Wonder how much the executive assistant is paid compared to this piece of shit
Here's how you get a good work-life balance in a demanding career job: Your underlings do the work, you do the life.
aka any people manager in the corporate world. I watched my boss at fidelity investments canada leave the office at 5 pm and leave his laptop behind every single day while i would be stuck at the office until 10 pm if i choose to leave at 5 pm i would be taking my laptop home with me and working on it right after dinner until midnight and working on 1 of the 2 weekend days as well. the worst job i've ever had
It's also how the board of directors will eventually vote to get the Executive Assistant to replace her as CEO
How to be successful as a CEO: Take both credit for work and wages earned of those below you.
Back when I was a lib, I read The 4 Hour Work Week, and that was basically the secret, right there, buried underneath about two hundred pages of fluff. Hire an executive assistant from, like, Pakistan, and then make that person do everything for you, pay them nothing, and take all the credit. At the time I was freaked out by the idea of giving a person like that access to my bank account (which had practically nothing inside it anyway). The notion that I would be exploiting someone in the Global South never entered my mind. Apparently you can also do this with coding? People who know more about this, correct me, but again, you can apparently just, like, have an idea, hire coders from Pakistan (sorry, Pakistan) to make it for you, and then just take all the credit (and 99% of the money) for yourself. Fucking bullshit, man!
That reminds of a story of a guy who wrote a Python script to automate his job (basically data entry from what I remember) without telling his employer (obviously that's different to the situation being discussed in here). I think this was it (bootlickers in the comnents). It's praxis tbqh.
You're collecting wage for 40 hrs/week when in actuality you're working at most 2.
Shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up!
They're so close to getting it. This is basically surplus value. I wonder what their view on that is (probably to deny its existence).
This would be a good one for the dunk tank.
Well there are also programmers who have actually outsourced their job to someone more desperate in another country. Like a miniaturized version of whole company outsourcing. I'm sure the bosses encourage it because it moves liability onto these psycho programmers instead of the psycho company.
If that dude's company's budgeting office had run the numbers and concluded that they would turn a profit if they kidnapped the guy, carved his skin off, then sent a man wearing his skin to torment his family like something from The Purge, they would eventually do it. They'd have to. They need to turn a profit somehow.
Of course it's not wrong to fuck over a company. They're definitely fucking over you.
Yeah "outsourcing" in tech like that is super common. Tech workers are also pissed about it because it lowers their relatively high wages and value by eliminating the scarcity in the field. Unfortunately a ton of "tech bros" hate it because of racist reasons too
Literally doing 90% of this dip shit’s job
Actually fuck that, that person is doing at least 5 or so peoples jobs if they do all that shit
Yeah...the EA's at my company send out meeting invites, handle catering, take calls, set up conference calls, handle basic email for execs...it's like, what do the big boot jackasses even do? They golf and spew platitudes, in between whatever the fuck 'write and surf' is
But the EA's get paid a fucking pittance
This lady manages a mental health company. Let that shit sink in. Plus the front page of that site is literally the woman from Midsommar
Fuck anyone who "manages" anything in the mental health field. They all profit off the social workers and counselors work without adding anything besides "get your numbers up". I will never trust a fucking mental health startup
you know I could probably make a "meditation" app that briefly explains the ideas of mindfulness and zen koans, then randomly gives you a tazo tea bag quote and then starts a timer for you to "meditate" on the meaning of the quote and rake in millions in venture funding
(tazo tea bag quotes are like snapple cap facts if they were curated by Deepak Chopra)
welcome to the human race. neocon and neolibs get 10s of thousands of likes and 10s of thousands of followers simply for tweeting out struggle porn or empty vapid nonsense
It’s mentioned down in one of her replies that her EA is in the Philippines....
That's very strange... Every exec I've worked for that has an EA had them basically attached at the hip.
Gah. I know these types of start-up tyrants too well. Convinced passing on 90% of her job responsibilities to an underling makes her "smart leader" and not a leech. If ever this EA decides to demand a pay raise or threaten to quit, she will 100% call the EA "ungrateful for the opportunity for career growth they were given."
Hm. I've had that experience too, but also a few times when I was able to get them to say something, at least. Once because I threatened to press charges for discriminatory termination if they didn't provide cause for my getting sacked. I don't have nearly the kind of money you need to actually sue a company of course, but the HR rep in the office didn't know that.
"Sure, my EA does everything for me. But I hired her, so really it's still all me!"
Thread says the EA lives in the Phillipines, so almost certainly not enough.
Life pro tip, just hire a guy that'll do your job for less money
"We're trying to cut down on the fat. What is it you say you do here?"
