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I believe they are stating the opposite. If it is not your company, if you don't own a large share of it, then work your hours and switch off. Any bullshit abo
by verve_rat 5y ago
I believe they are stating the opposite.
If it is not your company, if you don't own a large share of it, then work your hours and switch off. Any bullshit about putting in extra work because you are in a "leadership" position is just that, bullshit to extract more value from you and transfer it to the company.
Do what you are paid for, no more, no less.
- _acco 5y agoGreat attitude to ensure you never own a company.
- vangelis 5y agoI do own my own company. It's pretty easy.
- cosmojg 5y agoOwning a company is fairly trivial. Just fill out the requisite paperwork[1] and boom, you've got a company. Making it profitable is the hard part. [1] https://corp.delaware.gov/howtoform/ https://corp.delaware.gov/howtoform/
- ISL 5y agoCreating a company is easy. Staying on top of taxation/regulatory filings is more difficult.
- WarChortle 5y agoThis whole grinding is the only way to make it attitude has to stop. Do the work you get paid for. I imagine if someone started their own business, their attitude would be vastly different then working for a company on a fixed salary.
- plainnoodles 5y agoGreat attitude to make sure you understand the realities of the system and protect yourself from being exploited by it more than is already inherent in the relationship between wage labor and capital.
- scarface74 5y agoI make a lot more than most business owners as a mid level employee at BigTech without the headaches. I worked for a startup that went out of business. You know how much sleep I lost when they were struggling? When they did finally kick the bucket, I called a few people in my network, got another job and kept it moving.
- verve_rat 5y agoThe vast, vast, majority of people will never own a significant portion of a company. Outside of normal investments and retirement funds most people will not own a company in the sense we mean here.
- darkerside 5y agoI'm confused. You really think a C-level exec is thinking the way you just described?
- verve_rat 5y agoI'm assuming C-levels get paid a butt load with the expectation they will do whatever it takes. They are doing what they are paid for. If I get offered tens of millions of dollars a year I would also consider putting in more than a 40 hour week. But I don't, so I don't.
- rjbwork 5y agoProbably not...c-level execs are usually owners of the business.
- suifbwish 5y agoAh The life of the C level, making commits directly to master and running your IDE with the brightest whitest background your monitors game mode can produce.
- s1artibartfast 5y agoThe C-level distinction is irrelevant. The question is business owner or not. While some CEOs are also business owners, many are not, particularly for publicly traded companies. If you are the owner of a startup, constancy, or plumbing company you put in the hours you want to maximize company profit. It is your profit! If you are an employee, (CEO or otherwise), you put the hours you want to maximize your compensation. If putting in 80 hours vs 40 hours has no impact on your pay stub, don't do it. you don't keep the extra profit...
- darkerside 5y agoIt was just an example, not a distinction. But most C-levels do have nontrivial equity in their company.
- s1artibartfast 5y ago
- gmadsen 5y agoI mean do what makes you happy. But I attribute nearly all of my promotions and success to doing work I am explicitly not paid for.
- scarface74 5y agoI do too. But not with promotions. With the ability to job hop. But it’s not to “help the company”.