They made a similar office chair in Better Off Ted. I think the called it “The Focus Master”.
Better Off Ted was a brilliant show.
I swear, if I could afford just a good 2 or so years long break to stabilize my life, I would actually be able to do good and effective work. Instead I feel like I am always just barely scraping by at the edge of my ability, due to being overworked and burnt out.
Forget 2 years, I’d be happy with 2 months lol it’s always a race to the bottom :(
Or: Give the workers all they could ever want, so they just continue to work and never want to go home.
Are most white-collar work environments unpleasant? I’m a software developer and I have never worked somewhere that didn’t make a reasonable effort to keep me happy, properly rested, and in good health in order to improve my productivity.
In my experience as a sysadmin, corporate structure almost always sees workers as liabilities that must be micromanaged, prodded, and scrutinized in regards to productivity, regardless of profits.
A good manager who wants happy, productive workers that don’t quietly work against their employer knows when NOT to enforce the standard corporate HR patronizing infantilizing bullshit.
It sounds like you’ve either worked for small organizations or had good managers that recognize the reality that skillled workers like you are more competent and important to keeping the paychecks flowing than the connected narcissistic idiots on the top floor that get off on flexing power and barking irrational dictates just to hear themselves bark.
Remember, the workers make and do everything that keeps the world running. The scientists and engineers do the inventing and discovering. The capitalist owners just take all the money and the social credit, they don’t actually do or know anything that benefits anyone but themselves. Even their supposed “charity” is usually used as an excuse to get praise while robbing the commons of owed tax revenue by writing it off, which makes it a transaction, not charity at all. Charity is giving and expecting nothing in return, save a warm fuzzy feeling inside. And they often “donate” to arts and political causes, while the victims of the society they bleed dry and leave to crumble die of exposure to the elements in tent cities.
Steve Jobs, who made like he was prometheus bringing the iPhone down from Olympus, couldn’t have repaired a broken iPhone with access to every lab, component, and schematic in Silicon valley, a month, and a gun to his head. He wasn’t even smart enough to go to real doctors and take real medicine when he was dying.
Pulling together all the resources and ideas to make something happen is itself a valid skill. They’re way overpaid for it, but it is real work.
Steve Jobs, in particular, created with help the original Mac and was screwed over by other powerful people in the business. He created the Mach kernel and the NeXT workstation before Apple crawled back to him for help salvaging the business.
He might have been an arrogant prick, but he did have the ability to bring vision into reality, and he helped make a lot of people other than himself wealthy.
We have this thing called specialization in modern society. Do you think an electrician can design and produce a microchip or a math teacher can manage a large corporate entity? We all make choices. Some of us have more options or more help.
Pulling together all the resources and ideas to make something happen is itself a valid skill.
The accountants and lawyers pull together resources to make something happen, and are the ones that do all of the math and all the legal research to see if something can happen, the one that barked the order didn’t. And as for ideas, the world would be a better place if that was left to the scientists, developers, craftspeople, and engineers that have the beneficial ones that might actually create or improve something of worth.
“Turn a product you could buy into a subscription you have to rent” has been the most widely implemented “idea” the modern CEO has been inspired to have, aside from laying off the people that made them their money the same week they report record profits. If you call that a skill of any positive use to society, then we’ll just have to agree to disagree.
And Steve jobs wasn’t just a shitty marketing grifter who pretended he was some titan of invention, he was also a notoriously shitty person off the clock. It’s sad people look up to a wealthy man who let his child subsist on welfare simply because he could.
And yet, he’s the one who got those products to the public, and many love them. I’m not fond of Apple, but I have to acknowledge success. I’m not claiming he’s a good person. Heck I agree with much you said, but being a business leader is a legitimate role and requires real skills.
And yet, he’s the one who got those products to the public
Factory workers, retail workers, delivery people got those products to the public. Steve jobs didn’t.
Reminds me of Better Off Ted, don’t know why that show was ever cancelled.
The capitalism chair sounds kinda bdsm-y lol.
Nah its just killing you. Electrocution means you die. If the chair shocked you thats bdsm-y
Thought theft affects thousands of employers every day. They’re not paying you to figure out who’s going to find your body after you kill yourself. They’re paying you to work!
Can’t invest in your human resources when you’re only looking at maximizing quarterly profits.
human resources (department) is for punishing the human resources (employees).
That’s because hr was invented to be the company “alternative” to a union
Another good idea to motivate workers is, if possible, rotate responsibilities each day.
Chairs? What luxury.
