i'm convinced the business exec chumps who say they work 70 hours a week, in addition to Just Lying, simply don't know how to put on an lcd soundsystem playlist and truly Lock In
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“working 70 hours a week” is easy when your job is just taking meetings and telling other people what to do, and also you’re so rich that you don’t have to cook your own meals or clean your house or take care of your own kids or ever be even slightly inconvenienced
When I was a paralegal, my boss attorney would say this all the time, and meanwhile I'd witness him sometimes reject scheduled calls just to stand and talk in the office for like an hour, or he would be "working" but not yet anything done and was just watching TV instead. So much wasted time
I saw a photo of Trump on a cell phone during a golf game, and some MAGA douche said, "Working the phones on the golf course! He's a machine!"
Executives count taking a call on the golf course, where they play for 3 hours with some pals who have a vague business relationship, to be a "work day".
I got recruited by a Fortune 100 company & I thought, okay, let's see what that's like... 8 hour days of meetings, they said they all do that every day, it was like standing in a college coffee shop performatively bullshitting FOR EIGHT HOURS with like, 4 decisions that took 15 minutes made all day
the person who was escorting me told me they all do that all day every day, and then do the rest of their work at night. 70, 80 hour work weeks the norm. absolute self-important, inefficient psychopathy.
I briefly worked at a Fortune 500 company as a low level contractor and I got roped into at least 2-3 hours of meetings every day. We had 6 hours of meetings one time
Honestly, it made perfect sense once I read about Kevin Warren's '18 hour work day' which included activities like exercise, an hour of prayer, "quiet time" and washing his own car.
Every time you have to deal with one of these giant babies, they’re always distracted by 12 other things they’re doing a lousy job of too and they need concepts broken down to them like a toddler
a lot of times when people talk about the "CEO work week" they've got this graphic from the Wall Street Journal in mind, which really gives the game away because the single largest chunk of it is literally "stuff non-executives can't possibly claim as working hours"
Musk has pretty much exposed the lie, if he can allegedly be the CEO of multiple somehow-viable companies at the same time AND also not officially be in charge of his “department,” all of these jobs are just titles
the fucking chutzpah to include exercise as part of their work on top of all this other shit. besides, what is this in actual, real 'work'? 10 hours at most?
realistically it's about 1 hour a week of making strategic decisions and generously maybe 9 hours of actually listening to people about the context of those decisions and the potential problems or benefits of the decision to be made, yeah.
I too spend at least 20 hours a week doing "miscellaneous" if anybody would like ot send me a paycheck. Since i'm only working part time, i'm happy to take half a CEO's salary, but can i still get insurance? I don't wanna do all that paperwork.
I once asked my old boss what he got up to at the weekend and he immediately changed the subject. And that's how I realised that some people have no concept of soul soothing.
it must rule to be one of those guys where you can just write a book describing lunch, exercise, jerking off, and doodling in a sketchbook as "real work" and claim you never stop
I mean that one's actually good because it's very early and it's about routine and mindset and thought processes, it's just that every tech dumbass for the last thirty years needs to think THEY are why they are successful and not luck of the totally incoherent winds of the economy.
So to validate the feeling they believe that what their habits are integral, and that means writing a book saying you can be like them. Flood the market with that and all the baby libertarians will gobble it up. And now you have a tech monopoly with mass poverty and TikTok hustlers.
If they were honest when they posted their daily routines it would be like wake up before dawn, first dose, work out, second dose, fugue state to office, spend two hours fumbling with intercom buttons before saying “Hnnnghh” to my PA so she knows to bring my third dose,
my three hour lunch - work
clearing my head at the gym - work
asking a subordinate me to tell me what's actually going on - buddy you better believe that's work
every time I see an actual breakdown of an 18 hour day it includes like 10 hours of commuting, working out, eating meals, going to a bar with friends but calling it networking etc
Bunch of them are spending a lot of time in meetings which is just not as mentally tasking as say focused codimg work IME. I generally have about six hours of headphones-on focused coding time in me per day—when I work longer days it's due to meetings and other interruptions.
Those assholes haven't had to meaningfully "work" in decades. They think of work as being interviewed, sitting in a meeting listening to flunkies give them bullet points then making "hard decisions", traveling to "conferences" blah blah blah. They should be afraid to show their faces in public.
I'm like the only person at my office that regularly has ~40 hour work week, and every time someone asks me about it, I say it's because I just go in and do my damn job.
They're out playing golf but they occasionally take a business call. They call that working. Just like Musk "works" all weekend going on talk shows and visiting the Oval Office.
To a rich person, "working 70-80 hour weeks" just means thinking about the company/assets they have ownership of, and being able to take calls and meetings.
They aren't actually doing any physical labor whatsoever, just leaving space for possible mental/emotional labor.
I mean one of the better known breakdowns included their workout time, so why exclude sleep? Getting enough sleep’s actually more important for doing your job well than exercise.
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Executives count taking a call on the golf course, where they play for 3 hours with some pals who have a vague business relationship, to be a "work day".
https://www.chicagobears.com/news/day-in-the-life-bears-president-ceo-kevin-warren
But also they include things like taking a shower, working out, and driving to work in their total. So yeah, just lying.
clearing my head at the gym - work
asking a subordinate me to tell me what's actually going on - buddy you better believe that's work
Also I bet Daft Punk never even played at their house. Or maybe they did but it hits different if you had to pay them $2 million.
To a rich person, "working 70-80 hour weeks" just means thinking about the company/assets they have ownership of, and being able to take calls and meetings.
They aren't actually doing any physical labor whatsoever, just leaving space for possible mental/emotional labor.