Hello, welcome back to Monocycle, a podcast by Man Repeller hosted by me, Leandro Medine.

In this week's episode, I really wanted to talk about the concept of Americans in the workplace,

but not just that, this sort of like crazy emphasis that we put on having weekends and enjoying our weekends

and the race to the weekend and what it all means in the grand scheme of the quality of life that we're either accepting or signing up for.

So I was at dinner last week with a couple of friends and one of these friends runs like a pretty successful and really cool swimsuit startup.

And maybe I shouldn't call it a startup.

It feels like a startup because it's like a very millennial brand, but it's just like a regular schmata company and a good one, a smart one.

But we were talking about work and he mentioned not specifically to describe his management style, but in passing he mentioned

that he gets really upset and offended.

If he gets to work and all of his employees aren't there already, I think he runs a team

of about 25 people, and he's really pissed off if any of his employees leave before him at the end of the day.

He's like, there is no version of reality where I should not be the last person in in the morning and the first person to leave in the evening.

All of my employees should be there before me and they're after me.

No snacks in the office.

It is a full nine hour work day.

If they finish their work before the nine hours, come to me and I'll give you more work.

And it was so interesting to hear him talk about this, number one, because it's like the year

2016 and everyone who runs a company now is all like, I just want my employees to feel

emotionally satisfied and fulfilled.

And look, I know that we're building software, but if instead they want to be drawing daffodils on the

wall, then by all means continue drawing those daffodils because I am here to nurture your creative

talent. You know, it's become so much more about connecting in a very visceral and human capacity, which is wonderful and important in some ways, but also obviously presents the question of like, this is still work.

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