A boss that doesn't pay you for work or services rendered. Someone who has to be sued for wages or services rendered. A person who has to be sued for Non-Payment for Services as Employee or Contractor.
Like a slumlord except a boss.
He became filthy rich because of his slumboss practices.
I had to sue my slumboss for non-paymet of the contracting work I did.
I lost my family business because my slumboss didn't pay for the work I did.
My slumboss clocked me out but demanded I still work an extra hour.
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.
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.”