Work Reform

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."

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

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 want work life imbalance. I want less work and more life.

It’s weird that it’s always losers that are the ones talking about winning.

"Winning" presumably means achieving something as worthwhile as inflicting LinkedIn on the world. I'm good thanks.

Win what?

Not a good dedicated wage slave.

Why the f— would an employee be invested in the corporation "winning"? Unless he sees LinkedIn as a co-op and actively works on distributing profits equally to all member workers, that there is just management drivel.

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."

Define winning.

That gave me the greatest laught yesterday.

It was so expected but still funny

You committed to paying?

Patient zero of !linkedinlunatics@sh.itjust.works

So done with this bullshit.

Winning what for whom, you blubbering dipshit?

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.

"Visionary"

As LinkedIn begs for attention most days.

I'm not, and he's still wrong.

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?

"...me my money."

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.

Giving up work-life balance in the pursuit of "winning" leads to a Pyrrhic victory, assuming that you even actually win.

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.