Another term for a telling off/bollocking, taken from John Sitton's rant at his players during his half-time team talk at Leyton Orient. "You can pair up if you like and bring someone else, bring your dinner too because you're going to need it by the time I'm finished with you".
"Oh he's messed up again, the boss needs to give him a good sittoning!."
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”