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That's an interesting divergence between the hed and URL, but that's really the least of the issues.

Here’s a job pitch you don’t see often.

What if, instead of “work-life balance,” you had no balance at all—your life was your work… and work happened seven days a week?

Did I say days? I actually meant days and nights, because the job I’m talking about wants you to know that you will also work weekends and evenings, and that “it’s ok to send messages at 3am.”

Also, I hope you aren’t some kind of pajama-wearing wuss who wants to work remotely; your butt had better be in a chair in a New York City office on Madison Avenue, where you need enough energy to “run through walls to get things done” and respond to requests “in minutes (or seconds) instead of hours.”

I mean, I've had such a job.

And if I needed to talk to my boss at 3 a.m., we were either still awake or I rolled over and poked her shoulder.

That environment is fine when it happens organically. This is just absurd.

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[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

“Please be okay with this,” potential employees are told.

"Counter-offer: Please fuck all the way off and die in a fire."

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)
[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 3 points 4 months ago

"Maybe you can use them to douse yourself, maybe the sugar will just create improvised napalm. Personally, I can't wait to find out."