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And that’s basically it!
Its always the executives that say this shit.
You know
the ones with tons of money, that pawn children off on teams of live in nannies, who can "work" (ie, check an email once a day) from their yachts, etc etc.
If they had to work like the ground level people, for the ground level pay, they would be screaming for unions and regulations.
nice m dash CMBC. fuckin rage bait AI slop
It's always "do a 'little more' here and there" for work, but if you ask to be paid a little more for that work then they lose their minds. These parasites are the most entitled pieces of shit ever.
The people are just myth making: Musk and this woman first stretch the definition of work to mean everything they ever do…expensive business lunches or exotic vacations (that include a zoom meeting!) are considered work. But then difficult or stressful work gets discounted by association because the surfs only do it for 12 hours a day.
*Serfs
Maybe I meant to type Smurfs?
I can't tell if "smurfing" sounds like a fun water sport, or instead, buying pseudoephedrin for Walter White
If they're peasant smurfs, would they be "smerfs?" 🤔
Serfs up, dude!
Actually I think work/life balance is an outdated concept.
These days it's more like work/survival balance.
*cocks shotgun
"sharpens scimitar"
Wal-Mart exec can go suck a fuck!
Just wait until her neglected kids rebel and turn into miserable drug addicts.
I never believe her also.
“I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance,” says Morris, who oversees the experience of over 2.1 million employees. “I call it work-life integration. There are times that your life requires a lot more, and there are times that your work requires a lot more. … I don’t think that’s a bad thing.”
Except the reality is, is that there are managers who will and have asked you to "please work another hour" or "can you just stay a little while?" of which I have been actually asked and I always have turned down. I want to go home, I've done your stupid 8-hour shift to please a bunch of dumbasses who don't give a shit about anything we do unless it's to complain, I'm leaving.
Way to be tone-deaf.
When Morris is visiting family, for example, her main focus is on them. But if there’s something at work that needs her attention, she won’t wait until she’s back in the office to do so. Work-life integration helps her stay on top of her work duties while still showing up for herself and the people she loves, she says.
I hope your family dies while you're working so you won't get to say your 'goodbye' to them - just like many have had to when they're too strapped by work to even see much less, talk to family members. Just like people who can't spend the holidays with loved ones, because they're having to be at the store working for last-minute ungrateful shoppers. Or how much time a worker misses their children's firsts because they gotta put food on the table.
“You might be [at your kid’s] soccer game, but you happen to look at a few emails,” Morris says. Maybe you’re chatting with your boss via text while waiting for an appointment, or tying up a few loose ends at work before you put the kids to bed. That doesn’t necessarily mean you’re a workaholic who lacks boundaries — rather, you find ways to combine your personal and professional duties that work for you, instead of being strict and inflexible with your time.
Nobody does this but you. Nobody. Does. This.
After working at Walmart, I would say you can definitely go out of your way to help.
And upper management still won't promote you, or give you a raise. Just a bunch of thanks.
This abuse is built into the system, it's always a promise of a promotion, but the reality is they just want suckers to work for free. This is Walmarts basic Mode of operation. Anything else they tell you is just part of the propaganda to keep everyone working for free. It's an endless flood of propaganda, designed to keep you working for free in hopes of a raise.
"I've never believed in ~~the term~~ work-life balance."
What it really means
This privileged CEO thinks what she does is 'work' when she never as to work a day in customer service.
if you can be CEO of multiple companies, it's hardly work. Not saying this woman in particular is, but lots of CEOs are CEO of multiple companies. It's hardly work.
Sure, Jan. If I could make millions at work with the same effort, I would.
I mean, she makes enough money to say that. Most everyone under her, not so much. The self-centeredness of these CEOs is staggering.
“I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance,” says Morris, who oversees the experience of over 2.1 million employees. “I call it work-life integration. There are times that your life requires a lot more, and there are times that your work requires a lot more. … I don’t think that’s a bad thing.”
“You might be [at your kid’s] soccer game, but you happen to look at a few emails,” Morris says. Maybe you’re chatting with your boss via text while waiting for an appointment, or tying up a few loose ends at work before you put the kids to bed. That doesn’t necessarily mean you’re a workaholic who lacks boundaries — rather, you find ways to combine your personal and professional duties that work for you, instead of being strict and inflexible with your time.
I notice that both examples are of someone using personal time to do work and not the other way around.
Yeah it’s a lot easier to say that when your work doesn’t require you to be on-site, or consists of lunch meetings and answering e-mails.
I once heard the following which struck a chord for me and I always keep it in mind when it comes to work:
"20 years from now, the only people who will remember you stayed late at work are your kids"
Obviously this doesn't apply if you have to work late to survive. If you have the choice though, don't give these companies more time than they really deserve. You won't be remembered or rewarded for it.
I don't work anymore (disability),but when i did, I went all out and over-performed at my job. It got me nothing. No pay-rises, no recognition. If i am ever able to return to work, I will do the bare minimum to not get fired.
Instead, you'll just be used as the example of "being a team player" the manager tries to invoke to cajole others into doing free work, too.
This still sounds awful. Never unplugged, never tuning down. What the fuck kind of life is that?
It's the life that all these corporations want their workers to be forced to live. In their eyes, if you're not producing value for the one on top, you should either be sleeping or dead. Oh, and they'll only be paying you for 8 of those 18 hours you'll be working, at the lowest possible rate they can, if you get the luxury of payment at all. If you're a prisoner, tough luck.
i had an HR person who kept saying their "wages are competative" as if that was something to brag about. you are saying you pay the lowest possible pay that still brings in employee. loved leaving that job after a decade, told that HR person to go fuck herself when she tried to talk to me my last day.
Here's the thing though, 90% of her life IS tuned down. Every time she's not worrying about how to pay the bills. How to get to work. How many presents there will be for Christmahannukwanzakkuh. Hell even how much this week's groceries are going to cost from her own store thst she almost certainly doesn't get most of her groceries from.
She just doesn't realize it, because that's not a life she's experienced. She has absolutely no way to empathize because it's as foreign to her as a guinea pig flying an airplane.
I notice none of the examples involve taking care of life stuff while on the job. Only the one direction.
The direction that funnels more money to the top
“You might be [at your kid’s] soccer game, but you happen to look at a few emails,” Morris says. Maybe you’re chatting with your boss via text while waiting for an appointment, or tying up a few loose ends at work before you put the kids to bed. That doesn’t necessarily mean you’re a workaholic who lacks boundaries — rather, you find ways to combine your personal and professional duties that work for you, instead of being strict and inflexible with your time.
OK but Walmart retail staffers clock in and clock out with a time card, and require to be on site to fulfill their duties.
“If I never take a holiday, the tone that I set for everybody is, don’t take a holiday — you can’t do that. And I don’t think that that’s right,” says Morris. “As leaders, we have a responsibility to role model what we expect of others.”
Oh how generous of this person to take a vacation. Do they pay their Walmart retail staff to take a vacation too?
Oh is she ok with her employees texting their loved ones between tasks or is it only work that's supposed to encroach on everything else?
Yeah, it was telling that all her examples are of work "integrating" itself into your home life, and 0 examples of things working the other way around. If you want me answering emails during my kid's sporting event (jfk) then how about we make this a two-way street and I go home to do my laundry and watch some netflix if it's a slow day at the office lol. These fucking people.
"If I am working this hard, everyone should too."
I think this is the mindset of bosses as to why they power trip. Not all but this is far too common.
People with a money addiction will insist that you don't deserve a comfortable life because you insist on balancing work and life
I hate the fact that money is equated with success. Like, what's her K/D ratio on CS:Source?
That doesn't necessarily mean you're a workaholic who lacks boundaries
That’s pretty much the definition of a workaholic.
says the walton family/ceos that never worked a single day in thier life, that isnt given through nepotism, its always these people saying this.
New suggested title for the article:
"Billionaire executive can't understand why their minimum salary employees don't want to sacrifice their personal lives to make her even more money".