If you think you’re winning because you’re a corporate slave in capitalism then actually you’re losing at life.
LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’
Submitted 1 week ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to workreform@lemmy.world
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mrodri89@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Red_October@lemmy.world 1 week 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.
kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Maybe if workers actually Won by doing their jobs, this would be even close to approaching accurate.
phoenixarise@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Winning what, more profits for you instead of me? Get fucked, loser.
cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Cool, he might consider fucking off and dying.
Zomg@lemmy.world 1 week 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 1 week ago
I think loving for a business is illegal in many places. ;)
Zomg@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Lol
Live*
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I want work life imbalance. I want less work and more life.
ThraawnSolo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Win what?
goodthanks@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Win the expectation to do more work without proper compensation, in my experience.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 week 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 1 week ago
“Winning” presumably means doing something as worthwhile as inflicting LinkedIn on the world. I’m good thanks.
meyotch@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
LinkedIn == blessed 😍
Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago
It’s weird that it’s always losers that are the ones talking about winning.
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
That gave me the greatest laught yesterday.
It was so expected but still funny
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 week 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 1 week ago
I’m proud of being a loser in this case.
Maiq@lemy.lol 1 week ago
Not a good dedicated wage slave.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Define winning.
madcaesar@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Making money for your boss of course!
sporkler@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Basing your self worth on making money for your betters and then sacrificing everything for it.
mwguy@infosec.pub 1 week ago
You committed to paying?
paddythegeek@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
So done with this bullshit.
PanArab@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Patient zero of !linkedinlunatics@sh.itjust.works
CaoCaoKing@lemm.ee 1 week 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 1 week ago
Winning what for whom, you blubbering dipshit?
Nemo@slrpnk.net 1 week 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 1 week ago
“Visionary”
As LinkedIn begs for attention most days.
Snapz@lemmy.world 1 week ago
“…me my money.”
211@sopuli.xyz 1 week 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 1 week ago
Giving up work-life balance in the pursuit of “winning” leads to a Pyrrhic victory, assuming that you even actually win.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I am reminded of an episode of Friends. I forget what else was happening in the episode, but the guys and the girls are separated. The three girls are in Monica’s apartment with a leg waxing kit they have apparently bought ALL THE WAY into the marketing for, because they keep saying shit like “we gotta do this if we wanna be goddesses.”
Being excessively steeped in messaging is a great way to give yourself idea cancer.
“Winning.” What are you “winning” if you work yourself into fatigue and start making errors and mistakes?
greenhorn@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I am not committed to winning