Parasites shouldn't give their opinion on anything. They don't matter.
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Pay us like you pay yourself and we might agree.
He "happily works through weekends"...because his idea of what "work" is isn't really fucking work.
He mentioned reading the newspaper and sitting there reflecting on things as work.
Some of these assholes consider the commute or exercise as work time. Must be frickin' nice.
Was in a startup where the founder did this. I started to copy and commit things while entering the train and scheduling call in transport. He forbade us to do that and kept doing small hours buy never spoke about it to us again XD
Meanwhile all that extra work for the love of the job means nothing. There'll be no raise at the end of the year in these difficult times because . They've shown the world loyalty means nothing and you'll be replaced with AI out robots the moment they think it's possible and cheaper.
I'd like to see these loudmouth motherfuckers actually put in a camp and forced to do real work, then I'd like for them to report back to me about work life balance.
Get fucked, parasite.
I also don’t believe in work-life balance.
I believe in life-work balance.
If you don’t have time for work you shouldn’t be expected to do it.
Someone with their priorities straight. This needs more attention.
It’s easy to say when you’re a CEO and “work” consists of a series of meetings over lunch that you don’t pay for and making decisions based on data that has already been processed and analyzed by multiple layers of underlings.
And pay personnel to do all the time consuming chores in life. He never did mention cleaning, doing laundry, groceries or mowing the lawn in that support busy schedule of him.
I'm not sure he even does that, according to the article, he goes to meetings from business open to close then fires off a few emails here and there. This dude's most marketable skill is filling space in a chair while people talk around or at him for 10 hours. Fucking billionaires.
The key skill CEOs have are their contacts.
I guarantee that several times a week at least one of those “meetings” is a €500/plate lunch that lasts 3 hours and involves maybe 5 minutes of business talk.
Yes, that’s sometimes necessary. The other person at the dinner has a lot of power, is well connected, of has sometime the company wants or needs.
So you make them feel good and talk friendly, make them feel important and smart. That builds the trust to decide to get into a multi million dollar contract.
The real business bonding happens when you do cocaine and spitroast an escort together.
I worked 50-100 per week for years and after 60 hours or so there is very little "life" left to be had, the time remaining is almost all dedicated to chores.
What do you want to bet that this guy has had a staff his whole life and never had to deal with laundry, cooking, shopping, cleaning, bills, or any of the other dozens of tasks necessary in an average person's week?
A billionaire's life consists of nothing but work and leisure with serfs to do everything else, so screw him and his condescending "work- life" lecture. He doesn't even know what that means.
And his "work" and your "work" are WILDLY different.
Do you not clock inl for the time you spend dining with your coworkers at a Michelin star restaurant? That totally counts, and should go on your time card...
I could totally do 80 hours a week if I had people to clean my house and raise my kids.
Imagine someone cooking all your meals, changing your sheets every day, paying your bills, and full time staff to manage your home, children and every other aspect of your life? Doctors on staff, home and office gyms, personal trainers, private jets, helicopters and limo drivers too.
I was lucky to get 10-12 hours of "life" when working 60 hours a week. If I had the kind of life this billionaire lives I could put in 100 hours and still have more leisure time.
I still wouldn't. Fuck that.
I mean, he’s a CEO so his “work” is getting drunk and eating shrimp cocktail with other assholes who pay people to raise their kids.
Sounds awful.
seems everytime an emergency pops up like car repairs, I'm set back to $0 and suddenly working 6+ days/week become meaningless and tiring. at this point, just working the rest of my life towards cars and rent. almost hoping for a disability at this point cuz it's the only way to retire early
Lawyer? I don't know what else could put up numbers like that
I used to pull 300 hr months from May to December stomping though the bush and digging holes. Tiring doesn't even begin to describe my field seasons.
My off season was working on mines as a soil monitor, and those months were 220-250 hrs. A lot easier work, but it takes its toll on you too.
Did that for 10 years. My hips and lower back were completely toast.
Now I work 37.5 a week at a desk. Made in the shade, baby.
Finally rehabbed my injuries as well.
Life is good.
Any one who says work life balance is a myth or for the weak can come get eaten by black flies with me. That's if I don't brain them with my shovel first.
And his 'work' consists mostly of schmoozing.
Says the guy with work life balance
You need to be Luigied Mr CEO.
Shut up money hoarder.
Iñaki Ereño, kill yourself
Bupa is a global health insurance and healthcare company
Sounds biased. I'd say he wants you to work yourself sick so he can bill hospitals.
How many times are we gonna have to teach you guys this lesson?
Ugh, stop making your mental issues my problem.
Bunch of weirdos.
Really? Because from my perspective it’s only possible if you’re strong enough to set and stand up for your boundaries.
I think that anyone who makes more than 500k/yr should be banned from commenting on the work-life balance of others, and anyone that shits on work-life balance will have all their bank accounts seized and immediately put into an account that funds unemployment in their home state.
No, work life balance is for the week. We should only be working part of the week. Like, how about 40 hours a week? Sounds more than reasonable. If you don’t like that, how about 32 hours a week, and we don’t burn down any warehouses?
Jokes on you, Bupas whole business model is shitty contracts, they have no warehouses.
Lynchings it is, then.
For now.
This here is the correct response.
Bupa, the international healthcare company headquartered in the United Kingdom. He was previously CEO of Sanitas, the Spanish health insurance company
Two countries with some of the better public health care system in the world.
He's in charge of companies dedicated to selling you what you already have. So you know he's an absolute POS.
It's easy to have work life balance when you haven't worked a day in your life. (And not in the rock n'roll kind of way.)
RIght?! Also, when you count golfing as 'work', yeah, other people complaining about how difficult it is when they work all the time might seem weird.
Also - when you don't need to worry about things like cooking, cleaning, driving, etc..., you've got a shit ton more time in the day that you can put towards 'work' if you want!
If you’re obsessing over work-life balance, your problem isn’t the hours—it’s the job, says Bupa’s CEO. And some of the world’s most powerful people agree.
There's some truth to that. But the conclusion is just that most jobs suck.
Does this bastard work 300 hours a week? If not, he’s a weak shit.
having no life, no family, no kids, no hobbies and no time to just be is for the weak
Then I don’t want to be strong
Random guy on the internet: lack of work life balance is for pathetic losers who have nobody who loves them. Don't be like loser billionaires, be like random internet chad.
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