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[–] [email protected] 268 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

The disconnect from reality here is just mind blowing. Dude needs to go overseas and witness how utterly terrifying a threat on your life you have no control over actually is. Sidenote: punchable face.

[–] [email protected] 123 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yeah actually mental.

What he calls 'dedication' is actually fear at having to hold your job down during the middle of a fucking WAR because if you disappoint your corporate overlords you will be both getting missiles rained on you AND unable to support your family.

It's desperation, and desperation which is very intentionally baked into the system so dickhead 'leaders' like these can get the slaves they are looking for and label that slavery as a 'positive work ethic'

So out of touch with real people.

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[–] [email protected] 187 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Someone should fire this guy. Out of a cannon. Into the sun.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago

Just set him on fire here, no need to launch a rocket with all the pollution that will create.

End result is extra crispy lunatic either way.

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[–] [email protected] 172 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

CEO: Working in office is good Also CEO: Hiring offshore is also good

???

[–] [email protected] 76 points 3 weeks ago

Silly domestic remote employees want a livable wage and are less tolerant to being paid less because they don't live in an overpriced area.

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[–] [email protected] 129 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

"Returning to the office" is such a gross phrase. Get fucked.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 3 weeks ago

Isn't it. It has a strange implication as though being in the office is the proper place and one day we all just forgot to be there.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

My employer has stooped so low as to call it "return to work". Like, what the fuck have I been doing the past 5 years!?

I'm currently in the final round of interviews for a new employer. I don't expect that they will be nearly different, but at least they will pay more.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago

I'm going to start calling it "Leaving your home".

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[–] [email protected] 112 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"I live in a poor and war-torn country so I will work for a low wage even while my home might be bombes"

Captialist nut jobs: "So dedicated!"

I swear, if it was legal to execute employees they would do it everyday because "that's what it means to be a good CEO" or some shit

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

They'd sell their organs first.

"Today is mandatory skin, bone marrow, and liver donation day. There might be pizza. Employees with moret han one kidney have to refer to HR."

[–] [email protected] 107 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Because it's so important that you physically sit here in the office, we're replacing you with people on the other side of the planet.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Bonus points if your company mandates return to office, lays off people after they return to office, and then builds a nice new office overseas in a completely opposite timezone to fill with replacements. Then make the people there physically sit in that brand new office... and make them report to the people here.

The job? Data entry.

I just.. I don't... Why...

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[–] [email protected] 99 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

The reason they are cheap and dedicated is because they are desperate, living in a country where if they didn't have this job they would literally be starving and in poverty.

So CEOs like this are simply capitalizing on their desperation to save money from hiring domestic workers who have a better safety net. Absolutely disgusting pieces of trash.

Also why does this guy who looks like a 19 year old frat boy believe anyone should listen to his advice?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

why does this guy who looks like a 19 year old frat boy believe anyone should listen to his advice?

No, I get it. He reminds the bosses of their kids who they're ignoring. He tells them what they want to hear so they can pretend their kids love them.

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

If I post in slack that my family was almost killed and the CEO responds with “this is getting me fired up!!” I will absolutely leak admin credentials and let that bitch get hacked. Kinder and gentler than choking a mf

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I saw that disgusting comment at the bottom. He is a caricature businessman from a Verhoeven movie. We've reached what was supposed to be over-the-top satire.

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

This kinda shit is one of the smaller reasons we all cheered on Luigi.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, when you're easily replaceable and need the job, you tend to work yourself to death. It's really hard to get a tech job in India, and I assume the same is true for Pakistan.

So yeah, dude has no EQ.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Great, another 26 year old that stumbled into wealth and thinks that makes him an authority.

Like those 20 something "executive coaches" fresh out of school I always seem to stumble upon on LinkedIn. They think they are incredible, but in reality they are only incredible in the literal sense.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I was managing a project with contractors in Ukraine when the war broke out. They had some equipment of ours on loan for around 10.000 euros. While I was handling their employees suddenly scattering all over Europe, my upper management wanted me to ask them to keep our equipment safe. I told my management to get fucked. Luckily they understood how insensitive they were being.

I continued the project, we even paid our invoices earlier to help them out. The company was so grateful. Later in that project, my coworker who is originally from Iran expressed his sympathies when Iranian drones were raining down on Ukraine, how he was ashamed his country was doing this. What a moment

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

I’ve managed people in India before - not to save money but to handle overnight tickets - and to me they work too hard.

One of my reports was affected by some pretty significant flooding and asked if maybe they could have a day off.

I told them to not worry about work until their house was no longer filled with mud and water.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

Nice job dude. How did your wife take it after they fired you for being human?

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

This is the most monstrous human being I’ve witnessed here. There is something fundamentally broken in him, and I’m terrified that this diseased thought process will spread through speech. I pray it’s genetic, and therefore quarantinable.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Born on third base and thought he hit the home run look and feel.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 weeks ago

I have been in tech for almost thirty years and this August will mark the 20th anniversary of the company I started.

In my experience, there are two predominant types of tech exec. On the one hand you have the folk who invest in "human capital", which makes it sound awful but it is meant as a way to acknowledge that your workforce is your main asset, not a liability to be trimmed for cost savings. The other are douchebags like this guy who start and run companies putting out sub par garbage on the cheap. Some of these companies do business at a loss, just so they can show an active book of business so they cam borrow even more money. They are rarely profitable and produce nothing of value...but they do love to circle jerk each other to no end.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I have said this in another post, Western employers love to hire non-Western immigrants because non-Western cultures are still traditional and conditioned to obey authority and hierarchy, and to value work more. And more importantly, this results in a less class conscious population, so non-Westerners are less likely to complain and unionise than their Western counterparts. While the minimum wage in most Western countries is peanuts these days when one considers the worsening cost of living, immigrants think Western minimum wage is CEO-level salary when compared to their home country's basic pay, and thus don't complain for being overworked for little pay by Western standards. Needless to say, Western companies exploit non-Westerners because the latter don't know better.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I’ll bet $50 this “CEO” has very few “employees.” Maybe just one. Which makes the screenshot message even sadder.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (12 children)

OK yeah. He is a recent grad from Dartmouth and his company markets exclusively to college students and boasts $500,000 in sales.

This might sound like a lot but it’s not enough to have many employees. He’s essentially a self-employed ~~kid~~ young man acting as the sole managing member of a disregarded entity and his “Pakistani employee” is likely a 1099 gig-worker, not a w2 employee.

So, big grain of salt here. It’s a ~~kid~~ young man cosplaying as a big-shot CEO on social media. Maybe don’t luigi this one until he’s had the chance to actually be a colossal piece of shit.

Edit: trying to learn not to call young adults kids, even when they totally look or act like one

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 weeks ago

"makes me want to run through a wall" is an interesting way to say you are turgid

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 weeks ago

Keep running through those walls my guy, don’t let your dreams be memes.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This has to be satire. Please, someone tell me it's satire.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It has to be.

Point one says come back to the office, indicating they don’t like remote work.

Point two says hire people to work remotely.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago

Collin really gives off that "I kill small animals to feel alive" vibe.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago

i thought he was going to say something like "I got this message, look how horrifying our foreign policy is and how it affects random innocent people" but he just instead decided to go "hey wanna exploit some labor overseas for cheap? consider hiring someone currently getting carpet bombed; it's so lucrative!" fucking psycho

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Hahahaha, yeah, hiring overseas is a great way to skimp on payroll. In my experience, it’s also a great way to skimp on quality, effectiveness, and sanity. We just got rid of one guy who, immediately after hiring, asked for an RTO exemption for a newborn child; fine, it was granted. When that expired, still refused. Was counseled on it and their low quality of work. Then tried having someone else attend their meetings, was called on it, and resigned. Pretty sure they were trying to subcontract their job to work multiple full-time jobs.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (7 children)

Seeing more and more of this domestically.

People are recognizing that their relationship with their employer is exploitative and are trying to return that energy.

I've worked with a few people recently that clearly were holding multiple jobs or were much more focussed on their side hustle.

Symptom of a bigger issue in my opinion.

Could it have been Jesus that said "Those who live by the free market shall die by the free market?"

I like how his expression of inspiration / passion is destructive (running through a wall). It's very on brand.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I vote for sending drones to american ceos, I’m sure they will “give a shit” afterwards and be more motivated on the workplace. 📈 /s

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

i would not be able to work in an environment where any colleagues fellate the exploitative bullshit corpo "leadership" with such fervor

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This guy rents out storage boxes and thinks he’s some sort of business genius LOL.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

https://x.com/collin_ruth89?lang=en

This guys xitter account will turn you green with Luigi.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

What a bloody insufferable cunt

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago

This definitely meets the Lunatic level.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This guys job ‘title’ is an automatic block for me, dawg.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is the corporate behavior Libertarians never want to discuss. Their Elysium where corporations treat everyone well and don’t destroy things out of some unforced understanding that to do so would place them at a major disadvantage is a farce. There will always be disparity, and corporations will leverage that to pay the poorer less than the better off, dump waste where there are no rules, and drive people to keep working while bombs fall near their homes.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yeah, we need more of the "I'm so desperate I have to keep working even though my town is being shelled" mentality here in the United States of Freedom! That's the dream our forefathers fought for!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

As shitty as things like this are, at least they're self identifying who needs to be in the Guillotine line.

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