second half of the day without a break with some food and good coffee.

Also, breaks in which you can do whatever you want are enforced by law around here, and I'd be surprised if it isn't the same in Australia.

That man is both a dick, and a fool.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Where I live, they can only enforce that you stay on site during breaks if they pay you for your breaks, and lord knows they don't want to do that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

It is. I think fair work should have a word with old mate.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Its great to see TBH. His employees will read this when they google and share it around the office if they are not already talking about it. They will be demoralised by it, productivity will drop. The high valued talent will move in a heartbeat and he will be left with those that cant get a better deal elsewhere.

But all that wont matter as its a long term problem.

Thats a problem for the next CEO.

Notice the problem here? Accountability!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Even worse, talented candidates always check out companies before applying.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Shit like this is why I became a contractor. Sick of control freaks with no idea what the job entails telling everyone what to do.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

So first they force people back into the office because CBD businesses are suffering.

Then they want to ban people from going for a coffee?

Make up your fucking minds!

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I so love the idea of giving billionaires a plaque when they hit one billion, then take away 95% of their wealth and having them start again. A forced prestige system.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'd love to start over with 50 million, too

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

I'd love to stack away a whole million in my life, that way, 50 generations down, one of my great grand children can try the game too!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

I want to hold them captive all day long.

...another reason for them to come and enjoy work: drop the little tykes off next door. We’ve got doctors on board and nurses, we’re going to feed them, but mum and dad will be working in our office.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRh0QiXyZSk

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Absolutely a mask off "let them eat cake" level quote.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

let them eat cake that they buy from the company restaurant

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (4 children)

What's the exact law when it comes to advocating murder?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

In the US threats to a person are assault.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago

Remember, jury nullification is a thing. If someone murders a billionaire and you're on the jury, you can just say Not Guilty and there's nothing they can do to you.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

As long as you kill them very slowly by draining their life energy over a contracted period of about 40 years its entirely legal, you may even get a tax cut for creating opportunities.

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[–] [email protected] 144 points 2 months ago (3 children)

“I want to hold them captive all day long,” Ellison said during a financial presentation on Thursday. “I don’t want them leaving the building … I don’t want them walking down the road for a cup of coffee. We kind of figured out a few years ago how much that cost.”

One, fuck you with a burning stick.

Two, people who are off the clock can go wherever the fuck they want.

Three, you'd better be in that fucking office yourself at least forty hours a week.

Four, put the stick out with a jar of honey and then fuck your own peehole with it.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ugh my director at work has been enforcing a strict RTO mandate while working fully remote from fucking Florida

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If he's not there, don't work? I'm on the more industrial side of things, but if my boss is maliciously not here, that's just me being paid to dick about on my phone. Or steamdeck if I'm feeling frisky.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago

Oh we are >:)

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The guy is an out of touch jerk. Sometimes the hilight of your day ia that mental break grabbing a coffee at a cafe and enjoying fresh air. And i get way more work done with WFH, because people need an actual reason to interrupt your work flow

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