Maybe if workers actually Won by doing their jobs, this would be even close to approaching accurate.
LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’
Submitted 2 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to workreform@lemmy.world
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kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 2 months ago
phoenixarise@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Winning what, more profits for you instead of me? Get fucked, loser.
cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Cool, he might consider fucking off and dying.
mrodri89@lemmy.zip 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 months ago
I think loving for a business is illegal in many places. ;)
Zomg@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Lol
Live*
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 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 2 months ago
“Winning” presumably means doing something as worthwhile as inflicting LinkedIn on the world. I’m good thanks.
meyotch@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
LinkedIn == blessed 😍
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I want work life imbalance. I want less work and more life.
ThraawnSolo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Win what?
goodthanks@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Win the expectation to do more work without proper compensation, in my experience.
Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 2 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 2 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 2 months ago
It’s weird that it’s always losers that are the ones talking about winning.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 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 2 months ago
I’m proud of being a loser in this case.
Maiq@lemy.lol 2 months ago
Not a good dedicated wage slave.
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
That gave me the greatest laught yesterday.
It was so expected but still funny
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Define winning.
madcaesar@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Making money for your boss of course!
sporkler@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Basing your self worth on making money for your betters and then sacrificing everything for it.
mwguy@infosec.pub 2 months ago
You committed to paying?
paddythegeek@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
So done with this bullshit.
PanArab@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Patient zero of !linkedinlunatics@sh.itjust.works
CaoCaoKing@lemm.ee 2 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 2 months ago
Winning what for whom, you blubbering dipshit?
Nemo@slrpnk.net 2 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 2 months ago
“Visionary”
As LinkedIn begs for attention most days.
Snapz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“…me my money.”
211@sopuli.xyz 2 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
I am not committed to winning