What’s the point of having children if you are never home to spend time with them?
this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2026
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- I’m proud of having no life to be a company stooge, and I’ll expect everyone else to surrender their soul to the grind.
I have seen a few examples of people using linkedin to humble brag about their work ethic or whatever and all it ever does is tell me that they aren't actually happy with the thing they do.
I find it a lot more interesting to read or hear stories about projects people have been working on and them telling a little bit about the process. The excitement of them sharing what they have worked on is ten times more interesting than some randy bragging about how much they worked in one day.
Like omg congratulations. I work along hours too. I don't think it's anything to be proud of. Quite the contrary.
People like that are in a constant battle to prove how exceptional they are while being completely unexceptional. They have no real success stories so they have to create some by painting this image in their heads that they are naturally superior to everyone else. Every one of them have Dunning-Kreuger syndrome.
You're probably right, but that is so sad, omg xD
All I can say is that working long hours is soul crushing. I went through an extreme case of that a few years ago, out of necessity.
Worked so much I have like three months from that year that are almost totally blank in my memory. No clue what happened during that time.
According to my boyfriend, at my worst, I worked between 90 and 120 hours a week.
All I know is that I didn't have a social life and didn't have hobbies or any free time. Didn't even have time to breath and have a check in with myself so I didn't know that I was on the brink of losing it before I almost did.
Still paying the mental and physical price for that sacrifice two years later and it wasn't fucking worth it, man. Like at all.
I've had to relearn what it means to have freetime and hobbies. It's going okay in that department! Have gotten my plant hobby back on track and am currently making fugly fridge magnets with stupid faces and googly eyes. Figured I needed something funny to look at when I'm not around a mirror.
We also went to the beach today and collected sea glass, which is basically like meditation, if you ask me!
1h lunch, that's a lot of time wasted that could have been used for conducting interviews. smh, ppl nowadays don't really know the meaning of commitment.
The place I worked at 3 years ago, someone forgot to drop their kid off and left them in the car in 90 degree heat (freedumb units). I assumed the guy was overworked as hell; that place did not give a fuck about work/life balance, just like most places I've worked here in the land of the slaves and home of the cowardly.
I can't remember what the conversion is so I'll just assume it's 90 celsius and the son cooked to a nice crisp outside, juicy tender inside
90°F, that's outside. Inside a car, it got to over 120°F (probably). The kid died.
Well shit, I was hoping for a nice denouement
The lead forklift trainer tried to perform CPR, but the child was far too gone. I think she had to take a few days off.
Yea, I would have had to take those days off too. That's gotta be traumatizing
Did… did the kid survive?
No, they died.
Some say he is still out there today
14:00-15:00 is the only non-meeting productive work time in the day. 9 hrs of doing interviews seems excessive, but what do I know
Also a little odd that he did 6 interviews in 5 hours. How long are these interviews?
Also, as someone who regularly takes his son to daycare (and leaves him there! he needs to learn to hussle his way back home again, I can't be there to helicopter parent!), good luck getting them up, out the door, through traffic, and back to the office again inside 30 minutes.
This guy is doing what I used to get yelled at all the time when I was filling out a time card - block billing. "One task? 1 hr. One hard task? 1.5 hr. One easy task? 30 min."
Clients hate this shit. Real heads know to always randomize a number 1-9 to put in the last digit, so it looks like you actually put in time from a clock rather than rounding to the nearest mark.
Clients hate this shit. Real heads know to always randomize a number 1-9 to put in the last digit, so it looks like you actually put in time from a clock rather than rounding to the nearest mark.
My agreement with at least one of my client is that I round up to the next 15 minutes. They know to expect fairly round numbers.
At my 9-5, our time keeping software doesn't even let you put in anything smaller than a quarter hour.
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I do the morning routine with the twins each morning and it takes me at least one hour, sometimes one and a half. And our daycare is like 5 minutes away by bike.
My guess is that this dudes wife gets the son ready and this guy drives him over. Which is by the way the only time during this day he sees his kid.
It's bullshit from start to finish. Nobody really does hours like this. There'll always be unexpected stuff, it doesn't matter what the job is. You could be President (with an actual serious schedule) and there would still be odd minutes here and there.
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FYI. LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft
it's microslop now
treating the IRL daycare like the daycare in Pokemon. If you come back to the daycare years later, you'll have a lvl 100 kid
And an egg that they swear they have no idea how it got there
Cue "Cat's in the Cradle"...
“When you coming home dad?…”
Also only walked the dog once
22:00 - 22:30 Walked Dog
22:30 - 00:00 Cleaned up piss
00:00 - 2:00 Cleaned up piss
2:00 - 2:30 Cried
2:30 - 3:45 Cleaned up more piss
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I was gonna say, that poor, poor dog.
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I was thinking, where is your quality time with your child, but the comment is way better. :)
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2130-2230?
Maybe he lost consciousness picking up his son from daycare and crashed into a bus, then got uploaded to a new body by the next item
I mean for what its worth, if the dude has a partner they couldve just picked the kid up, its not exactly unheard of for one partner to do drop off and the other do pick up... kind of a lukewarm take here.
And the partner did minor things like:
- get his son dressed and feed him breakfast
- give the dog its morning walk
- go to work
- come home from work
- pick his son up from daycare
- give the dog its afternoon / evening walk, bringing the toddler along to spend some quality time in the park
- make and serve dinner for him / herself and the son
- give the son a bath and get him ready for bed
- read the son a bedtime story
But, I'm sure that everything there other than work would have taken what, 1-2 hours at most? Minor things.
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Just take the joke my god
She forgot him due to brain fog, from only eating lunch and a snack every day.
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Funny, but hardly "escaping containment" when the screenshot was doctored to begin with.
The post is from this Threads account: https://www.threads.com/@finance.arman
I couldn't find the post because I don't have a Threads account myself and it limits how far back on someone's timeline you can go, but the UI and username matches. The original post wasn't in English, so it must have been translated using OCR, resulting in the weird artifacts. You've got a good eye to catch that difference.
Ah, see that at least sounds plausible. I've used Google Translate to translate road signage with the camera, and it tries to position and resize text to fit the original sign. So if that kind of technology is happening here, that could make some sense.
...but then why wouldn't you just let the browser translate it for you, since it would normalize the same font size across the entire text? Oh, if they were in the Threads app they wouldn't have they available.
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