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Lol. I had these guys beat in terms of hours, and their job was nowhere near as physical as mine was.
Now I get to be a desk jockey, and it’s fucking sweet. Gonna milk it, because I put my hours in.
Milking the fuck out of mine. It’s not quite a usual “desk job” but i spend a lot of time sitting at a desk.
Thanks for having a sense of humour about the meme. I’m also a desk jockey. Be sure to stretch frequently and take care of your back! The tension has a way of sneaking up.
40 hr work week would be great to be honest.
So how fucked are You? 40h is actually quite a lot for Europe. In Poland I work 40, in Ireland I worked 39 and in Denmark 37.
Canada checking in with 37.5.
But let’s be honest working through lunch eveyday it’s actually 42.5
That’s the trick. Don’t work through lunch. Leave the building if it’s unpaid.
I work a flat 40 with paid breaks. Canada too, but it’s a union plant.
48 hrs a week contracted. That’s not counting the extra hours needed to keep on top of things. I try to limit myself to 1 hour overstaying at work …the amount of work piling up is getting uncontrollably out of hand since I started limiting myself to these hours. It used to be a routine of 2 hours of overstaying and 1 hour of logging in remotely before bed.
If you want the full answer to the question of “how fucked are you”, then this work involves constant people “coming at me” (disgruntled and immature employees I’m managing and endless barrage of service user complaints) and needs to fit around 2 young children (1 has additional needs) and a wife who has a nightmare employer plus exams coming up; and a house that has an ever increasing list of maintenance tasks that have been pending. So overall, I think this describes my situation pretty accurately.
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And it took a bunch of labor strikes with brutal crack downs on them to even get it down to 40 hours.
TALLER
Just some important history, the 40 hour work week was developed as a labor concession in the automotive industry.
Most workers rarely work only 40 hours, especially when you include the on-call time when employees are expected to respond to call messages and emails.
Maybe we need to learn something from our grandparents and have another movement for 40-hour work weeks.
Men were able to work 40 hours back then because women were relegated to unpaid domestic labor and childcare.
When women entered the workforce, these expectations were slow to change. So now, everyone gets to work 40+ hours and a few dozen more at home. And that’s the best case scenario where both partners shared the mental load. Bonus points if they have a kid which is a 24/7 job.
In a sane world, with double the people working you would expect their hours to be halved. But that will never happen so long as corporations continue to disguise the exploitation of workers as ‘feminism’.
feminism: now women can get exploited too
Plenty of countries where 35-40h/week, or even less, is the norm (and I mean it as no “not counted” extra hours)
Go read about the whites first contact with Polynesians, they literally stumbled on utopia and HATED it. They were FURIOUS these naked people surfed and sang and danced all day and farmed for about 15 seconds and had more food then they ever needed. They literally never heard about work, they had dance crew battles and picked their leaders by if they could do any cool tricks on the waves.
You sparked my interest, so I did go read about it. I didn’t find anything like what you explained though. Do you have any sources?
Idk, you might need a library, or a Somoan over 40 to get the info.
Weren’t polynesians a bunch of warrior tribes that pretty much hunted some pacific birds down to extinction and when they got their hands on gunpowder weapons one tribe pretty much obliterated every other tribe?
You can’t lump them all together there were very different outcomes of multiple islands and cultures.
Pretty sure it was the surf utopia thing.
Coulda been born on a planet of ants that just work until they die.
Ants get shit done. Humans can barely function when you get more than 2 dozen of us together.
Be glad you weren’t born 100 years earlier with a 100 hour work week.
Or be sad you weren’t born 10.000 years earlier with a 15 hour work week.
Personally I’d prefer to not get eaten by a cave bear.
Cave bear sounds adorable. Would cuddle.
You absolutely can, right now. Once.
They were known to be especially cuddly. Unfortunately they died out 24000 years ago.
Due to excessive cuddling?
In my highly scientific opinion, I’d say that’s very likely.
be glad you weren’t born on a desolate island surrounded only by sharks and inhabited only by poisonous food
point is, don’t compare yourself to the worst alternative. labor hours spiked around 1800-1900, but were significantly lower before and after that.
I’m aware of that. I read referring to this particular period. Earlier times may have had fewer working hours but had their own drawbacks, not just cave bears.
You didn’t end up here, but you are a product of this environment, and “you” couldn’t be born anywhere else.
anthropic principle go brrrr
Alan Watts go brrr
exactly this. i suspect that in any parallel universe with god, there comes a time of enormous stress right before the eternal paradise that awaits behind it. that is because we have to be waken up, and that can only be done through a rough time.
so, in a certain sense, the current circumstances of long work hours aren’t so much avoidable as it is an unavoidable part of history that we have to go through. As such, “we” are the consciousness that carries us through these difficult times.
Why is this sub committed to undoing all of the good work that was done on reddit? This should not be a screenshot.
all of the good work that was done on reddit
wtf buttnugget?
Even though you gave me reddit lowbar, I’ll reply in earnest. Some of the great progress that was made on reddit was things like banning images of text, banning shower thoughts like “this water is warm”, and greatly limiting low effort garbage commenting and bot spam.
I hate the random black pixel in the down left corner. Go away, leave me alone!!!11!
Now it has a friend.
Hey, it could be worse, we could have landed on Carboby-16, which has an 80h workweek.
Could’ve lived in the galaxy where this meme was white text on a black background
Mine’s 35. 40 is illegal unless you’re a medical doctor. And legally I have to be paid overtime for every minute over but it’s my choice.
That’s bizarro world. Here doctors work like 6 hours a week. Unless golf counts as work. Which it might now, there’s probably an executive order about that somewhere.
Yeah but we didn’t end up on the one with giant alien spiders, thank god
Make no mistake: This planet did not have a 40hr work week until we brought it here. We only have ourselves to blame.
On top of that, as another comment points out, the 40hr work week is the improvement on the system.
We really fucked it
