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09-28-2017, 01:44 PM | #1 |
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A 100-hour work week
Would you be able to manage it? How would you manage it? Discuss your answers below. Last edited by Papenbrook; 01-26-2018 at 05:56 PM. |
09-28-2017, 02:40 PM | #2 |
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You couldn't. If your work week was still the usual 5 days, that would leave you with only 20 hours of free time... 4 hours a day to sleep, eat, get other stuff done, and drive to/from work. Not possible.
If you worked 7 days a week non stop like that, well... it would leave you 9.7 hours each day. Still not enough for everything. It's basically a different form of enslavement labeled as 'okay' because you're being given money that you have NO time to even spend on your needs, let alone meet those needs. People would snap at some point and start throwing computers or whatever they work with... |
09-28-2017, 02:53 PM | #3 |
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I've had a couple of 70 hour weeks. Once had two back to back. Massive paycheck.
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So....what life was like prior to the establishment of Labor Unions.
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The part where they all had lice and were working in a meat packing plant...
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09-28-2017, 03:37 PM | #7 |
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I did a couple 80 hour work weeks one month at my last job. It ****ing suuuuuuucked. But yeah, great paycheck. Still glad I don't work an hourly job anymore though.
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I still prefer hourly though. Especially the way my company treats OT for salary employees. |
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09-28-2017, 04:02 PM | #9 |
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Yeah, I do miss OT. Pros and cons to everything I guess
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I know that I'm about to sound hebetudinous, but aren't all jobs hourly? Last edited by Papenbrook; 01-17-2021 at 07:58 AM. |
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10-02-2017, 07:44 PM | #11 |
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I've done it a few times. I felt like driving off a bridge after the second week. Crunch time sucks.
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12-01-2017, 03:20 PM | #13 |
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Talk about zero work-like balance. I mean, I know even in this country it's not exactly a real thing for many, and many people spend so much of their lives in some job and less of it actually getting to live the other parts, but EESH.
Shame that life on planet Earth has been turned into such misery and pointlessness, and humankind has only done this to itself. (To think if we decided to change direction as a species...the rest of the universe would not give a damn at all. It's like we could collectively choose better, but don't.) Hope the poor woman at least made enough in all that overtime to afford herself a nice funeral. |
12-02-2017, 07:17 AM | #14 |
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That’s a cultural thing in Japan. Company before individual. Never mind the perception that you have to work longer than the boss does to be a “good” employee. Plus, being a female in business means you can make no mistakes if you want to be promoted, even here that’s a thing in male dominated fields.
It’s sad, but I understand her mindset.
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I think conformity and ageism are also vital roles that help to uphold that damaging mindset. People tend to overwork/overwhelm themselves in a capitalist environment. Sadly, it's a frequent occurrence. Last edited by Papenbrook; 01-17-2021 at 08:07 AM. |
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12-04-2017, 02:17 AM | #16 |
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When I was a resident we did this all the time. There is basically no time to do anything else besides necessities. Would do this about every week for a month then go back down to 80/ week then go back to well over 100 a week. Miserable
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12-04-2017, 02:50 AM | #17 |
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100 hour work week?! Damn, I dunno if I could even survive that. That's pretty much 14-15 hours a day for 7 days in a row. I mean, naturally I've done overtime before, but never super long shifts for a whole week.
Granted it depends on what kind of job you work, but it's already tiring enough to work overtime at a boring office job where ou sit behind a computer desk all day. And if you work at a café/restaurant all the way from opening to closing time it's even more tiresome since you basically gotta stay up all day and walk back and forth as well. I couldn't imagine doing 12 to 15 hours of hard labour. As in carrying around heavy stuff and doing construction. |
01-17-2021, 08:04 AM | #18 |
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With the decline of labor unions, job availability, and worker morale, the quality of life will get worse.
Our current system was never accustomed to dealing with these current issues; I can't imagine what it will look like with future difficulties. I feel that work environments are about to get worse - so much worse. It's just a symptom of late-stage capitalism, though. Last edited by Papenbrook; 01-17-2021 at 08:14 AM. |
01-17-2021, 08:13 AM | #19 |
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Sounds horrible unless your work is some type of fulfilling creative endeavor. Or, I don't know, I guess saving lives. With so much time spent working, there is none left to enjoy the payoff, unless you give up sleeping.
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01-17-2021, 08:33 AM | #20 |
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I heard that people who work in/around mechanical/technological businesses ( creating video games, building vfx, animating, programming, engineering, etc. ) are forced to work in some of the most heinous working conditions.
Not to mention that there are always risks that could affect an entire workforce. Pay cuts, worker layoffs, mass firings - Job security is scarce, at least for employees. You can imagine the outcome/results of these consequences. Last edited by Papenbrook; 01-17-2021 at 09:53 AM. |
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