I’m too European for this
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Could not tell you. Satire? Rage bait? Completely serious CEO mindset? No idea. All completely possible and just as likely. Coin flip.
As a non American this reads as satire, but from what I hear about the US work culture I really can't be sure.
I don't know if this is satire or rage bait but ironically it's almost certainly a UK individual as he refers to them as "Bank holidays" and the 28 days is only about 8 above the statutory minimum of 20 + bank holidays.
The employer must offer a minimum of 28 days for full time workers but bank holidays and other company shutdowns can count towards that. It's a bit more flexible that way, it means it doesn't matter which public holidays (if any) your company observes everyone gets the same minimum time off. It also allows situations like my company where our only UK office is in Scotland but UK employees still follow English holidays instead.
Yup and with there usually being 8 bank holidays in a year, that's where the extra 8 comes from.
Weed energy
I'm going to go on LinkedIn and change my title to CEO of some dipshit made up thing so I can post unhinged "We heard you liked work, so we put work on your work so you can work while you work!" Xhibit meme BS like this and drown in the likes from other ragebait farmers.
I wonder how they spend all that ragebait 🤔
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is this ragebait?
I think it's fake, but if you made a ton of money as a high-paid CEO, you probably wouldn't mind working long hours. Cuz you know that you won't be there for the next 40 years or 50 years. Milk it while you can, right?
I assume it's satire
It's got to be because that's way too many days off in the US and in other countries that have this many days off have legal requirements to use up your allotted time off.
Not necessarily force you legally to use all, but force the employer to allow you to use them all
Or at least pay out the unused days as additional wage and they really don't like that.
That is the $64 question. It might be, but on the other hand, CEOs are as disconnected from reality, they might actually believe that.
If I enjoyed myself at work you'd charge admission instead of paying me.
Don't give them ideas...
I'm giving all my belongings to charity. But I don't expect them to actually take any of it. I'm so generous like that. Praise me for being so generous!
It's like when I offer to help my friends move. They better fucking not call me up on that, the fuckers
Good metaphor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegemony#Media_and_communications_studies
Adopted from the work of Gramsci and Stuart Hall, in media studies and cultural studies hegemony refers to individuals or concepts that become most dominant in a culture. Building on Gramsci's ideas, Hall stated that the media is a critical institution for furthering or inhibiting hegemony.
Communications studies scholars have argued that in the praxis of hegemony, imperial dominance is established by means of cultural imperialism, whereby the leader state (hegemon) dictates the internal politics and the societal character of the subordinate states that constitute the hegemonic sphere of influence, either by an internal, sponsored government or by an external, installed government. The imposition of the hegemon's way of life—an imperial lingua franca and bureaucracies (social, economic, educational, governing)—transforms the concrete imperialism of direct military domination into the abstract power of the status quo, indirect imperial domination. ...
Culturally, hegemony also is established by means of language, specifically the imposed lingua franca of the hegemon (leader state), which then is the official source of information for the people of the society of the sub-ordinate state. Writing on language and power, Andrea Mayr says, "As a practice of power, hegemony operates largely through language." In contemporary society, an example of the use of language in this way is in the way Western countries set up educational systems in African countries mediated by Western languages.
this comes to mind, basically the kind of thinking in the OP represents a kind of corporate / capitalist hegemonic perspective - employers want you to sacrifice everything for them, ideally at any cost to your own health, liberty, etc., and there is a notion that if you align with those values you are a good worker - you should want to work all the time, you should feel bad for taking paid leave, etc.
This is in opposition to the kind of economic violence and desperation that faces wage workers - no Walmart store employee is being told they need to want to come in to work and not take paid leave, because those workers are already desperate for their wages and are probably relying on government aid programs to bridge the gap in their wages to pay for food.
Instead, in contexts where workers are not desperate and under immediate threat of losing shelter and food is where you find this kind of hegemonic messaging is so strong - the white collar employees who come into offices are the ones who are being made to feel guilty for taking paid leave, they are the ones who are expected to show up to work happy and self-motivated, and to want to be at work every day, to work in the evenings and over weekends without pay, etc. - that's hegemony, it operates through acceptance of a system of beliefs and values, and through self-regulation (rather than direct threats).
Its so wild because if you have motivated workers (my experience is from software development) you're going to produce so much more and better products, responding to problems so much faster. But if people have to act motivated it's way worse than even having unmotivated workers.
My bet is on middle & top management having absolutely zero empathy, so they cannot understand the difference.
Maybe they survive because predatory companies are not that liable to laws in todays society, but if they were, more humane companies would roll them over in productivity and quality. Or so I think.
You treated them as human beings. That's all.
is your point that brainwashing is more humane than a gun to the head? I'm not sure that's the best take-away, I wouldn't want to give the wrong impression that hegemony is primarily humanistic compared to more violent forms of imperialism ... Hegemony is more like self-harm propaganda, scams, and other malicious belief systems - it's just a form of power and control, and is no less coercive ... remember that the consequences of going against hegemony is often punishment, the alternative to accepting brainwashing is to have the gun to your head (if you don't cut it in an office environment, the alternative is desperate wage work).
Even when you don't fully endorse hegemony, you still behaviorally go along to avoid punishment, the self-regulation is cheaper and easier for those in power.
Further proof that anything can be argued!