The truth is that CEOs DO have work life balance. They have a kid sick? Nanny takes care of it. Need an short notice dr. visit? Just take a long lunch. Need to take care of those errands you forgot about? Just take care of them because who the fuck is going to say anything.

They get freedom to deal with life that us regular workers would get written up for and fired. Their position allows them to do whatever the fuck they want because they aren't doing actual work.

Birch@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 106d

CEOs don't do errands, they have people doing it for them. Imagine your entire life is just talking out your ass all day and any menial task can be handed off. Of course they think work life balance is overrated because what they call "work" most people would call "living the life"

MML@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 106d

I wasn't a CEO or anything, but I left my job where I could literally do all of those things because I thought if I worked hard and tried to improve things it would actually work out, I was so bored but I would totally go back now

electric_nan@lemmy.ml · 41 pts · 106d (1 reply)

Allowing billionaires to exist is for the weak.

AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml · 24 pts · 106d

Hail Luigi Mangione

hamid@crazypeople.online · 36 pts · 107d

Rooskie91@discuss.online · 34 pts · 107d

Then sell all your yachts and work in a mine, coward.

ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 32 pts · 107d

He's right, it should be way unbalanced to the life side.

Anyway, kill all billionaires

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 31 pts · 107d (1 reply)

Classic sheltered rich white guy:

"I have a lot of money and nobody contradicts me, therefore my every opinion and how I do (or pretend to do) things are always correct!

Everyone claiming otherwise have less money, which proves them incorrect! I know this because having a lot of money is proof that I'm the best at everything and always right, which is the reason I have all that money, not any privilege I was born with or otherwise got handed to me that the vast majority of people do not!"

Anyways, what's the going rate for a guillotine these days?

peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 106d

They are paid for in blood unfortunately, both those deserving and non deserving.

Arachnidbrilliant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 27 pts · 106d (1 reply)

Give this guy a minimum wage job

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 105d

A "job" in prison for $1 and hour with the option to purchase $5 Raman packets or sending emails at $1 a pop through some 3rd party prison email service.

mikenurre@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 107d

Player 2, please connect your controller. We need Luigi to beat this.

peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 106d

Heads attached to bodies needs to become optional for these people.

desmosthenes@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 106d

so is nepotism

kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 107d

A CEO is someone with a cakewalk job, who, if they can be said to do any actual "work" at all, certainly doesn't work full time doing it in the same sense that their employees do (how else would you have someone who is CEO of multiple companies?). They have absurd incomes that frees them from absolutely any financial concerns. They travel the world like it is nothing. They have time to spend talking to interviewers and on panels like this douche about how we don't work enough.

Any CEO tries to tell me that they are in the position they are because they "wake up and start work at 5 am, don't sleep until 1am, never clocked out, blah blah blah" and that's why they deserve to be paid more per year than I'll make in my lifetime will be lucky to not limp away from that conversation.

digital_man@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 107d

MushuChupacabra@piefed.world · 12 pts · 107d

I want to see him work two twelve hours days in a row, operating a jackhammer.

KingGordon@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 107d

Ok boomer.

AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 107d

Good! If he thinks it's weak, let's send him to the mines for the 996 treatment. Oh, and cut him off from society while we're at it. I call it "work retreat".

Birch@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 106d (1 reply)

I do have to agree on one thing, if you like your job, you don't watch the hours tick down to 5. I am lucky that I always ended up working jobs that I enjoy doing. But I also know, that this is not true for many people where a job is just a means for paying rent and groceries and do whatever job they can manage to hold on to.

Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 105d

I mean, I've also had jobs I loved and would go back to work for free if I won the lottery.

But I would still clock out at 5 and not answer the phones on weekends. It doesn't define me, I have other priorities to put above it.

e461h@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 106d

No. 1 priority, Iñaki Ereño, the chief executive of one of the world’s largest health care companies, says if you’re obsessing over balance, your problem isn’t the hours. It’s the job.

A healthcare ceo, no less

betanumerus@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 106d (1 reply)

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SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 106d

Serf's Up!

CileTheSane@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 106d

How many companies is Elon Musk a CEO of? CEO is a part time job at best.

I'm not going to take mental health advice from someone with untreated mental illness.

Pissed@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 107d (21 replies)

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Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 107d (20 replies)

Absolutely fucking not.

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Maeve@kbin.earth · 13 pts · 107d (1 reply)

They don't "work more;" they play more and call it work.

Eta:

“I enjoy thinking about business things on the weekends,” the 61-year-old admitted. “I do emails, and I read my papers and all of that."

🙄🤡

Pissed@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 107d

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Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 107d (14 replies)

Yeah, I'm sure those workers in the slaughterhouses and coal mines will be happy to work there once they're un-alienated.

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krashmo@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 107d (1 reply)

People don't want white collar jobs because the work is fulfilling. They want them because the jobs aren't physically demanding and they pay well.

Pissed@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 107d

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Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 106d (10 replies)

So socialism isn't obtainable with current technology?

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Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 106d

And who's going to clean the toilets?

ChristchurchAsshole@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 107d (1 reply)

That's the whole point really, the people who start the company will gladly work 6 days a week and stay up late at night if they have to, and travel through different time zones. Which is fine if they enjoy it, but in an ordinary job for minimum wage I'm not going to act with that amount of loyalty to the company lmao. I'll just resign if they pay me minimum and want me to attend meetings and pretend I'm some kind of executive. When I worked with timber they wanted me to meet suppliers to gain product knowledge but it never proved useful in my 5 months. It just took me away from customers or delayed my lunch break even further.

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trilobite@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 105d

These billion assholes are the one that have never washed a dish, cleaned their toilet, grown up their kids, renovated their home with their own hands, looked after their vegetable garden so that you eat decent food without spending o fortune ... they just live at another level so they cant compare themselves to ordinary people. They are what i call "the super-ego-idiots"

GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 106d

I'm dreaming of a red christmas

finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 106d (2 replies)

Good. Let them work themselves to death, then. Less billionaires would be good for the world.

hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 106d (1 reply)

Unfortunately his job is getting glazed 24/7.

MBech@feddit.dk · 7 pts · 106d

Oh come on now, he also has to play a lot of golf, have dinner meetings at expensive (but paid for by the company and tax deductable) restaurants.

Reygle@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 106d

"I would very much like to be next"

captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 107d

Yeah, I'm married and would like to stay that way so I'm going home after 8 hours

Bloefz@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 107d

"If you don't like your job don't do that job."

Says a guy rolling in money with no financial worries. Lol.

Some people are so out of touch from the real world.

Cool if you can go like hey let's take the jet to Jamaica for the weekend. You do you bro but don't pretend you know how we have to live our life.

architect@thelemmy.club · 5 pts · 106d

I agree when you’re the ceo.

But regular people shouldn’t care that much about other people’s businesses.

slemptastrophe@piefed.social · 4 pts · 107d

https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTZjMDliOTUyMG1rbm00d3o2bXYzc2FscTdhcTljdDVwaDRiOHVvcWRyeGk0MGo1NCZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/gIqusaeYxgSiY/giphy.gif

comfy@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 106d (1 reply)

Work-life balance is for the capitalists

Work-life synergy is the future - we need to build a society+economy that focuses on doing work that promotes life. When did the two become separated?

SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 106d

The Protestant work ethic fucked the whole thing up.

WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 106d (1 reply)

To be fair, he does have a point about the job. If your job does not suck, you might want to do more overtime in it?

Sadly, that's like one in 10 million jobs where you are like a chocolate taste tester, or bed tester.

tinfoilhat@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 105d

If you work unpaid overtime, you're loosing at capitalism. The whole point is to make more money and work less time?!?

racoon@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 107d

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Grass@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 106d

The billdren long for the mines

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 105d

I feel like a test of strength is in order

Athena5898@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 104d

I guess we should get our lazy asses to the guillotine.

Avicenna@programming.dev · 1 pts · 105d

If it is your own company then sure do whatever the fuck you feel like with your life (at the expense of your kids growing up emotionally deprived). Don't expect others to the same for your fucking company unless you are sharing the profits you turd for brains and take your diarrhea of ideas elsewhere.