Current Events > "You don't want to just work for a paycheck and go home to Netflix-CEO

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Of the company I work for said something to that effect this morning during a meeting, when talking about long hours people are working Saying how we're a team/family and we're doing the hard work in order to create a story for the future or some shit.
I just rolled my eyes sooo much when he said that. Like, fuck outta here man
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You will work ze 16 hour day including weekendz for nothing and will like dit!

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Actually that's exactly what I want to do.

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I hate that. I worked at Wal Mart (for 3 days lol) and my boss there said something similar. That Wal Mart was a family. It was so stupid

My boss told me it would only take a couple weeks of being retired to become extremely bored

lol maybe for you, workaholic

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ImAMarvel posted...

What do you do for a living again? Don't you work on rockets?

Yeah. Current company is a startup type company. Aerospace

To be fair, when he talks about this kind of rhetoric, he also tends to tie in that we all own the company, since we have stock options and shit.
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emblem boy posted...

Yeah. Current company is a startup type company. Aerospace

To be fair, when he talks about this kind of rhetoric, he also tends to tie in that we all own the company, since we have stock options and shit.

A lot of companies do that now for employees lol.

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Uh oh, that's anti-union speak. Someone must have caught wind of something, lol.

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I love how CEOs are all stupid enough to think were invested as much as them

How do you have direct contact with the CEO?


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"You're right. So you'll be reducing unpaid overtime and giving more holiday/sick pay right? You are true to what you just said after all, and I trust you to be this sort of person"
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Sunhawk posted...

How do you have direct contact with the CEO?

Big red flag anytime leadership refers to the environment as "family"
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Me: just so you're all aware, if I hand in my notice today, I can literally go back to being an alcoholic on unemployment and I would be happier since I'd be playing video games all day and could still afford to live

Senior management: o.o

Sunhawk posted...

How do you have direct contact with the CEO?

Weekly company meeting where he was speaking. Wasn't a direct conversation with me.

Popcorn2000 posted...

I love how CEOs are all stupid enough to think were invested as much as them

Yeah. But this is someone who I'm sure had made many millions in the previous company he's worked for and is out here trying to create his own company and working long hours. Like, bro. Calm down
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I've once asked an employer like that for a day off. When asked why I said it was because I wanted to celebrate my birthday. He replied with "Why? I don't take days off for MY birthday". Told him to shove my job up his ass and quit.
Now whenever one of these "family" assholes asks why I want the day off I just reply "because I've earned those days as by government mandate".

voldothegr8 posted...

Big red flag anytime leadership refers to the environment as "family"

Absolutely. I mean, just look at Scotty right here on CE..

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I dont live to live homie

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emblem boy posted...

Yeah. Current company is a startup type company. Aerospace

To be fair, when he talks about this kind of rhetoric, he also tends to tie in that we all own the company, since we have stock options and shit.

How small is the startup you're working at? Are we talking, like, 10 people? Or is this a medium sized business of 50+ people?

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If you arent ruthlessly exploiting your family for your personal benefit then you arent doing it right.

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If your boss ever says your coworkers are "family", you know they are a sociopath

s0nicfan posted...

emblem boy posted...

Yeah. Current company is a startup type company. Aerospace

To be fair, when he talks about this kind of rhetoric, he also tends to tie in that we all own the company, since we have stock options and shit.

How small is the startup you're working at? Are we talking, like, 10 people? Or is this a medium sized business of 50+ people?

Yeah, I wasn't sure what term to use, but no, not like 10 people. It's increased to like ~300.
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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Actually that's exactly what I want to do.

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emblem boy posted...

Yeah, I wasn't sure what term to use, but no, not like 10 people. It's increased to like ~300.

Ah okay, yea, that certainly changes things. If you were in a new startup where the company succeeding or failing depended entirely on the individual actions of an extremely small team it'd be kind of shitty to have that attitude (or even take the job in the first place), but once you're hitting a few hundred that's a completely different story.

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My favorite kind of family is the one that takes advantage of my need for food and shelter to get me to agree to terms that no sane person would even consider otherwise.

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emblem boy posted...

how we're a team/family

Any workplace that says this is an INSTANT red flag.

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s0nicfan posted...

emblem boy posted...

Yeah, I wasn't sure what term to use, but no, not like 10 people. It's increased to like ~300.

Ah okay, yea, that certainly changes things. If you were in a new startup where the company succeeding or failing depended entirely on the individual actions of an extremely small team it'd be kind of shitty to have that attitude (or even take the job in the first place), but once you're hitting a few hundred that's a completely different story.

Yeah, and I could understand that.
And that's probably how he and other founders still feel...
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Executives are probably even worse than managers.

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Anytime a job uses the words "passion" or "family" they're just trying to extract free labor from you.

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sounds like TC has a case of the Mondays

Thats a trick they do. The family shit is ruse.

And when will idiots realize yes the reason people work your crappy job is because they need to in order to survivecut the BS and understand that.

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That sounds like he was begging for someone to say "you're right, that's why I'm quitting and doing stuff on my own" and just left then and there

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" ... but without our brains and muscle not a single wheel would turn."

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If they want you in for longer, they should pay you for the time you're spending. You're not a family, you're not indebted to them and it's not selfish to ask for compensation for a service they're asking from you.

No amount of corporate doublespeak and emotional brainwashing will ever change that.

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