It is a lie that CEO’s publicize about themselves. He has two children. If he actually was working 7 days a week from the moment he woke up he would have never had a chance to get married and have children- which is the life his workers lead.
Musk used to brag about working 7 days a week one day, and the next day brag about how he never missed his children’s soccer games.
Most are sociopaths who definitely do not think about other people, so it’s probably true that he does nothing else but think about the work. Eg Elon
They don’t understand the actual concept of working. They think taking a call once in a while while out at a soiree counts entirely as work time.
“I had to sit through a 3 hour lunch at Nobu and a visit to a whorehouse with that dreadful bore Altman. What an exhausting 16 hour day.”
Musk brags about working 100-hour weeks … while being the CEO of five companies. That means that at best being a CEO of one company is a 20-hour-a-week part time job.
That’s because his work is thinking about how much money he could be making, not actually producing anything substantial. Those days are long gone
I’m sure he “works hard” like in that CEO workweek graph.
That image legit ticks me off.
It is sooo obvious they were trying to pad out the work hours as much as possible so the graph wasn’t “Yeah, CEO’s work less than you (and get paid a thousand times more)”
If 20 hours of your 55 hour work week is “miscellaneous personal stuff”, you have a 35 hour work week. 🤦🏻♂️
And if 5 hours of your 35 hour work week are “business meals”, you have a 30 hour work week.
And if 6 his of that 30 hr work week are ‘working alone’ I’m pretty sure it’s fun those hours nap time and wanking and thinking about how ‘working from home’ employees can’t be trusted.
Then you are left with a 24 hr work week.
Worse: they don’t point out how unhealthy it is to live this way and what terrible family life he must have.
The message of the headline “so you should, too.”
The problem is that it’s a lie.
My boss says he has not taken a day off in 6 years.
Posts pics of him on a boat fishing with our CRO on a Monday . . .
Well, you know, he talked to somebody for two seconds on his phone while on vacation. ;\
Most CEOs are so useless, but their idea of “working” is just thinking about work and money all day but not actually doing anything.
A lot of Natural Managerial types think pointing a finger and saying “Do That” is the same as actually doing it, and they take credit for it because their Natural Managerial skills made it happen, not the actual work.
This isn’t just confined to workplace environments. Lots of people are like that in home/ family environments, relationships, friendships, etc.
That sounds absolutely fucking miserable.
Only difference between this and a drug addict is the drug addict doesn’t generate value
Hey that copper pipe isn’t going to pawn itself
I question how much value this guy actually generates, too. Probably a normal amount for however many hours of work, but he and his immediate colleagues set the wages.
To argue the value of the man is one thing, no CEO is worth a billion times more than their employee. However, my point is moreso that the destructive nature of an addicted individual is only tolerated depending on whether that person has a certain value tied to them.
We would allow men like this to consume the world in favor of helping the drug addict.
I dunno, we shouldn’t view people in terms of generating value, but rather in terms of needs.
What the drug addict needs, is treatment. And this CEO needs a ton of it - to step down and foster a healthier work culture, where workplace democracy is present.
Replace “$4.2 trillion tech giant” with “cocaine”
All the cool kids are doing ketamine now. So much ketamine that their bladders shrink to the side of a thimble and develop lesions, such the urine seeps into their bladder wounds and their bodies balloon with piss.
UwU
Sounds like mental illness but its epic because money.
I tried to pull this tactic to get a raise on my salary.
didn’t work, if anything they reduced my raises thereafter.
i like how its counted as work just thinking about work for him. but it only counts as work for his employees when they are online under the supervision of their manager.
Online? They were probably forced back into office.
Sounds like a man that is running from his demons
These nutjobs will be on their deathbeds and think “I’m so glad I spent my life creating shareholder value”
Not
isnt he a nepo-baby that loves trump.
he should work while he sleeps in order to come up with a better gpu that doesnt fuckin suck ass
His company makes basically all of their money selling GPUs for AI. Gaming is an afterthought now.
No he doesn’t. He pays someone to say he does.
And if he does (he doesn’t), that’s obviously terrible for every reason you already understand.
