<story><title>The CEO of RevolutApp on Slack: “Why Aren’t You Working on Weekends?”</title><url>https://twitter.com/phillipcaudell/status/1101081229351415808</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kemiller2002</author><text>Honestly, I can&amp;#x27;t tell if you&amp;#x27;re being sarcastic, but I really think you&amp;#x27;re absolutely right.  Some people really like working in that environment.  Personally, it&amp;#x27;s not for me, but at least the CEO is upfront about what he expects.  Really, he&amp;#x27;s being a good leader in that respect.  I wouldn&amp;#x27;t want to work for him, but he&amp;#x27;s clear about what he wants which a lot of people in management miss.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;EDIT&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let me explain why this is good.  First as your boss, I&amp;#x27;m not your friend.  I&amp;#x27;m not your pal.  My sole responsibility is to ensure that I communicate clearly and effectively what needs to be done and make sure it happens.  That&amp;#x27;s it.  Does this mean, I&amp;#x27;m not compassionate?  No, of course not, but what it means is that I am tasked having uncomfortable conversations about things that need to be done and to make it understood.  Have I asked people to work nights and weekends?  Yes.  Several times?  Yes.  Do I like doing it?  No.  This is the job.  If you want to quit over this.  No hard feelings.  I make it clear that this is what we have to do.  Have I fired people for under performing? Yes.  Do I feel bad about it?  No.  That&amp;#x27;s my job.  I feel bad, when I have to let someone go, because we don&amp;#x27;t have the money to keep them.  When management says, &amp;quot;lose two heads, because we want to cut costs,&amp;quot; and they were good employees.  I feel bad then.&lt;p&gt;Working weekends sucks, I agree, but sometimes you have to.  If you&amp;#x27;ve never worked for a company that is on the brink of bankruptcy, you really don&amp;#x27;t understand what it&amp;#x27;s like to have to lay things on the line.  The CEO is being honest about consequences.  We honestly, don&amp;#x27;t know the situation from that blurb.  It sounds like he&amp;#x27;s being an ass, but there maybe an underlying reason for it.  (Probably not, but you never know.)  Whether you choose to keep going is your choice.&lt;p&gt;A previous company I worked for, was on the brink of going out of business.  Only a few of us knew (out of 200+ employees).  We had a shortfall of money and we didn&amp;#x27;t know if we were going to make payroll that month.  They didn&amp;#x27;t want to tell anyone (in fact I was instructed not to), but I knew, because I knew several of the executives.  I pushed my staff, and myself for those three weeks, because I knew that if we didn&amp;#x27;t bill, the company could quite possibly go under.  People say working weekends crosses a line.  Knowing that your co-worker (or employee) may get evicted from the country, lost their house, etc., because you didn&amp;#x27;t do your job for those couple of weeks, I can&amp;#x27;t do that.  That&amp;#x27;s crossing a line for me.</text></item><item><author>lohszvu</author><text>I appreciate the CEO being direct. It gives you a chance to find another job before you get fired.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>agrippanux</author><text>I don’t know the specifics of your circumstance but I can guarantee anyway that asking people to work the weekends was still an error on your part.&lt;p&gt;I can guarantee the following happened:&lt;p&gt;- your employees made more mistakes during weekend work&lt;p&gt;- at least a few had deteriorated health &amp;#x2F; sleep&lt;p&gt;- your teams morale took a hit&lt;p&gt;- you accomplished less than you would of had you had your employees come in regular weekly hours&lt;p&gt;Required weekend work is always a fault of management to properly plan and execute. Always.  The few times I had my teams work the weekend I always admitted how I was at fault and how my poor planning would be the subject of a post mortem.&lt;p&gt;Source: I have been in management and executive positions for 15+ years at startups ranging from super small to rocket ships IPOs.</text></comment>
<story><title>The CEO of RevolutApp on Slack: “Why Aren’t You Working on Weekends?”</title><url>https://twitter.com/phillipcaudell/status/1101081229351415808</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kemiller2002</author><text>Honestly, I can&amp;#x27;t tell if you&amp;#x27;re being sarcastic, but I really think you&amp;#x27;re absolutely right.  Some people really like working in that environment.  Personally, it&amp;#x27;s not for me, but at least the CEO is upfront about what he expects.  Really, he&amp;#x27;s being a good leader in that respect.  I wouldn&amp;#x27;t want to work for him, but he&amp;#x27;s clear about what he wants which a lot of people in management miss.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;EDIT&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let me explain why this is good.  First as your boss, I&amp;#x27;m not your friend.  I&amp;#x27;m not your pal.  My sole responsibility is to ensure that I communicate clearly and effectively what needs to be done and make sure it happens.  That&amp;#x27;s it.  Does this mean, I&amp;#x27;m not compassionate?  No, of course not, but what it means is that I am tasked having uncomfortable conversations about things that need to be done and to make it understood.  Have I asked people to work nights and weekends?  Yes.  Several times?  Yes.  Do I like doing it?  No.  This is the job.  If you want to quit over this.  No hard feelings.  I make it clear that this is what we have to do.  Have I fired people for under performing? Yes.  Do I feel bad about it?  No.  That&amp;#x27;s my job.  I feel bad, when I have to let someone go, because we don&amp;#x27;t have the money to keep them.  When management says, &amp;quot;lose two heads, because we want to cut costs,&amp;quot; and they were good employees.  I feel bad then.&lt;p&gt;Working weekends sucks, I agree, but sometimes you have to.  If you&amp;#x27;ve never worked for a company that is on the brink of bankruptcy, you really don&amp;#x27;t understand what it&amp;#x27;s like to have to lay things on the line.  The CEO is being honest about consequences.  We honestly, don&amp;#x27;t know the situation from that blurb.  It sounds like he&amp;#x27;s being an ass, but there maybe an underlying reason for it.  (Probably not, but you never know.)  Whether you choose to keep going is your choice.&lt;p&gt;A previous company I worked for, was on the brink of going out of business.  Only a few of us knew (out of 200+ employees).  We had a shortfall of money and we didn&amp;#x27;t know if we were going to make payroll that month.  They didn&amp;#x27;t want to tell anyone (in fact I was instructed not to), but I knew, because I knew several of the executives.  I pushed my staff, and myself for those three weeks, because I knew that if we didn&amp;#x27;t bill, the company could quite possibly go under.  People say working weekends crosses a line.  Knowing that your co-worker (or employee) may get evicted from the country, lost their house, etc., because you didn&amp;#x27;t do your job for those couple of weeks, I can&amp;#x27;t do that.  That&amp;#x27;s crossing a line for me.</text></item><item><author>lohszvu</author><text>I appreciate the CEO being direct. It gives you a chance to find another job before you get fired.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dvfjsdhgfv</author><text>On the other hand, there is a lot of toxicity in there. If your bonus is zero no matter how work you hard, and you are encouraged by the CEO to &amp;quot;push&amp;quot; your colleagues (some of which are working on weekends), it&amp;#x27;s a terrible company to work for, no matter what pay they offer (of course it&amp;#x27;s good, otherwise the CEO wouldn&amp;#x27;t have the balls to treat his employees in this way as everybody would just walk out).</text></comment>