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[–] 192 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Imagine being so full of yourself you call yourself a "business angel"

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    [–] 160 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    the only people who want to put in longer hours at the office have absolutely nothing to go home to.

    they should be pitied instead of being vilified. drop them a "get well soon" message in social media should you encounter them.

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    [+] 102 points 2 years ago (2 children)
  • [–] 46 points 2 years ago

    That is the key thing that is wrong with the whole "work ethic" rhetoric. Working longer hours is not good for productivity unless you have a job that basically has no quality metric attached to anything you produce and quantity is just measured in time worked.

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    [–] 82 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Prosperity comes from inherited wealth.

    People who work from a co-working space usually are in no place to lecture others about prosperity.

    If you brag about how late you work in the evening, at least tell us when you start in the morning.

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  • [–] 70 points 2 years ago

    What if instead of working, I spend two hours making a salty post about people not working?

    is_this_grindset.png

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  • [–] 65 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Man discovers German labor laws, more at 11.

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    [–] 61 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Tell me again how hard you’re working while you piss around on social media all day.

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  • [–] 60 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The other day I was driving on the Autobahn at 3:30am and there were literally no cars around me. These Germans always go on and on about how the Autobahn is so fucking great, but then they are not using it? You have to be really stupid to not see how that illustrates why the entire country is going to shit

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    [–] 57 points 2 years ago

    And instead of working himself he spents his so productive working time by writing linkedin posts.

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  • [–] 53 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Odds on he went into the office at 18:30 to take a photo of how empty it was so he post on LinkedIn about what a grinder he is.

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Sounds like a dude who works all day without accomplishing anything and doesn't understand how people can get work done quickly by being good at it.

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    [–] 44 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    This reminds me of a person I worked with who would wait until the evening to reply to most emails. I assumed this was so at every morning standup they could say they were waiting on someone else to get back on something.

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    [–] 39 points 2 years ago

    That’s not an office. That’s a hotel lobby. I do not envy anyone who needs to work in this co-working space. It’s like someone took the idea of a loud distracting open concept office, and replaced all the functional furniture and equipment with cushions and wall art.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    God I want the four day work week to become a thing. But I think they’ve been talking about it for like two decades now and it never seems to happen…

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    [–] 37 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Overtime work for your own company? If you want, sure. It all comes back to your pocket after all. You do you.

    Upset that your staff isn't participating in your non-existent work/life balance? It's only weird if they don't own an equal share of the business with you, or are not well compensated for the inconvenience.

    Publicly shaming your staff on LinkedIn for spending time with family? Get ready to lose your top performers.


    Edit: another lemming pointed out this is a co-working space. In which case, the above doesn't directly apply to the guy in OP's post, but is a familiar story nonetheless.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    His work is probably just sending emails and booking meetings.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    His work is THE HUSTLE and NETWORKING with the office manager about getting half-caff pods while she's trying to go HOME to her CHILDREN heh while he's grinding that INBOX ZERO productivity, carefully reading and NODDING INTENTLY - BROW STITCHED IN INTENSE CONCENTRATION as he scans every single business opportunity email and either archives (never delete a lead (NDaL life)) or replies to each one individually. Sleep or inbox zero? The choice is easy for the grinder

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Having worked in various countries of Europe with various different work cultures, I can guarantee you that at least in Software Development the productivity of working more than 8h a day regularly (you can get away with doing it for a week or two, but no further) is so much less than in with 8h/day or less, that you're literally producing less results with your work in a whole long-hours day of work than you do in an 8h day.

    In simple terms, tired people do negative work and people working long hours regularly end up chronically tired.

    Maybe it works differently for people doing stuff that's all about salesmanship (like Business Angel) for whom more hours means more "meets", but in my personal experience it definitelly works as I described for people actually doing heavy thinking work that has to actually work rather than merelly doing talkie-talkie with hard to compare results and where efficiency is near impossible to measure.

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    [–] 35 points 2 years ago

    Imagine being so pathetic that work is your life. What a loser

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    $100 says he left immediately after taking these photos. Dr.Hustler PhD here is using precious company time to write a chapter's worth of bullshit. Get back on that horse, it's time to work.

    Edit: I finally get it! This must have been what Rage Against the Machine meant when they said, "Can't waste the day when the night brings a Hurst." Still not sure how, "Rollin' down Rodeo with a shotgun," fits in this pro corpo anthem but maybe I'm just not a hard enough worker to get it. Bad tradeoff indeed.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    That's why Asia, working the longest hours, is the world's most productive region, right?

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    [–] 31 points 2 years ago*

    More hours weekly correlates extremely highly with a nation's poverty index and unemployment.

    The only reason a business would want their workers to work more hours is because the management is lazy and cannot find additional staff to accomplish output goals.

    Europe is not behind. It is ahead.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    i start working at 6:30 and work till 16:30 so i can see my children before they go to bed.

    i'm just a burden for my company, right?

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    [–] 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    "Putting in the hours" isn't working. It's flexing your masochism

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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That office looks like a hotel lobby. Do people actually work on those couches and coffee tables? They’re probably leaving “early” to go see their chiropractor.

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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    This guy probably still wonders why he was bullied in High School and College.

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    [–] 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Business owners be like:

    How dare these people not give me their labor for free. How greedy of them

    And not detect a single drop of irony

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    [–] 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    You stay there and work, mr hustler, I have a life to live and enjoy

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The US has influenced the rest of the world so much. It's quite sad. Hopefully Trump's election will force Europe to put up some figurative walls and stop the flood of bullshit from that country.

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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    Sounds like my man needs to get off LinkedIn. Who tf "loves to talk and post about the hustle" in real life ?

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    My office is a ghost town by the time I leave at 5. That’s how I know I’ve found a good place to work. (Also don’t have to be in the office every day)

    I only stay that “late” because I get there later than almost everybody else.

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    [–] 21 points 2 years ago

    I start work at 4 am. I do work 4a - 8p one day a week but some days I'm done by noon. Usually by 1:30pm. I'd love to show up at his office at 4:30 am and post, "where's the hustle?"

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    [–] 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It really gets me that "working hard" to increase capital is baked in as one of the strongest morals of our society.

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    [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That looks like the breakroom. Maybe check the offices?

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    Maybe they all leave as early as possible so as to not have to hang out with this dude.

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