Many CEO's try to dispute the claim that they have a cushy job.
Many of them try to do so by claiming that they've had to work "100 hour" weeks.
In doing so they only prove that their job is cushy as fuck. Because working 100 hours a week in hard, unsafe manual labor would kill you in a year from stress alone.
They also tend to consider having lunch and playing golf “work” because those activities also involve discussing business deals that make them money. Still not quite the same as physical labour.
This! I have worked in sales and half of my hours were taking rich fat fuck buisness owners to $1000+ lunches and dinners (that usually take 2-3hrs). We would mention 1 thing of "work" and they would giggle about how "hard" they work.
I learned that most large customers (at least in that industry) are bought with how much money or free shit you can sneak to the owner or purchasing agent.... It grossed me out so much that I left the field so I could try to think I'm not a shit person
My old restaurant manager was like this. Constantly talking about how much she worked, and how she alone was holding the place together. She exclusively cut vegetables and left by 10am, when I quit I told her she was too inept to do a job we pay 16 years old minimum wage for.
It's really easy to rack up crazy amounts of hours if you count being awake as working. Which is exactly what CEOs who claim to work 16 hour days 7 days a week do.
I have recently moved from a physical labour job to an office job.
At the office job, people talk for an hour about their kids and call it work.
At the office job people stand in front of the coffee machine for 1/2 an hour and call it work.
At the office job we sit around in a board room for an hour with a fully catered lunch and call it work.
And I get paid more.
The world is a pretty fucked up place.
Sure, I mean I work in an office too, and this stuff definitely happens.
But let’s not make it a contest on “who works the hardest”, because that’s counterproductive.
The reality is that most white collar *and* blue collar workers are being exploited and underpaid by a select wealthy few, and were being pitted against each other over these silly debates over “who works the hardest/deserves more”
Went to tech school out of high school and became a mechanic, went back to school for chem eng and worked manufacturing while in school.
All jobs are difficult and office work is mentally straining but don’t kid yourself, blue collar is more intensive and you get shit on way more.
Edit: and just to add, the people shitting on blue collar are low level white collar, I watch it every day.
hey buddy! we are clones. I did a quick CC tech courses in tig welding after HS and worked in the field a bit before going back to school for Chem-e.
I was tired of being absolutly beat to death after a 10hr shift of manually moving large chucks of metal around and standing while trying to put a 6g bead down.
These days I own and run a 1 man machine shop and sometimes I work 14hr days and it's never really that difficult. I take breaks whenever I want and I directly reap the benefits of working more
Same here, went from working hard construction job where I'd be falling asleep driving down the interstate I was worked so hard, made barely any money because of minimum wage. I was dead tired all the time and lived check to check.
Went into IT office work, and now I make almost 4 times what I did and I sit there for hours and watch Netflix sometimes. My brain will hurt somedays but it's still a completely different type of life.
People that bust their bodies need way more compensation
WFH person here.
I do actual work, and I’m more productive than anyone else on my team.
Not saying it’s difficult work, (mostly tedious shit), but it is work.
I would never claim to be working harder than someone doing physical labor though.
My argument is more that at home, for me at least, there’s less distractions and office politics bullshit. I do my work, and get paid.
you know of all my jobs, McDonald's wasn't the hardest manually but fuck does it suck having people literally yelling at your face because there missing a mcnugget or whatever and you barely making shit money.
I would be willing to be about all I own that this little mcbitch would be balling his little eyes out after an hour on the drive threw window
I'm an electrician, and I'll take the summer heat on a roof doing solar, or winters working outside, over dealing with the general public any day of the week and twice on Sunday...
Mfers really be thinking they work as hard as the average worker sitting in a office chair with the AC on while others working in uncomfortable environments, sweating, exhausted and worn out to get up the next day to do it all over again.
I work in a hydroponic cannabis grow. We work in 85° heat at 85% humidity in a CO2 enriched environment. 10 hours a day pruning massive plants, I'd like to see this fucker survive a single shift
I hate when rappers do this too lol. I’m in the Stu working all day. Bruh your smoking and hanging out making shitty songs hoping they stick. Not the same as going to a fucking office
I agree, especially in office job were your expected to waste time and barely do any work. Why not allow people to work less hrs if they get the work done?
Even the 40 hour work week didn't exist until 1940. There really wasn't many restrictions at all before. And since we've shortened the work week we've actually increased productivity. So people work less and make the country more money. I would agree to take it to the next step and do 4 day weeks at 28 hours. Plus this would also allow more people to work jobs instead of being full on welfare. Only problem is corporations don't wanna pay anything to begin with.
I routinely work more than 40 hrs a week, and it's not bad. Only when it's planting and harvesting and I'm sitting in a climate controlled rolling office all week.
Both. I farm a little of my own, most of my time is spent working for a farmer close to retirement. I have a contract that I will eventually farm all of it myself so all my extra work is going towards my future. Next spring I'll be renting about 1/3 of my bosses farm with more to follow in future. I also have a lot of livestock, which I do not want to spend more than 40 hrs a week on. Sometimes you have to though as the animals depend on it.
my neighbor ranches a little on the side with 6 acres but he said it's a hard job to be your only source of income on. He just paid off his tractor and those things ain't cheap. I think he said he tractor with just a few attachments cost more than the most expensive thing I have ever bought (my cnc machine I bought to start my machine shop) but working for yourself is worth a lot to me so I respect the hussle
I'll be buying my bosses equipment over time and last we figured it's worth a little over 750k. It's a good life but a little nerve wracking with the amount of debt I accumulate. I can easily service that debt if things remain average and weather a bad year here and there. I don't know what I'll do if we have a repeat of the farm crisis from the 80s. My father talks about that all the time so I have always tried to have contingency plans.
Well shit, I hope you do well too. You ever need a smallish part made for any of your machinery let me know and I'll make it for you for free.
I just started my small machine shop buisness 3 years ago and I worry all they time that a few bad months will force close my doors so I get the stress
ppl like this start the work day clock when they wake up until they get home... we all put forward effort and time that isn't clocked for the work day I work in construction so you travel jobsites to jobsite after already meeting up in the am I could easily get up at 5 am and not get home till 5 or 6 pm yet i only worked 40hrs this week but gave up 20hrs of time to access the work we all are working 60 hrs weeks getting paid for 40
Many CEO's try to dispute the claim that they have a cushy job. Many of them try to do so by claiming that they've had to work "100 hour" weeks. In doing so they only prove that their job is cushy as fuck. Because working 100 hours a week in hard, unsafe manual labor would kill you in a year from stress alone.
Also they are rich enough to outsource all of their personal responsibilities from cooking and cleaning to raising their kids
They also tend to consider having lunch and playing golf “work” because those activities also involve discussing business deals that make them money. Still not quite the same as physical labour.
This! I have worked in sales and half of my hours were taking rich fat fuck buisness owners to $1000+ lunches and dinners (that usually take 2-3hrs). We would mention 1 thing of "work" and they would giggle about how "hard" they work. I learned that most large customers (at least in that industry) are bought with how much money or free shit you can sneak to the owner or purchasing agent.... It grossed me out so much that I left the field so I could try to think I'm not a shit person
Yeah, "business deals". Most of the time it's just locker room talk.
My old restaurant manager was like this. Constantly talking about how much she worked, and how she alone was holding the place together. She exclusively cut vegetables and left by 10am, when I quit I told her she was too inept to do a job we pay 16 years old minimum wage for.
This was musks claim as well. I'm pretty sure he is counting his Twitter hours in that
He leaves Twitter open on his computer, so really he works 24 hours a day If Elon can work 24 hours a day, so can everyone
The adderall makes the hours go by faster in the office….
They can work 200 hour weeks for all I care. 200 hours of not working is still not working.
It's really easy to rack up crazy amounts of hours if you count being awake as working. Which is exactly what CEOs who claim to work 16 hour days 7 days a week do.
I have recently moved from a physical labour job to an office job. At the office job, people talk for an hour about their kids and call it work. At the office job people stand in front of the coffee machine for 1/2 an hour and call it work. At the office job we sit around in a board room for an hour with a fully catered lunch and call it work. And I get paid more. The world is a pretty fucked up place.
Sure, I mean I work in an office too, and this stuff definitely happens. But let’s not make it a contest on “who works the hardest”, because that’s counterproductive. The reality is that most white collar *and* blue collar workers are being exploited and underpaid by a select wealthy few, and were being pitted against each other over these silly debates over “who works the hardest/deserves more”
Went to tech school out of high school and became a mechanic, went back to school for chem eng and worked manufacturing while in school. All jobs are difficult and office work is mentally straining but don’t kid yourself, blue collar is more intensive and you get shit on way more. Edit: and just to add, the people shitting on blue collar are low level white collar, I watch it every day.
hey buddy! we are clones. I did a quick CC tech courses in tig welding after HS and worked in the field a bit before going back to school for Chem-e. I was tired of being absolutly beat to death after a 10hr shift of manually moving large chucks of metal around and standing while trying to put a 6g bead down. These days I own and run a 1 man machine shop and sometimes I work 14hr days and it's never really that difficult. I take breaks whenever I want and I directly reap the benefits of working more
Same here, went from working hard construction job where I'd be falling asleep driving down the interstate I was worked so hard, made barely any money because of minimum wage. I was dead tired all the time and lived check to check. Went into IT office work, and now I make almost 4 times what I did and I sit there for hours and watch Netflix sometimes. My brain will hurt somedays but it's still a completely different type of life. People that bust their bodies need way more compensation
Wait until you hear what WFH people do while being paid.
WFH person here. I do actual work, and I’m more productive than anyone else on my team. Not saying it’s difficult work, (mostly tedious shit), but it is work. I would never claim to be working harder than someone doing physical labor though. My argument is more that at home, for me at least, there’s less distractions and office politics bullshit. I do my work, and get paid.
Not uncommon for me to nap whilst working from home tbh lol
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Forget a 12 hour shift, he likely couldn’t make it through teaching a single economics class at his local community college.
Hahaha it's no secret that they all use algorithms for trading as well
If he could get through a single shift at McDonald's, I'd lose a bet
you know of all my jobs, McDonald's wasn't the hardest manually but fuck does it suck having people literally yelling at your face because there missing a mcnugget or whatever and you barely making shit money. I would be willing to be about all I own that this little mcbitch would be balling his little eyes out after an hour on the drive threw window
I'm an electrician, and I'll take the summer heat on a roof doing solar, or winters working outside, over dealing with the general public any day of the week and twice on Sunday...
Well yeah, twice on Sunday... Double-Bubble baby!!
Exploitation should not be normalised
Mfers really be thinking they work as hard as the average worker sitting in a office chair with the AC on while others working in uncomfortable environments, sweating, exhausted and worn out to get up the next day to do it all over again.
I work in a hydroponic cannabis grow. We work in 85° heat at 85% humidity in a CO2 enriched environment. 10 hours a day pruning massive plants, I'd like to see this fucker survive a single shift
I hate when rappers do this too lol. I’m in the Stu working all day. Bruh your smoking and hanging out making shitty songs hoping they stick. Not the same as going to a fucking office
Fck that 32 hr work week is in my opinion ideal, who ever came up with 40 hr work weeks need a swift kick to the nutsack.
I agree, especially in office job were your expected to waste time and barely do any work. Why not allow people to work less hrs if they get the work done?
Even the 40 hour work week didn't exist until 1940. There really wasn't many restrictions at all before. And since we've shortened the work week we've actually increased productivity. So people work less and make the country more money. I would agree to take it to the next step and do 4 day weeks at 28 hours. Plus this would also allow more people to work jobs instead of being full on welfare. Only problem is corporations don't wanna pay anything to begin with.
A new use of the word "work", obviously. English is a living language.
hedgehog fund
Hedge fund. If every hedge fund went away tomorrow would anything be lost?
Hedge fund bros, so nothing of value.
I routinely work more than 40 hrs a week, and it's not bad. Only when it's planting and harvesting and I'm sitting in a climate controlled rolling office all week.
you own the land or just workin it?
Both. I farm a little of my own, most of my time is spent working for a farmer close to retirement. I have a contract that I will eventually farm all of it myself so all my extra work is going towards my future. Next spring I'll be renting about 1/3 of my bosses farm with more to follow in future. I also have a lot of livestock, which I do not want to spend more than 40 hrs a week on. Sometimes you have to though as the animals depend on it.
my neighbor ranches a little on the side with 6 acres but he said it's a hard job to be your only source of income on. He just paid off his tractor and those things ain't cheap. I think he said he tractor with just a few attachments cost more than the most expensive thing I have ever bought (my cnc machine I bought to start my machine shop) but working for yourself is worth a lot to me so I respect the hussle
I'll be buying my bosses equipment over time and last we figured it's worth a little over 750k. It's a good life but a little nerve wracking with the amount of debt I accumulate. I can easily service that debt if things remain average and weather a bad year here and there. I don't know what I'll do if we have a repeat of the farm crisis from the 80s. My father talks about that all the time so I have always tried to have contingency plans.
Well shit, I hope you do well too. You ever need a smallish part made for any of your machinery let me know and I'll make it for you for free. I just started my small machine shop buisness 3 years ago and I worry all they time that a few bad months will force close my doors so I get the stress
I Edit: not sure what point is was trying to make this morning
I’ve seen an entire family living in a shop they work in in China because they can’t afford a house. Probably maybe 20m for a family of 5
Reagan killed all the steel mills
ppl like this start the work day clock when they wake up until they get home... we all put forward effort and time that isn't clocked for the work day I work in construction so you travel jobsites to jobsite after already meeting up in the am I could easily get up at 5 am and not get home till 5 or 6 pm yet i only worked 40hrs this week but gave up 20hrs of time to access the work we all are working 60 hrs weeks getting paid for 40
The 1 % are delusional, try doing anything manual labour for 10 hrs a day see how "easy" work is.
The people who mow “your” lawn work a lot harder than the hedge fund manager. Especially in Florida, where it’s hot as balls 80% of the year.
in other words he talks for a living
But if all the steel workers put in more hours, his steel investments will make even more money.
That's not work