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[–] Wooki@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Up next on the news: abusive boss wonders why he can't retain staff. Should the board step in? Shareholders say yes

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I can't imagine why this needy millennial feels so entitled to my attention.

[–] TJDetweiler@lemmy.ca 17 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Ashamed this piece of shit is Canadian..

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 hours ago

Not if you ask half his province.

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 15 points 8 hours ago

Shut up and sit down you big bald fuck

[–] rainynight65@feddit.org 66 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Boss announces he will break the law.

[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Why can't these regulations be actual crimes, with criminal consequences for the perpetrator. And if he's ordering someone else to do the firing, it's "conspiracy to commit regulatory fraud".

[–] okamiueru@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

It'll keep getting worse until heads suddenly start rolling.

[–] skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 hours ago

If you look away slightly from that picture, your peripheral sense of a complete fucking asshole will fill in the cigar in his right hand

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 80 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

He'll fire workers... what workers exactly? As far as I can tell, he hasn't actually run a business in 25 years. He got rich when Mattel bought his company in 1999, but then they fired him. He invested in a storage facility company, was on the board of directors but never actually had any employees reporting to him, and then he sold that investment, making him more money.

Since then, he's had a number of vanity projects name after himself: O'Leary Funds, O'Leary Ventures, O'Leary Books, O'Leary Fine Wines, I don't know if any of them are still in business, but if they are, I can't imagine he has more than a handful of employees.

Now he's just a reality TV personality, so of course he's going to say bullshit that gets him in the spotlight.

Why would anybody take advice from a reality TV personality who hasn't managed any employees in a quarter of a century? Especially given that he's probably just saying bullshit to get his name in the spotlight again.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 27 points 12 hours ago

This is guy's grift is playing daddy capitalist while real owners do actual capitalism.

A useful whore for the regime.

[–] Atropos@lemmy.world 18 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Who dreams up crap like Kevin O'leary??

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 hours ago
[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 110 points 15 hours ago (9 children)
[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 1 points 12 minutes ago

This whole thing with a series of "CommentX" accounts started because I wrote on reddit once that I hoped for this guy's death, got permabanned, and made my first new account. I think I was up in the 140's on reddit recently, still haven't made an alt for lemmy since I started with 105.

But this specific guy, who I don't usually hear much from because I don't seek out content from/about that environment, said something so ugly about how good he thought poverty and struggle was, that it made me wish the worst for him.

It's not that he's much worse than the other guys in his wealth class, I mean he's still up there but not #1 big bad by any means, but he's just so fucking overtly classist and apparently in love with the suffering of those beneath him, it's shocking.

It's disappointing to be reminded of him, and that my wish upon a star wasn't fulfilled. He should've been in that submarine.

[–] Tower@lemm.ee 33 points 12 hours ago
[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Where’s all the action? All I’ve seen is the sub guy and a ship captain actually follow through

[–] xenoclast@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

If I was actively planning on murdering some of the richest people on earth, I wouldn't talk about it on social media.

People you're talking about OWN the violence needed to stop them.

What I would be doing is joining the organizations that control the violence and either disrupt or try and take control of some or all of it.

History is going to be very unkind to people like Biden who has the means and legal right to mobilize and contain the fascists that ended American democracy and destroyed modern civilization

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 hours ago

You join the violent organisations, either you are assimilated, or you are cast out (or worse). That’s how they work.

[–] Im_old@lemmy.world 9 points 15 hours ago

I'm gonna steal this, it's beautiful!

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[–] DoYouNot@lemmy.world 119 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

This is exactly why we need unions. Just like not having weekends off, it's normal until it isn't.

[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 5 points 9 hours ago

Some industries are weekend industries; for Hospitality, Retail and Tourism, Saturday and Sunday are the equivalent of Monday and Tuesday for the 9-5 crowd.

That said, Monday and Tuesday are usually the Saturday and Sunday for these workers. Us “Normies” don’t usually particle in fine dining, clubbing or tourist traps on Monday and Tuesdays.

You are right though, Retail and Hospitality workers do need to get better unions so they can get paid a living wage and aren’t being forced to work 7 days a week for 12 hour shifts.

[–] doingthestuff@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I've been working 40 years, I have never had weekends off.

[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 17 points 13 hours ago

Oh man that's rough, I'm sorry you've not had that. I hope you've managed to find other opportunities to spend time with family or do things that you enjoy

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 72 points 15 hours ago

It's not about money. It's about being a petty tyrant and lording over the peasants.

Fuck the wealthy.

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 60 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Wow, I would very much like to punch this guy in the face.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 14 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

German has a word for this guy:

Backpfeifengesicht

(colloquial) a punchable face; a face "in need of a punch".

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[–] BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works 32 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 15 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Alternatively we could just get whoever designed Lady Gaga's ridiculous meat suit from a decade back, get another one made, put it on Mr. Punchable Face here, and toss him into an actual shark tank.

That seems fitting.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 6 points 14 hours ago

Just skip the suit and give him the ol French treatment.

The sharks will still be fed.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I’m skeptical of the claim that this regulation “allows” anyone to do anything. That’s now how regulations work.

[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago

Yeah. The more accurate wording is "forbids employers from retaliating against employees who--"

[–] radiohead37@lemmynsfw.com 26 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

He wants employees to have the same dedication that he has. The thing is, it is not our company, and we certainly don’t get paid millions of dollars. We have other things to do on our own time than making money for you.

[–] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 21 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

He wants employees to have the same dedication that he has.

Don't be confused - he is categorically not as dedicated as he expects his employees to be, but far, far, far less.

[–] xenoclast@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

I want to golf as much during work hours as the ceo

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 hours ago

He wants employees to be dedicated to making him money so he doesn't have to.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 26 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds like an easy lawsuit tbh

[–] doingthestuff@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

Not in Ohio.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 19 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Remember when this clown almost ran for Prime Minister of Canada and we all just told him to fuck off so hard that he dropped out?

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 8 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

He's got the charisma of a dead skunk, but I somehow doubt he won't still involve himself with Pollievre somewhere in there

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 hours ago

So you are saying he is as charismatic as Trump? That is worrying.

[–] sashin@vegantheoryclub.org 8 points 13 hours ago

This guy is the enemy of the people.

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

How this FTX pumper is not in prison is beyond absurd

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 13 hours ago

Daddy regime would never punish a daddy... poliscie 101 really

[–] Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 3 points 13 hours ago

If my slave master acts like this, i don't care if he does haha

The demographic changes makes it so that he will have to go hire somebody else more for money with less exp

[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Dear Jing Pan, I really hope you succeed in your journalism career but if you use the word "SLAM" in any of its variations, I'm going to assume you're a talentless hack and I won't be reading any articles with that in the headline

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