I am not committed to winning
LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’
Submitted 4 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to workreform@lemmy.world
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greenhorn@lemm.ee 4 months ago
kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Maybe if workers actually Won by doing their jobs, this would be even close to approaching accurate.
phoenixarise@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Winning what, more profits for you instead of me? Get fucked, loser.
cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Cool, he might consider fucking off and dying.
mrodri89@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
If you think you’re winning because you’re a corporate slave in capitalism then actually you’re losing at life.
Red_October@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Exactly the sort of vapid self destructive Corpo-Cap shittery you’d expect out of the LinkedIn cofounder. He’s probably like that all the time.
Zomg@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I love for me, not for a business.
When I’m old and dying I’ll never say “I wish I worked more”
jwt@programming.dev 4 months ago
I think loving for a business is illegal in many places. ;)
Zomg@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Lol
Live*
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 months ago
a reality check for entrepreneurs
Yes. You gotta grind like hell to start a seriously profitable company. Had drinks at our company’s open house with a client who owned 3 or 4 small construction related businesses.
“You have to bust your ass for about 2-2.5 years to get a business rolling, then it mostly takes care of itself.”
floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
“Winning” presumably means doing something as worthwhile as inflicting LinkedIn on the world. I’m good thanks.
meyotch@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
LinkedIn == blessed 😍
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I want work life imbalance. I want less work and more life.
ThraawnSolo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Win what?
goodthanks@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Win the expectation to do more work without proper compensation, in my experience.
Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Ah yes, slave away for decades to make the company’s executives/owners richer, sacrificing watching your kids grow up, sacrificing your relationship with your spouse, family, and friends.
Giving up time for hobbies and community service so that I can get a raise that barely keeps up with inflation, a pizza party twice a year, shitty coffee that the employees have to make, in a pot that the employees have to clean, and eventually a parking space that is 100 feet closer to the entrance so I can get into the office even quicker…
Nah, forgive me for passing on being a “winner.”
DrownedRats@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Thats exactly the kind of thing I would expect the founder of LinkedIn to say. Bet there’s a bunch of absolute lunatics ready to repost that to their own linked in page.
i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
It’s weird that it’s always losers that are the ones talking about winning.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Fuck winning.
Be the best, climb the ladder Do it better, higher, faster I refuse to participate If I go up it will be slow I’m bringing everyone I know Stopping on the sixth or seventh rung
Yxf@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I’m proud of being a loser in this case.
Maiq@lemy.lol 4 months ago
Not a good dedicated wage slave.
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
That gave me the greatest laught yesterday.
It was so expected but still funny
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Define winning.
madcaesar@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Making money for your boss of course!
sporkler@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Basing your self worth on making money for your betters and then sacrificing everything for it.
mwguy@infosec.pub 4 months ago
You committed to paying?
paddythegeek@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
So done with this bullshit.
PanArab@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Patient zero of !linkedinlunatics@sh.itjust.works
CaoCaoKing@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Well I say seeking to remove my work-life balance means he’s not committing to not wanting to taste lead at high velocity using the base of his skull as a mouth.
boolean_sledgehammer@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Winning what for whom, you blubbering dipshit?
Nemo@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
The quote is right though I suspect he means something very incorrect by it. If your work is hostile to your life, you’re losing; ditch that job immediately.
CrashballCentre@feddit.uk 4 months ago
“Visionary”
As LinkedIn begs for attention most days.
Snapz@lemmy.world 4 months ago
“…me my money.”
211@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
In the context of start-ups. Where workers presumably are also rewarded with stock options or similar. Takes a certain mentality and a definition of “winning” that I don’t share, which is why I don’t and wouldn’t work at a start-up. And besides, the message is chiefly directed at founders. I don’t find it -that- controversial.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 4 months ago
Giving up work-life balance in the pursuit of “winning” leads to a Pyrrhic victory, assuming that you even actually win.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today 4 months ago
There are many ways to win in life. LinkedIn isn’t one of them.