A lot of lower-upper management equates stress to work, without realizing that simply not giving a fuck (like the CEO does) produces the same amount of labor with a quarter of the stress
It depends on the industry but from my experience the c-suite and partner level positions are the “you made it” role and the one right below is the hardest job with all the real hands on work to prove they deserve the promotion.
I think a lot of upper management types believe they’re doing work, but a lot of it is bullshit.
You see that in those “day in the life of a CEO” stories, when they’re telling everybody how hard they work. “My day starts at 06:00. I then have a breakfast while checking my phone for news and mails.” Usually it’s not making their own breakfast, they’ve got staff for that. And every average Lemmy user checks their phone in the morning for messages and news. But if you’re CEO it counts as work. Then they have meetings and phone calls, just like every white collar worker everywhere, have lunch and some golf with their buddies. You would be slacking off. CEO’s are maintaining social relations so that’s very much work.
The contradictions in “you need to work hard, working hard is good, so you can be rich and no longer work, working sucks” are weird once you see them.
I think a lot of upper management types believe they’re doing work, but a lot of it is bullshit.
A lot of lower-upper management equates stress to work, without realizing that simply not giving a fuck (like the CEO does) produces the same amount of labor with a quarter of the stress
It depends on the industry but from my experience the c-suite and partner level positions are the “you made it” role and the one right below is the hardest job with all the real hands on work to prove they deserve the promotion.
But even that work is mainly an extreme influx of emails and ordering around subordinates
You see that in those “day in the life of a CEO” stories, when they’re telling everybody how hard they work. “My day starts at 06:00. I then have a breakfast while checking my phone for news and mails.” Usually it’s not making their own breakfast, they’ve got staff for that. And every average Lemmy user checks their phone in the morning for messages and news. But if you’re CEO it counts as work. Then they have meetings and phone calls, just like every white collar worker everywhere, have lunch and some golf with their buddies. You would be slacking off. CEO’s are maintaining social relations so that’s very much work.