A 7 day workweek becomes the global standard. How do you cope?
A 7 day workweek becomes the global standard. How do you cope?
suicide? appreciating the good moments of the day without thinking about the wider hell you're in, somehow?
Try to move out of China.
They literally have 6-7 day work weeks, 10-12 hours a day.
Fucking brutal.
I love what I do, and work+uni combined, I approach the 70h/week of time investment anyways.
Though it only works because I like investing the extra time - I might start hating it, if it becomes the normality.
I fear many people in differing fields would get overworked quickly, the birth-rate would drop, as well as overall GDP.
It’s called a wildcat strike
I've been hearing about a 4 day work week but haven't heard anyone talking about 7 days.
I picture country-wide strikes, even for non-union workers.
Suicide. I'm dead already if I'm working 7 days a week
Or just don't comply with it ?
I mean no one uses fucking iso8601 and they never get brutally murderd anywhere near often enough.
I mean they should be using rfc3339 as it is an open standard unlike the iso.
Good point, I should start murder more people who don't use iso8601.... It's about time!
Eat the rich
I invent the 10 day week.
Usual workday is 8 hours, you can fit 3 of those in one day. So We can go to 21 days a week!
With 7 working days, I think we might need a 13 day week.
Bingo!
I join whatever new labor movement forms and sharpen my guillotine.
I buy a fucking guillotine.
Don't give money to Big Guillotine, build your own.
Buy stock in guillotine companies.
I'll start a mobile sharpening business. Sell shovels to prospectors and all that.
I stop working altogether.
For real. That's what happens. When I am in serious overload, I get kinda blocked and cannot achieve anything anymore.
But also on a global level, I think it would break down most workers quite soon.
Excuse me what, in Europe we are snuggling up with the idea of a 4 day work week
Yeah in Holland the average work week is less than 30 hours.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-work-week-by-country
Join the global strike that would inevitably happen.
Ain't nobody got time for a strike. I gotta feed my kids and pay my rent
you could always pirate your food from your local big box grocer.
"you wouldn't download an Asparagus."
Call in sick 3 days a week.
You think they'd be offering sick days?? I think you're bound for the camps if you can't keep up. Oh shit... This is starting to sound familiar...
Bruh a lot of us are out here with two jobs already working nine shifts a week. People are gonna do what they got to do.
The longest I ever did it was 5 weeks straight working 12 hour nights too. Everyone thought I'd quit, but I ran circles around them.
Everyone basically gets way less productive, especially with any physically strenuous activity. It's like you/your body knows full recovery is not an option. You don't get more done, you're just there when shit hits the fan.
I personally adjusted just fine. It is no different than slavery. All labor is technically wage slavery. I owned my own business before and after that job. Owning your own business is no different. The line between your life and your business is irrelevant when it is your own business, especially if you have employees.
I'm WFH with a pretty chill work day except I'm on standby 24/7 in case of something stupid happens at work. So not much would change for me, honestly.
murder most likely
Switch to a part time job.
By changing the global standard.
Elaborate death traps for my enemies.
My first move would probably be to blow my brains out
Switch to freelance.
Figure out a way to live cheaply, and work for myself. At least if it's 7 days a week I'm doing it for me and maybe I can become successful enough to not have to work those 7 days a week at some point.