Quiet Nourishing

Don't forget the most comfortable of all furniture; the cheapest office chair your boss could buy in volume!

Sigh I grew up poor. Only got food at dinner. My family didn't qualify for free school lunch. Learned not to eat as often. Was a change when my SO wanted 3 whole meals a day.

I'm so glad gen x was completely skipped over in all of this.

After the ecological collapse, Earth will be like this too

Company monopoly on air is an element of Total Recall (1990). Great Movie.

sufficating

suffocating

Life in the Crimson Corporation is typical: there are good times, when benefit packages and bonuses improve and bad times, when the corporation has to lay off some employees. Only, if one is out of job, one is out of luck. Since everything on Druuge worlds is Corporation property, every ex-employee is instantly trespassing and guilty of stealing corporation property, like air and sunlight. The only suitable punishment in Druuge laws for that is to feed the Furnace. Retired ex-employees are, however, allowed to breathe Corporation air (albeit at decreased rates).

Just another in ASeriesOfPoorChoices

Hang on it's been 6 hours???? Still no recording???

And then there's me, just barely Z, office job, heading for lunch at 12 with my boss, his boss and some other colleagues, chatting about whatever (not work), eventually getting up to head back to work around 1250 because some of us have meetings at 13. My boss asks me if I want to grab a cup of coffee with him, we end up sitting in the break room for another half hour, eventually turning to work topics too.

On my timesheet, I write lunch 1200-1230 for the legal minimum 30 min break. My boss signs it. Nobody bats an eye.

Sure, I'm incredibly lucky, but I'd wager being in a unionised company in a country with fairly strong union protections (Germany) does some work too. If my boss started being a stickler for rules, I'd be talking to my union rep, and that just doesn't end well.

They're scared enough of the union that, when a round of negotiations failed to achieve the result they were hoping for and the union put out notice (as in, flyers in the break rooms) that they're considering the threat of strikes, the CEO immediately announced raises retroactively effective for the whole month, "as a show of goodwill".
Previous negotiations have also resulted in flat one-off payments even for working students. A 500€ tax-free bonus might not sound like a lot if you're making 4k+ net, but for me it was half a month of wages.
Also, I have 30 days of paid time off, on top of bank holidays and unlimited sick leave (provided I submit a doctor's note on the third consecutive day). One coworker was sick for over half a year.

Unions work.

People actually get 60 minute lunch breaks? Is that with two 15 minute paid breaks too?

You're getting downvoted, but I got a weird vibe from that comment, and your reply nailed exactly what it was.

...Did you misread their comment? You're not making much sense here, and I like to think my reading comprehension is at least above average...

Me acting like a functioning adult who doesn't need to be micromanaged all day and can take a few minutes and enjoy myself is anti union? No it's pro human.

Been there, done that. The shadow people are rather distracting.

The most important thing is to always maintain eye contact!

Sometimes, when i'm shitting at work, i ass-hurt myself.

So i'm a pretty efficient worker.

I just play video games during those meetings.

There's literally 0 reason for me to be on 50% of the calls I'm invited to (I'm IT and they have me on every dev call)

Ah yeah it is - I'm drunk AF from the holiday weekend. Thanks for clarifying that it's a joke.

I'm autistic and sometimes struggle with detecting sarcasm and satire. Occasionally, I miss things others would obviously consider a joke, while at other times I fail to register that something is actually serious.

Neither of them are super frequent, but compounded with difficulties reading subtle cues and the shame of being called out it's enough to induce some insecurity: How many times have I been wrong and never knew bcause people glossed over it to save me embarrassment or I failed to read their reactions?

Short of explicitly writing that it's a joke, there's always some insecurity, and particularly since the embarrassment of "I was serious and you've now made a social blunder" is usually worse than the light ribbing of "that was a joke and you're oblivious", it often feels safer to err on the side of caution for me and ask.

I'm not saying that's the case with the other person (given they already blamed it on inebriation), but it's a possibility that I feel more people should be aware of.

(It also doesn't help that it's election season here and the streets are lined with the capitalist party's adverts explicitly saying "Finally end this red-green government")

I've never heard that term used before and now that I've looked it up, I feel dirty. What idiots really thought it necessary to come up with a derogatory label for "doing your job"?

It's a joke? Well there's something to be said here if a joke term is able to be mistaken as a real term imo.