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Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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That is 5 twelve hour days a week, for anyone who’s counting. I did this as a nurse during a shortage. It has a great deal to do with why I left nursing. No personal time at all. Get up, eat, dress, work. Go home, eat, do laundry/clean, sleep. Repeat for 5 days. On weekends you’re too tired and stressed to do anything even remotely fun. You just sleep trying desperately to catch up.
Don’t fall for it.
Now we are going backwards. Despite the many studies that say how Americans are working themselves to death, with no improvement in quality of life, compared to other cultures..
This is why I am strongly against untaxed overtime (something that was briefly discussed during past elections in Belgium). Because after the initial ‘ooh nice! more money!’ phase, prices will adjust, this will be the new norm, and we have the same as before but working more hours.
Anyone who’s ever actually worked a job and everyone who’s ever managed workers know that productivity after 6 hours drops and after 8 hours plunges. Twelve hour work days are a moron executive’s brainstorm.
This has been being pushed on us as the “norm” for decades now… did you not notice that having multiple jobs to survive is always referred to as a positive thing? Even Bush jr. said “you have 3 jobs, that is uniquely American” in a praising voice like it was something to be proud of to a woman trying to raise her child.
The idea of a minimum wage and a 40 hour work week was that no one should have to work themselves to death with no life to show for it, but the corruption in our government and the 1% stealing over 2/3rds of the wealth we create so they can live on vacation while we suffer and die with nothing has destroyed our country.
We have very little time left and no one is fixing anything.
Rebranded slavery and indentured servitude is what these corporations want.
Ok. Fifty dollars an hour is the minimum wage and it’s tied to inflation. Employers must provide free healthcare to all employees as well as a pension equal to 25% of their yearly wage every year, and retirement age is dropped to 50. Then, and only then, do you get one more minute of my life.
Study after study has shown this is a bad idea *for the business*. Overworked people make more mistakes. Coders write shit, bug-filled code. Construction works hurt themselves or damage what they’re working on.
It’s a stupid idea that has only one purpose: Cruelty. Making sure the peasants are so overworked that they can’t try and find something better.
When are working people going to stop voting against their own interests? Every working person should be in a Union.
30hr work weeks are my sweet spot.
3 seven hours days. Take it or leave it.
Why do you think they paid to get Trump elected?
We need a four day workweek not a longer one. What an AH.
Make America India Again
I bet that cunt also wants to pay everyone for 40 hours while making them work 60. If you give them 60, they’ll want 80. Billionaires are never happy with what they have, they always want more.
Only if anything after 40 hours is paid at 3x the rate.
An overt Live to work mission statement is on brand for 2025.
I bet he wouldn’t say that doing my job for a week in the summer time with my pay
*I build heavy machinery*
You can do sixty hours when you are young and under the impression it’s going to take you places.
But to use your brain in a place without hope or opportunity for people you know don’t care for you is just abuse.
These rich assholes are so divorced from empathy for how other people function it would be funny if everyone wasn’t required to listen to them.
The crash of this country is going to be very educational. Especially the exceptional rich people who think fascism will include them and not use them like an expendable tool.
When there is one company with no competition, do you really think being the CEO requires talent?
Billionaires are always right. USA! USA! /s
“Why aren’t people have kids?” and “Why aren’t parent spending more time with kids so they are as educated and happy as pervious generations?”
Remember when Google’s motto was “don’t be evil”? Pepperidge Farm probably doesn’t even remember at this point.
No thanks. I’d rather spend time with my family. I work so I can live a comfortable life with them. Not so I can waste my life away making money for some rich asshole.
This is outrage bait. They didn’t suggest that everyone should work 60 hours. They didn’t suggest it is healthy or smart or normal. They were discussing a startup and what it takes to be successful in a startup. As a startup founder, yeah, a lot of people have to work 60-90 hours for the first 2-4 years to get the thing going. It’s brutal, and it isn’t for someone in their right mind, but that’s what it takes.
This is also coming from a class of people that believe playing golf, is work.
Not only is it gross but it’s not true. Productivity has SOARED in the last 4 decades, even with a 40 hour week limitation.
Oddly, wages have not kept pace with the rise in productivity…
They don’t want to even pay people for 40…
Then he should work 60 hours on minimum wage for six months and see what he can afford.
This asshole can fuck all the way off
These MFers will try to force jobs being scarce… work the fuck out of the people with the jobs… and keep unemployed people from working while the overwhelmed people are overworked.
Everything broken, backwards, and enshitified in 2025!
I mean let’s get things straight – we also spend time not getting paid to get ready and travel to an office. That easily add 2-3 hours of commuting and doing things specifically for work. So it’s like we’re already doing that.
These assholes want 60 hour workweeks while they go out golfing and sailing on yachts with their billionaire buddies. This is what I have to say to that:
We are getting so much more work done in less time due to automations and technology; we’re already way more productive than we used to be.
And despite automations, many people are unable to “slack off” due to remote monitoring, which is becoming increasingly more common in IT. We can tell how long your computer is running and click activity (which means moving your mouse isn’t going to “trick” anyone).
I doubt the Google co-founder puts in 60 hours a week outside all the meetings that could have been an email and somehow devolved into a relaxed conversation over a business lunch. Where is the research and the data?
Nothing says “efficiency” like overworked employees who hate their job and continually waffle between wanting to quit and wanting to kill themselves.
….so much for no tax on overtime. 😂
Plus it’s just not true.
People who work fewer hours spend more time on the actual work and are more productive. Plus they are not exhausted and burned out and hating their lives because their SO left them due to their long work hours.