A place to post ridiculous posts from linkedIn.com
(Full transparency.. a mod for this sub happens to work there.. but that doesn't influence his moderation or laughter at a lot of posts.)
These people actually think this is impressive. To me, grind culture and anything like this mentality is a failing of human society. Living for no reason at all other than to be a cog in the economic machine. Rarely do they have hobbies or interests beyond "gettin' that money, son", and it's even more rare they provide anything of major value to their community. Just the absolute worst.
The thing is, unless they do a completely unskilled job (as in neither mental nor physical actions that can fail when tired are required to do it) this is literally counter-productive to their employer as well.
The baffling thing is why, they have no time to enjoy the money. Money is a means to an end. "I want my kids to have a better life", "I want to retire early" etc etc may be worth working yourself to the bone for, but in reality these are the same people that never see their kids and plan to work until they die.
i'm pretty convinced that there rich fuckheads just have some fundamental psychological unwellness, either inherent or brought upon them by their childhood.
Take elon musk as the extreme example: clearly just not capable of being truly happy, he's constantly seeking validation and no amount is ever actually enough to make him feel confident, richest person in the world buys twitter to remove the ability to express dislike towards him.
And as a counterexample of what a mentally healthy rich person does: there's a guy from my region who seems to have genuinely made his own wealth and he basically just lives like any other middle aged dude, normal house in a normal town and he goes to the grocery store every now and then, because that's a pretty fucking sweet life when you don't have to worry about money. Just sit on the porch eating cinnamon buns for the rest of your life, and spend some of that wealth and use your connections to get a frozen meal company to add pancakes to their product line.
Now to be clear he's not some shining beacon of morality, he's just normal, and it's wild how much of a contrast that makes to your average billionaire psychopath.
Did he fly to work on the back of a dragon as well?
Yeah he's like Elon; he never sleeps and has no concept of how anyone could possibly be different than him unless they're inferior. Just another rich narcissist sociopath.
I used to work with a guy like this, they'd do six hours of work in twelve hours, were constantly having important business calls etc, and simply didn't have a life outside of work.
I'd be willing to bet this person was less productive than some executives that worked less than half the time.
Sometimes I feel like we need a government appointed slapper, a person who's job it is to look dickheads up and be authorized to give them a big slap across their face for being assholes.
Bodyguards would not be allowed to prevent it, and a report on why the slap was delivered would be presented.
In this case the report would say:
Slap ID: 2025-01-427
Reason for slap: Being an uncaring idiot
Details: Slapee forgot about the value of family and personal growth, made statements and took actions to reduce those to unsustainable levels. This was based on slapee's own missersble work history and mistaken assumption that slapee's personal choices in the past is the only correct choice by modern workers. This is currently false and was false in the past as well. Slapee is reminded that their own choices and failings should not be forced onto others.
Expected outcome from slap: Slapee takes a week off work and experience their own personal life to experience the value of it, then spends six months in intensive therapy sorting out their own life to be a better leader.
Possible future actions: If Slapee neglects to take action to correct their behavior, the ministry of punching may need to be contacted and further percussive encouragement may be delivered.
if you remember the faces of your children you have failed as a salaryman
It's the classic I-suffered-so-everyone-else-should-suffer-to-keep-it-fair mentality.
Ignoring the fact that we should work to reduce suffering for future generations.
And that it's probably a lie, and even if it isn't a lie he's not doing it anymore.
What's the point? If you're not enjoying your life and you think everyone else should be doing this too so it's not like your "sacrifice" is so that they can enjoy life, then what are you working for?
I am even more disappointed by that guy's choice to work only 6 days a week.
I do not believe in sleep or rest.
I firmly believe that CEOs require diapers, not toilet breaks.
I used to shit myself continuously at the office, the stench was unbearable. And yet I went on, staying at my desk, asking people to come in to berate them.
I chose to be estranged by my whole family. My kids hate me. My wife despises me. My father won't talk to me. Even my mother loathes me.
I managed all that by dedicating every second of my life to my job, so that I can die miserably and get a gravestone saying 'lmao the shitman's dead, rest in shit loser'.
Someone is thinking about the shareholders!!!
Let me guess: he was 30 when that picture was taken.
has some common ancestry with the assholes from Spaceballs, I see
"Who made this man a gunner?!"
Men like this do not understand the magic of the world around them 😔
Plenty of them are just liars. They'll look you dead in the eye and tell you "When I was your age, I worked 29 hours a day and 10 days per week".
Others simply don't want to acknowledge that the nature of their "work" is play. Flying from party to party with their gaggle of C-level friends, wining and dining clients and patrons, getting a Bill Clinton style office break between angry calls to your junior managers to "work harder!", playing Sim City or Factorio with a billion dollars in state money unconcerned with the end result because you already took out a big chunk as your share, golfing...
None of these assholes are doing manual labor. They're all just schmoozing with one another and collecting a vig on the cash that passes through their hands.
Not to mention they have people to take care of their cleaning, laundry, cooking, etc. Regular people do all that work themselves.
Plus they parasite the society.
They know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
... extremely bright, excelling at everything they do, yet a total lack of common sense.