My terrible idea is that the world move to an 8 day week. Everyone works (at most) 4 days on, 4 days off. School is 4 on, 4 off. Two alternating shifts. Its always the weekend for half of everyone and everything is always open. I guarantee a roomful of smart people will be able to tear this idea to shreds. We could invent cool new names for all the days of the week though.
I like that idea, only problem i have is picking who works which days. Like i want days off with my partner but if we are on opposite shifts we wont see each other.
I'm over 30, I don't want to work anymore, period. But I can't live off what I have or off the land, so to the grinder I go.
30h/week since 2024, I am never going back.
Instead of working, I am just playing Oblivion Remastered all day today.
I'm so happy for you!
They said through clenched teeth while white knuckeling their desk, waiting to get off work so they can go back to playing Oblivion Remastered
you no longer have that kind of energy because you have a 5 day work week.
Wait, so if I only worked four days a week I'd have the energy to work five days a week?
"No man should have to work more than 40 hours per week!"
"Yeah, that seems pretty reasonable."
"Women should be able to work for the same wages!"
"Of course. We should all have equal rights."
"20 hours should be the new work week!"
"I don't know, man. Seems pretty leftist. It's not like we nearly doubled employment."
Our grandparents earned enough as single earners to provide for their entire family and own a house.
Now 2 people work and they can barely pay rent on an apartment.
Its not hard to see why the right cries about the good old times, except somehow its the gays, and not the bourgeoisie that they believe are what caused the decline.
Agreed, and I feel like that's what I'm getting at here. A family of five used to be able to exchange 40 hours of labor with the economy and at least get by. Now it's 80 hours, and we're struggling. The right is suggesting we put our children to work to make up the difference.
I think we're on the same page.
Look at the bright side!
At least the bourgeoisie can provide for their ENTIRE family now.
Oh and there are probably more bourgeoisie than back then.
Look at the bright side!
At least the bourgeoisie can provide for their ENTIRE family now.
Oh and there are probably more bourgeoisie than back then.
Honestly as someone under 30 I could accept this. Obviously universal 4 day week would be better, but if this would sell the idea to the boomers it would be worth it.
The boomers are old a lot older than 30 though, so it would need to be a 4 day week for everyone over 60. At that point it's barely useful anyways
Yeah but they don't have a hate boner for 30-40-50 year old like they do for "young people"
Well, I have some bad news for you... it gets worse.
I'm terms of working hours it could get better. You might end up doing 0 hours a week, because you'll be unemployed.
It doesn't have to! Or so I've heard. But it does seem to.
Think about the shareholders!!!!
They can hold a share of deez nuts.
Heh.
4 day work week or 6 hours work day tough?
Why not both ?
6 hours a day, 4 days a week, same pay. My productivity would be unchanged if not increase!
Yeah, I'd put in more effort for sure, but that's also because I'm underpaid by about half right now, so that would even it out.
Somehow I get a similar energy like "young people's work week should be 6 days" /lh
jokes on us, most peoples workweeks here is 6 days.
and some unlucky fucks will be looking at 10, 12 hour days. thats before considering the hours stuck in a packed bus because transportation sucks.
Couple years ago I was doing a freelance project doing 133hr weeks for a few months straight. I found it very fulfilling. I am over 30.
You were not being micromanaged, and you were not sitting in a soulless, fluorescent cubicle next to 50 other drones being forced to do the same.
The environment and how workers are treated is just as much to blame as the total hours worked per week. Possibly more so.
I am a contract educator. Before COVID I was practically working sunup to sundown every single day of the week barring national holidays and I loved it. Because I am my own boss, it involves lots of travel, and I get to play with kids all day.
As fulfilling as the work itself was, the resulting negativity still negated it.
Putting forth a Herculean effort and having it be thankless or worse destroys you in a unique way.
Christ how did you survive 😳
I dunno. It's just one of those things in my life that I've grown accustomed to. I have adhd, so if I'm into something, I end up going all out on it to make up for my shortcomings in other areas. I think I'm in one of those cycles of trying to please really hard but resulting in trauma and being burnt out with ptsd. My whole life has been fighting this series of thankless, abusive managers and trying to improve myself and striving for excellence to please. Kinda funny though since I'm now so burnt out that I can't work at 35 and have social anxiety so bad that I only leave the house about once a week. Every successive job I've ever had, I've had to dig deeper in order to pull magic tricks out of my ass, and when I do make the impossible possible, it's not good enough or thankless or something. At least for now, I have literally nothing left to give, and am deeply depressed and under stimulated and anxiety ridden.So, "how did I survive?"Mmm, poorly. Not sure I was even surviving before that.What do you mean, survive?What does it mean to survive?I'm broken.
Hard disagree.
Oh, you get to keep your same yearly pay inflation adjusted, But you work one less day per week every two decades.
