CNBC has gotten nauseatingly terrible
I mean, she makes enough money to say that. Most everyone under her, not so much. The self-centeredness of these CEOs is staggering.
“I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance,” says Morris, who oversees the experience of over 2.1 million employees. “I call it work-life integration. There are times that your life requires a lot more, and there are times that your work requires a lot more. … I don’t think that’s a bad thing.”
“You might be [at your kid’s] soccer game, but you happen to look at a few emails,” Morris says. Maybe you’re chatting with your boss via text while waiting for an appointment, or tying up a few loose ends at work before you put the kids to bed. That doesn’t necessarily mean you’re a workaholic who lacks boundaries — rather, you find ways to combine your personal and professional duties that work for you, instead of being strict and inflexible with your time.
This still sounds awful. Never unplugged, never tuning down. What the fuck kind of life is that?
It’s the life that all these corporations want their workers to be forced to live. In their eyes, if you’re not producing value for the one on top, you should either be sleeping or dead. Oh, and they’ll only be paying you for 8 of those 18 hours you’ll be working, at the lowest possible rate they can, if you get the luxury of payment at all. If you’re a prisoner, tough luck.
Prisoners get paid. It’s like $0.08 an hour or some shit, but they get paid. And the funds are used exclusively to buy temporary products like toothpaste, and deodorant.
True, not much better though.
Here’s the thing though, 90% of her life IS tuned down. Every time she’s not worrying about how to pay the bills. How to get to work. How many presents there will be for Christmahannukwanzakkuh. Hell even how much this week’s groceries are going to cost from her own store thst she almost certainly doesn’t get most of her groceries from.
She just doesn’t realize it, because that’s not a life she’s experienced. She has absolutely no way to empathize because it’s as foreign to her as a guinea pig flying an airplane.
Do you not gly GuineaAir? Who do YOU fly with? Spirit??? Pssshhhhh!!!
I always wondered why people fly an airline effectively calling itself death.
I notice none of the examples involve taking care of life stuff while on the job. Only the one direction.
That’s because as an executive she has no issue being able to just “work remotely” or leave “early” on a random day to go to a doctor’s appointment, or parent teacher meeting mid-afternoon. She’s only accountable to (maybe) the other executives who do the same shit. She doesn;t even realize she’s doing it. That’s just how life works.
Meanwhile Maria and Bobby are getting written up for coming back from break 2 minutes late.
Being able to even afford having children is privilege these days. No way I would squander it by prioritizing a company that would fire me at the wrong gust of wind.
That doesn’t necessarily mean you’re a workaholic who lacks boundaries
That’s pretty much the definition of a workaholic.
This is literally Peter’s arc in Hook (1991).
Ah yes, a person who was parachuted into high level positions right out of university lectures everyone on hard work.
This bitch wanna volunteer to clean my house and pay off my massive debt? Because my scale is tipped so far into work that I can’t keep up with the life parts on my own, but I can’t stop work because I need to eat.
Have you tried not being poor?
“You might be [at your kid’s] soccer game, but you happen to look at a few emails,” Morris says. Maybe you’re chatting with your boss via text while waiting for an appointment, or tying up a few loose ends at work before you put the kids to bed.
That literally just sounds like she’s always working, even when she’s supposed to be focused on family.
That doesn’t necessarily mean you’re a workaholic who lacks boundaries — rather, you find ways to combine your personal and professional duties that work for you, instead of being strict and inflexible with your time.
Ummm, yeah…that’s actually the definition of being a workaholic who lacks boundaries. She may as well be saying, “I don’t think sipping from a bottle of vodka in my purse while I’m picking my kids up from school, makes me an alcoholic…I think of it more like multitasking.”
None of that is unreasonable. Sometimes I’m hitting on all 8-cylinders and want to keep working. Other time I’m useless so I go do something else.
You’re ignoring the flip side to that quote. Put work on the back burner when life demands your attention. I find it far less stressful to do what I want, when I want, rather than have a rigid timetable.
you find ways to combine your personal and professional duties that work for you, instead of being strict and inflexible with your time
What the hell is wrong with that?!
sigh Another narcissist CEO who cannot grasp the idea that “life”, in this context, is just an employees working for themselves and pursuing their own interests instead of working for others to pursue corporate interests.
New suggested title for the article:
“Billionaire executive can’t understand why their minimum salary employees don’t want to sacrifice their personal lives to make her even more money”.
This is a mental illness.
No one on their death bed says, “I wish I’d done better at work-life integration.”
One. Last. Email.
Someone needs an apparent visit from Luigi.
“You might be [at your kid’s] soccer game, but you happen to look at a few emails,” Morris says. Maybe you’re chatting with your boss via text while waiting for an appointment, or tying up a few loose ends at work before you put the kids to bed. That doesn’t necessarily mean you’re a workaholic who lacks boundaries — rather, you find ways to combine your personal and professional duties that work for you, instead of being strict and inflexible with your time.
OK but Walmart retail staffers clock in and clock out with a time card, and require to be on site to fulfill their duties.
“If I never take a holiday, the tone that I set for everybody is, don’t take a holiday — you can’t do that. And I don’t think that that’s right,” says Morris. “As leaders, we have a responsibility to role model what we expect of others.”
Oh how generous of this person to take a vacation. Do they pay their Walmart retail staff to take a vacation too?
Thanks, I hate it…Doing anything they can to normalize aberrant behavior like a lack of boundaries between employees and the corporation is pretty disgusting. Like ma’am you make loads of money, the average worker will never see that type of money in their lifetime. Work-life balance is crucial to being able to maintain energy to perform well at work, so many studies show that. She can’t be bothered to admit she’s a workaholic with no boundaries and is trying to conflate violating employee/corp boundaries as being flexible with one’s time. This is a cursed article in my opinion. Useful for getting insight into those strange exec thoughts, though…
Her take is perfectly reasonable:
“I call it work-life integration. There are times that your life requires a lot more, and there are times that your work requires a lot more. … I don’t think that’s a bad thing.”
Sometimes I pour more into work, sometimes life needs my attention. Sometimes I’m eager to finish working on a work problem, sometimes work can fuck off for a bit. At my last job I’d sleep in in the mornings and work past “close” when fewer people were bugging me.
I find it more stressful to be strict about keeping work and life seperate. Maybe I want to login at night and test some ideas that I wouldn’t risk during the day. Many times I’ve been on a hot streak and don’t want to stop at exactly 5PM. Maybe I’m not getting a lick of work done, know I’m being useless and pop out to hike before I run out of sun. If I’m bored shitless, I may run through my email and clear out the crap so there’s less staring at me Monday morning.
Did no one read the article? Or have none of you had a professional job with responsibilities? FFS, she’s merely saying do what works for you. Point to a single unreasonable thing she’s saying here.
tl;dr: I was already working exactly as she talks about and that left me with the least stress, most satisfaction.
