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.
If someone like Kevin O'Leary is pissed off, then it's probably a good thing.
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
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.
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.
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.
Up next on the news: abusive boss wonders why he can't retain staff. Should the board step in? Shareholders say yes
It's not about money. It's about being a petty tyrant and lording over the peasants.
Fuck the wealthy.
It's so gross how the .01% love being villains to hardworking folk.
He needs a baseball bat to the knee and a diarrhea to the face. It will improve what comes out of his mouth.
Tbh, if you're working that high up the chain that O'Leary calls you personally, you probably are a very wealthy workaholic anyways.
What a fucking baby, when did we start letting children lead?
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.
When hasn’t it been this way?
Idk who Kevin O'Leary is but I'm pretty sure he's not my supervisor.
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:
(colloquial) a punchable face; a face "in need of a punch".
Ashamed this piece of shit is Canadian..
Do it, they'll approve my unemployment.
Dude is crazy. Isn't he a grifting, fake guru?
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.
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?
