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> There are so many heroes out there casually looking at work while eating cereal in their underwear at 1am. Please don’t call these people “heroes”, and if yo

> There are so many heroes out there casually looking at work while eating cereal in their underwear at 1am. Please don’t call these people “heroes”, and if you’re doing this, please stop. You’re setting expectations that everyone else should also be up at 1am “casually looking at work”, and if they’re not, they’re not a true “hero”. This is how unhealthy work/life balance starts at companies. People that work after hours for fun is is called workaholism. Meanwhile, the people that are also having fun from 9-5 are suddenly not doing enough, and are no longer having fun. And of course the “heroes” are not stressed — they’re able to enjoy working long hours, and making their way up the ranks by being a “hero”.

Lutger 3y ago
Framing abuse and alienation as heroism is how capitalism extracts value from the most precious resource in our decadent lives: time and energy. Within the confines of my insignificant job, I appreciate more the professionalism of a properly work-life balanced management, which should provide more than enough wiggle room for the weird hours people without fetishizing their volunteer work.
- kergonath 3y ago
  > Framing abuse and alienation as heroism is how capitalism extracts value from the most precious resource in our decadent lives: time and energy. I think it’s broader than capitalism. It’s a tool of coercion. If you manage to gaslight people and make them feel bad about their performance, then it’s easier to make them do absurd things without resistance. Nothing the stakhanovites would not do and while they were living in a kind of dystopia, it had nothing to do with capitalism. > Within the confines of my insignificant job, I appreciate more the professionalism of a properly work-life balanced management, which should provide more than enough wiggle room for the weird hours people without fetishizing their volunteer work. Indeed!

Lutger 3y ago

Framing abuse and alienation as heroism is how capitalism extracts value from the most precious resource in our decadent lives: time and energy. Within the confines of my insignificant job, I appreciate more the professionalism of a properly work-life balanced management, which should provide more than enough wiggle room for the weird hours people without fetishizing their volunteer work.

kergonath 3y ago
> Framing abuse and alienation as heroism is how capitalism extracts value from the most precious resource in our decadent lives: time and energy. I think it’s broader than capitalism. It’s a tool of coercion. If you manage to gaslight people and make them feel bad about their performance, then it’s easier to make them do absurd things without resistance. Nothing the stakhanovites would not do and while they were living in a kind of dystopia, it had nothing to do with capitalism. > Within the confines of my insignificant job, I appreciate more the professionalism of a properly work-life balanced management, which should provide more than enough wiggle room for the weird hours people without fetishizing their volunteer work. Indeed!