Typical CEO ragebaiting to make themselves seem relevant.
If Musk has taught me anything in the last several months, it’s that the job of CEO is the easiest jib in the world. He’s CEO of like 5 different companies, and now he has a made-up but high level, government job. Must be fuckin nice-
That’s too much credit. I’d say just an old man given more attention than he deserves.
Narayana Murthy being born was a mistake, I hope someone rectifies it.
I propose we swap and only work 2 days a week.
this should be the way
It seems that modern society has made “standard” things more standard than they originally were.
At least people having special arrangements and working, say, one job 2 days a week and another 3 days a week, and the third sometimes on-demand, seemingly was more normal 100 years ago.
Of course not the majority, the majority would work their asses off by the clock even more than now.
But there are upsides to a non-synchronous, irregular life schedule. Say, more even load for utilities and transport. Weekends not being special days when half the things don’t work.
And, of course, the ability to pick something you like most. Say, if the pay for 3 days a week somewhere is good enough to keep you floating, even if barely, then why the hell not, it’s worth it.
You’ve got my vote
He’s absolutely right. That’s why he should come work for me on his weekends. I’ll pay him $15/hr!
What? He won’t work for that? Lazy CEO.
To be fair, some of my weekends have been a mistake.
Science: knowledge workers stop being consistently productive past 40 hours per week, and probably less than that
Rentier-capitalists hot boxing their own farts recreationally: ackshually the problem is we let you dirty fucking peasants go home to sleep at all
So eloquently put & efficiently communicated, I only wish I could be that articulated with words.
It could be worse. You could be one of the knights who say: Ni.
Murthy claimed he himself worked six and a half days a week until retirement, typically 14 hours and 10 minutes a day, clocking on at 6:20 AM before downing tools at 8:30 PM.
Yeah, sure you did, pal.
“This man has been given too much of an importance by asking his opinion about everything under the sun. His words remind me of those exploitative barons of medieval ages from whom the 8 hours work day rights had to be snatched,” quipped a commenter who claims to be a former Infosys employee.
True words, my friend.
Fun fact: Where I live (Devon, England), every common person once had to spent two days a month working for their local Lord for free, maintaining the roads. That’s as well as paying rent to them, of course. Plus, they had to provide tithes to the Church as well as grow or raise enough food for their family. And if they had any strong sons that might be particularly useful in working their meagre strip of land, they’d be conscripted for the Crown’s armies.
They worked 7 days a week. Incredibly hard and long days by our standards. The only half day they got off was to go to church, which wasn’t really optional. (You weren’t forced, but the whole community turned against you if you didn’t)
It’s pretty clear this is Narayama’s dream, the “good old times”
Was he sired on a weekend?
Murthy once again declared he did not “believe in work-life balance.”
“I have not changed my view; I will take this with me to my grave”
I’m sure your workers are wishing you’d take it real soon.
MBAs were a mistake, says me, some guy on Lemmy.
I know right? Who cares about basketball?
This is honestly pretty funny stuff.
Just because he is an idiot who never worked a day in his life and so doesn’t know that your productivity goes down significantly without relaxation that doesn’t mean that anyone should listen to that drivel.
It’s not about productivity. If that were the real goal then the entire system would be structured radically differently, given what we know now through actual research. The real goal is ensuring that workers do not have ample time or energy to collectively organize. Make sure they don’t have the time to even think about anything else, and you ensure they damn sure don’t have the time to rebel. The other goal is ensuring there are a significant number of unemployed people in terrible enough conditions to make them desperate, but not so terrible that they are incapable of working. That way if s few stray workers get a bug up their ass about organizing and striking, there’s a reserve army of labor in the homeless and unemployed communities that can step in and scab.
These people, like Musk, think laying on a couch with a pen in your hand pondering about random shit to be hard work. That’s where they come up with this kind of BS. That and being from a higher cast and never having worked a single honest day in his life and making a fortune out of corruption and networking.
Hierarchies are bad for honest people. Honest people take work and meritocracy seriously and try to follow them.
But hierarchies are never about meritocracy. Hierarchies are always built by people who have connived their way up. Those who have worked honestly don’t build hierarchies, at worst they are pressed to do that by outside pressure.
In any case, the market economy I’m in favor of doesn’t include big businesses. As in “at all”. Big cooperatives at the maximum.
For the obvious reason that the bigger a business is, the less it’s about market and the more it’s about power and hierarchy. Big businesses are the way human nature with jungle law and such fights markets and rules. By making the space untouched by market mechanisms and rules into something continuous inside one subject - the company.
It’s the same as siloed services in the Internet. A thousand and one web forums are free, despite open despotism of webmasters in each and every one of those. A three or two big social platforms are not, despite their owners trying their best for their policies to appear impartial and professional and depersonalized.
And I guess that’s where I can agree that the “market economy status quo” has been broken by such evolution showing itself both IRL and in the Web. You can’t make something like 1999 Web and expect it to not turn into 2024 Web. And you also can’t make a functional market economy old-style and expect it to not degrade into what we have.
I like solutions touching upon the root of the problem, so - in my opinion personal responsibility (one can even say sovereignty, pun intended) is key. You don’t lose responsibility for your decision just because you’ve paid someone else or have been paid by someone else. You are both responsible, since it’s a common endeavor. The responsibility is not divided, it’s copied. Also personal responsibility excludes companies as subjects of the law. Only a person can have responsibility, property, make decisions.
That and fully protected free speech and right to self-defense and transparency of the state. I’m not talking about forcing others to give you platform, I’m talking about shadow bans, about state secrets not being something you’d care about if you hadn’t signed anything, about state official’s decisions being only contestable in court, something like that. Anything forcing you to keep your head down.
OK, done dreaming.
And sitting on the couch with their dicks in their hands is “hard work” for them, but it’s just jerking off for the rest of us. These assholes consider themselves working when they sleep, because them being rested is “good for the business”.
sitting on the couch with their dicks in their hands is “hard work” for them
Uh, I think you mean “meditation” and “mindfulness”
Shockingly, your brain and productivity improve when you get regular downtime.
(Yeah I know most people want something shorter than a book. It’s a solid read though.)
I’ll read this next weekend 🙃
I’ll eat you next weekend! Mmmmmm, smoked gouda cheese. Lettice. Pickles. Bacon. Squirt of ketchup.
Just need some potatoes.
“Good night. Sleep well. I’ll most likely kill you in the morning.”
His american colleagues sometimes poke fun at my cousins branch for only working 35 hours a week, taking long vacations and having lots of state mandated holidays throughout the year. When they hire someone new they sometimes comment on how lazy the german colleagues are…
Then they point them towards the numbers and the fact that the german branch is constantly setting the productivity records. They’ve been outperforming the americans by more than 10% for years.
I agree weekends were a mistake.
It should have always been 2 on 1 off, 2 on 2 off.
Sounds sexy
The sexiest.
My wife and I often play this game in bed.
Roll over, roll over🎶
