“We only hire slave labor here. You aren’t nearly subservient enough for the honor.”
God I hope he knows he ended up on LinkedIn lunatics
You think people like this have enough self-awareness to be ashamed?
Founder/CEO/Designer - Micro…
Unless that ends in “soft” you’re a failure and you’re trying to bring everyone else down with you.
If it is “soft”, you’re a known pedophile and you should be in prison.
We all know it’s not MicroSoft but rather MicroPenis1
The guy can’t even start his sentences with a capital letter. And you’re supposed to take him serious as a CEO?
“Sorry I’m not even interested. You behave like a child, don’t understand life and clearly treat your employees like shit.”
Tar and feathers… some ‘CEO’ make me to think about that old tradition.
Begin banana metaphor.
Bananas are great. If I ate a healthy amount of bananas a week, I’d be happy with my banana consumption. I’d enjoy bananas.
However, if I ate a lot of bananas each week, let’s say 80 🍌/week (that’s 16 bananas a day, from Monday to Friday!), I would HATE bananas, regardless of how much I previously enjoyed them. With so many bananas a week, I’d probably suffer from malnutrition and related health problems.
End banana metaphor.
I don’t think it’s possible to be happy when working 80+ hours a week, even if it’s something you used to enjoy. “The dose makes the poison.”
That’s because workaholics think they’re normal and everyone else is lazy. In reality they usually either trying to hide from something in their personal life, or they really are just that boring of a person that they can’t think of anything better to do than work.
This is not the same as being passionate, since that usually involves doing something for yourself rather than for another persons business.
I used to be a software developer and I enjoyed being a software developer, but I honestly couldn’t give a crap about the proprietary accounting system or whatever it was that we were developing for the client. That stuff was hella boring
I don’t think it’s possible to be happy when working 80+ hours a week
I think there’s a certain element of “do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life” in this.
If you’re really deeply invested in a project and doing it brings you joy, then you very well might find yourself investing every waking moment working on it.
But that’s not a “job”, that’s a “passion”. You typically don’t get to pursue your passions unless you already have a big passive income or a sugar daddy willing to cover your expenses.
Exactly, loving your job doesn’t prevent burnout. No matter how much you love it, if you are doing actual work (not some exec shitposting on linkedin all day) then past a certain point your body/mind will just get too tired to function well.
I genuinely love my job. I would do it for free if I could afford to. I sometimes (especially lately) work well over 60 hours a week. But I need to be careful about how much OT I let myself put in because I will burn out. I know that when I push myself too hard I will eventually start fucking up. I will start missing obvious things. I will start making stupid mistakes. With my job I am also far more likely to seriously injure myself when burned out. Allowing myself to become burned out results in worse outcomes for the customers and costs my company more money. Not to mention that if I did injure myself badly enough to be out of work then all those extra hours I put in would be outweighed be the time I miss.
A good manager recognizes that a burned out employee does more harm than good and works to prevent it. A good manager knows that keeping their employees happy, well rested, and fulfilled is in the company’s best interest. Sometimes demands pop up that will require a bit of burn out to deal with but the benefit of meeting those demands needs to be weighed against the harm of that burnout. Shitty managers always severely underestimate the harm burnout causes not just to their employees but also to the company.
“love the uncertainty”
Yeah, nothing like insecurity. Everyone fucking loves the shit outta that fucking shit! Gimme it all. I want nerve wracking, potential poverty around every corner. That’s the ticket!
Seriously though, WTF is wrong with this person?
They believe the bullshit they have been fed.
I didn’t read the entire message but I think the response is simple:
“That is all well and good, but come IPO time, it is you, not me, who is getting paid. Make this a co-operative or give every employee a reasonable percentage of the company, and we can all decide if your idea is worth the risk.”
You get this with startups. There’s always some pillock who reckons that just because your employee number 17 means that somehow you should be as invested as they are despite the fact that you’re getting the wage you’re getting regardless. If you weren’t a founding member, then it’s just a job.
Sure if they do really well as a company maybe you could ask for a raise, but it’s not a guarantee and it’s not directly mapped to the company’s success, so who cares.
If you ever work for a startup in the software industry make sure the base salary is good, because there’s no guarantee that any shares in the businesses will ever be worth the paper they’re written on. If the company does well, then great, but if it doesn’t you still need to have been compensated for your time, after all it’s not your fault that subscription-based water fountains didn’t catch on.
Entrepreneur brain, stage 4, terminal
A simple, “we are going a different direction” would have been enough. Fuck this CEO and queue the Mario Bros theme!
*cue, as in “this was her cue to step onto the theater stage”
DO THE MARIO
Imagine being psychotic enough to brag about this.
It’s basically the same thing that scammers do - they know they have a terrible approach, but that’s fine because they are only looking for the easy marks who are too oblivious to sense anything is wrong.
This CEO is preventing anyone with self preservation or a sense of actual industry norms from applying, increasing the proportion of aps from the gullible.
“They are not glorious enough to work for my wonderful company and with my pure genius!”
My husband is at the point of his career where he seeks out startups because he like passion projects. He’s actually worked for several that have become huge multibillion dollar companies
The look on his face rn as i read this out to him is hilarious
I can’t tell what his reaction is from this!
Any stories ? I’d love to hear
I wish someone wrote a “How to run a company ethically for dummies” book.
Because I want one
And how much equity are you providing for this role
Only time I would work these kind of positions is when I truly enjoy the job, believe it can succeed AND shares of the company I don’t have to buy. If i wanted extra hours and bad supervisors I could go back into the trades
Seems like the worst of hustle culture to be honest.
