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A Boring Dystopia

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45976558

Moar overtime, you lazy serfs!

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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 73 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

He "happily works through weekends"...because his idea of what "work" is isn't really fucking work.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 45 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He mentioned reading the newspaper and sitting there reflecting on things as work.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Some of these assholes consider the commute or exercise as work time. Must be frickin' nice.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

To be completely fair, commute time should be billable for everyone. But should I have to work during those hours? Absolutely not.

[–] Diurnambule@jlai.lu 15 points 2 days ago

Was in a startup where the founder did this. I started to copy and commit things while entering the train and scheduling call in transport. He forbade us to do that and kept doing small hours buy never spoke about it to us again XD

[–] wampus@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

Flyin around some tropical "resorts" with suspiciously young staff, fuckin models to create an army of my progeny, shitposting on twitter... but stock went up, and I made money! I must be doing that working thing! I'm working for like 6 companies full time as their boss! -- Elon Musk and other Billionaire shitheads.