CNBC has gotten nauseatingly terrible

  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Its always the executives that say this shit.

    You know

    the ones with tons of money, that pawn children off on teams of live in nannies, who can “work” (ie, check an email once a day) from their yachts, etc etc.

    If they had to work like the ground level people, for the ground level pay, they would be screaming for unions and regulations.

  • hark@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    It’s always “do a ‘little more’ here and there” for work, but if you ask to be paid a little more for that work then they lose their minds. These parasites are the most entitled pieces of shit ever.

  • MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world
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    13 hours ago

    The people are just myth making: Musk and this woman first stretch the definition of work to mean everything they ever do…expensive business lunches or exotic vacations (that include a zoom meeting!) are considered work. But then difficult or stressful work gets discounted by association because the surfs only do it for 12 hours a day.

  • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca
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    14 hours ago

    Actually I think work/life balance is an outdated concept.

    These days it’s more like work/survival balance.

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    “I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance,” says Morris, who oversees the experience of over 2.1 million employees. “I call it work-life integration. There are times that your life requires a lot more, and there are times that your work requires a lot more. … I don’t think that’s a bad thing.”

    Except the reality is, is that there are managers who will and have asked you to “please work another hour” or “can you just stay a little while?” of which I have been actually asked and I always have turned down. I want to go home, I’ve done your stupid 8-hour shift to please a bunch of dumbasses who don’t give a shit about anything we do unless it’s to complain, I’m leaving.

    Way to be tone-deaf.

    When Morris is visiting family, for example, her main focus is on them. But if there’s something at work that needs her attention, she won’t wait until she’s back in the office to do so. Work-life integration helps her stay on top of her work duties while still showing up for herself and the people she loves, she says.

    I hope your family dies while you’re working so you won’t get to say your ‘goodbye’ to them - just like many have had to when they’re too strapped by work to even see much less, talk to family members. Just like people who can’t spend the holidays with loved ones, because they’re having to be at the store working for last-minute ungrateful shoppers. Or how much time a worker misses their children’s firsts because they gotta put food on the table.

    “You might be [at your kid’s] soccer game, but you happen to look at a few emails,” Morris says. Maybe you’re chatting with your boss via text while waiting for an appointment, or tying up a few loose ends at work before you put the kids to bed. That doesn’t necessarily mean you’re a workaholic who lacks boundaries — rather, you find ways to combine your personal and professional duties that work for you, instead of being strict and inflexible with your time.

    Nobody does this but you. Nobody. Does. This.

    • AlphaOmega@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      After working at Walmart, I would say you can definitely go out of your way to help.

      And upper management still won’t promote you, or give you a raise. Just a bunch of thanks.

      This abuse is built into the system, it’s always a promise of a promotion, but the reality is they just want suckers to work for free. This is Walmarts basic Mode of operation. Anything else they tell you is just part of the propaganda to keep everyone working for free. It’s an endless flood of propaganda, designed to keep you working for free in hopes of a raise.

  • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    “If I am working this hard, everyone should too.”

    I think this is the mindset of bosses as to why they power trip. Not all but this is far too common.