redditoids salivate at the idea of a 4-day-work-week 
and how Decent-Human-Being countries like (western) Europe (they have FREE healthcare btw) and UK (the evil ex-wife of Eurocucks), tested a trial run of a 4-day-work-week. AND IT WORKED GREAT 
Greetings strags 
The 4-day-work-week is one of my favorite redditisms. It always brings out the lazy useless commies out of the work week. And always, ALWAYS, these lazy fools try and masquerade their supposed desire to improve society, when instead they are merely desiring a terraforming of the world to suit their own interests, namely them wanting to work less hard hard like /r/antiWORK
I want to ask you dramatards today what you guys think about 4-day-work-weeks. Because it's always an inevitable circlejerk in the reddit euphoric-atheist eurocuck leftoid anti-yank anti-west crowd.
Yet for somebody who works in an already left wing dominated country, and for a private enterprise, I have my great reservations about only 4 working days per week. In our private company, and similar surveying companies, as well as for building contractors, architects, lawyers, Trade-industry like electricians and plumbers, the notion of a 4 day work week is absolutely fricking ANATHEMA
The reason being is that contrary to white-collar soul crushing useless corporate office hours wasting manhours, our 5 days also consist of accumulating clients and jobs and contracts and tenders, from the private world and the government. If i make this sound sophisticated, what i mean is that it basically boils down to cutting your potential outreach opportunity to clients and available office hours, or even available fricking contacts hours by a brutal 20%.
And while I'm not privy to our business' exact financials or contemporary SA surveying companies, I know the netto income is about 20%. And if the government would for example MANDATE or force a 4-day-work-week, it would slit our throats overnight.
Kaamrev, you guys would say, won't the clients just call/visit the office on Monday=>Tuesday. They might, but customers/clients are funny in the mercurial world of business, you will note if you own a private organization, in which you are solely responsible for accumulating/finding clients, that available hours have drastic influence on whether clients finally take the leap in contractig/buying a service.
Many surveyors and chainmen even work way beyond natural office hours, well earlier than 8am, and well beyond 5pm, if a particularly important/large job is at stake. Many would work Saturdays, and even sundays if pressure is at stake. I myself had done so for months last year, as there literally not enough hours in the fricking 40 hours work week to finish particularly dire projects. Last year i actually worked harder than I studied for my 3rd year at univeristy, not out of principle but sheer panic.
This notion of going beyond mandated 40 hour weeks, is probably unknown to wagie redditors who are paid the same, regardless of whether they do their best/slack off. And while I have sympathy for people in wage-cage jobs, in white-collar soul crushing office-cubicle heck -holes, where middle-managers force useless meetings and useless hours, and thus wasting your finite life span away for unclear goals, in unclear corpo leadership - but that is NOT why redditors champion 4-day-work-weeks. No it is because it appeals to them
Supermarket businesses like Checkers/Spar/Woolworths in South Africa, had steadily encroached on weekend openings about 20 years ago. I recall distinctly massive drama within the Christian communities in Safrica, that when places like Spar and Checkers began to have open hours on Saturday, and then eventually open hours on Sundays. Because sundays are supposed to be the day of rest. In the 1990s you had exceptions to the rule, and in the early 2000s, if your pantry was empty, because you had poor planning or some calamity, then you were fricked out of luck for food for sunday, unless you could find some street-vendor road-seller who would sell you some mielies for the day to tie you over for Sunday.
I distinctly remember many neighbours begging after Sunday services for some key ingredients or some flour or fruit, and promising to pay back on Monday, cuz there literally was no shopping mall or tuckshop or anything open the whole day! But as religiosity gradually faded throughout the country, corporations gradually found weekend openings to be acceptable and convenient to the public
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_shopping
So for these corporations, 7-day operating weeks became a virtual necessity. Because if they did NOT operate during the weekend as their competition did, they lost out on potential clients, because the people who would have shopped during regular weekdays were now satisfied for their groceries on weekends. Smaller grocery businesses would find themselves in a death knell had they not adapted.
And many small town businesses like mom-and-pop bakeries, who traditionally operated on weekdays like they had in the past, and was closed during the weekends as it was family run, and they had to take care of family/kids, would be screwed if they did not compete with corporate chains like Spar, which had bakeries, as the Entire monday sales period would be cut off, as customers had their monday needs met during the weekend.
A not too dissimilar phenomenon happens in trade or contract industries. Even if Governments could make a blanket ban on 5-day-work-weeks, so that your competitors could not operate on a 5th day, same a your company does, and thus steal your clients, there is a weird hidden opportunity cost lost by customers which were on the precipice of a decision, but your unavailability, lost them to your business. This is in addition to the potential loss of manhours to work on potential projects.
I also don't buy this mythos from popular rediditor zeitghest, that in ancient/medieval times, farmer peasants worked much less today, and only in our modern corporatized world we work ourselves into an early grave. I've seen actual farms - there's always work, if the pipes burst, they need to be fixed. It's many long and hard hours.
But I'm also aware historic labour laws came into being becuase of much sacrifice and due to great abuse by magnates and oligarchic businessmen who literally worked English children to death in mine shafts during the Bong Industrial Period.
What do you guys think?
Anyways some drama and sneed below
What does billionaires have to do with the 5-day-work-week?? 
It's like wagie redditors are so far removed from ever having had the fate of a business enterprise on their shoulders, that they equate a societal business norm of the past several hundred years due to the greed of a cabal of billinaires 
Thank frick for that
"STOP MAKING SENSE!" only stupid people want to work for 5 days a week! 
Some takes with more than 1 braincel
"It really depends on the industry. I work in manufacturing. Output is directly tied to labor hours applied. My wife works in healthcare. Obviously you still need staffing coverage 24/7."
This guy gets downkongd for pointing out against the circlejerk that the 4-day-work-week was only considered by the experimenting 61 companies, becuase it DIDN'T affect a loss of productivity, and these cute twinks downkong him for pointing out that any loss of productivity/ or incurring more costs like hiring additional staff would negate the feasibility
ooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhh man he really pissed off these neetstrags 
"Congrats. Not everyone is you. You're not even going to stay the you that you are now. Try working 50 hours/week for 20 years and see if your productivity keeps up." 
lmoa 20 years, try people who worked 50 years of their lives you strags
Of course redditors can't read (or ever read the linked articles anyway)
"The dude you are replying to is just going around to very comment trying to justify why him and his area shouldn't allow people to work fewer hours. He also talked about not seeing any decrease in productivity till he pushed workers to work more than 50 hours a week." 
Anti-yank circlejerk begins
Those filthy yanks 
Again these redditors miss the forest for the trees. Sometimes a company cannot exist in a system where a loss of opportunity is caused by a loss of potential clients or contacts because the fricking business wasn't open or available for liaison
Some more redditors with braincells in smaller threads outside the usual 1000-point upkongd circlejerk teenage angst subthreads, ask significant questions, because they are skeptical of this supposed overgood news.
Manufacturing industries are out
Ok, nice link, thanks.
So the #1 category, by a large margin, is not-for-profits/charities. Which isn't very representative of most people's workplaces.
The #2 is the creative/consultant/PR/marketing space - an industry where the actual hours worked have little relevance.
I thought there was a construction company in there, but it turned out to be a Housing Association. Unfortunately, these really aren't representative of where most people work.
This guys shits 
on the hopes and dreams of soyneets and soywagies 
Anyways the same theme is repeated throughout the thread. What do YOU 
dramatards think?!
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Lots of tradies have been working 4 day weeks since the 80's at least. My dad did 4x10's and it seemed pretty dope. I'd love to have a three day weekend every week. This post really drives home that the average dramatard is just a contrarian redditor.
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the point wasn't to disavow 4-day-work-weeks as ineffective or desirable for both workers and companies for the sake of being contrarian, merely that such a norm or mandate would not be viable for different industries/businesses, and that redditors only support such a societal overhaul because they personally want to work less - they are not some higher arbiters of morality as they present themselves.
look at for example the treads where they blame billionaires and burgerland for the existence of the 5-day-work-week we currently have, which are not as related as redditors deem, they are only childish pet issues they despise. If talking about the amorality of burgerland corporate culture is worth, then I don't think the issue of workdays ae colinked.
I mentioned how Supermarket chains incrementally began operating over weekends, to increase selling opportunity windows, and now they can't easily go back, and how certain industries like tradesmen and manufacturers cannot easily reduce working days
I know many safrican electricians who work full days on Saturdays for a 6-day-work-week, because in this economy where we have 25% joblessness, they NEED that extra opportunity cost, for additional clients to stay afloat
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yes I want to work less for the same money, why would I not, I would also like more money for less work
!commenters
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It's about productivity, not X hours worked.
It's for white collar workers and not blue collar workers.
Studies have consistently shown with 32 hours you can be just as productive (or moreso even) than with 40.
Middle management doesn't want that to happen, because they're the main reason that we waste at least a day a week in unneeded meetings.
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how the frick does middle management get so bloated?
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Same way colleges became bloated with administrative positions over the past decades which cause the exponential rise in tuition.
Basically DEI
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Combination of nepotism and other middle managers trying to justify their own jobs by (lying) that they need more middle managers to fix the problem
Current HP: 8/75
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Uhm, source?
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But now you'll get paid less.
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If they worked for two days less each that would create 30% more unsatisfied demand for labor and eliminate electrician joblessness. Think about it
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I want to work less. Working sucks. In the words of inimitable Boo
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Well maybe if those electricians worked 7-day weeks, you guys would have more electricity. Have you ever considered that?
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Yeah, they always say that sort of thing. They'd figure it out. This line of argument suggests that we should instead increase the work week to 6 or even 7 days to help with those businesses' viability.
Yeah, and? Who gives a shit? I want to work less too. The whole promise of all this technology we've built is that it makes us more efficient. I would like that efficiency to come back to me as free time.
Yeah it's not really related to "corporate amorality" in the sense that there's not some billionaire conspiracy to keep you wageslaving for 5 days purely out of cruelty, but it is a decision made purely in the absence of morality. Magic line needs to go up, so you need to work that extra day. It's not really any more complicated than that.
Almost none of those places are working the same employees 7 days a week. They have people rotate in shifts. A lot of them don't even give those employees full-time hours as-is because they don't want to have to pay them benefits.
Yeah, my dad worked 6 day weeks all the time, sometimes 7 depending on the job. He got double time for it so he was happy for the extra work. If western society shifted to a 4-day workweek, they wouldn't jail or shoot you for working extra, they would just have to provide an incentive to do so. And Safrica is a completely broken society, so counterexamples from there aren't useful because no place with working infrastructure or an economy functions like it.
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I didn't read all that, but I noticed you dunked on South Africa at the end… so
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Yeah you see the thing is Im not going to walk on the most fragile eggshell in the world: not hurting any industries, when deciding what kind of world I want to live in.
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The OP is about 32 hour weeks not compressed hours.
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Longer work days are kind of butt thou, redeemed only by geting wasted
on friday.
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There's better ways to divide up approximately 40 hours than 9 to 5 x 5 days like it's God's commandment. 4 x 10 sounds way comfier. I think my little brother was doing 3 x 12 when he was doing warehouse work. It's even more appealing the longer/worse your commute is.
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Not reading all of that sorry, but if I get the opportunity to have to work less time with equal pay I'll gladly take it, idgaf how that might affect others
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why do you keep raping me like this Aevann
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Try downcoping this
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Lmao gottem
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The downkong button is a 'does not add to the discussion' button not an 'I'm mad you didn't read my wordswordswords' button
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actually it's a "you really hurt my feelings button"
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Actually it's a "u didn't post Trussy" button
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OPs also not concerned with others, and is just unable to remember to buy groceries on any other day of the week than sunday.
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4 day work week is great, I mean for people like me and !codecels not for walmart cashiers obviously and service industries
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we dont either, its 5 days atleast even for softwarecels, some even do 7 days
, actualy 5 days is a luxury here
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semi related: have you seen the technocratic work calendar?
I've been re-reading about them lately
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What are the technocracy?
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I'm talking about the 1930s technocracy movement. It's a somewhat authoritarian system that proposes using scientific principles to solve society's social and economic problems. It's intended to be a meritocracy where engineers and scientists are hoisted to positions of power, in contrast to the dominance of business leaders and career politicians in representative democracies. They had theories about foreign politics, social order and economics.
I can't go into more detail atm - starting work.
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Sounds very r-slurred. Life exists between people and society is the structuring of how people live in relation too one another. Man's behavior determines the direction of society not the other way around. Putting scientists in charge would probably kill civilization faster than the fertility collapse caused by putting women in charge.
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It's a flawed ideology. Nonetheless I find it captivating to learn about different ideologies, the psychology behind them and the problems of the day they were trying to solve. Technocracy, IMO, was somewhat unique.
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Technocracy is still alive. The US is led by billionaire technocrats. Or is that different?
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Walmart could have 7 nibbas work 4 days a week with each ones three days off starting on a different day. This means every day Walmart has 6 cashiers. Same with any other job that has essentially interchangeable employees.
If anything, SWEs are a worse option for this system because if your boss's boss needs to know why the text box is telling users to keep yourself safe when they enter their password wrong, there might only be one person that really knows how to fix it. If it's their day off it is a bigger problem. Issues like this can be solved with 4 day weeks + on call obviously.
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Have two walmart cashiers through the week.
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Not only do I not support a four day workweek, I believe an eight day workweek should be mandatory for zoomers.
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die c*nt die
!zoomers zoomermisia
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BACK TO WORK, ZOOMER!
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Keep talking that way and I'll turn off ur life support
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@Salvadore_Ally_Chud laughed.
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I've been doing 50 hour weeks for a while now and it's not a big deal. This kills the redditor apparently.
'omg you must have no time for anything' is the response I usually get from friends and family when they hear my working hours.
meanwhile ive got multiple side projects going and they spend their downtime doing absolutely nothing
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I NEETed for a long time. One surprising thing when you start working is that you become much more productive despite having less time. Overall change in mindset I suppose.
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This is it. On days I finish work early I'm less productive after hours because I know I have more free time to waste. Funny how that works
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We are all worker bees with no queen
I wish I could just lounge about unconcerned unbothered like a lion. Send the thots to go hunt an antelope then take the biggest share. Kill the new kids on the block trying to steal my harem.
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This is always said unironically by people who spend at least 40 hours/week watching TV or playing vidya.
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The only thing a 4 day work week would add to my life is the ability to take plane bound day trips
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Screen time is the fricking worst because you're sense of the passage of time goes away as well and you end up losing days and years but you have no idea where you lost time.
Track you're screen time kids. It might triple you're productivity and save you're career.
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I think this is mostly down to sleep quality, motivation and commute time.
6h sleep + 5min commute time + 10h work week is mostly the same as
7h sleep + 1h commute time + 8h work week
If you did 8h of sleep with 2h commute time and 10h work.. you have 4h left in the day. Assuming you have to do chores, make dinner, take a dump etc, that's maybe 2h of free time.
Unless i fked my math somewhere
Just gym would take 1.5h of that 2h minimum and you're left with 30min to play farmville or whatever, maybe s*x your wife if you're a s*x haver
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rdrama is not a side project though
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I said multiple side projects
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Rich people don't have to work as much sweaty.
What's the problem? Cry more poor.
https://old.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1i89nz5/oc_countries_with_higher_wages_work_less_hours/
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Krauts always whine about they have to bail out the lazy good-for-nothing Greeks who never work but somehow they've never actually looked at the numbers.
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Greeks make less and work more.
I'm not sure what you're saying.
Krauts work the least and I'd assume adjusted for everything make the most.
Which is why I live here.
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This doesn't look accurate. No way in heck Japan works less hours than the US.
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they are full of old people now and the Mexican are carrying us for a while now
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You clearly have never worked in another country.
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I've never worked in either
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A four day work week would be cool. Robots and s*x robots too. And I wish I had a bigger peepee. And it'd be cool if there was magic and demons and cool stuff and elves. And swords.
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You hit the nail on the head that people advocating for 4-day workweeks are working useless office jobs that don't do any work on Friday, regardless.
If you own a small business, you're on-call 24/7. Them's the breaks. But working for some useless corpo-wagie job? Yeah, sure, whatever... who gives a shit? The average salaried worker doing 8 less hours on regular workweeks outside of crunch time isn't going to end the world.
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i wonder how much of office work is not just red tape and redundancy.
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On average, and even subtracting exec work, I would think your average office wagie has about five hours of real work every week.
This does not count meetings or bowel movements.
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One of the most productive scientists I ever worked with was of pretty average intelligence but she worked at least 70 hours a week, that more than made up for it
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What a nothing post
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I work 3 days a week, twelve
hour shifts. It's not for everyone 
but I love somewhat frequently getting 5-7 days off in a row without asking for it.
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I would like a 4 day work week for myself. Not for other tho.
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Contrarianism is a disease. You could predicate an argument that longer hours are better on a societal level (they aren't - at least not inherently) but sneeding that individual Redditors "only" support 4 day weeks so they can work less - as if such reasoning in incorrect and as if work for work's sake is a good - is just being angry for anger's sake.
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Maybe you and everyone keelhauling me in this post is right, that society went disasterous and we as mankind are killing ourselves in corpo hellscapes and overwork
But I didn't write this to give the intention that i believe i'm absolutely right - I gave my curretn world living scenario, where working as a contractor type industry, where working even one day less would be dissasterous, for keeping our heads above water.
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As I said I'm not weighing in on the societal argument though the main point you bring up is the advent of Sunday shopping (with a
@pizzashill-esque small business tyrants injection). I'm talking about the sneeding at Redditors over their attempts to "try and masquerade their supposed desire to improve society, when instead they are merely desiring a terraforming of the world to suit their own interests, namely them wanting to work less hard" as if such is some sin. I mean your main post body contains just as much self-interest with how it could hurt you and your colleagues due to lost business. No real difference in my eyes.
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I accept your concession. What was the point of this thread then? For you just to seethe, as I expected it was more about the Eurodick suckers rather than just meaningless anger?
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hey you're right I'm just as foolish as the people we mock on Drama
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No, you're not sweaty. You make good effortposts I sometimes read if I find the topic interesting/new.
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No it isn't.
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"More hours working = better" is a third world mentality.
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ok look so this is a bit nuanced if gas stations stop staying open for 24 hours g*mers cant get they monster mid session, but G*MERS DONT NEED "real jobs" star trek online is the G*MERS VERSION of a SOCIETY REALSTRAGS CANT TELL US THEY HAVE A HARD LIFE
!g*mers
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I'm an electrician.
My preferred jobsite is four 10s, and I'm pretty happy with it. Most sites are an hour away from home so one less day of driving, one less risk of having to deal with fresh snow, and I don't feel as guilty taking a lazy Saturday
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I mean maybe i'm lazy but i feel with all this technology and streamlining of everything.. digitalization etc, you'd figure we'd have a higher standard of living, or at least the ability to choose to work less and still survive just fine, though with less disposable cash
But instead things are going the opposite way, housing became a luxury, people live with their parents, hours of comutting a day only for many people to spend 4 hours of their work time chatting with colleagues or playing farmville.
Something went wrong
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I've always had a 4 day work week because I've always requested one work-from-home day per week in my contracts.
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If you love sucking off your boss feel free to move to China, they work 6 days a week, 6 AM to 9 PM. You get an hour of lunchtime though, so it's not completely heck on Earth.
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It's the wrong approach in the first place. People should be paid based on output instead of time. I'll pay you to cut my lawn. It's a big lawn so it'll take a whole 5 days. Want a 4 day workweek? Well think about how to do it in 4 days then.
Personally I pretty much work almost all day every day either directly on my job or on things that might one day become my job. I don't mind it. I can see how going to the office and spending your life helping some r-slur business owner get richer would be soul destroying though.
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Did you write this on company-time?
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I spend at least 4 hours of every day simply not doing my job, so if I was put on a 4 day workweek, I would simply slack off for 3 hours a day instead.
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Real shit, @Sneedman only stay at work from 9 until 2 (although @Sneedman do some work at home). @Sneedman think most people would be happy too work 5 days a week if they had @Sneedman's hours. @Sneedman say this as a feminist ally.
Formerly Chuck's.
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My take is that if people were efficient a 4 day work week could be done for a lot of jobs.
My argument is a job I used to have. Frozen food warehousing. We had to run on a 5 day schedule for the expiration schedules. Holidays were the busiest weeks but it meant having a day off required everyone to work on Saturday. A funny thing would happen. Everyone would do double the work in a few hours and wed all bolt out the door before Noon.
If you incentivize it right people can work less hours and still end up with the same output. But most people will game it to be lazier, ruining it for everyone.
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I don't give a flying frick about your shitty company. It can die if I get same money for less work
I just want to do whatever I need to do to fulfill my part, get the check and frick em all. I have far more important things to do than work
Like for example that Unity game I am making or even mini painting. shit, even nail painting is more important. You all can rot and race for whatever you think is at the finish line.
The insufferablility of redditors isn't wanting less work for same money but rationalising it as some sort of superior morality system. That they are right and only them on a white horse looking down on everyone else. Lamenting at their fake victimhood 24/7.
I will gladly take 4 days work week purely out of my egotistical, pragmatic reasons not build some sort of insufferable cult around it. We all want to win after all, we just disagree on what it means and how to do it
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I'd rather have an hour off each day. It's not like I get anything done in the first hour when I'm still half-asleep. But then I don't do much on weekends.
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u do realize anthropologists spend their lives studying questions like this? over the last few centuries they've even had a great deal of uncontacted societies to study. modern economics refuses to really consider the contrast because it doesn't really suit the modern narrative used to keep people maintaining.
well when u rely on nature to do most of the heavy lifting of getting water/nutrients around... and ur aren't over collecting orders many orders of magnitude than u could personally consume... then the leftover task of find and collect not only doesn't take as long, it's not nearly as soul crushingly bonkers.
like i'm not saying civilization is a bad thing, but asinine culture of assuming life long burnout of working for market success is the culmination of society is just r-slurred.
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I read about three sentences, but as long as I'm not paying more taxes idgaf
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I'm in a different kind of business, but in my experience. It's certifications > price > service in most big commercial projects I have been involved in.
I am almost exclusively B2B tho, probably different for residential work
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In construction and lots of other industries, people are still paid hourly, so 50 hour weeks are normal and preferred. I could actually see a 4x10 workweek working pretty well in some industries, but that's not what these ledditors want lol
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As a society
we should 
work less and the everyday joe should 
get laid more.
However i hate redditors
and their slovenly ways.
In a blue collar
setting, there 
is a fear of doing the job quickly because the client is paying x and expexts to see work. This comes up in a lot of facets be it some joe in the army who has to mill about doing jack shit after all the real work is done for a couple 
hours each day, or a plumber 
who can fix the problem 
in 30 minutes only for the clinet to get pissy that the work went too fast for what they paid.
However, the disconnect lies in the hours worked for a lot of jobs where
you're kind of there 
in the event of an emergeny, or if a clinet needs 
something. Yeah society 
can accomidate function in non vital areas only 4 days a week, but the wagies trying to make rent kind of need the hours.
in other words
is kind of a class issue: a middle 
class foid in hr is all for 4 hour work days, a goverment drone 
would 
love to be paid for even less work and less business 
hours- repairmen, mechanics groceries, the lower class scum reddit 
hates, dont really 
have that luxary, so i see it as a primarily selfish 
class issue.
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The longer weekend of a 4 day is nice, but working 10 hour days mean you have way less free time after work.
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Fricking soys crying about working 50hours a week XDDDD
Ye that's why yanks are so behind in everything manufacturing
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All the arguments against the four day workweek boil down to muh gdp shit. If every business is doing it none of them get hurt. Society worked perfectly fine seventy years ago before widespread computer use and automation when our productivity was at least twenty percent lower.
Also I distinctly remember you pearl clutching on behalf of wagies in your immigration posts? Are all your takes just opposing the current thing.
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I do 4x10 but it's shift work so it's inconsistent but i'm sure I do more in 1 shift than these guys do in a fortnight
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I already work 4 days a week, technically supposed to be like 9-10 hours but it's WFH and I usually get my stuff done way before so it's just extra hours for me to
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Work 10 hours per day 4 days instead of the usual 8 hours per day for 5 days, I would fricking take that shit to be honest. Because you might spend 1 hour commuting, and thats 1 more hour in your week. Not all industries can do it, but any industry that can should try it to be honest
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Tldnr.
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I ain't reading all that 10 hour long post, but you'd have to be a massive cute twink to not want to work less hours.
I bet you suck your bosses peepee and everyone thinks you're an annoying cute twink at your workplace.
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only on Fridays
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We get it. You are slow. A shorter workweek would further expose how useless you are.
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Nobody is stopping you from continuing to improve your work ability outside of work hours. Only your employer is not supposed to have you at work or give you work by law. Just go home and keep learning more about your job to be top employee when you get back if you care so much. Or just find a 2nd job. I doubt that it is illegal to have a second job.
As long as the GDP line goes up, people are allowed to vote for whatever benefits they wish for.
One of your bad takes.
Doctors should also be forced to work only 8 hours. I don't care what the research says. I don't trust any over worked doctor to perform a surgery safely on me. Or you know what, stop paying doctors after 8 hours shift and see if the research still says doctors work best on 20 hour work schedules in the 4 years later review.
A controlled work shift also gets rid of the parasites who are making all their extra money pretending to work during overtime. The only reason employers are fine with it is that they can charge the customers for that overtime.
I love sucking peepee except for mutilated circumcised peepee.
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Four or five days just depends on how long the manager schedules you for when you're a wagie. Personally I prefer my 5:40 hour, five day a week schedule though sometime I go in for a sixth day if asked. I still get the times I need and have free time for school, and it works for the business since they only need to deal with a 10 minute break
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I liked working 4 10 hour shifts. The two extra hours at work aren't that hard to do especially since you get a whole extra day off. If you have the staffing and they are willing to work it then it works fine for just about any non on call business. Of course the intricacies of having a capable willing staff is lost on Reddit and rdrama lol
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I wish I could work a 4 day week
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