The pandemic made it clear to us that our literal lives don’t matter. Record profits have pretty much never made their way into worker’s pockets. Wages have been stagnant against forty years of inflation and record housing costs, while shareholders and C-suites struggle to decide between a private jet or a second yacht. And climate change is coming for all of us. Given all that, why the fuck should we care about some job that has literally never cared about us? Why wouldn’t we get to pursue some work-life balance, and spend what little time and money that are being left to us on something that makes us happy?
Plus the increased work life balance has been proven by studies to be more productive because people working shorter hours and/or from home are more productive then the regular 40 in the office.
“But I can’t recognize it by looking at it so everyone must be lazy” some rich jackass.
Also, a lazy worker at home will be lazy in an office too.
If someone likes to procrastinate, you can’t really change that via environment alone.
Unfortunately, leadership positions tend to be mostly interactions with others by forming working relationships and establishing trust so they see skilled workers who are avoiding work by chatting about non-work stuff to be productive team building even when done to excess. So they consider that not being lazy even if it is when done to excess for that particular position.
Can’t talk about sports teams and ‘team build’ in the same way when working at home in their eyes.
I think it’s because they can’t pull people into their office and give them illegal or unethical tasks off the record. Slack and email all leave a paper trail.
Ugh. The number of vacuous conversations endured/overheard in offices about sports. And the insufferable adages, analogies and idiotic motivational speeches comparing sports and wage slavery. Where’s my fucking stapler?
Setting aside how fucking stupid it is to think that way, people can still talk about stuff like that. In fact, they can now do it without even having to leave their PC!
No logic here beyond a bunch of loser control freaks missing their completely unnecessary micromanaging.
This is true. Ask me how I know.
Because we’re not people to them, we’re numbers on a screen.
He just pissed that business travel is still down. Sorry, it’s never going back to the way it was.
He is mad because the pandemic allowed people to review their priorities and turn towards their personal lives rather than focusing on career lives. People today are less willing to work overtime, less willing to go above and beyond because they don’t care about that. It means less money for the fat cats which is why they are bitching so much.
Yeah promotions don’t exist anymore, raises only come when you threaten to quit, and the only reward for loyalty is vacation time to use on getting sick. I’m not gonna show unrequited loyalty.
I’m extremely pissed that my company went to “unlimited personal leave” as long as you can get your work done. I’m already salaried, so technically, I could have always done that. Now I’ve lost the 4 weeks of vacation (earned by decades of seniority) that once enjoyed without guilt or worry.
More reasons we need more unions.
Over the course of the pandemic I lost my dad and had a baby. I also changed jobs and took a promotion. That really gave me quite a bit of perspective and my priorities absolutely shifted.
I was(am?) a very ambitious, motivated, “go-getter” who has moved up the ranks fairly quickly and am in a very senior leadership position for my age. I genuinely like what I do, so that definitely helps. But I saw an unqualified person take over my old job and is, at best, ‘coasting’ and more realistically slowly killing an amazing platform I had helped develop–and driving away incredibly talented engineers and analysts.
Leadership changed and just moved on to the next shiny object and seems content to let that platform flounder because…it’s not their baby. Why on earth would you continue to move that invaluable platform forward when you can make a name for yourself on something else?
I don’t want this to sound like sour grapes, because its not that. It’s more that I realized, why did I kill myself for that job? The bigwigs seem to be totally fine cutting it loose. Why did I stress myself out to drive that platform forward so hard? Why should I kill myself, sacrifice limited time with my family to drive products forward when, as soon as leadership changes or as soon as I move on, it will get scrapped or forgotten about? It obviously wasn’t nearly as important as they claimed it to be.
So, I am not killing myself for work. I am taking my entire paternity leave and not taking a single call or text from work. I am not going to work overtime. I am not going to work on my day off. I am not going to travel unnecessarily. I am going to prioritize things that benefit me personally. And I am not going back into the office on someone else’s terms. (I honestly dont mind going in once or twice a week. I do less work in the office than I do at home tbh–as far as “work” goes its usually a free day. But I am fully remote officially and I’d probably hop to another company if they started to force me back in ‘officially’ because, like I said, I am prioritizing me and mine and commuting 45-60minutes each way, paying for parking, to sit on the same Zoom calls I can do at home, doesn’t really benefit me in any way.
He’s also slightly mad because he now has to compete in a labor market where people can choose between:
A shitty waiting job that has you flying out of town daily, pay is about as much as a gas station clerk, has you dealing with some of the craziest ideologies on the planet because no one respects your authority. High Stress, low reward situation.
Then you have work from home: Right off the bat, you get 2 extra hours back from your daily commute. If you have kids, you are now saving hundreds of dollars monthly on child care. Car care costs go down. Gas costs go down. Less stressful situation, and more mentally stable.
The problem isn’t just that he is having to compete with work from home jobs, but he is now having to compete against the benefits of work from home. And there is only one way to do that: $$$.
Agree with everything except;
If you have kids, you are now saving hundreds of dollars monthly on child care.
Myself and most WFHers know still put our kids in care, you simply can’t work and look after young kids simultaneously unless you only work at night or during naps.
I don’t know if “business traveler” is Frontier’s main customer, exactly.
Frontier doesn’t fly business. If Frontier is pissed off, it is because it is causing the legacy carriers to muscle in on the vacation traffic his company flies.
Sounds like something a lazy, entitled, unproductive CEO would say.
I really wish this guy would take up submarining as a hobby.
We legit need to encourage more billionaires to take up the call of the submariner, they just have to engineer and pilot it themselves
This dude can’t talk about laziness he’s got more chins than a Chinese phone book.
This CEO should be forced to work a minimum wage job for the airline to show him what life is like when you’re not a spoiled fat fuck.
Nah he would still have so many safety Ney’s that he’d never actually feel real fear or hunger
Let them have it as long as they are mopping vomit from the floor or deal with agressive passengers. Would they last long?
As long as there’s no looming threat of homelessness or starvation, it’s just not the same. If you have a shit job but you know in the back of your mind that you could walk out at any moment and still be just fine for the rest of your life… that safety net makes all the difference in the world in that situation.
On the time of writing it I was thinking like that: they can either be locked in a lowest position their regular employees have and save their wealth OR lose it and start over from a blank page. The conflict is that they won’t have trouble going to the top once again with their connections and stuff, but they’d not be brave enough to lose everything and would hold onto their dragon’s gold nest whatever it takes. Greed holding them back sounds like a fairy-tailish punishment.
But in a real context you are right.
Can we just fucking eat the rich already? How many useless cocksuckers do they need to stick a microphone in front of to call us lazy before we just fuck them all up?
It seems like a daily occurrence at this point that some rich cunt who hasn’t actually done any of the work that makes them rich is saying some brain dead shit like this.
Unfortunately more of us will need to be hungry and desperate. We are getting there.
After you
Not biased at all. A transportation CEO wanting people to use transportation to get to work. I can’t smell any bias.
Pretty sure his employees didn’t fly to work before the pandemic either.
Video conferences have directly impacted airline profits.
Of course, but most of airline office workers don’t commute by plane.
Don’t think the comment was referring to them. And also doubt that most this guy employees never had the possibility to work from home, so the CEO is talking about other people, eg his possible clients
With my job I used to have to fly out and meet business teams every few weeks at their office. Now our business partners have staff working remotely so I no longer have to fly out to their offices as their staff aren’t there. That means we do everything via Zoom and meet more often and engage more directly than previously. It also means that I and my team no longer fly on an airline every few weeks. Everyone wins in this new paradigm except those that focus on business air travel.
No but other people did.
What has gotten into all these rich pricks recently? I mean are they all of a sudden without PR folks to keep them from saying just absolutely stupid shit.
Or are they just scared 🤔
Economic calamity is currently happening, and the wealthy are about to lose after everyone else has lost for decades. They’re just saying the quiet part out loud, blaming someone else.
Its common knowledge amongst the rich that we are heading towards a collapse, and ‘emergency villas’ have had booming sales across the last 10 years.
They know what’s coming, and are going to grab as much as they can before they fly off to their safehouses.
Jokes on them, psychology says their own armed guards will be taking out their bosses and taking the villas over as soon as shit gets bad.
Not even just psychology, history says as much do they not know about the Praetorian guard? They killed a lot of emperors because fuck em.
Oh no, a crazy world event made people start caring about themselves rather than being the most efficient resource for you, their benevolent employer. Won’t somebody think of the CEO and shareholders?
He seems like the kind of guy that wants slaves.
Eat the rich.
Suggestions for a wine pairing?
I’ve heard Chianti pairs well with liver
I got banned from reddshit for saying that, so now I’m here:
Eat The Rich!
THE PEASANTS WILL COMMUTE DAILY TO MY OVERPRICED GLASS DILDO DOWNTOWN WHERE THEY WILL HAVE TO PAY FOR PARKING AND THEY WILL LIKE IT AND THANK ME.
- American CEOs
These lazy fucks who “work” for me got a taste of empowerment, and now they want me to do shit like respect their time.
Crazy coming from a man who’s unofficial job description is " kissing ass and sucking dick of board members"
