Prediction: first big company to offer 32-hour work week at no loss of pay, with choice of remote or hybrid, will hoover up all the Grade-A talent.
They’ll never justify it to the shareholders. This is just unrealized value.
So a private company without shareholders will be the first, then.
A company being private doesn’t mean there’s no shareholders, it just means the shares aren’t publicly traded.
Correct. But being a private company without shareholders, as I said, means that there are no shareholders. :-)
That just makes the owner the sole shareholder 🤷♂️ They might be among the hardest to convince.
Says the guy a picture of himself could replace.
Another guy who hates his family so much that he’d rather spend 60 hours at work per week to stay away from them.
Classy.
Oh no, he doesn’t work, he just dictates what other people should work
I say work 60 hours a week to build an AI to replace the CEO.
If elon is any example , being a ceo is a very low effort role, in that he’s able to be the ceo of multiple companies, while playing video games all day and posting stupid tweets, and more recently, run a government department, all at the same time.
Another great example of why engineers should not be in charge of people, nor people’s wellbeing.
Who else is an example of this? This seems like something that comes commonly from the MBAs that cosplay as techies. And while Brin is one of the few tech leaders who actually has any claim to technical brilliance, he has now been in management far longer than he ever was in a technical role.
That’s quite sweeping.
People like Brin may be engineers - or have roots as engineers - but the heads of these tech companies are first and foremost entitled 1%-ers, who function as businessmen more than anything else.
The problem really is not that he’s an engineer - the problem is that he’s an asshole.
The Venn diagram of engineers and entitled equity-seeking assholes has been becoming more and more of a circle since the mid 90s (or earlier, I would have been too young to notice )
My CEO is starting to get ideas. I work at a startup, and recently they have been floating 60-80 hour work weeks. So far it has been an idle threat and is really just their hail Mary play, but big players doing this shit is really worrying as far as normalizing it.
I’m more productive than ever, and the punishment seems to be piling on even more work in order to chase those short term profits.
I mean if they increase my pay by 50-100%, I’ll “work” 60-80 hours. By which I mean continue to work 20 hours and pretend to work the rest of the time I say I’m working, while collecting the extra money.
By the time they figure it out I’ll probably still come out ahead.
Unionise your workplace and force your bosses to respect your time.
eat the rich
These assholes need to be far more familiar with urgent fear.
Ahh yes, another asshole who works maybe 10 hours per week wants the pleb to work around the clock to make him richer…
You wouldn’t get it. These geniuses have highly efficient brains that are working every waking hour.
What a cunt
