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Even before my wife was pregnant, I never let a job prevent me from having a healthy relationship and home life. You just need to stand up for yourself: if you need to work long hours constantly (not just in occasional “crunch times”) to remain competitive and reasonably paid, your employer has serious cultural problems that will probably never be fixed. There are plenty of employers out there who respect their employees enough to permit them to have a work-life balance.

Marco Arment, talking like a real 1%’er. The same guy who called Kindles “disposable”and thinks paying authors is a “feature”. I guess inventing Tumblr and Instapaper gives you a pretty big bankroll, though. (via bmichael

Ugh, this fucking guy. He is my Thought Catalog.

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  1. placesweusedtogo said: Really? He’s completely right. I understand the job market is difficult right now but if you are in a situation like that you need to be exploring other options.
  2. brianvan reblogged this from bmichael
  3. shorterexcerpts said: Although, in his defense, if more people did say “fuck you” to employers who expect 80 hour weeks for comparably shit pay, and deny time off, those practices would be more likely to go the way of requiring all dudes to wear suits to work.
  4. bunnyvictorious reblogged this from bmichael and added:
    that sort of insulation,
  5. shana--e said: Corporations will be nice if you ask them to!
  6. rendit said: B O O T S T R A P S
  7. countcenci replied:
  8. thethirdshift reblogged this from bmichael
  9. bg5000 reblogged this from bmichael and added:
    “disposable”and
  10. bmichael posted this