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As a non American this reads as satire, but from what I hear about the US work culture I really can't be sure.

I’m too European for this

I'm giving all my belongings to charity. But I don't expect them to actually take any of it. I'm so generous like that. Praise me for being so generous!

Could not tell you. Satire? Rage bait? Completely serious CEO mindset? No idea. All completely possible and just as likely. Coin flip.

is this ragebait?

Obviously a troll

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegemony#Media_and_communications_studies

Adopted from the work of Gramsci and Stuart Hall, in media studies and cultural studies hegemony refers to individuals or concepts that become most dominant in a culture. Building on Gramsci's ideas, Hall stated that the media is a critical institution for furthering or inhibiting hegemony.

Communications studies scholars have argued that in the praxis of hegemony, imperial dominance is established by means of cultural imperialism, whereby the leader state (hegemon) dictates the internal politics and the societal character of the subordinate states that constitute the hegemonic sphere of influence, either by an internal, sponsored government or by an external, installed government. The imposition of the hegemon's way of life—an imperial lingua franca and bureaucracies (social, economic, educational, governing)—transforms the concrete imperialism of direct military domination into the abstract power of the status quo, indirect imperial domination. ...

Culturally, hegemony also is established by means of language, specifically the imposed lingua franca of the hegemon (leader state), which then is the official source of information for the people of the society of the sub-ordinate state. Writing on language and power, Andrea Mayr says, "As a practice of power, hegemony operates largely through language." In contemporary society, an example of the use of language in this way is in the way Western countries set up educational systems in African countries mediated by Western languages.

this comes to mind, basically the kind of thinking in the OP represents a kind of corporate / capitalist hegemonic perspective - employers want you to sacrifice everything for them, ideally at any cost to your own health, liberty, etc., and there is a notion that if you align with those values you are a good worker - you should want to work all the time, you should feel bad for taking paid leave, etc.

This is in opposition to the kind of economic violence and desperation that faces wage workers - no Walmart store employee is being told they need to want to come in to work and not take paid leave, because those workers are already desperate for their wages and are probably relying on government aid programs to bridge the gap in their wages to pay for food.

Instead, in contexts where workers are not desperate and under immediate threat of losing shelter and food is where you find this kind of hegemonic messaging is so strong - the white collar employees who come into offices are the ones who are being made to feel guilty for taking paid leave, they are the ones who are expected to show up to work happy and self-motivated, and to want to be at work every day, to work in the evenings and over weekends without pay, etc. - that's hegemony, it operates through acceptance of a system of beliefs and values, and through self-regulation (rather than direct threats).

If I enjoyed myself at work you'd charge admission instead of paying me.

If you really enjoy lasagna, why would you ever want to not eat it?

Satire or obvious ragebait.

Rookie mistake, dude didn't use the unlimited PTO strategy which makes people second-guess how many days they can reasonably take off before it's deemed abusive.

Y’all fall for the dumbest bait.

This can be read two ways. One is to expect the workers to love their job. The other is that the CEO should thrive to make the work experience so good that people don't want to be parted from their job.

So it can be read as an admission that he has failed so far to make the work environment as good as it can be.

This person is trolling, or totally unhinged.

I'm going to go on LinkedIn and change my title to CEO of some dipshit made up thing so I can post unhinged "We heard you liked work, so we put work on your work so you can work while you work!" Xhibit meme BS like this and drown in the likes from other ragebait farmers.

Likely troll but here's my response.

I love Mary Brown's Chicken but if I'm eating it five days a week, every week, that's not gonna go well for me.

I don't like seeing authors' names scrubbed from an image. The context is vital to understanding what was said.

The blond guy in the pic shared a post by someone named Patel who had shared a post by a CEO on X or LInkedin. There's so much missing from the above that context is impossible. I wouldn't have shared this meme because it's meaningless without that context.

Maybe they're not enjoying their fucking job buddy.

Between annual leave and public holidays, I get 31 days a year off. Four weeks leave, so 20 days, then 11 public holidays.