History has shown overworked, burned-out, desperate-to-hold-the-job people make the BEST employees!
Go hardcore or go home! No, wait, not home…
What you lack in individual performance you can make up in volume. The only thing that really matters is the margins.
80% on a bunch of burnouts yield higher returns than 20% on a superstar. That’s how a Walmart scale business makes money
Have a friend who got his PhD in Australia, in neuroscience. He’s got enormous personal debt, his department is chonically underfunded, he has two grad students to his name, and he’s got to spend every semester writing these long winded grant proposals to maintain any kind of budget.
Then six months ago, a recruiter from Fudan University reaches out to him. Flies him out to Shanghai, wines him and dines him, shows him around the campus, offers him a $1.5M housing allowance plus $500k salary with another $6M in budget and three other PhDs on his team.
He’s moving there in March.
Yeah, even if I was offered that I wouldn’t touch that shit with a 10 foot pole especially if we’re talking about being held captive.
That’s the “alternative” to captivity. And it’s going to lead to businesses that treat talent like this losing their talent to China. Speaking as someone who has also been contacted by numerous (sketchier than the above referenced) Chinese interests.
People being held captive is in relation to the Perth-based mining company that the article talks about. The person you’re replying to is talking about a Shanghai-based university. There’s no captivity involved there, afaik.
The guy is an out of touch jerk. Sometimes the hilight of your day ia that mental break grabbing a coffee at a cafe and enjoying fresh air. And i get way more work done with WFH, because people need an actual reason to interrupt your work flow
He doesn’t want people to have daily highlights. He wants them completely broken and demoralized so they’ll accept whatever shit stick this guy hands them.
“I want to hold them captive all day long,” Ellison said during a financial presentation on Thursday. “I don’t want them leaving the building … I don’t want them walking down the road for a cup of coffee. We kind of figured out a few years ago how much that cost.”
One, fuck you with a burning stick.
Two, people who are off the clock can go wherever the fuck they want.
Three, you’d better be in that fucking office yourself at least forty hours a week.
Four, put the stick out with a jar of honey and then fuck your own peehole with it.
Honey is too kind. I was thinking more along the lines of putting the fire out using a jar of Carolina Reapers, and then he can go to town on his urethra with that
Ugh my director at work has been enforcing a strict RTO mandate while working fully remote from fucking Florida
Unionize
Oh we are >:)
If he’s not there, don’t work? I’m on the more industrial side of things, but if my boss is maliciously not here, that’s just me being paid to dick about on my phone. Or steamdeck if I’m feeling frisky.
Director is like my manager’s manager’s manager’s manager. She doesn’t contribute anything other than finding ways to reduce productivity
What’s the exact law when it comes to advocating murder?
I’m pretty sure sharing step-by-step plans to make a guillotine don’t count.
As long as you kill them very slowly by draining their life energy over a contracted period of about 40 years its entirely legal, you may even get a tax cut for creating opportunities.
Remember, jury nullification is a thing. If someone murders a billionaire and you’re on the jury, you can just say Not Guilty and there’s nothing they can do to you.
Absolutely a mask off “let them eat cake” level quote.
I don’t even know who this guy is, but I want to kick his ass.
She didn’t actually say that, historically, but yes.
let them eat cake that they buy from the company restaurant
This is all about building your personal life around work, this guy knows that current WFH initiatives are giving people better flexibility for work to fit around their personal lives.
The things he’s offering to basically hold his employees captive for the day, are quite decent. I just don’t see them being attractive to people long term.
I’m quite lucky to work for a company that measures performance based on results, rather than hours spent in the office.
However, work does offer a heap of incentives to head into the office (similar to this, we have an on-site cafe, restaurants, convenience store, gym, daycare facilities and school holiday activities); as sometimes heading in to collaborate with a team in person is a lot more convenient overall.
What this man is trying to offer is similar, except that by forcing attendance he will never be able to match that culture.
To be honest this isn’t a massive departure from the various other non remuneration incentives offered by companies wanting you to be there in person. Silicon Valley has offered this forever. Gyms, cafes, holiday programs for kids etc.
People have different motivators. I don’t mind being in the office frequently. I work my hours then clock off. I find it easier to switch off from work when I leave work.
Some people will value it. If you’re not one of those people, don’t worry, you don’t have to work there. It’s pretty simple.
I say we give him a taste of his own advice.
this is the guy in a souls game that shouts out to ask you a favor but when you return after completing it he’s dead and there is a bundle of souls and a piece of armour or weapon waiting
Damn, the amount of people here that love how the owner class manipulates and sucks them dry is shocking.
Banning wfh should be illegal, period. Of course everyone is different and has different needs but keeping people in the building has multiple benefits for his bottom line, not the employees:
- no room to talk to other companies’ employees and compare
- no room to think about company policy without being influenced
- potential to be overheard talking potential union business
While it is great for highly sought after software engineers to be pampered like this, the majority of people arent this and the reason companies do this only for the highly paid is because they are actually valued and might be able to hurt the company if they are unhappy. Opposed to the many people who are less qualified.
This comment section is a harsh example of privileged people being completely out of touch with the reality of their fellow humans.
I‘d be ashamed.
At least he doesn’t chain the employees to their desks
Yet
I want to hold them captive all day long.
…another reason for them to come and enjoy work: drop the little tykes off next door. We’ve got doctors on board and nurses, we’re going to feed them, but mum and dad will be working in our office.
I so love the idea of giving billionaires a plaque when they hit one billion, then take away 95% of their wealth and having them start again. A forced prestige system.
I’d love to start over with 50 million, too
I’d love to stack away a whole million in my life, that way, 50 generations down, one of my great grand children can try the game too!
Company i work for already does that. Once youre in, only way out is to clock out. And if you clock out early it has to be on record with management with a return date or badge turned in
why the hassle? just give everyone a ball and chain and you don’t have to bother with management keeping tabs.
Because he’s gonna open little free cafes in all his offices right?.. right guys??..
