Anarchist NexusWalmart exec: ‘I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance’—this is the mantra that made her highly successful instead
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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.
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.
i had an HR person who kept saying their “wages are competative” as if that was something to brag about. you are saying you pay the lowest possible pay that still brings in employee. loved leaving that job after a decade, told that HR person to go fuck herself when she tried to talk to me my last day.
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.
Gonna call mine Round-Trip Airlines. You might not need a round trip, but we want to emphasize that our planes actually work, so you’ll get to your destination safe and could still return someday.
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.
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.
I once heard the following which struck a chord for me and I always keep it in mind when it comes to work:
“20 years from now, the only people who will remember you stayed late at work are your kids”
Obviously this doesn’t apply if you have to work late to survive. If you have the choice though, don’t give these companies more time than they really deserve. You won’t be remembered or rewarded for it.
Instead, you’ll just be used as the example of “being a team player” the manager tries to invoke to cajole others into doing free work, too.
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.
Yeah it’s a lot easier to say that when your work doesn’t require you to be on-site, or consists of lunch meetings and answering e-mails.
I notice that both examples are of someone using personal time to do work and not the other way around.
That’s pretty much the definition of a workaholic.
This is literally Peter’s arc in Hook (1991).
says the walton family/ceos that never worked a single day in thier life, that isnt given through nepotism, its always these people saying this.
I hate the fact that money is equated with success. Like, what’s her K/D ratio on CS:Source?
Significantly lower than her K/D ratio in real life
I grew up in a very poor neighbourhood, then moved to a very rich one for high school, then back to a different poor one for young adulthood. I feel I can speak on this.
All the rich people I know are lazy and are constantly on vacation and play golf/whatever exclusive sport they prefer. Doesn’t matter if they’re 15 or 50…they basically all have the same life style. They will lose their minds if a peer stays at work at work or works in their home office for an extra hour or two a day as if they deserve a medal - provided the work is white collar work. They will completely disregard all the random days off and vacations they take on a whim as if they didn’t happen.
The hardest working people I know are immigrant dishwashers, hands down (just because I spent a lot of time in the restaurant industry - I’m sure there are equivalent jobs in other sectors). 6-7 days a week 10-12 hours a day, sometimes less than minimum wage, no overtime. Thankless, soul sucking, and difficult work. They will never ever complain, never ask for a raise and beg for more hours even tho additional hours have to be “off the books” and paid out of petty cash. Don’t even get tipped out like cooks. Never buy a luxury. They raise families and put kids through university. Biggest unsung sector in labour, as far as I’m concerned. Also the most exploited that allow the rich people to pretend what they do is work. If you try to advocate for them they tell you shut up and not rock the boat.
OK but Walmart retail staffers clock in and clock out with a time card, and require to be on site to fulfill their duties.
Oh how generous of this person to take a vacation. Do they pay their Walmart retail staff to take a vacation too?
Oh is she ok with her employees texting their loved ones between tasks or is it only work that’s supposed to encroach on everything else?
Ooooh I think we know the answer
Yeah, it was telling that all her examples are of work “integrating” itself into your home life, and 0 examples of things working the other way around. If you want me answering emails during my kid’s sporting event (jfk) then how about we make this a two-way street and I go home to do my laundry and watch some netflix if it’s a slow day at the office lol. These fucking people.
Morgan Freeman: “They did not.”
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?
The solution is right there and no one does it!!
My god, it’s so simple! We should all tip our bosses for enlightening us! And work 7 days a week for no extra!
thats exactly what she is saying, trying not being poor and you wouldnt have to work like POOR.
This privileged CEO thinks what she does is ‘work’ when she never as to work a day in customer service.
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.
It’s always “do a ‘little more’ here and there” for work, but if you ask to be paid a little more for that work then they lose their minds. These parasites are the most entitled pieces of shit ever.
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.
The people are just myth making: Musk and this woman first stretch the definition of work to mean everything they ever do…expensive business lunches or exotic vacations (that include a zoom meeting!) are considered work. But then difficult or stressful work gets discounted by association because the surfs only do it for 12 hours a day.
*Serfs
Maybe I meant to type Smurfs?
If they’re peasant smurfs, would they be “smerfs?” 🤔
I can’t tell if “smurfing” sounds like a fun water sport, or instead, buying pseudoephedrin for Walter White
Serfs up, dude!
People with a money addiction will insist that you don’t deserve a comfortable life because you insist on balancing work and life
Its always the executives that say this shit.
You know
the ones with tons of money, that pawn children off on teams of live in nannies, who can “work” (ie, check an email once a day) from their yachts, etc etc.
If they had to work like the ground level people, for the ground level pay, they would be screaming for unions and regulations.
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.
I have. These people act like “sending a text outside of work hours to a boss” is such a heavy lift, while their time in the office is often spent just throwing wrenches into already working machinery.
What is a “new exciting service” that Walmart has provided? Nothing. All this woman does is spend time in meetings with other execs trying to figure out ways to increase their bottom line (read: bonuses) and pass the work of doing that off on people who then have to handle the weight of making these ideas of theirs a reality.
As others have said, the C-suite is the most replaceable use-case for AI. Just people that throw shit at the wall and see what sticks.
Ah yes, a person who was parachuted into high level positions right out of university lectures everyone on hard work.
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.
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.
Actually I think work/life balance is an outdated concept.
These days it’s more like work/survival balance.
Wal-Mart exec can go suck a fuck!
how exactly does one suck a fuck
With gusto.
I’m imagining one places one’s mouth on the area where the penis enters the vagina such that they are able to create suction both in the penis and vaginal opening simultaneously.
That literally just sounds like she’s always working, even when she’s supposed to be focused on family.
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.
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”.
Yeah I can tell you kids will be crushed when they score or make a good play and look over and their parent is looking at their phone worried about absolute bullshit.
What a waste of life to be this concerned about work. Your addict comment is spot on.
Mm mmm… boot tastes so fucking good am I right?
Just wait until her neglected kids rebel and turn into miserable drug addicts.
!linkedinlunatics@sh.itjust.works
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.
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After working at Walmart, I would say you can definitely go out of your way to help.
And upper management still won’t promote you, or give you a raise. Just a bunch of thanks.
This abuse is built into the system, it’s always a promise of a promotion, but the reality is they just want suckers to work for free. This is Walmarts basic Mode of operation. Anything else they tell you is just part of the propaganda to keep everyone working for free. It’s an endless flood of propaganda, designed to keep you working for free in hopes of a raise.
I never believe her also.
This kind of useless performative busy-ness is one of the stupidest forms virtue signalling.
*cocks shotgun
“sharpens scimitar”
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.
Don’t compare mentally ill people to Executives.
Mentally ill people deserve better.
Sure, Jan. If I could make millions at work with the same effort, I would.
“If I am working this hard, everyone should too.”
I think this is the mindset of bosses as to why they power trip. Not all but this is far too common.
It’s Comcastic!
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…
“I’ve never believed in
the termwork-life balance.”What it really means
This work style suits me as well. I have always preferred jobs that reward outcomes and offer true flexibility. Sometimes I work a lot. Sometimes I log off at 2pm and nap. But it isn’t right for everyone.
Sorry, what-mart?
Never heard of it. Can’t be that important.
nice m dash CMBC. fuckin rage bait AI slop
Her take is perfectly reasonable:
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.
The unreasonable part is where it’s intended to be useful information for anyone outside of her specific sphere. If I do anything you and her describe, I’d be fired the next day. That’s even considering that my current job is the most lenient and acomodating place I’ve ever worked.
Her style works for you, good for you. I admit I’m sometimes also guilty of checking work stuff when I shouldn’t be. The problem is that it does not work for everyone and some people want clear boundaries and separation, and her saying this is in a way telling her people what they should be doing:
Just because you don’t have a problem with it, doesn’t mean everyone else doesn’t either. If she was an ordinary cog in the wheel like you and me, people might not give a shit if that’s how she prefers to work. But she dictates policy with her position and influence.