He’s not talking about a 6-day workweek for himself.
Your friend sounds pretty lazy. He should be working 7 days per week, 12 hour shifts, for no extra pay.
He probably does BECAUSE HE’S THE OWNER AND GETS ALL THE PROFITS.
What is infuriating is when owners think that employees need to be as dedicated as they are despite not getting the same profit from their labor.
BECAUSE HE’S THE OWNER AND GETS ALL THE PROFITS.
Unless he’s up to his eyeballs in debt, in which case he’s just an employee of his lenders.
Yeah, tons of small business owners often make diddly squat in profit. They might pull in a 7-digit revenue, but if their overhead and/or debt is crazy high, they might actually only be making like $50k/yr in take-home pay, if even that.
I’d be happy to make only $50k/yr
What else can you expect from entitled “people” these days? He probably not even arrives to office half an hour before work.
Your friend needs to read Good to Great by Jim Collins, and reassess.
Let him do this six days alone. Just move elsewhere.
I love these people because they are so adamant that working more will help them while every single study shows that people are way more productive when they have rest time. A 4-day work week would shoot his company’s productivity up and actually save money on things like electricity but he’s so far up his own ass that he cannot possibly understand how that could work.
I do think that the commentor who said he must not have anything outside of work has a point. Like, who on earth is has such a shit life outside of work that they can brainwash themselves into believing that more work is a solution?
Your friend is a complete idiot, an astounding failure of a human being and even as an emotionless machine.
He literally shares the same goals as cancer
And this ballsack scab is still someone you refer to as “friend”?
Someone’s been reading too many LinkedIn posts
Time to debate how many layers the OSI model has
Your friend needs to realize that no matter how much they want employees to work extra hard, they will not do it because they do not have incentive. No matter how hard they work, they will not benefit in the long term like he will.
Bust my ass six days a week to make HIM wealthy? No. And fuck you.
That is the difference.
I think they know this and their game is to intimidate people into accepting that
I would quit on the 6th day. I’d show up to my shift for 5 and then not be there on 6. I guess I’d do that until I got fired, but I would never be there on the 6th day.
Gotta make that Q3 line go up somehow
I would accept a single 6-day workweek in Q3, if that’s all I need to work that quarter, that’s a solid life goal.
But yeah, what he’s talking about is not sustainable, and he’s doing it to himself.
Seeing edit: it’s just worse. Sounds like he needs to hire more people, about 20-30% more staff by his own numbers.
Ha tell him the internet says good luck, hope he likes the taste of lead?
Ninja Edit: not a threat, just seems like someone who enjoys eating lead. Lead paints, lead fumes, other lead sources. Lead damages the body and mind in all manner of ways.
- Lead paints
- Lead fumes
- Other lead sources
(You forgot to use bullet points.)
Ayyyy
Tell him the best employees will quit. The rest will be too burnt out to actually do anything truly productive.
Don’t tell him shit, The Market™️ will sort it out and he’ll be in for a fun surprise when all his best talent flees to a rival company
“how do you plan to counter the inevitable contraction of your workforce to achieve your expansion goals?”
Also, he’s probably a shit person. If he actually implements this plan I’d start inviting him to stuff on his extra work day (maybe pull in other mutual friends). Bonus points if you can make the first extra day such an awesome thing that it either eats him up inside on that day, or if you manage to get him to accept all of his employees revolt over it
Lol, you think a person who implements such a policy will apply it to themselves?
Some people are workaholics, especially people who think like that.
