I am not sure what to say about that.
Fuck, dude. I just hope this is a satire account and some doctored image.
I work with tech bros.
They flex nonstop about how many life events they miss to be at work. It’s like a badge of honor to say stupid shit like “Ah my 4 YO is in the ER but I know how important this meeting is…”
“Ah my 4 YO is in the ER but I know how important this meeting is…”
And the meeting is just some dumbass monthly progress review where section heads brag about what ‘they’ (their team) accomplished in the last month, with at least half of it being bullshit, exaggeration, or preemptively taking credit for what they’re probably totally going to do next month. Nothing would change if the meeting was entirely cancelled and skipped.
It’s all about quantity in corporate. Performative employees get further quicker compared to quiet ones that actually deliver quality output.
Not to that extreme, but I’ve seen one say how their kid cried because they were away working on some tech bro stuff, and they never want their kid to go through that again. Except they didn’t have to do it in the first place anyway. It was literally a choice. They chose work because it was fun.
I have missed work events to be at something that’s important to my kids and I’ll continue doing that. In 20 years the only ones who will remember late hours and time spent at the office are my children.
When my coworkers plan meetings at noon I tell them to have fun without me cause that’s when I eat lunch. They don’t do that anymore.
Right. Or Friday after 2pm. Fuck off with your work shit, some of us want to leave for the weekend.
They know that.
it’s thursday at 1155 and i just clocked out for the weekend shuttup or my boss will notice
We have a ‘Lunch & Learn’ at noon every other Friday… “No Actual Lunch Provided”. There’s no set agenda, just for people in IT throughout the company to get together and talk about anything tech related they want to discuss. It doesn’t even have to be work related.
It actually sounds like a fun meeting that I’d love to attend, but… Friday is my Pad Thai day, and I’m not missing that.
Exactly this. If the lunch isn’t gluten free AND good, i consider it a request for me to not attend.
Although, if they get pizza, I’ll scrape half a pizza’s worth of toppings on to a plate and let them see me dropping the crust in the trash. They always ask about dietary restrictions… and they consider shitty pizza shop salad a GF meal?? LOL. I always plan for my own food for events like this.
How can you eat at a time like this???
You mean lunch time?I have a 1h meeting at lunchtime my TZ on every work day. It helps especially the Brits to respect continental lunch times.
Occasionally the company sends out emails about these extra optional special seminar things, random topics, often not even about work, and they almost always seem to “conveniently” be scheduled at like 12 or 1230, when people are most likely to take lunch.
Like, I see what you are doing and I don’t like it.
Go to the seminar and take a separate lunch break.
Oh yeah, but it also really feels like bait to get people to do it while on lunch.
There’s no “feels like” about it, it’s almost entirely the point.
I can’t wait to meet my peers that used the grindset mindset in the retirement home. Don’t worry, I don’t have kids, so neither of us will have visitors. The key difference will be them tethered to their computer striving to launch one last product.
I’ll be on year 40 of my retirement.
That’s a nice thought but this is the kind of guy who will hire live-in care
i’m kind of curious how the retirement home will go. because i’m bringing my video games. having food prepped, like, the biggest loss for me will be my kitchen.
gran ran retirement homes so i know exactly what i’m getting into from a mechanical standpoint. social standpoint too i’ve already spent a good three decades of my life just hanging out and helping out. as long as i can transfer myself i’m happy in even the cheaper homes, but i wish i could tell them i wanted to cook my own meals sometimes. maybe run loose in their professional kitchens once a week, but i ain’t got that kind of money.
I remember the VP of Engineering for the company I worked for held a mandatory meeting for his managers on a weekend afternoon. One of his managers was a no-show, and when he commented on it another guy said “It’s his son’s tenth birthday and they’re having a party.” The VP looked incredulous and said “Why would anyone miss an important meeting for a 10-year-old’s party?” Luckily it was a rhetorical question because no one said anything. Oh, and the VP was divorced and estranged from his kids; I wonder why.
GOOD. i have run a small (generally noncustomer facing) business before. i have stated upfront to my new hires that they have to work their hours unless it’s a life or death issue. Now let’s go over the life issues: i want them clocking out at noon (if they work at all) on: their birthday, their spouse/SO’s birthday, anniversarys, children’s birthdays, sporting events/concerts, etc. (you gotta be there for your kids) if their favorite band is in town, the bakery down the street has the twists i like (not the ones you like, the ones I like), the dispensary has either of our favorite strains of weed, like, be reasonable to us and we’ll be reasonable to you.
honestly by the time i got to the bakery (i was not into weed when i was employing people) they got my vibe well enough i didn’t have problems with anyone i hired.
What gives people feelings of power
Forcing your coworkers to sing happy birthday to your daughter, whose birthday your missing, during a meeting that already could’ve been an email.
Posting about it on LinkedIn
You decide!
Not sure what is more depressing: missing your child’s birthday or posting about missing your child’s birthday.
people on linkedln are a freak of nature. they’ll post anything for views.
it’s similar to the “infinite energy” claim some linkedln users post that make me question if they have ever attended a university physics lecture. the ironic thing… people fucking believed it.
I could probably vaguely rephrase flat earth conspiracy theory and linkedln would agree on that premise as fact. I’m not even talking about changing it much, just adding a little bit of jargon here and there, and they’d believe it.
Missing your child’s burthday after already having missed it all the years before and your child already complained about it.
Photo’s of him with her as a baby 'cos that’s the last time they interacted in person
I was at a local live show. The singer was talking about how she sacrificed so much to make the show, and tonight is her daughter’s birthday which she is missing.
Without missing a beat, a highly intoxicated woman slur-shouted “YOU’RE A TERRIBLE MOTHER!!!”
It was like all the air was sucked out of the room and we were in the vacuum of space and could not hear a single vibration of sound. The rest of the show was super low energy.
Was she wrong though?
Yeah it sounds pretty bad but we should not judge we do not know what she has been through
Explain the trauma that means a local singer can’t schedule a show for a different day
Turn on your imagination
Imagine the singer is trapped in an abusive relationship with her manager, who forced her to work that day. Maybe this is her only source of income and her kid has special needs. Maybe she’s divorced and the dad has the kid this birthday and she COULD show up but the dad would make a scene. All of these based on true stories.
So many people are ragging on this guy, but they don’t understand what it’s like to have 131 middle managers sing you happy birthday before they go splurge their per diem on two mai tai’s and try to get the waitress, who’s actually your daughter’s age, to drink one.
A lot of women like older men, but yeah, not in that situation. Very disgusting.
Looking forward to the posts in ten years on aitah “my daughter told me i was a horrible father and cut all contact”
Wow. What a douchebag.
Probably no one there wants to be at your shitty meeting anyway. Go be with your daughter and don’t make the rest of those assholes act like they care about your bullshit. Fuck this guy.
That’s one of the saddest things I’ve ever heard
The comments are equally deranged
Great idea Rick. Well done!!
Very wholesome post 😊 And really great idea!
Happy 12th birthday to your daughter 🎂🎉 That’s such a lovely and thoughtful gesture—so adorable! She’ll definitely remember that one.
I hope they are satire and/or LLM generated slop.
LLM generated slop.
The good ones are. I best most are just the suggested auto-replies that appear under the post that people use because they’re too lazy to read/type anything themselves. Comments on that site are nearly all just another way to trigger one’s own profile to show up in others’ feeds one more time than it would have otherwise.
Whenever I’m bored and I open LinkedIn, it’s just a wall of slop. I don’t know how anyone takes it seriously.
She’ll definitely remember that one.
She’ll remember that he prefers to be with his work family than her.
Next year he’ll print those out and send them to her from the important conference he has to attend.
My wife’s and my 12th anniversary is this week… and she reminded me (again 🍆✊💦) that I usually miss our anniversaries because I’m out fucking mailboxes every night.
Not helped this year that there are still mailboxes in the world.
So I improvised instead of figuring out a solution.
This year, instead of making my wife sad, I wrote “I was at my own wedding” on every mailbox just before I fucked it.
If my wife isn’t satisfied with this solution, that’s her problem, not mine. I’m not here to compromise with things that aren’t those fuckable mailboxes.
Moments like this remind me how lucky I am that the mailboxes I fuck can’t move or talk while I tell them about my wife and then fuck them. It’s like they’re forced to be there.
We are all mailbox fuckers. For some people, shirking fatherhood is their mailbox fucking. For me, fucking a mailbox is my mailbox fucking … cheers guys!
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https://vimeo.com/944236732?fl=pl&fe=sh
Super American and super gross.
It is gross, but he’s from the UK
Well then, he qualifies as an honorary American!
I see this as they are so inefficient and bad at their job that they have to work all the time. Or they are so poorly respected that they aren’t allowed the time to take off work.
They should be shamed and made fun of every time they say shit like this.
Middle managers are a waste of resources.
Cut to 20 years later “Why does my daughter never visit doesn’t she know how much I sacrificed?”
“I gave her a whole slide at the beginning of the deck where people still pay attention! Kids are so ungrateful these days”
Ah yes, supporting the people behind by forcing you to work on your child’s birthday.
