The huge corporate companies don’t want the workers to do better, they want them to make the company more money.
However, there are companies that are trying to benefit their employees, customers, and community, they just tend not to pay high wages or be on the stock market, and are usually much smaller in their areas of operation.
THEY are terrified of what the masses would do if we had any free time.
Funny way to spell exploitation
Unironically. Watch what happens when unemployment gets over 6%. Occupy in 2008. BLM in 2014. J6 in 2021.
Left, right, and center, shit pops off when work drops off.
I don’t have the research ability to prove it, but I think there was absolutely causation between the closing/cancelling of sporting events during COVID and a rise in violence. At least until they completely locked down and everyone stayed inside.
She ain’t wrong. But think about the shareholders.
That’s the thing though, even for shareholders it would be better.
But they don’t THINK it would be better, so it won’t short term. Which is what truly matters
Not if you only think 1 quarter at a time
My boss give us shit if we call off for being sick. It’s such a toxic environment and I hate it
When I worked in big box retail we were only allowed to call in sick 2 days in a row. Once I had food poisoning from bad oysters, so I tried to call in on the third day.
Of course, they told me I couldn’t. So I dragged my ass out of bed, chugged a bottle of OTC antinausea syrup, drove to work, walked into my boss’s office, grabbed her trashcan, and threw up in it.
Suddenly I was allowed to call in sick.
What a fuckin power move. Way to go, my guy!
I was the exact opposite kind of boss and got great results.
“I don’t care why I care how often”
At least I would get advanced notice when people weren’t afraid to call me.
Also when I called around to fill shifts I wouldn’t guilt trip people “can you cover for bill? No? Okay thanks for answering “
The other bosses would call me to call their employees because they would answer me. One of my favorites was calling another boss and saying “Claire’s going to come in”. “What? She told me she couldn’t make it!!!”
“If I were you I wouldn’t mention that when she comes in. Just be happy the shift is filled”
Respect goes both ways at work. I got more work out of my team than anybody because I had their back as much as they had mine.
I had a disciplinary for calling in sick, the most recent time I was “nearly dying” from the flu.
Ive got it in writing somewhere from the meeting report “I had the flu the other week and still made it in, just take 2 paracetamol and get on with it” and “the flu isnt contagious so you didnt have to worry about infecting other staff”
Next time that piece of paper surfaces im getting it framed.
Literally toxic if everyone has to show up sick
I am immunocompromised and started wfh full time because everyone was coming in sick. I sacrificed advancing my career here so I wouldn’t get sick all the time. Full time wfh folks don’t get to advance and get demoted to the lowest position in the company. I was already at the lowest position so I had nothing to lose.
Yes, I’m looking for a new job already. The market is abysmal right now, so I don’t see me getting out of this job any time soon.
Good luck with the job hunt, and even more with staying healthy
Thank you!
The new Oklahoma Superintendent first goal was to cut off late start that students have been enjoying for fucking years. Asshole said that it was limiting their learning.
I didn’t think anyone could be worse then Ryan Walter’s but they found a way.
To an extent. Like the workers that are now the only members of a project’s team yeah they can’t go on vacation until that project is done unless you want delays. But learn from your mistakes. Have more people in the project to begin with. Train more than one person in key areas. Your project will happen faster with similar resources and the people involved will be happy since they can take a vacation.
Just so you know, this is often referred to as the “Bus Factor”, aka “how many employees would need to get hit by a bus for us to suffer a catastrophic loss of knowledge/manpower?” Way too many places have a bus factor of 1, meaning if that single employee isn’t available for whatever reason, everything around them grinds to a halt. You usually want that number to be BIG as often as possible.
A company I used to work for switched to 4-day weeks for a time and everyone was much happier, especially those with children or other caring responsibilities. Productivity was the same or better.
But, predictably, they later did a U-turn and forced everyone back to 5-day weeks. The justification given was ‘some’ people weren’t always taking the extra day off. No figures given, no additional info.
I, and everyone else, strongly suspected it was just the C-suite not liking the idea of people getting the same pay for one day less. Purely ideological.
A lot of what happens in business is performance theater, not actually being productive. It’s one of the reasons bosses like AI do much, because if gives a magnificent impression of doing lots of work, even if in some cases you have to hire more people to correct that slop afterwards.
It’s the same for going back to the office. They want to see the worker show being performed in the building even though working from home is usually more productive.
Yep, and we could solve traffic and a lot of other problems as well as making things better for workers by making WFH standard. I remember around covid I could zip downtown no problem, now the roads are fucking parking lots. I have to spend hours a week doing the most dangerous activity at my own expense. I think it’s mostly because of old fashioned thinking that jobs should suck.
at my own expense
I reckon if companies were required to pay you for your commute (or, let’s say, a standardised one hour extra per day if being physically in the office is required, so as not to incentivise people living far from work), there’d be a lot more WFH.
More like enjoying something is a sin. Sexual pleasure? Straight to hell. Food pleasure? Straight to hell. Get enough sleep so you don’t feel like shit? Believe it or not, straight to hell. Enjoy your work? Turbo hell.
It’s even hassle to cross the road with all these cars tbh and i almost risked life 2 times because of too much cars but whatever, capitalism must continue
The busier it is the more likely there’s this one idiota who thinks their time is worth more than yours so they forget every rule in the book and almost run people over to get somewhere “faster”.
Faster is in quotes because YOU ARE RACING TO THE NEXT RED LIGHT PAL every car you jumped over is gonna meet you there…
Millennia of evolution have shown that humans thrive when they’re just sitting around and vibing with each other. As long as you don’t need anything that requires an economic surplus or specialised work force, like, say, infrastructure.
When I finished school and had my Bachelors, the only thing I thought was, “Glad I am done with that bullshit.”
I was lucky to do college debt free by going back years later and having a nest egg from years of working to pay off my costs, but so many kids go at 17 because that is what they are told to do and have debt for life from a degree that that they likely won’t use because they have never worked and don’t know where they want a career.
Now with AI taking away white collar jobs, I think it will be harder for kids to justify. Why would they put themselves through all that stress and work for no guarantee of a career?
There needs to be a correction in college attendance. Too many go and get a degree at an expensive school for a profession that has shitty wages or wide pay gaps, and poor upward mobility. Unless you’re going for a profession that needs a certification or degree, like engineer, finance, or doctor, a degree should require some serious thought. Also, for the vast majority of people, nobody cares where you got your degree after your first “real” job. Don’t go spend big bucks at a school “known” (read: we charge a lot) for whatever degree if you can find one cheaper that will do.
My countries gouvernment has recently proposed a set of laws that would limit the maximum length of homework to 1 hour a day for 0-IV and 2 hours for V-XII
It would also make all homework for vacations optionalIn the age of AI I don’t even see how homework should even be a thing anymore.
Or if there is homework, it needs to be tailored in a way that it can’t be fed into a machine and solved, it needs to be projects that lead to personal engagement and reports on what the experience was like, or group activities or something.
Or tests designed in ways that you need to have understanding of the topic to pass while in class. Basically we need a LOT more teacher involvement, but I’m speaking from a country that hates our own teachers so much that I can’t blame them for sending schoolwork home and trying to be done with the day.
Project style homework would be so much better, it’s more creative and enjoyable and if you use AI it’s not like you had zero input yourself like what’d happen with a worksheet for example.
Takes more time to plan this type of homework tho and idk how it’d work generally and it’d probs need to be done in small chunks idk wait am i dumb
People still do homework even if text generating AI could replace that
My countries gouvernment hates teachers too
Damn thats good
I hope it will be actually enforced if it becomes law
Unfortunately they turned schools into glorified daycares so they always say it “endanger” students to let them off early or get to school after parents go to work.
Maybe sync school and work schedules? Why does this sound so crazy? It’s hugely disruptive that these schedules are different.
here they staggered all the school start times so parents with lots of kids can spend their entire day dropping off and picking up kids. we’d just have them walk or bike (and i’m fine biking there, there’s a bike lane), but some idiot decided to build these schools on their own little complex a mile down the highway (speed limit: 65mph/105kph)
A lot of GOP politicians are trying to get kids back to work and out of school, so I guess they’re technically doing their part.
If they weren’t so fucking
stupidevil they could make a lot more money.
Highschools get out first in a lot of the country to allow older students to go to afterschool jobs, participate in afterschool sports, or to be home when the younger kids return home. If every student and worker was on the same schedule you would have scenarios where sports wouldn’t get out until very late and younger kids could be at home alone.
around here highschool is shifted to later start and end and there isn’t any chaos. but they also have access to transportation and parent can leave them homs alone legally.
the real issuse is k-5. my kids start at 730 and are done at 2. That means i have to leave work at 1. literally half a day of work and then i have to leave. i don’t get paid enough to do child care so i have to work from home with kids and have a gap mid day due to commute.
Definitely students need more sleep, right through to university. According to this study humans are still adolescent from 9 till 32. Scientists identify five ages of the human brain over a lifetime Want to protect human potential ? That would be a good starting point. It’s sensible even from a purely utilitarian profit focused view of study and work.
Shoot, I’m definitely still a child, and I’m in my 40s! I definitely need more sleep than I’m allowed.
Because they dont want us learning
advocating “hustle culture” is often virtue signalling right? “I iz very hard worker and people should appreciate me” or something?
I can only speak for myself, but I used to be like that because of poor mental health as hard physical work, and alcohol, kept me from facing my problems.
Edit: forming coherent sentences is apparently hard today 🙃
