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100% actually.
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.
Maybe I am getting old and I read somewhere that as you get older you tend to become more politically conservative or maybe I am a workaholic, but complaining about the 40 hour work week comes off to me as being entitled fucking cunts.
If you don’t want to work 40 hours a week then don’t, give up some stuff in your life and you can do it, or don’t, but then stop whinging.
Hey, it could be worse, we could have landed on Carboby-16, which has an 80h workweek.
And it took a bunch of labor strikes with brutal crack downs on them to even get it down to 40 hours.
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I hate the random black pixel in the down left corner. Go away, leave me alone!!!11!
Lol. I had these guys beat in terms of hours, and their job was no wear 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.
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.
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.
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.
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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When the 40 hour workweek was invented, most workers had a wife at home to do chores. Now that women are working, we should all be working 20 hours a week.
Could’ve lived in the galaxy where this meme was white text on a black background
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.
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 itMine’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.
You didn’t end up here, but you are a product of this environment, and “you” couldn’t be born anywhere else.
Alan Watts go brrr
anthropic principle go brrrr
Imagine living in a world without being voluntold to do overtime every week.
