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Investor: "Your employees are only working 10-5. You need to crack the whip on your slaves so they work harder and make me more money." CEO: "Ok, how can I spi
by t0mbstone 8y ago
Investor: "Your employees are only working 10-5. You need to crack the whip on your slaves so they work harder and make me more money."
CEO: "Ok, how can I spin this so my employees don't get angry at me. Oh, I know! I'll make a presentation and write a blog article!"
The article represents just about everything wrong with the startup world and the cult of workaholism. The toxicity and brain washing is real.
- gnulinux 8y agoYeah right "startup culture". It's not like tech industry is systematically affected by this problem from smallest startup to largest Mega Corpo. It's not like if you're a software eng it's seen very normal to work 9 to 6 and occasional overtime plus weekend work. When I work in a startup at least I can talk to my manager as a friend and say "I'm under the weather today, won't make it to work"; whereas in Mega Corp big managers are unreachable aliens living in Saturn managing their assets and "this is company policy".
- econner 8y agoWe used to like it especially when management referred to their employees as "resources" .. you know.. "we have 5 resources devoted to this". So we started referring to ourselves as meat bags. "We have 5 meat bags on this project."
- iamjaredwalters 8y agoIn an effort to fool us meat bags companies have moved to the term "Human Capital" in place of "resources".
- Youden 8y agoMaybe in an IBM megacorp but Facebook and Google at least are totally cool with people working 9 to 5 and taking sick days (outside a few bad managers).