Work Reform

I’ve seen a handful of new startups posting about their 4-day, 32-hour work weeks. I can only imagine they’re bringing on a scuzzton of top talent at middle-of-the-road prices.

When one of them IPOs for a billion dollars, I hope their employees are incredibly annoying about it. I hope they never shut up. I hope my LinkedIn feed is wall-to-wall “look what you can do on four days a week.” I hope they go door to door with a Rolex on both wrists and say “hello, sir/madam, I just wanted you to know I haven’t worked a Friday in five years.” I hope they post pictures of themselves relaxing with a martini at the start of every three-day weekend and people go ballistic in the comments and they don’t even notice because they’re too busy doing interviews with Forbes and Fortune Magazine. I hope I get sick and tired of hearing about four day weeks.

I’m sure as hell tired of hearing about execs that want their employees to burn out.

Who needs a life, religion, and family when you are working as a cog in "profit generator machine 3000"?

Yeah, I’d work 995 if…

1. I was being paid twice as much as I am now
2. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are provided.
3. You have someone who can do all my chores and errands before I get home.

There’s not enough money you could give me could make up for having Saturday off.

We live in a world of Supply & Demand, and he won't get the supply of labor he requires unless he meets the demand for proper compensation. It's the simplest economics there is.

Yeah, you gotta work like that, if you're the one starting the business. Talking to a client who owned several businesses one night over drinks. He said you have to work your ass off for a year and-a-half to two years, then it pretty much runs itself.

One might note that he wasn't talking about his employees working like that.

You gonna pay me a billion dollars to work at your startup? No? Then shut the fuck up, you wannabe-slaver asshole!

these people are physically incapable of saying things meant to scare people without it coming out as supporting the thing they dislike.

no more billion-dollar startups? fucking hell yeah, let's implement it!

Well not everything needs to be worth a billion. Certainly no person should ever be that rich.

People with insatiable greed have a mental disorder. They cannot even conceptualize the idea of working a reasonable amount, and being happy with a modest profit.

Maybe we should stop letting the most sociopathic & insatiable people set standards that can never be satisfied.

Smells of a Nepo baby

Tencent subsidiary riot games already does this. By soft policies like providing shuttle (only at night/early morning) and free dinner.

No. It's obviously not.

I'd like to see this motherfucker work for 12 hours every day for 6 days a week for some minimum wage shit. These corporate suits are beyond disconnected from reality.