• @Bosht@lemmy.world
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    The disconnect from reality here is just mind blowing. Dude needs to go overseas and witness how utterly terrifying a threat on your life you have no control over actually is. Sidenote: punchable face.

    • @tiramichu@lemm.ee
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      Yeah actually mental.

      What he calls ‘dedication’ is actually fear at having to hold your job down during the middle of a fucking WAR because if you disappoint your corporate overlords you will be both getting missiles rained on you AND unable to support your family.

      It’s desperation, and desperation which is very intentionally baked into the system so dickhead ‘leaders’ like these can get the slaves they are looking for and label that slavery as a ‘positive work ethic’

      So out of touch with real people.

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        820 days ago

        What are “people?”

        You mean the objects that exist to further my ambitions, and accumulation of wealth?

        Not my problem.

        /s

    • Geetnerd
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      420 days ago

      He’s been brainwashed to exalt capitalist culture, probably by his parents and their social circle.

  • stinerman
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    Someone should fire this guy. Out of a cannon. Into the sun.

    • Miles O'Brien
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      Just set him on fire here, no need to launch a rocket with all the pollution that will create.

      End result is extra crispy lunatic either way.

    • FenrirIII
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      We need a Pacific Garbage Patch for billionaires and horrible CEOs. Just shoot them into the garbage and let them become one with the ocean.

    • @Vent@lemm.ee
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      Silly domestic remote employees want a livable wage and are less tolerant to being paid less because they don’t live in an overpriced area.

    • @Empricorn@feddit.nl
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      That’s weird. It’s almost like they don’t actually care about “incentive structure”, “attracting top talent”, “work/life balance”, “team cohesion”, etc. But they wouldn’t prioritize exploiting workers by seeing who they can control the most for the least amount of pay, would they??

  • Flamekebab
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    “Returning to the office” is such a gross phrase. Get fucked.

    • @null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Isn’t it. It has a strange implication as though being in the office is the proper place and one day we all just forgot to be there.

    • Bob Robertson IX
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      My employer has stooped so low as to call it “return to work”. Like, what the fuck have I been doing the past 5 years!?

      I’m currently in the final round of interviews for a new employer. I don’t expect that they will be nearly different, but at least they will pay more.

      • @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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        In my salary calculations, office days will attract an added cost and is part of the negotiation. MDA , with its multiple sites and janky schedule, for instance, was a 100k job with 300k of attracted bullshit.

        We didn’t come to an agreement.

        • Geetnerd
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          420 days ago

          This.

          “According to my analysis, a “Work From Home” strategy would eliminate the burden of office rent, utilities, inspections, and other arbitrary expenses.”

          “None of that affects my compensation package. Requiring employees being here would increase productivity, and profit.”

          “Actually, the data has shown that productivity and work flow has incre…”

          “Fuck that, I know they’re jerking off, eating Cheetos, and playing video games on my clock. Bring them back, now.”

      • Geetnerd
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        420 days ago

        They hate the idea of not being able to control others as much as possible.

        Even as they email directives in their pajamas, while skinnin’ it on Pornhub at the same time.

    • @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      This guy seems to have no clue that introverts and neurodivergents are way more sensitive to the hot/cramped/bright/loud environment as the toxicity it is - fun fact: open plan offices are considered sexist - and if he can’t engage his people at their fullest simply by enabling people to self-select work environment, then he needs a little more mentoring.

      But that went out of style 20 years ago with technical writers and putting employee health before workload as required.

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        Your first mistake is assuming this person thinks other people are “People,” neurodivirgent or not. Other “people” are objects to be used when useful, and discarded when not. The only thing that matters is what can empower and enrich one’s self.

        Your second mistake is thinking the the “Work Culture” of 20 years ago is a dead ideology. It’s not, they have a goal, and conviction to bring that back.

        I’m not trying to be condescending, or insulting, but these people are incapable of empathy, and don’t have a conscience. The smart ones hide their psychopathy to a degree to keep themselves out of prison. They do not care about anything, or anyone not themselves, or anything that is not useful to their ambitions, or goals.

        I mean that literally. THEY. DO. NOT. TRULY. CARE. ABOUT. ANYTHING. BUT. THEMSELVES.

  • @MTK@lemmy.world
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    “I live in a poor and war-torn country so I will work for a low wage even while my home might be bombes”

    Captialist nut jobs: “So dedicated!”

    I swear, if it was legal to execute employees they would do it everyday because “that’s what it means to be a good CEO” or some shit

    • @AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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      They’d sell their organs first.

      “Today is mandatory skin, bone marrow, and liver donation day. There might be pizza. Employees with moret han one kidney have to refer to HR.”

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    Because it’s so important that you physically sit here in the office, we’re replacing you with people on the other side of the planet.

    • @Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Bonus points if your company mandates return to office, lays off people after they return to office, and then builds a nice new office overseas in a completely opposite timezone to fill with replacements. Then make the people there physically sit in that brand new office… and make them report to the people here.

      The job? Data entry.

      I just… I don’t… Why

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        Something something a lot of people falling for talking points put forward by people invested in commercial real estate because if companies start going fully remote the value of commercial real estate will collapse. Combine that with a mix of people who own these companies also being invested in commercial real estate so it’s self serving and companies just in general wanting to have more control over employees.

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    The reason they are cheap and dedicated is because they are desperate, living in a country where if they didn’t have this job they would literally be starving and in poverty.

    So CEOs like this are simply capitalizing on their desperation to save money from hiring domestic workers who have a better safety net. Absolutely disgusting pieces of trash.

    Also why does this guy who looks like a 19 year old frat boy believe anyone should listen to his advice?

    • @Sergio@slrpnk.net
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      why does this guy who looks like a 19 year old frat boy believe anyone should listen to his advice?

      No, I get it. He reminds the bosses of their kids who they’re ignoring. He tells them what they want to hear so they can pretend their kids love them.

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          I looked this guy up. In addition to having the most generic white person name ever, and a face that I’m starting to suspect is an AI composite from the prompt of “generic professional white boy”, his website is a shitty SquareSpace template where the links don’t even work and the images are all generated as well.

          His only claim to fame is owning a no-name storage unit business which anyone with some land and Pods can do.

          I think this is a scammer who preys on “entrepreneur” wannabes.

          • Geetnerd
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            No, not anyone can own a storage rental facility.

            That takes a lot of money to buy.

            • @peregrin5@lemm.ee
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              Daddy probably bought it for him.

              Anyway, my point is that he’s not some tech startup CEO who hires engineers off shore. He’s the equivalent of someone who bought a convenience store franchise license to “run his own company”.

      • Geetnerd
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        He’s a rich kid who thinks he’s superior.

        Put him to work in a rural South produce picking operation for a year without access to his trust fund.

        But then, he may scheme how to work that situation for more profit after his term.

      • Geetnerd
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        220 days ago

        And loaned him the money to buy his self-storage business.

    • Geetnerd
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      120 days ago

      They have a Zero-Sum ideology.

      The literally believe that life is a Zero-Sum game. That there are winners, and losers. Everyone only cares about themselves, and objects that can benefit them in some way. That includes family. Every single human will take advantage of you, if they can, to benefit themselves. Anyone who says otherwise is deluded, or lying. Any act of generosity or altruism is a strategy to benefit yourself, in admiration, or profit. The Russian culture openly accepts this. Everyone, EVERYONE, is working an angle. If you fall for it, you deserve what you get.

      They literally believe this Social Darwinist nihilism, and believe anyone who doesn’t is stupid, or weak, and deserves to be dominated. They are incapable of true empathy, and think it is weakness.

      The definition of True Evil.

  • @icedcoffee@lemm.ee
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    If I post in slack that my family was almost killed and the CEO responds with “this is getting me fired up!!” I will absolutely leak admin credentials and let that bitch get hacked. Kinder and gentler than choking a mf

    • RobotsLeftHand
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      I saw that disgusting comment at the bottom. He is a caricature businessman from a Verhoeven movie. We’ve reached what was supposed to be over-the-top satire.

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        If Verhoeven put this in a movie people would be like “that’s a little much” these people are disturbing

      • @Jax@sh.itjust.works
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        Them: If this thing happens to me that most likely will not happen to me, I’ll do this thing.

        You: No, you won’t.

        You see what that shit looks like? Congratulations Cletus, you’ve spoken the obvious about a hypothetical. No I won’t be shooting the people responsible for destroying the planet, thanks for reminding me.

    • @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      Luigi is a ‘big hammer’ solution and

      • it didn’t make a real difference
      • getting to where ‘small hammers’ will fix the issue seems so far off

      We have so far to go, and farther by the day.

      • Geetnerd
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        Oh, it did.

        His example is in the back of everyone who is not a Fascist Cultist’s mind.

  • Yeah, when you’re easily replaceable and need the job, you tend to work yourself to death. It’s really hard to get a tech job in India, and I assume the same is true for Pakistan.

    So yeah, dude has no EQ.

  • @thericofactor@sh.itjust.works
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    Great, another 26 year old that stumbled into wealth and thinks that makes him an authority.

    Like those 20 something “executive coaches” fresh out of school I always seem to stumble upon on LinkedIn. They think they are incredible, but in reality they are only incredible in the literal sense.

    • Geetnerd
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      They’re in the Cult of Mammon. And most are too stupid to realize they literally worship wealth.

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    I was managing a project with contractors in Ukraine when the war broke out. They had some equipment of ours on loan for around 10.000 euros. While I was handling their employees suddenly scattering all over Europe, my upper management wanted me to ask them to keep our equipment safe. I told my management to get fucked. Luckily they understood how insensitive they were being.

    I continued the project, we even paid our invoices earlier to help them out. The company was so grateful. Later in that project, my coworker who is originally from Iran expressed his sympathies when Iranian drones were raining down on Ukraine, how he was ashamed his country was doing this. What a moment

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      That reminds me of 2015 when there was a big flood in Chennai. We were working on a project and the software team was located there. When the floods happened we didn’t hear anything from them for a few days. A middle manager sent a very angry email to them complaining that we would not be able to make the milestones if they didn’t work during that time and he actually asked us to send an email every few hours asking for updates (we all ignored the order except for one guy)

      Thankfully upper management and the CEO office knew better and sent a support email to them and I believe they reprimanded the other manager.

      After a few days we learned that some employees actually lost their lives and the office itself was affected and they’re were not able to return to work for a few weeks

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        My former company had an offshore team in Bangalore (actually, 90% of our company was located there). We had a morning meeting right before a critical release, and the offshore leader told us that nobody there would be able to do anything or even be in contact for the next two or three days. Turns out they were moving to a new office building but nobody there had told the US team anything about it - even though they knew our project schedule. This was completely representative of our communication with them.

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    I’ve managed people in India before - not to save money but to handle overnight tickets - and to me they work too hard.

    One of my reports was affected by some pretty significant flooding and asked if maybe they could have a day off.

    I told them to not worry about work until their house was no longer filled with mud and water.

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          Yup, my VP laid my coworker off after she announced she was pregnant.

          A week later I announced my wife was pregnant and they laid me off.

          • Geetnerd
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            “Breeders ain’t producers.”

            Seriously, sorry to hear that. That sucks.

            • @jaschen@lemm.ee
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              When my VP laid me off, she was on her phone texting someone. She’s going to be a CEO one day.

        • Middle management killed my soul. I refused to extract every last drop of productivity from my reports. I did everything I could possibly do for them, but I couldn’t make things right for them. (I advocated for raises, promotions, increased staffing, and more frequent breaks.)

          Under my management, my team was more productive than they were with other leadership. (Both the numbers and the customers agreed.) My managers said it was great, but then would complain when they saw them not working 100% of the time. (This was “wasteful.”)

          The other middle managers were willing to do what I wouldn’t. Upper management would pass me over for promotions, for the middle managers that were willing to be lackeys that would grind up our staff for the good of profit. My mistake was that I wanted to provide great service and treat my staff like the competent professionals they were. The real vision was to provide the bare minimum, find creative ways to fleece the customers, and do it all by whatever means necessary.

          I’ve been there. I am much happier not in management. I hope you’re doing well.

      • Geetnerd
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        With flowers, wine, and by candlelight. Not that it’s any of your business.

        😉

      • Geetnerd
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        With flowers, wine, and by candlelight. Not that it’s any of your business.

        😉

        • @jaschen@lemm.ee
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          I would also do this to my wife if she stood up for humanity. I might even marry her again.

    • @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      Your adequacy is stand-out in our time. Keep that wonderful prioritization and don’t let the machine change you.

      • Geetnerd
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        Good luck saying “Fuck That,” when “The Machine” lets your pay your mortgage. Health Insurance. Food. Electricity. Utilities. WiFi, which lets you post here, and waste your time and brain on social media…

        You know, the shit grown ups worry about.

    • Geetnerd
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      “YOU GODDAMMED COMMIE PINKO WOKE BITCH! GET THEM BACK TO MAKING MY PROFIT!”

      /s

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    This is the most monstrous human being I’ve witnessed here. There is something fundamentally broken in him, and I’m terrified that this diseased thought process will spread through speech. I pray it’s genetic, and therefore quarantinable.

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      A lot of it is biological, but he is almost certainly born into a family, and culture, who worships wealth, and considers it the only metric of worth.

      Like Trump. His niece Mary has stated that was the only thing that mattered in Fred Trump’s opinion: wealth, and the ability to generate it. Anything else was weakness.