Love this Matty. Remember I work for an advertising company. The cliches and buzz words and bullshit are insane. The pay discrepancies are insane. Stick your "culture" up your ass! I will someday write a full book on all the bullshit I've seen and heard.
I did the whole "quiet quitting" a few years ago and it has been fantastic for me. You don't pay me enough, don't give me the people I need, so I shut shit down. I have a skill and because of your stupidity you can afford to lose me, so now I'm in fucking charge. I hold the knowledge and I have the "killswitch" in place if you decide to let me go. You don't like my breaks and my hard stop end to the day, well my finger might be itchy to hit that switch mutherfuckers.
You know, it just might be time for a long workday shit or a nap about now.
I’d say my CEO can’t write either, but he has a dedicated comms team at his disposal.
The most freeing word I’ve learned is “no.” I wish more people used it. Being an employee is strictly transactional; you exchange your time & labor for an agreed upon rate. The end. Words like “team,” and “family” are used to condition behavior. I don’t know about anyone else, but no one from the C-suite joined me for Christmas dinner.
Thanks so much, Kevin. I'm glad this resonated with you. So very tired of this guys being seen as elite and special. They're as clueless as you and I and only possess all of the hubris and none of the humility to truly lead a group of people.
"Overpaid emotional infants". Yes! Especially the CEOs in "entertainment" companies who keep producing films and TV that are as cheap and shitty as Niraj's words to his employees.
Interesting how AI is capable of taking over only lower wage jobs and not the positions of CEO's...when the tech is perfectly fit to do so.
It'll be interesting to see how CEO's and others in positions of management will (or won't) change in the midst of the inevitable insurgencies on the horizon.
Love this Matty. Remember I work for an advertising company. The cliches and buzz words and bullshit are insane. The pay discrepancies are insane. Stick your "culture" up your ass! I will someday write a full book on all the bullshit I've seen and heard.
I did the whole "quiet quitting" a few years ago and it has been fantastic for me. You don't pay me enough, don't give me the people I need, so I shut shit down. I have a skill and because of your stupidity you can afford to lose me, so now I'm in fucking charge. I hold the knowledge and I have the "killswitch" in place if you decide to let me go. You don't like my breaks and my hard stop end to the day, well my finger might be itchy to hit that switch mutherfuckers.
You know, it just might be time for a long workday shit or a nap about now.
Hell yeah.
Thanks so much, Beav. I know you and I see eye to eye on this shit, but I always love to see your fire on this shit. Keep it up!
1000% yes to every word of this.
I’d say my CEO can’t write either, but he has a dedicated comms team at his disposal.
The most freeing word I’ve learned is “no.” I wish more people used it. Being an employee is strictly transactional; you exchange your time & labor for an agreed upon rate. The end. Words like “team,” and “family” are used to condition behavior. I don’t know about anyone else, but no one from the C-suite joined me for Christmas dinner.
Thanks so much, Kevin. I'm glad this resonated with you. So very tired of this guys being seen as elite and special. They're as clueless as you and I and only possess all of the hubris and none of the humility to truly lead a group of people.
And they /still/ just whacked 13% of their workforce.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/19/investing/wayfair-layoffs/index.html
But they were just winning. He was streamlining and laying cable all on his own. What happened?
Probably comes down to not enough people running their own cable, really.
/s
Sounds about right.
"Overpaid emotional infants". Yes! Especially the CEOs in "entertainment" companies who keep producing films and TV that are as cheap and shitty as Niraj's words to his employees.
Thanks, David. Frankly, I am just done with dudes failing up and thinking they're geniuses.
Interesting how AI is capable of taking over only lower wage jobs and not the positions of CEO's...when the tech is perfectly fit to do so.
It'll be interesting to see how CEO's and others in positions of management will (or won't) change in the midst of the inevitable insurgencies on the horizon.