A memo send out by the CEO of a company that denotes a unpaid shutdown, forced time off or explains why there was or will be a layoff. Memorectums usually are sent out just before the holidays and can include pay cuts or loss of benefits. When reading the memorectum, the employee has the sensation of a large object being shoved up their rectum.
Lunchroom conversation: "Bro... did you get the memorectum Dick Head sent out today?... there's another round of paycuts and layoff next week."
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.”