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.
I mean, she makes enough money to say that. Most everyone under her, not so much. The self-centeredness of these CEOs is staggering.
“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.”
“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.
This still sounds awful. Never unplugged, never tuning down. What the fuck kind of life is that?
It's the life that all these corporations want their workers to be forced to live. In their eyes, if you're not producing value for the one on top, you should either be sleeping or dead. Oh, and they'll only be paying you for 8 of those 18 hours you'll be working, at the lowest possible rate they can, if you get the luxury of payment at all. If you're a prisoner, tough luck.
Prisoners get paid. It's like $0.08 an hour or some shit, but they get paid. And the funds are used exclusively to buy temporary products like toothpaste, and deodorant.
i had an HR person who kept saying their "wages are competative" as if that was something to brag about. you are saying you pay the lowest possible pay that still brings in employee. loved leaving that job after a decade, told that HR person to go fuck herself when she tried to talk to me my last day.
Here's the thing though, 90% of her life IS tuned down. Every time she's not worrying about how to pay the bills. How to get to work. How many presents there will be for Christmahannukwanzakkuh. Hell even how much this week's groceries are going to cost from her own store thst she almost certainly doesn't get most of her groceries from.
She just doesn't realize it, because that's not a life she's experienced. She has absolutely no way to empathize because it's as foreign to her as a guinea pig flying an airplane.
I notice none of the examples involve taking care of life stuff while on the job. Only the one direction.
That's because as an executive she has no issue being able to just "work remotely" or leave "early" on a random day to go to a doctor's appointment, or parent teacher meeting mid-afternoon. She's only accountable to (maybe) the other executives who do the same shit. She doesn;t even realize she's doing it. That's just how life works.
Meanwhile Maria and Bobby are getting written up for coming back from break 2 minutes late.
The direction that funnels more money to the top
I once heard the following which struck a chord for me and I always keep it in mind when it comes to work:
"20 years from now, the only people who will remember you stayed late at work are your kids"
Obviously this doesn't apply if you have to work late to survive. If you have the choice though, don't give these companies more time than they really deserve. You won't be remembered or rewarded for it.
Executives should be forced work their lowest paid company position, and be dumped in an apartment with absolutely nothing.
See how long they survive.
You can talk to me about my work-life balance when I'm not putting the healthy option back because it's more expensive than the cheap unhealthy ultra processed bullshit and I can't justify the expense.
I notice that both examples are of someone using personal time to do work and not the other way around.
Being able to even afford having children is privilege these days. No way I would squander it by prioritizing a company that would fire me at the wrong gust of wind.
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.
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.
“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.
OK but Walmart retail staffers clock in and clock out with a time card, and require to be on site to fulfill their duties.
“If I never take a holiday, the tone that I set for everybody is, don’t take a holiday — you can’t do that. And I don’t think that that’s right,” says Morris. “As leaders, we have a responsibility to role model what we expect of others.”
Oh how generous of this person to take a vacation. Do they pay their Walmart retail staff to take a vacation too?
Oh is she ok with her employees texting their loved ones between tasks or is it only work that's supposed to encroach on everything else?
Ooooh I think we know the answer
Yeah, it was telling that all her examples are of work "integrating" itself into your home life, and 0 examples of things working the other way around. If you want me answering emails during my kid's sporting event (jfk) then how about we make this a two-way street and I go home to do my laundry and watch some netflix if it's a slow day at the office lol. These fucking people.
Morgan Freeman: “They did not.”
This privileged CEO thinks what she does is 'work' when she never as to work a day in customer service.
if you can be CEO of multiple companies, it's hardly work. Not saying this woman in particular is, but lots of CEOs are CEO of multiple companies. It's hardly work.
That doesn't necessarily mean you're a workaholic who lacks boundaries
That’s pretty much the definition of a workaholic.
This is literally Peter’s arc in Hook (1991).
Actually I think work/life balance is an outdated concept.
These days it's more like work/survival balance.
People with a money addiction will insist that you don't deserve a comfortable life because you insist on balancing work and life
I hate the fact that money is equated with success. Like, what's her K/D ratio on CS:Source?
Like, what's her K/D ratio on CS:Source?
Significantly lower than her K/D ratio in real life
New suggested title for the article:
"Billionaire executive can't understand why their minimum salary employees don't want to sacrifice their personal lives to make her even more money".
nice m dash CMBC. fuckin rage bait AI slop
This bitch wanna volunteer to clean my house and pay off my massive debt? Because my scale is tipped so far into work that I can't keep up with the life parts on my own, but I can't stop work because I need to eat.
Just wait until her neglected kids rebel and turn into miserable drug addicts.
No one on their death bed says, "I wish I'd done better at work-life integration."
“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 literally just sounds like she's always working, even when she's supposed to be focused on family.
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.
Ummm, yeah...that's actually the definition of being a workaholic who lacks boundaries. She may as well be saying, "I don't think sipping from a bottle of vodka in my purse while I'm picking my kids up from school, makes me an alcoholic...I think of it more like multitasking."
I never believe her also.
“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.
*cocks shotgun
"sharpens scimitar"
sigh Another narcissist CEO who cannot grasp the idea that "life", in this context, is just an employees working for themselves and pursuing their own interests instead of working for others to pursue corporate interests.
Ah yes, a person who was parachuted into high level positions right out of university lectures everyone on hard work.
oh shut up. I hate it when these rich fuckers are all "I got to where I am because I work hard." no you got to where you are because you're wealthy. Unlike EVERYONE fucking under your ass you can afford to hire a private chef to cook your meals, maids to clean your house(s) and do your laundry/chores, nannies for your kids, assistants to run your errands, all while you pull out your phone and write some god awful poorly written emails because that's all you fuckers do and I know this because in my field I deal with morons like you. None of you idiots work hard. An LLM could do your job, in fact that's the goal.
Couldn't write an email to save your life. they all write them like they're in an ICQ conversation.
Thanks for letting us know that you have no life. There will be an age when you realize what you have missed and your unhappiness will consume you. And it will be your fault. Real Humans know that a full life involves having personal time separate from a job.
"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.
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