• drolex@sopuli.xyz
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    I am even more disappointed by that guy’s choice to work only 6 days a week.

    I do not believe in sleep or rest.

    I firmly believe that CEOs require diapers, not toilet breaks.

    I used to shit myself continuously at the office, the stench was unbearable. And yet I went on, staying at my desk, asking people to come in to berate them.

    I chose to be estranged by my whole family. My kids hate me. My wife despises me. My father won’t talk to me. Even my mother loathes me.

    I managed all that by dedicating every second of my life to my job, so that I can die miserably and get a gravestone saying ‘lmao the shitman’s dead, rest in shit loser’.

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      Amateur! I haven’t stood up in so long my leg muscles have atrophied. Slowly my body has fused with my office chair. I only take 10 min micro naps as my body periodically shuts down, a weakest of my flesh. Never leaving the office, I occupy one entire floor of the building as my productivity lair. This floor has been secretly hidden from everyone else to avoid distractions. I only enter other floors when most employees are gone for the day, usually late at night. I make these excursions to double check my coworkers daily progress or scavenge for food.

      Most of my coworkers seem to fear me, perhaps I’ve become something of myth? They gave me a name, because I heard one scream “the Chairman is real!” as I startled him. He was working late that night as I creeped around his cubicle wall. Since I was famished, I quickly knocked him out with a keyboard and dragged him back to my lair for a quick power lunch.

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    if it took him 91 hours a week to do his job, they probably should have let him go.

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      No see you don’t get it. He gets the grind.

      /s

      God I was going to try to give some dumb response… but honestly the best I’ve got is-

      —I work more hours so I can make more money so I can do more cocaine, so I can work more hours……

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      Plenty of them are just liars. They’ll look you dead in the eye and tell you “When I was your age, I worked 29 hours a day and 10 days per week”.

      Others simply don’t want to acknowledge that the nature of their “work” is play. Flying from party to party with their gaggle of C-level friends, wining and dining clients and patrons, getting a Bill Clinton style office break between angry calls to your junior managers to “work harder!”, playing Sim City or Factorio with a billion dollars in state money unconcerned with the end result because you already took out a big chunk as your share, golfing…

      None of these assholes are doing manual labor. They’re all just schmoozing with one another and collecting a vig on the cash that passes through their hands.

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    This isn’t that difficult if your only job is reading emails and giving one word replies like Yes, No, Proceed, or Delay

    Which is all the guys at that level do.

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      At my job we’ve learned that anyone above director level simply will not read beyond the first sentence of a fucking email. So we have to write them these orc-like one liner emails and pray they understand whatever it is the fuck they need to understand. They have zero nuance or patience. They just want to grunt and point.

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    I hated working with a team in India because of their insane work expectations. I’d be online in the morning my time, knowing it’s basically the middle of the night for them. I’d say things weren’t a high priority but they’d still stay online and finish it that day (that sort of stuff). Then they’d basically work first thing when they woke up as well. It was really frustrating in a weird way. I shouldn’t have to resist communicating with a coworker because I suspect they’re going to ruin their work life balance to do something I ask them to (even when I make it clear it’s a low priority). But I can’t just not communicate things that need to be done or ask questions I need answers to. It really sucked.

    Like imagine your friend is asleep and you’re at their house. You want some coffee at some point so you just shoot them a text message asking where it is in the kitchen as you go back to bed to wait for them to wake up. Next thing they dart out of their room, groggy, apologizing for over sleeping, and begin making you a whole ass latte. Then imagine them doing stuff like this so often that you’re nervous to ask them to do things so they don’t drop everything to assist. Now imagine they’re a coworker so you must communicate tasks to them. That’s sort of what it felt like.

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      Lol, I have maybe a co-worker or two I feel that way about. Work in events so work-life balance gets rocked during peak busy times. It’s honestly just really hard to turn it off, cause everything needs to happen either 5 minutes ago or yesterday.

      Like, shindig being planned for 2030 but we need those details yesterday.

      I can emphasize. We work hard, bro, catch this email back on Monday. 😮‍💨😂

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      Don’t know if it would work in your scenario, but I will use Delayed Send on an email when I want to get my thoughts down right now but don’t want to bother the person I’m sending it to until a better time.

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      He definitely didn’t get rich from that. Only stupid people work for money. He works WITH money.

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      Going outside, getting some fresh air and exercise, and seeing friends/family/neighbors is a great treatment for depression

      But long hours of private work/study and repetitive manual labor get in the way of that

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      It’s not just Asia, my parents are from the 1950s, in an European country, and they had the same mentality. Money through hard work was the equivalent of a good life. Our holidays were never fun. No one knew what enjoying life is.

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    Anybody that deep in that awfulness is of course going to try to play it off like a badge of honor. So hard to see it for what it is from there.

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    Fuck you. I am whoring out my brainpower and will do only what I’m paid for. If it happens to take only an hour each workday, that’s not my concern.