The corporate equivalent of the naval expression "all hands on deck" where everyone is called to help remedy an emergency situation, but in the corporate world most people can't really help so the best they can do is put their hands on their dick.
When BP realized the magnitude of the oil spill, the CEO called for all hands on dick.
That gesture people do, sometimes ironically, where you wipe or smack your hands together to signify that a job’s done... in that kind of "I'm a carpenter knocking the dust off my hands" kind of way.
First described on the podcast A Way with Words.
"All in a day's work", said Bob, as he walked out of the room doing all-done clappy hands.
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.”