The worst people on Earth are the ones who are constantly obsessing about “winning” every situation, so that makes perfect sense to me.
Legit, I think this is why board games are a great activity when getting to know new people. Most people don’t want to play with someone ultra competitive, who’ll either gloat when they win, or flip the board when they lose. If someone’s willing to behave that way over a game, imagine how they’d be over something that’s actually important.
Winning what? Profit for other people?
I am not committed to winning. That’s a good thing. I’m committed to living a decent life.
For me, winning is a job with flexible hours that let’s me go home and do some garage work and then cook. I want vacation time and time to see the doctor. I want a good retirement plan and good coverage for the 3 bullshit doctor things… The body doc, the eye doc and the teeth doc. I want a doctor who enjoys work and is not simply seeing me and a thousand other people. I want cheap medicine that is effective. I want free analysis and no copay surprise. i want free hospital stays. I also want free schools k-12 and university for my kids. And I want free vaccines and freedom of speech without fear or retaliation. And I want diversity at my work, I don’t wanna be the only black guy! Or the only Chinese or Korean or woman. And I want my job to not make things that hurt people.
“Jeez what a loser”
_- Asshole linkedin co-founder, probably
I’ll be joining the Dow people next week when it drops another 68 percent. They say it hurts less if you jump from the fifth floor or higher. But if you go too high like the 20th floor, you could have enough times to freakout. So you gotta find your Happy medium.
Weird. I feel like I’m winning when I’m on a long vacation doing something adventurous and I feel like I’m fucking losing when I’m staring at a computer screen in an office.
For real I love it when I’m not at work having fun and living life even if it’s just boring and I’m at home just working on some house projects and riding my bike
Workers, at best, only get a tiny fraction of “winning” when it happens. Why should anyone destroy themselves for spoils that multimillionaire C-suites take for themselves?
We have different definitions of winning. If I never work for an asshole like you ever again, I win.
Translation: You’re not someone we can overwork so easily.
Yeah fuck that, every fuckin job description I read these days with some variation of “ownership mindset” makes my blood boil, fuck this economy and fuck society I’m not having kids and see them go through the same rat race as me, let these cunts cry about lack of workers and demographic collapse
And I think that’s where the issue falls with this. People who found companies feel entitled to similar labor levels as their own
Yup, they expect ordinary workers to put in the same amount of effort for a tiny salary compared to theirs which doesn’t scale with the profits of the company, and when there are losses they lose their jobs while the people who made the decisions that led to the losses get to keep their jobs, fuck that shit.
Rooting for the collapse of this entire system is what sustains me.
Winning by whose definition?
His line going up.
I’m only committed to winning in that way if winning means that I am getting a cut of the company profits.
I’m at my salary will reflect the profitability and growth of the company.
Otherwise I’m just another wage slave that you’re trying to abuse, and take away my work is rights
Title bait. He said that about entrepreneurship and starting a business, which I can understand as it is very unlikely that you work as an “standard” employee.
““When we started LinkedIn, we started with people who had families. So we said, sure, go home have dinner with your family. Then, after dinner with your family, open up your laptop and get back in the shared work experience and keep working.””
I worked at LNKD through a good part of its rampup. Jeff Weiner made Linkedin what it was. Reid Hoffman was mostly useless and came along for the ride. His “masters of scale” podcast series was a bit of a joke too, he never had anything to do with anything technical or at scale. He is just stealing credit from his betters.
I guess that would make sense to someone with narcissistic or psychopathic personality organization. “All benefits must accrue to me.”
Exactly, I am happy normal people stop following this trend en masse. We just need normal lives, we’re not aiming to be the richest or the best of the best. It’s unhealthy and not cozy at all.
Explains the insanity you see in LinkedIn posts and comments.
