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• someguy3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Tell him the best employees will quit. The rest will be too burnt out to actually do anything truly productive.

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  • misterdoctor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Don’t tell him shit, The Market™️ will sort it out and he’ll be in for a fun surprise when all his best talent flees to a rival company

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• NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Your friend sounds pretty lazy. He should be working 7 days per week, 12 hour shifts, for no extra pay.

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  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    He probably does BECAUSE HE’S THE OWNER AND GETS ALL THE PROFITS.

    What is infuriating is when owners think that employees need to be as dedicated as they are despite not getting the same profit from their labor.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      BECAUSE HE’S THE OWNER AND GETS ALL THE PROFITS.

      Unless he’s up to his eyeballs in debt, in which case he’s just an employee of his lenders.

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  • nesc@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What else can you expect from entitled “people” these days? He probably not even arrives to office half an hour before work.

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  How are you still “friends” with this person?

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Better a friend than an employee. 😬

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• DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Has he considered 7 day work weeks, with sleeping quarters for the workforce to stay on the premises. And armed guards to prevent them from escaping?

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  • isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    shush!!! google indexes Lemmy too!

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• PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  First off, expansion by maximizing growth is redundant.

  More importantly, if he’s looking to have the facility running for >~40hrs a week, just hire more people. Put them on shifts and bam, the fixed overhead shrinks even smaller in relation to revenue.

  That said, I have no idea what his line is, I just assume it’s small-time manufacturing.

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  • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    To your first point, not always? There’s aggressive growth at all cost. Then, like a fire, everything is consumed, but you now don’t have any staying power and your competitors will tear you apart.

    Or there’s sustainable growth. Having backup plans, and making sure an expansion that might not succeed will also not bring down your entire company.

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  • Xanis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s fine to ask your team to bear the burden with appropriate compensation on a timeline of hiring to build out a longer, more sustained work week. Do it right and you’ll even gain respect, just gotta follow-thru and be open and honest about the difficulties, while acknowledging and working with your team. Then also be present consistently during this transition phase and either help if you can, or stay out of the way if you can’t.

    Problem is we know this isn’t how it’ll go down.

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• TechnicallyColors@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I think it’s hard to dig yourself out of this hole unless you’ve got early retirement on the horizon. The more you work, the less of an outside life you have, and the less you feel compelled to focus on anything but work, rinse and repeat. Your friend probably doesn’t have anything to look forward to IRL, so might as well make more money.

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  • formalcapybara@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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    • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Strongly suspect that “a % of the overtime rate” is a lot less than 100%, too.

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    • Zexks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This is a huge piece of context missing from the OP.

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    • TechnicallyColors@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Oh wow, that is horrible. I know people that talk exactly like that w/r/t wanting to “further their career” etc, but I guess the “announcement” part at the end doesn’t make as much sense in that context.

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  • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Your friend probably doesn’t have anything to look forward to IRL, so might as well make more money.

    Buuut… His workers do. Empathy is caring/taking action about something even if it doesn’t personally affect you.

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• tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  He literally shares the same goals as cancer

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  • PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I… I really like this!

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• Soup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I love these people because they are so adamant that working more will help them while every single study shows that people are way more productive when they have rest time. A 4-day work week would shoot his company’s productivity up and actually save money on things like electricity but he’s so far up his own ass that he cannot possibly understand how that could work.

  I do think that the commentor who said he must not have anything outside of work has a point. Like, who on earth is has such a shit life outside of work that they can brainwash themselves into believing that more work is a solution?

  Your friend is a complete idiot, an astounding failure of a human being and even as an emotionless machine.

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• Bronzebeard@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  “A % of the overtime rate”… So not the whole overtime rate… For overtime work?

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  • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m guessing his employees are salaried and throwing them a fraction of what they’d be due if hourly is how he assuages whatever he has left of a conscience.

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If OT is spelled out in the hiring contract he’s gonna be hurting later when he gets sued for unpaid wages.

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• FeloniousPunk@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Your friend needs to realize that no matter how much they want employees to work extra hard, they will not do it because they do not have incentive. No matter how hard they work, they will not benefit in the long term like he will.

  Bust my ass six days a week to make HIM wealthy? No. And fuck you.

  That is the difference.

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  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think they know this and their game is to intimidate people into accepting that

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• spongebue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  “how do you plan to counter the inevitable contraction of your workforce to achieve your expansion goals?”

  Also, he’s probably a shit person. If he actually implements this plan I’d start inviting him to stuff on his extra work day (maybe pull in other mutual friends). Bonus points if you can make the first extra day such an awesome thing that it either eats him up inside on that day, or if you manage to get him to accept all of his employees revolt over it

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  • earphone843@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Lol, you think a person who implements such a policy will apply it to themselves?

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    • spongebue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Some people are workaholics, especially people who think like that.

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• peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Ha tell him the internet says good luck, hope he likes the taste of lead?

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Image

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• Leviathan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  And this ballsack scab is still someone you refer to as “friend”?

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• 5in1k@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Makes my slapping hand tingle.

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• 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Your friend needs to read Good to Great by Jim Collins, and reassess.

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• Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I would accept a single 6-day workweek in Q3, if that’s all I need to work that quarter, that’s a solid life goal.

  But yeah, what he’s talking about is not sustainable, and he’s doing it to himself.

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• empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Someone’s been reading too many LinkedIn posts

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Time to debate how many layers the OSI model has

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    • PlexSheep@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s 8

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• BassTurd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I would quit on the 6th day. I’d show up to my shift for 5 and then not be there on 6. I guess I’d do that until I got fired, but I would never be there on the 6th day.

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• ReverendIrreverence@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Here’s hoping a large percentage of his employees tell him to pound sand…and then walk

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Let him do this six days alone. Just move elsewhere.

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• HappyTimeHarry@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Gotta make that Q3 line go up somehow

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