His POV is he wants to hire young and fire them if they've gotten any kind of comfortable.
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The one thing I'll say as someone with years of management and leadership experience, is that these posts always ignore what the people want. I've coached many employees, and I always start with asking what they want to achieve. Some people are really career focused and want to climb the ladder. Others are happy putting in their 40 hours and making modest progression from entry to junior, and maybe senior eventually.
If someone wants to climb the ladder, or became an industry expert, or make the very top of the range, then yes, that's going to involve some grind. But some people just want to have a comfortable life while doing their fair share during their 40 hours a week. And there is nothing wrong with either approach.
Telling all young people to grind 80 hours a week, ignoring what they want to achieve, or if they are even likely to succeed in their goal, is management malpractice. But I digress.
You sound like a great boss. The best managers I've had are the ones that looked at every employee separately and matched their work to their skills and ambitions. I don't want a promotion, I'm happy in my role. That doesn't mean I don't have any ambitions, it just means that I know what I want to do, and a promotion will put me behind a desk writing reports and having meetings instead of the technical work I enjoy doing the most. My ambitions are to grow within my role, not beyond it.
"guys guys! The key to a great life is to work really really hard for me, do everything I ask straight away, hustle and grind yourself down for my company. And then, I guess you will be your own boss or whatever. Short answer is just do what I want so i might recognise you and maybe pay you what you are worth. When you are all broken and worn out, then you should fuck off and do family or whatever so I can get the next suc- err king to fill your place, Yeah, you go king"
I bothers me when I hear young employees talk about work/life balance
Of course it does, he worried they might want a life outside of work.
It almost sounds like religion :-p
Capitalism is just a pyramid scheme.
America did so well with it because there was a steady influx to make up the base.
Now we don't, and wealth inequality means unless you're at the very top, you're not getting anything
Bc being a rich asshole requires a bunch of suffering from the less privileged.
Always has.
Eat the rich.
I feel like a lot of the older generation thinks we're idiots as young adults in the workforce. We are constantly stressing over our finances, work, trying to find time to live, own cars, places to live, we're in it my dude. We know what our options are and we see the paths which are clearly dead ends. You're not in it anymore if you don't have to "work your butt off" anymore. So I'm more inclined to believe you have no idea what you're talking about and just dismissing it as "uphill both ways" energy
His advise is to have zero work/life balance until you have kids because then you can really kick back and relax lol
Here's an idea: Work the bare minimum you can until you are about 30 years old.
Then, cram training content online that current senior managers don't know anything about(because they've been heads down grinding for a decade), inflate your resume(nobody is checking your references), and take their jobs.
It's not a path to Director/VP that any of these influencers will endorse, but it's tried and true. You can just ignore all their try hard BS and land in the same salary range when you need it.