American PsychoPatrick Bateman
American Psycho
by Patrick Bateman · first published 2025
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How much do these ultra successful types actually over-work and how much is just posturing to trick the underlings to over-work? In American Psycho Patrick Bateman has it pretty chill, spending all his working hours on watching TV, reading magazines and talking trash with his peers. I used to think it was just another example of how unhinged he was,…
on “Why do we buy into the 'cult' of overwork?” ↗This sounds like something Patrick Bateman, from American Psycho, would do. However, in the book/movie, he doesn't get caught and didn't do this act for financial reasons.
on “Suspect is arrested in grisly killing of tech CEO Fahim Saleh” ↗Have you ever read the chapters in "American Psycho" where Patrick Bateman goes into a multi-page digression about the style and characteristics of very specific mid 1980s era pop music acts? Basically, like that.
on “OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future” ↗