JPMorganChase CEO Jamie Dimon said during a Wednesday town hall he didn’t care how many employees signed a petition to bring back hybrid work. The company in mid-January announced a 100% return-to-office mandate, which angered many employees, who argue the move “disproportionately” pushed out women, caregivers, senior employees, and employees with disabilities.
I was legitimately shocked at the cartoonishly villainous shit I heard in my brief time at an investment firm. I swear to God this is a verbatim quote from a middle-aged, white, millionaire, Mormon investment adviser:
“There’s no excuse for any American not to be a millionaire, if they’d just stop buying their cigarettes and their dope for a few weeks.”
Hand to God. It’s so absurd that it sounds like a, “That man’s name was Albert Einstein. And then they all clapped.”-type story, but that place was fucking wild.
Finance bros are the OG of tech bros. I believe you.
To be fair, the first half of that is true. What’s wrong is the victim-blaming nonsense, failing to correctly attribute the reason to wages’ failure to keep up with worker productivity.