Scheduling is hard

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• LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world ⁨59⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  My boss give us shit if we call off for being sick. It’s such a toxic environment and I hate it

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  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨39⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Literally toxic if everyone has to show up sick

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    • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world ⁨25⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      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.

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• MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The company I used to work for switched to 4-day weeks during COVID and everyone was much happier, especially those with children or other caring responsibilities. Productivity was the same or better.

  But, predictably, 2021 rolled around and they 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 other reasons.

  I, and everyone else, strongly suspect it was just C-suite not liking the idea of people getting the same pay for one day less.

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• LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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

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• qwestjest78@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  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?

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• WanderingThoughts@europe.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    That environment of our evolution, like the_ Garden of Eden_, no longer exists. We’ve created a new environment in which sitting around and vibing is no longer sufficient to thrive. Without the economic output we all die. See this first episode of Connections for details.

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• atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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 optional

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  • Noodle07@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Damn thats good

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    • atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨34⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I hope it will be actually enforced if it becomes law

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  At my last job HR announced that they had found studies showing increased productivity and employee satisfaction when people had one 3-day weekend a month. From there on we were given a choice of any Monday or Friday off, but we had to take one.

  My friend: “Yeah, that’s fucked up not paying you.”

  “It’s PTO.”

  “That’s fucked forcing you to use your PTO.”

  “It’s on top of our PTO. We get an extra 12-days a year now.”

  I’m sure someone will find a cynical take on this story.

  Lemmy: CaPitALisM!

  Gosh! I left out a really important part! That business wasn’t part of a monopoly or cartel. Well, ironically, we did have a basic monopoly, no one else did what we did, but we weren’t a subsidiary of a megacorp, if you get my drift.

  LOL, two years in a row our CEO told the board we would lose money on purpose to build our people and products. They applauded him. We fucked around and made a profit anyway. Got FAT Christmas bonuses!

  If you think that’s a one-off company, you should hear how Quik Trip stores operate. Imagine people dedicating a career to working in a convenience store. That’s another story. (And an amazing one.)

  Work hard, get experience, stack resume, move on until you land at a solid employer.

  When my two friends and I moved to NW Florida, we knew no one, had no family. One guy started at an oil change place, way below his skill set and experience. Kept quitting and moving to better jobs. Within a decade he was the top service manager for the top car dealer in the area, clocking 6 digits, treated with utmost respect, seat at the table.

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  • Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t get the take about “CaPitALism”. If your employer did what you say then they did so in spite of the system of capitalism, not thanks to it. A good employer will set their sights long-term, aiming to keep their employees happy in order to build a stable future, but that’s not what the system rewards, the system rewards short-term profits.

    Also, the last story kind of reminds me of “pull yourself up by your bootstraps”-rhetoric (the term also drives me insane because it’s literally against the laws of physics). Are there people who work hard, take steps to advance their careers and achieve success because of their efforts? Absolutely! Are there also other people who try just as hard and don’t achieve the same successes, either due to other struggles or just due to random chance? Most definitely.

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      set their sights long-term, aiming to keep their employees happy in order to build a stable future

      Funny, that’s how it worked at my last job. And then there’s Quik Trip, an untold story.

      As to the working hard part, I think you’re missing the “move on” part. Gain experience, QUIT. Lemmy in general, if not you, has this victim take on employment. As an old supervisor used to say, “Fuck me? No, no, no, fuck YOU!”

      “They’re getting rich on our labor!”

      “What if I told you, you can withhold that labor?”

      If one’s job is that shitty, they can easily move on for the same pay at another shitty job. The least we can do is punish bad behavior.

      Anyway, capitalism was pretty OK when we had unions (back to the punishing bad behavior bit) and didn’t allow megacorps to monopolize every sector of the economy. Most here are probably too young to remember those days. :(

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• rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Maybe sync school and work schedules? Why does this sound so crazy? It’s hugely disruptive that these schedules are different.

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    • yeather@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      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.

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    • gdog05@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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• neutronbumblebee@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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• tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Because they dont want us learning

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• barkingspiders@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  advocating “hustle culture” is often virtue signalling right? “I iz very hard worker and people should appreciate me” or something?

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  • Junkers_Klunker@feddit.dk ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I can only speak for myself, but used to be like that because of poor mental health as hard physical work, and alcohol, kept me from facing my problems.

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• minorkeys@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We don’t output more and aren’t as easily controlled with more free time and better schedules. Nothing I do with puritanical anything at this point. It’s just business being cruel and selfish.

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