Kevin O'Leary will fire you if you don't answer your phone off the clock

This is exactly why we need unions. Just like not having weekends off, it's normal until it isn't.
- I've been working 40 years, I have never had weekends off.
  
  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
- 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.

- I'm gonna steal this, it's beautiful!
- 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.
- Where’s all the action? All I’ve seen is the sub guy and a ship captain actually follow through
  
  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
- There are just under 3000 billionaires in the world. The questions to ask are:
  Do you start with the richest and move down the list or start at the bottom and see if the top ones give their money away before you get to them?
  Do you sharpen the blade after it starts taking more than one blade drop or just enjoy the tension of the longer show?
  
  I'm thinking more of a parallelized operation, and where their holdings have been nationalized or otherwise socialized beforehand so they wouldn't really have the option to give their money away.
- Can we throw non-voters on that list?
  
  The fuck?
  
  if you guillotine all non-voters, the number of non-voters stays the same
  
  So I'm guessing you'd put Trump voters on there too?

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.
- This is guy's grift is playing daddy capitalist while real owners do actual capitalism.
  A useful whore for the regime.
  
  So, real life capitalism.
  People born on Third Base who think they hit a triple making demands.

Boss announces he will break the law.
- 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".
  
  It'll keep getting worse until heads suddenly start rolling.

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

Wow, I would very much like to punch this guy in the face.
- With a car.
  
  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.
- German has a word for this guy:
  Backpfeifengesicht
  (colloquial) a punchable face; a face "in need of a punch".
  
  I thought the German term for someone needing a fist to the face was Nazi.

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Nobody should give a shit what another reality TV show host business marketing shill grifter has to say about labor regulations. He's the last person I would care about an opinion from on the topic. Not seeing a link, did the article also include a response from labor leaders?
- https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dreams-crap-kevin-oleary-slams-110400900.html
  Unsurprisingly, the article is more nuanced than the title.
  For example, he states he has fired people in the past for not answering an after hours emergency, while the title seems to me to say he would fire people despite the new law.
  The article does include a response and background from labor leaders in Australia, as that is the most recent country to enact this law.
  But I entirely agree about his character, and he's the worst person on that shark tank show too. I dont know ive ever agreed with a quote of his in an article.

Shut up and sit down you big bald fuck
- Ontario has beaches.
- Aviiiiiiii

What a fucking baby, when did we start letting children lead?
- When hasn’t it been this way?
- Nah, its now we're putting some restraints on these children who have been free to do what ever and now they're having an entitled little tantrum about it, because god fobid the peasants get to relax.

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.
- 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.
  
  I want to golf as much during work hours as the ceo
- He wants employees to be dedicated to making him money so he doesn't have to.

Ashamed this piece of shit is Canadian..
- Not if you ask half his province.

Sounds like an easy lawsuit tbh
- Not in Ohio.

This old asshole doesn't talk to his workers.

If it’s a new regulation to not answer phones off the clock, isn’t firing the employee for it illegal?
- Yes. But you can best believe they will find something else to fire you for. If you have nothing, then it's an easy case win for you.

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?
- He's got the charisma of a dead skunk, but I somehow doubt he won't still involve himself with Pollievre somewhere in there
  
  So you are saying he is as charismatic as Trump? That is worrying.

Who dreams up crap like Kevin O'leary??
- Entropy?

Idk who Kevin O'Leary is but I'm pretty sure he's not my supervisor.

Do it, they'll approve my unemployment.

If someone like Kevin O'Leary is pissed off, then it's probably a good thing.

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

How this FTX pumper is not in prison is beyond absurd
- Daddy regime would never punish a daddy... poliscie 101 really

It's so gross how the .01% love being villains to hardworking folk.

Tbh, if you're working that high up the chain that O'Leary calls you personally, you probably are a very wealthy workaholic anyways.

This guy is the enemy of the people.

I’m skeptical of the claim that this regulation “allows” anyone to do anything. That’s now how regulations work.
- Yeah. The more accurate wording is "forbids employers from retaliating against employees who--"

Dude is crazy. Isn't he a grifting, fake guru?

I can't imagine why this needy millennial feels so entitled to my attention.
- Aeyo, Kevin O'Leary is solidly a Boomer.
  
  Wooooosh

Fire me, daddy
- 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

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
- Absolutely based

A lot of jobs need constant handouts from their work force just to get things done. But they usually find a way to handsomely pay those at top no matter how much workers are having to do extra. Shouldn't be so much sacrifice and stress considering what top executives receive.

This guy looks like a Dr. Phil and Mussolini photo merge.

Kevin O'leary will fire you if you use the word "shiny" within earshot of him.

Wow, shock, surprise!

I'm sorry but I don't think its that crazy to want your employees to communicate with you outside of working hours.
- If you expect them to be available outside of working hours, the hours they’re available should be paid, and therefore are working hours.
  There is no communication necessary for work that cannot take place during working hours. What you’re actually arguing for is free labor.
  
  No, sometimes you just need to tell an employee something, and then have them verify they understand the information. In my opinion that does not qualify as work.
- Oh friend, that's because you're a moron. A lot of managers are, you're a perfect example of that right now 😮‍💨
- It's impossible for everyone in society to be smart. Sorry for your luck, friend.