he faced online criticism for equating desperation with resilience—the original post has since been deleted but was retweeted by Danny Thompson, Director of Technology at This Dot Labs.

  • Allonzee@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    “Look how hard I’m punching myself! It took me a lot of practice to punch myself this hard! Jealous?”

    I’ve legit told my present supervisor that literally works 14 hour days by choice and brags about it that I pity her for it.

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      3 months ago

      That’s what it feels like when they brag about it. If you want to brag about how hard you worked and how long you took building a fence around your back yard, I will be impressed. If you want to brag about how hard you worked and how long you took filling out reports or whatever, I could not care less. If anything, you have my pity for thinking that’s something to brag about.