Ask an American to immolate his mother for the company and he'll give it some consideration. Not much, but a little. Fortunately it would be generally frowned upon.
One asshole boss I had made a point of buying an expensive new sports car after every union contract negotiation. We all knew we got screwed again before we saw the new contract.
Have you seen COBRA rates? I'm doing without insurance because I literally cannot afford it. We're both unemployed. Only one of us gets unemployment. The other will... if the state ever catches up...
Exactly. I am compelled to work long hours because I will lose my job if I don't. This is driven by economics, not some pathology where I consciously choose to identify with a workaholic culture. Yes. Some people believe that they are making a choice, but they are probably lying to themselves.
"It's also just easier to get things done when you only have a short period of time to get them done."
Before we officially locked down, we were working reduced hours for a couple of weeks to avoid peak commuting crowds. Seemed that I was getting more stuff done in 5 hours than in 8.
"We're not "results-oriented," we're "process-oriented." We decide which process we consider the most moral and insist upon doing that regardless of what the results are."
YES. GOD YES. Oh holy shit, YES. It's so frustrating.
From everything I've seen of her, she's wonderful. She was on Stephen Colbert's show here in the States, and she hung out with him when he went to NZ.I'll bet than just those 2 appearances were enough to convince many people in the US to want to move to NZ, or maybe have NZ take over the US.
It might be a bit much to do the latter, but I'd help out and be part of the underground should you do it,
Where I used to work before they 'retired' me, some years earlier we had a very evil director who stacked the board of trustees with business people. She then decided that when workers who had 35-hour jobs left, she replaced them with 2 17-hour jobs.Why? Because our contract said workers at 17 hours or under got no benefits, including health insurance, of course.So certainly not as bad as your under 32 hours bullshit, but still bad.
I think eliminating Friday would be the better tact, at least in the US, where we have Monday holidays. When I was working, we got paid for those holidays (which we had off).But if you make Monday a day off, you would never have holiday pay (except for the few non-Monday holidays), as I'm pretty sure the US government's not going to get rid of the Mondday holiday scheme.
This goes back to the dark ages, but when I first went to college in the fall of 1973, I was a Math major, as I was very good at math in High School.But I had also taken French for 3 years in HS.So when I got to college, I took both math courses, and French and Italian*.
But I found out very quickly the kind of thing you are talking about. Now I'm a guy, but certainly not a dudebro. In my computer class, there just happened to be a whole bunch of guys from the same part of the state. And some of them even knew others' friends or relatives.So even though I was technically the best one in the class and had innovative ideas, when there was a vote for some sort of class leader, I literally got zero votes. Cause dudebros had to stick together.The next year I was a Language major.
*I actually started taking German too, but quit that after a week cause it got too confusing.
I have a friend who is a fire chief and he literally works 24- or 48-hour shifts (with 2 or 3 days off in-between).Of course, much of the time he is just in the station, and he gets to sleep 'regular hours' but of course has to ready for anything that comes up, and if a lot of big emergencies happen in a row, he may very well be working for an entire 48 hours, and in very dangerous situations.
There's no way he would do a 9-to-5, cause needless to say, you might work much longer - it's not like he could just leave scene of a 5-alarm fire just cause it's 5PM.
Before the virus closed down the university, I used to use a computer in the B-school library there as I had an extremely slow computer (a problem since fixed).I always felt like I was a mole in an evil fiefdom. Much of the time, the manboys dressed in suits and ties, and the future Fox Newsgirls were dressed to the nines. It was frankly frightening to see, and should be required viewing for all the 'great unwashed' that think people in business are just like them.
According to Kevin Hassett, a top economic adviser to Impeached President Donald Trump, the slaves are now referred to as human capital stock.
Ask an American to immolate his mother for the company and he'll give it some consideration. Not much, but a little. Fortunately it would be generally frowned upon.
Meanwhile, I was standing by the wall switch turning the lights on and off and they yelled at me to stop it!
One asshole boss I had made a point of buying an expensive new sports car after every union contract negotiation. We all knew we got screwed again before we saw the new contract.
Have you seen COBRA rates? I'm doing without insurance because I literally cannot afford it. We're both unemployed. Only one of us gets unemployment. The other will... if the state ever catches up...
Exactly. I am compelled to work long hours because I will lose my job if I don't. This is driven by economics, not some pathology where I consciously choose to identify with a workaholic culture. Yes. Some people believe that they are making a choice, but they are probably lying to themselves.
"It's also just easier to get things done when you only have a short period of time to get them done."
Before we officially locked down, we were working reduced hours for a couple of weeks to avoid peak commuting crowds. Seemed that I was getting more stuff done in 5 hours than in 8.
"We're not "results-oriented," we're "process-oriented." We decide which process we consider the most moral and insist upon doing that regardless of what the results are."
YES. GOD YES. Oh holy shit, YES. It's so frustrating.
From everything I've seen of her, she's wonderful. She was on Stephen Colbert's show here in the States, and she hung out with him when he went to NZ.I'll bet than just those 2 appearances were enough to convince many people in the US to want to move to NZ, or maybe have NZ take over the US.
It might be a bit much to do the latter, but I'd help out and be part of the underground should you do it,
Where I used to work before they 'retired' me, some years earlier we had a very evil director who stacked the board of trustees with business people. She then decided that when workers who had 35-hour jobs left, she replaced them with 2 17-hour jobs.Why? Because our contract said workers at 17 hours or under got no benefits, including health insurance, of course.So certainly not as bad as your under 32 hours bullshit, but still bad.
I think eliminating Friday would be the better tact, at least in the US, where we have Monday holidays. When I was working, we got paid for those holidays (which we had off).But if you make Monday a day off, you would never have holiday pay (except for the few non-Monday holidays), as I'm pretty sure the US government's not going to get rid of the Mondday holiday scheme.
This goes back to the dark ages, but when I first went to college in the fall of 1973, I was a Math major, as I was very good at math in High School.But I had also taken French for 3 years in HS.So when I got to college, I took both math courses, and French and Italian*.
But I found out very quickly the kind of thing you are talking about. Now I'm a guy, but certainly not a dudebro. In my computer class, there just happened to be a whole bunch of guys from the same part of the state. And some of them even knew others' friends or relatives.So even though I was technically the best one in the class and had innovative ideas, when there was a vote for some sort of class leader, I literally got zero votes. Cause dudebros had to stick together.The next year I was a Language major.
*I actually started taking German too, but quit that after a week cause it got too confusing.
Yes.
I have a friend who is a fire chief and he literally works 24- or 48-hour shifts (with 2 or 3 days off in-between).Of course, much of the time he is just in the station, and he gets to sleep 'regular hours' but of course has to ready for anything that comes up, and if a lot of big emergencies happen in a row, he may very well be working for an entire 48 hours, and in very dangerous situations.
There's no way he would do a 9-to-5, cause needless to say, you might work much longer - it's not like he could just leave scene of a 5-alarm fire just cause it's 5PM.
Before the virus closed down the university, I used to use a computer in the B-school library there as I had an extremely slow computer (a problem since fixed).I always felt like I was a mole in an evil fiefdom. Much of the time, the manboys dressed in suits and ties, and the future Fox Newsgirls were dressed to the nines. It was frankly frightening to see, and should be required viewing for all the 'great unwashed' that think people in business are just like them.
I could do 10 hours a day when I was younger, but now, just the thought exhausts me.