suicide? appreciating the good moments of the day without thinking about the wider hell you’re in, somehow?
I work 35 hours a week, and I go to university for around 25. Last year I had 7 day weeks all year and it was very much not fun.
I could do it if I had to for a bit, but the whole ‘being too exhausted to exist’ thing gets old fast.
I did that at 20. I had three part-time (ohai Calgary) jobs at one point, trying to perpetuate this schooling habit.
So tired. At 20 I was failing to exist. I can’t imagine that now.
Cow town has no chill. I’m tempted to take on another job, but right now I only have one day completely off and it’s just. Not. Enough. Time.
Like, I have to decide each week how much cleaning gets done or if I’m making food that week. There isn’t enough time to do cleaning and shopping, and I’m busy most days 10am-1am between work and school, assuming I sleep 7 hours a night.
I had a bad schedule for my jobs and, for 2 weeks, I had no sleep on Saturday night. I only had like 4 hours between closing one and opening another shop, and the buses near Anderson were scarce at that time; so it was get home, shower, re-dress, get back out. Yeesh.
Back then it was 2 hour minimum scheduled shift for $5/h min and I hope to hell it’s better now. Tips and a longer shift or GTFO.
Either way, it’s no life.
Small acts of rebellion. Take extra long breaks. Automate parts of my job and then don’t tell anybody that I did it. Break some shit on purpose and act like it was an accident. Steal as much stuff that isn’t nailed down as possible. The list would go on, but I’d honestly have no idea what I would actually do in that situation.
I’m certainly not giving it 100% at whatever job I’m working at. I would say form a union, but that’s hard to do when you are working for 56 hour workweeks plus commute, not including overtime. That’s assuming the 7 day workweek remains 8 hour shifts rather than moving down to something like 6 hour shifts with an unpaid lunch break.
I managed to automate one job to the point I had maybe 45 minutes of stuff to do each day. Pandemic hit and my amazingly uneducated supervisor insisted there was no way I could remotely do my job. When you only see the same 4 walls with pretty much no other human interaction for 8.5 hours a day you start to go a little crazy. If I’m being completely honest they came close to finding me at my desk the next day a couple times. I have not automated away my new job, but I am wholeheartedly debating a career shift, not because it’s difficult, because I’ve been burnt out for a few years now.
Stay in the union .
Wake up from that terrible nightmare and go to my 4-day/week job?
Try to move out of China.
They literally have 6-7 day work weeks, 10-12 hours a day.
Fucking brutal.
There are currently no laws indicating how many work days should be in the 7 day week.
There is no reason to implement such a thing either to take work days away or add them. Work days are dictated by the employer in accordance with how much work needs to be done.
How much someone should work should be negotiated between employee and employer. I understand that this isn’t really how it works in the real world but this is how it is on paper.
I bring this up because there’s no real way to institute a nationwide “7 day work week” making this question totally pointless and nonsensical.
I don’t do shit for two days a week.
*three
They gotta learn that 5 is more efficient that 7, 4 is more efficient than 3
I join whatever new labor movement forms and sharpen my guillotine.
I’ve been hearing about a 4 day work week but haven’t heard anyone talking about 7 days.
I picture country-wide strikes, even for non-union workers.
Or just don’t comply with it ?
I mean no one uses fucking iso8601 and they never get brutally murderd anywhere near often enough.
I mean they should be using rfc3339 as it is an open standard unlike the iso.
Good point, I should start murder more people who don’t use iso8601… It’s about time!
It’s called a wildcat strike
I buy a fucking guillotine.
Don’t give money to Big Guillotine, build your own.
Buy stock in guillotine companies.
You short-sighted investors are piling in on guillotines, meanwhile I’ve been snatching up shares in pitchfork and torch companies with strong fundamentals for pennies on the dollar.
I’d think that you’d make more on the guillotines. The margins should be higher. No profits on torches.
The profit on torches is the rebuy for more. You don’t need to sink a lot in material, it just has to burn bright enough to sell.
Exactly, the guillotine is a durable/capital good. Yeah, you make more on one, but how many are you going to sell relative to torches and pitchforks?
My guillotines have DRM, non user serviceable parts and a mandatory service contract - cough - I mean you get free IoT and smartphone integration.
If you sharpen it youself, warranty is void.
I don’t know. I mean you can reuse a torch or you can make your own.
In this throwaway, instant satisfaction society? It’s all about the price point. And the marketing.
That seems counterproductive.
Guillotine demand goes up, guillotine production company stocks go up, guillotine production owners become rich, guillotine production millionaires felled by their own designs.
Hmmn, maybe petardes would be a better choice.
I’ll start a mobile sharpening business. Sell shovels to prospectors and all that.
Suicide. I’m dead already if I’m working 7 days a week
I stop working altogether.
For real. That’s what happens. When I am in serious overload, I get kinda blocked and cannot achieve anything anymore.
But also on a global level, I think it would break down most workers quite soon.
I invent the 10 day week.
With 7 working days, I think we might need a 13 day week.
Bingo!
Usual workday is 8 hours, you can fit 3 of those in one day. So We can go to 21 days a week!
