CNBC has gotten nauseatingly terrible
“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?
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.
“At the end of August, I’m going away [on vacation],” she adds. “And my team will all know, [so] when they’re able to actually go off and do something, they should go off the grid and do it.”
She’s not talking about being nonstop plugged in. The corollary is that you can unplug when you need to. That sort of thing goes without saying when you have a solid job and management.
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.
You hardly have to be an executive to have those sorts of options. I have done everything you mentioned at my last two jobs and didn’t have a single soul under my name on the org chart. This comment tells me you’ve never had a good job at a good company.
This comment tells me you’ve never had a good job at a good company.
Quite the opposite, I haven’t experienced these hardships myself, but I’m able to recognize that tens of millions of people experience them every day. That it’s a reality we need to deal with as a society, and call out shitty executives that act like it doesn’t exist or that it’s the poor’s fault for not working harder (while they barely work, despite their claims). Did you mean to help prove the point that it’s extremely easy for people that don’t experience hardships like the inability to pay basic bills or afford food on a daily basis to fail empathizing with the workers that do? Because you did pretty spectacularly.
I’m talking about a majority of the everyday workforce here. Like 99% of the 2.1 million people working at Walmart stores under this executive’s leadership. Talking about the inability of corporate executives to empathize with their employees being broadcast widely without any of them realizing the hypocrisy in articles like this with their tone deaf claims.
Executives should be forced work their lowest paid company position, and be dumped in an apartment with absolutely nothing.
See how long they survive.
You can talk to me about my work-life balance when I’m not putting the healthy option back because it’s more expensive than the cheap unhealthy ultra processed bullshit and I can’t justify the expense.
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.
Thanks for letting us know that you have no life. There will be an age when you realize what you have missed and your unhappiness will consume you. And it will be your fault. Real Humans know that a full life involves having personal time separate from a job.
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).
“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?!
So…you work until you burn out…then walk away until your batteries are recharged…then do it all over again?
As for “combining personal and professional duties”…yeah. Ask your kids how they feel about you doing a conference call instead of actually watching their softball game. Or texting clients when their teacher is trying to explain to you that your kid has been lashing out in class as a desperate cry for attention.
Everything this article is saying, sounds exactly like an addict trying to explain how their addiction is “under control”.
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”.
She’s clearly not talking about that sort of job and you’ve clearly never had the sort of job she’s talking about.
No one on their death bed says, “I wish I’d done better at work-life integration.”
One. Last. Email.
Can’t forget the OOO message either
I had great work-life integration job before last and I’ve never been happier in my career. I was often excited to get to work and try some news things I’d thought of and often worked late testing stuff. When life required my attention, I didn’t feel a bit bad about blowing off 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?
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.
Ah yes, a person who was parachuted into high level positions right out of university lectures everyone on hard work.
This is a mental illness.
It’s not, to promote such bs is a job she is paid for fairly well.
But it is disgusting.
This kind of useless performative busy-ness is one of the stupidest forms virtue signalling.
They need to propaganda extra hard bcs gen-Z saw irl what happened to millennials & now execs don’t know how fuck them extra over.
oh shut up. I hate it when these rich fuckers are all “I got to where I am because I work hard.” no you got to where you are because you’re wealthy. Unlike EVERYONE fucking under your ass you can afford to hire a private chef to cook your meals, maids to clean your house(s) and do your laundry/chores, nannies for your kids, assistants to run your errands, all while you pull out your phone and write some god awful poorly written emails because that’s all you fuckers do and I know this because in my field I deal with morons like you. None of you idiots work hard. An LLM could do your job, in fact that’s the goal.
Couldn’t write an email to save your life. they all write them like they’re in an ICQ conversation.
Someone needs an apparent visit from Luigi.
