Billionaire CEO: Work-Life Balance Is For The Weak

And his "work" and your "work" are WILDLY different.

seems everytime an emergency pops up like car repairs, I'm set back to $0 and suddenly working 6+ days/week become meaningless and tiring. at this point, just working the rest of my life towards cars and rent. almost hoping for a disability at this point cuz it's the only way to retire early

I could totally do 80 hours a week if I had people to clean my house and raise my kids.

Lawyer? I don't know what else could put up numbers like that

I used to pull 300 hr months from May to December stomping though the bush and digging holes. Tiring doesn't even begin to describe my field seasons.

My off season was working on mines as a soil monitor, and those months were 220-250 hrs. A lot easier work, but it takes its toll on you too.

Did that for 10 years. My hips and lower back were completely toast.

Now I work 37.5 a week at a desk. Made in the shade, baby.

Finally rehabbed my injuries as well.

Life is good.

Any one who says work life balance is a myth or for the weak can come get eaten by black flies with me. That's if I don't brain them with my shovel first.

And his 'work' consists mostly of schmoozing.

He mentioned reading the newspaper and sitting there reflecting on things as work.

Flyin around some tropical "resorts" with suspiciously young staff, fuckin models to create an army of my progeny, shitposting on twitter... but stock went up, and I made money! I must be doing that working thing! I'm working for like 6 companies full time as their boss! -- Elon Musk and other Billionaire shitheads.

I'm not sure he even does that, according to the article, he goes to meetings from business open to close then fires off a few emails here and there. This dude's most marketable skill is filling space in a chair while people talk around or at him for 10 hours. Fucking billionaires.

And pay personnel to do all the time consuming chores in life. He never did mention cleaning, doing laundry, groceries or mowing the lawn in that support busy schedule of him.

There are kinda 3 things really... Job-Chores-Leisure. If you're working so much all you have time for is chores, that's not balanced, but if you never do those and only leisure, you're also losing.

Someone with their priorities straight. This needs more attention.

One of the best aspects of the presence of media everywhere is that these ghouls think they're so smart that they have to express their opinions. And the more they talk the more everyone realises they are mediocre at best, they're working overtime to dispel the notion of meritocracy lmao

I want to treat him like an enemy.

Their idea of work is to hire a bunch of smart people, underpay them and then terrorize them that they are about to lose their jobs at any minute, then demand ideas. Sift through the ideas, choose the best, and tell everybody to do that. When it succeeds, you declare record profits, pocket a billion dollar windfall, and lay off a few thousand losers to celebrate.

Jokes on you, Bupas whole business model is shitty contracts, they have no warehouses.

For now.

This here is the correct response.

It's never to late to learn a harsh lesson.

RIght?! Also, when you count golfing as 'work', yeah, other people complaining about how difficult it is when they work all the time might seem weird.

Also - when you don't need to worry about things like cooking, cleaning, driving, etc..., you've got a shit ton more time in the day that you can put towards 'work' if you want!

Sign of the times, really. I just hope more workers start to play hardball, the rich are getting much too bold

Nah, that sounds about right.

Not if it's actually about balancing time, it could be a job you love but you still want and have a life outside of that. If you also hate your job, you have 2 problems.

Years ago, I was in middle management for a Fortune 100 company, and some HR guy from HQ was doing some sort of presentation, and mentioned that money was not the prime motivator for workers, and I had to interrupt him to dispute that. I said, "Tell everybody on Friday that starting next week, they'll be working for free, and see how many people show up to work on Monday."

He tried to argue about it, but nobody in the room agreed with him. We understood what he was trying to say, that there are other motivations that employees will respond to, but money is obviously the KING motivator. You can't just dismiss it with an obviously wrong premise like workers don't care about money. That's just a C-Suite fantasy that they're trying to convince us to adopt.

they are pushing for it. I have seen thirties and even twenties. If you can't have a roof over your head and food in your belly in a decent city and be able to retain that over your life, whats the point? They go after the young with the laughable, just get some experience and you will soon make adequate pay. Except we won't hire you for this inadequate amount unless we can't find anyone with experience to fill the role.

Who cares what he thinks?

One of the most influential shitty publications in the world and the shitty government of the country in which it's based.

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