I am not sure what to say about that.
Super American and super gross.
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.
Yeah it sounds pretty bad but we should not judge we do not know what she has been through
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”
A meeting? Seriously?
I am blessed to have my current job. It was my daughters birthday earlier this week and on the morning of her birthday she came to me (I WFH btw) a bit upset as the plans she had made for the day had fell through as both her friends cancelled.
I was able to book that PM off work with 90 minutes notice and have it approved. Daughter and I had a great day :)
This is such a great reminder that leadership is also about being human. Small moments like this say a lot about a team’s culture.
…or he could have gotten a day off to spend with his family on his daughters birthday. When we’re old and dying the only people who will remember how much we worked will be our kids. Do you want them to remember Dad always being away at work or do you want them to remember time with you.
The sad part is that the answer is already given to us, your family is just a source of labor, same as you, unless you take your time back and don’t ask permission and accept being unemployed.
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.
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!
I missed a major life event one time to travel for work. Top ten dumbest thing I ever did. I don’t remember a damn thing about the trip, still remember missing the anniversary though.
That’s one of the saddest things I’ve ever heard
It’s apparent that his daughters birthday is important to her. If he or they supported or even slightly cared the people behind it he wouldn’t be missing his daughters birthday.
Fuck this corporate white washing bullshit.
“Growing up, my dad was always there for me, he would record strangers singing me happy birthday and sometimes even come home to see me!”
Note to self, never work for or with rick
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Right. Or Friday after 2pm. Fuck off with your work shit, some of us want to leave for the weekend.
it’s thursday at 1155 and i just clocked out for the weekend shuttup or my boss will notice
They know that.
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.
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.
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.
That’s a nice thought but this is the kind of guy who will hire live-in care
