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08-14-2016, 05:34 AM
I would rather have a 4-day workweek (8.5 h/d) instead. Can you imagine the positive impact on people, society in terms of health/wellness and happiness?
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08-14-2016, 06:08 AM
Give me 3 days on/12 hr shifts with 4 days off.
If I have to work 8-9 hrs a day, my day is pretty much shot any way. I rather just press on a few extra hours and get two additional uninterrupted days.
That or just give me performance metrics and let me work as I please. If it doesn't get done, fire me. Of course if we did that, about 95% of women would get fired within a month.
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08-14-2016, 06:52 AM
I work 12-16 hours a day, 6 days a week. If I was in Sweden, they'd probably chain me out of a building just to prevent me from out working other people.
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08-14-2016, 06:56 AM
I second that Black Knight. Working 5, 8 hour days, that's 5 days of your week centered around work, you end up feeling like you live there (unless you work from home!).
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Sweden introduces 6 hour work days
08-14-2016, 06:57 AM
Quote: (08-14-2016 06:08 AM)The Black Knight Wrote:
Give me 3 days on/12 hr shifts with 4 days off.
If I have to work 8-9 hrs a day, my day is pretty much shot any way. I rather just press on a few extra hours and get two additional uninterrupted days.
That or just give me performance metrics and let me work as I please. If it doesn't get done, fire me. Of course if we did that, about 95% of women would get fired within a month.
You should be a fireman in a big urban department. That is basically their schedule. They trade days so they can take 5 or more days off in a row, too.
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08-14-2016, 07:04 AM
This is socialism by another name. Most people with jobs that matter already work far more than 8 hours a day for no pay. Good luck staffing hospitals with doctors and nurses who only work 6 hours. The people who will benefit are women in public sector office jobs who already don't have any real work to do for more than 1-2 hours a day.
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08-14-2016, 07:17 AM
I've been thinking about how a 6 day work week would look like (4 work / 3 off). Basically make a whole new month with the extra days and take off the 31st day months to make up for the difference.
To be honest, most work can be done at home. One of my pet peeves about being in England is how much crab in a bucket mentality a lot of office workers have especially from business analysts. If i happen to finish my work at 3 and leave, what harm occurs if I finish the rest of meetings at home?
I just do other things to kill the time. I loathe contract business analysts.
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08-14-2016, 07:59 AM
Swedes work? Who knew?
I thought all that rapefugee money came from fairy dust.
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08-14-2016, 08:03 AM
Yes, it'll be interesting to see if they can maintain productivity. If not...well, the trade unions fucked up Britain's economy in the 70's with this three day week stuff.
I can't help but think this is to cater to women.
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08-14-2016, 08:29 AM
I can't get all my work done in 8 hours per day so I frequently come in 2 hours early and leave 2 hours late. Problem is I have to work with slow systems, if they were designed by NASA or Google instead of some cheap IT contracting firm I could do the same work in half the time.
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08-14-2016, 08:36 AM
It's a start in the right direction even if they find it doesn't work out. I think it should be 10 hours a day and only 4 days a week like others have said
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08-14-2016, 08:37 AM
I prefer working longer hours in a day but fewer days. 3 days a week with 12 hours is the optimum I try to reach in my life.
Working less days saves a lot of transportation time and energy, sometimes the trip to work and back is even more exhausting then the actual work. Dumb sitting in a car/bus during a traffic jam exhausts me more than actually working.
Also there are things you can fit in a schedule if you have a free day, but you can't if you only have a free evening/afternoon.
Generally most men would feel better with longer but fewer work day's, because men like to get serious and get things done with a passion and then have a long time to relax, play and grow/train.
Men have naturally evolved to work and relax in long sessions from the time they went to hunt the mammoth for several weeks and after their return they relaxed in the cave for several months until the whole mammoth was eaten, during this time they just slept, fucked their women, ordered them around, feasted on mammoth flesh, mentored their children, maybe sharpened their tools at most.
The male Lion is the perfect embodiment of this - the male lion sleeps 20 hours a day, but during the 4 remaining hours he dominates his environment and is therefore called the king of animals / king of the jungle.
More work days with fewer hours are better for women because that's what women are good at - appearing on time, looking good, observing social norms. Women also don't know how to properly relax - constant work - attending children, cleaning home, washing clothes, cooking and foraging is in their nature. Woman's natural role is to work the easy jobs but more constantly.
Whereas all work and no play make men dull boys, women get confused and crazy if they have too much free time and the modern society is an example of this - spoiled rich privileged women creating subversive movements and crying for degeneracy out of too much free time.
So the fact that the workdays are made shorter instead of reducing the amount of workdays shows pretty well that we live in a female's world.
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08-14-2016, 08:39 AM
The reason people in America enjoy the standard of living they do is because everyone works and work hours are higher. Reducing them across the board is a careless idea because it will affect productivity significantly where it's needed and affect it marginally where it's not needed.
A guy at the factory cut 4 hours is a lot worse than some one in a support function (eg office) cutting 4 hours.
I'm in sales. I can't not work a full week because that sounds ridiculous to me and leaves my clients high and dry.
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08-14-2016, 08:53 AM
Quote: (08-14-2016 08:45 AM)Mage Wrote:
1)America won the WW2
2)America won the cold war
3)American dollar is the reserve currency
4)America has the strongest military in the world and can enforce beneficial trade agreements
5)America has the fed and is the only country that can print out money out of nothing.
6)America aggressively exports it's culture worldwide trough Holywood and McDonalds.
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08-14-2016, 09:03 AM
Quote: (08-14-2016 08:45 AM)Mage Wrote:
As for longer working hours - try telling that bullshit to Swiss, Norwegians, Swedes, Dutch and Germans - all those countries have a higher standard of living with less work, the only things bad in these countries is feminism and Muslim immigration
And socialism.
Everyone is the same. There is no progress that comes out of those slavic countries. You don't hear about the next big healthcare discovery, the next amazing technology, or anything at all. Germans are an exceptionally industrious people, they shouldn't be mentioned next to the Swedes or Norwegians.
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08-14-2016, 09:28 AM
The vast majority of what people call "work" these days is actually completely unnecessary for the maintenance and support of modern society. Most people are employed in jobs that could, at best, be considered "makework". At worst, many of these jobs, far from being socially productive, are actively parasitical and harmful to society.
The millions of office drones working bullshit white collar jobs in HR, administrative support and other such nonsense? Makework.
The thousands of companies subsidized by wasteful government contracts? Parasites.
The millions of people employed pushing paper in government bureaucracies? Makework.
The millions of people employed in anti-social commercial activity like gambling, payday loans, ambulance chasing/frivolous lawsuits, high speed trading, selling shit quality food, money lending, the medical extortion racket, selling bullshit products on the internet, etc... Parasites.
I'd estimate maybe 20% of current jobs are actually productive and beneficial to society. Everyone else is a beneficiary of the largesse produced by that 20%, either through direct support with makework positions or through opportunistic parasitism on the actual productive workers.
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08-14-2016, 09:44 AM
How exactly are you defining whats good for society? If a white collar job produces wages which the worker can then reinvest into the economy, rather than rely on government handouts, isn't that good for society?
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08-14-2016, 09:53 AM
Europe losing millions and millions of men to the world wars didn't hurt America either.