Watch: Billionaire CEO says unemployment 'has to jump' to put 'arrogant' workers in their place
Watch: Billionaire CEO says unemployment 'has to jump' to put 'arrogant' workers in their place
An aggrieved billionaire this week lamented that workers had grown lazy and "arrogant" during the coronavirus pandemic and that many of them needed to be made unemployed for the situation to improve.The Australian Financial Review reports that Tim Gurner, the founder and CEO of the Gurner Group, exp...
We need to see some pain in the economy. We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around... There's been a systemic change where the employees feel that the employer is extremely lucky to have them, as opposed to the other way around.
So said every vicious aristocrat throughout history.
Whether owner of slaves, serfs or workers - elites always believe it's their right to inflict harm on others.
Eat the rich, put us out of their misery.
He does not know that he is asking for a general strike.
But that is what he is asking for here.
This is an economy that lost billions in minutes because someone had access to a fake blue check-mark.
Humans like him are not to be feared.
Brave statement from a man who is only alive because the poors would rather not get arrested
"aggrieved billionaire"... If any sane person had more than a billion dollars, I don't think it would be possible for them to be aggrieved. (barring a loss of a loved one.)
How the fuck are you that rich and able to get angry at anything, let alone complain.
Fucking psychopaths all of them.
We all thought @MrBusinessMan@lemm.ee is obviously a parody account that is too cartoonishly evil to be believable, but then we find out that this guy exists.
“We need to remind people they work for the employer, not the other way around,”
Whelp I guess if you work for him in any capacity you should show Mr. DumbFuck who actually needs who to survive.
I have the urge to write a wall of text but I literally can’t. This shit is a no brainer, imagine being yet another know it all trust fund baby who gets their way by hurting people into manipulation.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely
This the people that work for his company need to learn the definition of Secessio plebis and execute it.
Somewhere out there is a conservative going "they worked hard for what they have and shouldn't be punished for their success."
As global demographics begin their decline the value of labour can only come up. Plus the more specialised the workers the more power they possess. This guy is a delusional moron who’s fighting inevitable changes. In order to get 40% unemployment they have to assume massive losses, and we know they do anything to prevent small losses, so threat is more empty than his brain.
Tim Gurner, Australian property developer.
Get fucked Tim
Sounds like someone’s previous policies led to a brain drain in their business and now he’s hoping other employers will blindly follow this rhetoric (and shoot themselves in the foot) so he can poach their employees for his company gain.
I’m fine with billionaires eating each other so we don’t have to.
Someone needs to punch Dumbo in his gob.
Property developer...
It's funny how the mind makes odd connections but for some reason William Burroughs's 'Words of Advice for Young People' springs to mind:
We don't like to hear the word "vampire" around here
We're trying to improve our public image
Build up a kindly, avuncular, benevolent image
"Interdependence" is the keyword, "enlightened interdependence"
Life in all its rich variety, take a little, leave a little
However, by the inexorable logistics of the vampiric process
They always take more than they leave...
We should seize all his shit
Says the lazy and CLEARLY arrogant billionaire...
Counterpoint, corporate bankruptcies have to jump to put arrogant Billionaire CEOs in their place.
There's always more work that needs doing, but there are only so many CEO positions out there. Hell, the gig economy has shown that the minimal number of people in a "company" is literally 1, so we don't even need CEOs at all. Seems to me that CEOs should be careful about throwing stones because their house is looking awfully glass-like.
Disgusting.
Fuckface.
/c/nottheonion
This CEO ‘has to jump’ off of a [redacted]
Give an idiot a microphone and such
Arrogant ? How.
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We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around... There's been a systemic change where the employees feel that the employer is extremely lucky to have them, as opposed to the other way around."
Gurner then predicted that enacting massive layoffs would lead to "less arrogance in the employment market."
I'm a fairly unapologetic capitalist and think overall it's a pretty good model. But that might be the most staggering out of touch arrogant opinion I've ever read and that's REALLY saying something. Not everyone wants their own business (I sure don't). And businesses need employees to do their thing. It's a symbiotic relationship. How can he not see that?
He's not wrong about that, but I think the root of the problem is with management. There's a problem with lazy and terrible management, not workers. At the company I work for, there are teams and teams of lazy good for nothing people everywhere. Most of them maybe do an hour or two of real work every week. When I talk to them, they are bored, aimless, and feel as though their work doesn't really matter. I strongly believe it's due to lack of leadership. Not management. Leadership. The department has no real goals. There are no projects solving real problems. Everything is just maintaining some janky tech debt or building some manual process because management likes their spreadsheets a certain way.
When there's a liquidation of management and a culling down to actual leaders, the workers will want to work. They'll find things to do because that's what people do in a good environment under a good leader.
The arrogance is primarily a management problem. There are too many in power that are at our above their level of incompetence. It's the Peter Principle on steroids.