- lone_faerie ( @lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English87•28 days ago
This is exactly why we should have 4 day work weeks. Especially when you replace “shop” with “doctor’s office”
- speeding_slug ( @speeding_slug@feddit.nl ) 15•27 days ago
What you need are good laws, not so much a 4 day work week. I just go to the doctor during office hours and tell my employer I have to go. I even get paid time off for it, like everyone else working in this country. Same for the dentist or any other kind of medical thing.
Sure, it’s not always optimal if you work in some sort of shift, but they are required to make sure you can go.
By the way, not that I wouldn’t appreciate a 4 day work week, but this seems like a bit of a stretch to say that this is the reason why you would need one.
- Krauerking ( @Krauerking@lemy.lol ) 4•27 days ago
Yup. This is the way.
But I live and work in the US which means I have no paid days off at all and even if I tell them I have something to do they can call me to tell me to work and be upset if I don’t immediately come to the aid.
I really wish we just believed in reasonable work life balance but I will accept a shorter work week but that’s just gonna go to the upper classes only again.
- TranscendentalEmpire ( @TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee ) 8•27 days ago
Not sure if that would really help the whole availability issue. We already force a large population of physicians to be on call 24/7 because there aren’t enough to go around.
- OfficerBribe ( @OfficerBribe@lemm.ee ) 3•27 days ago
So 4 day work week for you, but 5 day work week for everyone else you would want to visit on Friday?
- ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝 ( @HK65@sopuli.xyz ) English12•27 days ago
Nah, we should have different days off, duh. Let me have Wednesdays off, some peeps can have Fridays.
Actually, I would prefer to have weekdays off instead of weekends, easier to focus with less people at work.
- Kit ( @Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 37•28 days ago
Anyone who works an office job should be able to set their own hours. I choose 6:30-2:30. I can still hit up local shops after. My colleague chooses 10-8 and shops before work. There’s no reason we can’t make this work.
- RandomVideos ( @RandomVideos@programming.dev ) 18•28 days ago
For a lot of time, i thought the 12 hour clock was not that bad
Until i saw people excluding the AM/PM. What does 6:30-2:30 mean? Are you working -4 hours? Are you working from 18:30 to 2:30 or from 6:30 to 14:30? Why do people choose this time format?
- LaVacaMariposa ( @LaVacaMariposa@mander.xyz ) 17•27 days ago
Even though you’re right, context is also important. They’re talking about working in an office, so it shouldn’t be difficult to understand that they’re referring to working 8 hours, from 6:30 AM to 2:30 PM
- dkt ( @dkt@lemmy.ml ) 8•27 days ago
Do all Europeans choose to purposefully misinterpret information that is actually very easy to understand based on context?
- TachyonTele ( @TachyonTele@lemm.ee ) 3•26 days ago
I think it’s worse that someone from programming.dev doesn’t understand time.
- TachyonTele ( @TachyonTele@lemm.ee ) 4•26 days ago
I’m confused by this comment.
Do you not understand how to tell time?
- Default_Defect ( @Default_Defect@midwest.social ) English4•28 days ago
The company would have to hire more shitty middle managers to micro manage you during a wider amount of hours, we can’t have that.
- dan ( @dan@upvote.au ) 3•28 days ago
I’m thankful I can do this. My employer measures performance based on what we actually do, not how long we work for.
I’m usually at work 10 AM to 6:30 PM (which helps avoid peak hour traffic), but I can come in and/or leave earlier or later and it’d be fine. I work from home two days a week, too.
- VeganPizza69 Ⓥ ( @veganpizza69@lemmy.vg ) English36•27 days ago
Bank: Perfect.
- lseif ( @lseif@sopuli.xyz ) 5•27 days ago
five o,clock is much to late for a bank to be open.
- TachyonTele ( @TachyonTele@lemm.ee ) 4•26 days ago
5 o’clock!? Are they having a sleepover?
- Trainguyrom ( @Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ) English3•26 days ago
Historically bank hours were because they had to count and tabulate every transaction and check for the day after closing, so historically “bank hours” meant very long working hours. Tabulators and computers greatly improved this of course
- gearheart ( @gearheart@lemm.ee ) 16•26 days ago
The shop workers.
They are there from 8am-6pm.
Everything closes at 5pm
They will never be able to go to anyone else’s shop.
(We forget about the people that work there have it worse than we do and they seem to figure it out just fine)
- 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ ( @Kolanaki@yiffit.net ) English12•28 days ago
The cigarette stores nearby all close at 6pm. Like what the fuck? The liquor store next door don’t close until they legally can’t sell alcohol.
- AbeilleVegane ( @AbeilleVegane@beehaw.org ) 2•28 days ago
You guys have cigarette stores?
- Mio ( @Mio@feddit.nu ) 5•27 days ago
Go there during lunch time or use some flex time if you can.
- callouscomic ( @callouscomic@lemm.ee ) English5•28 days ago
Most people don’t actually work 9 to 5 though. That was an idiotic song.
- dan ( @dan@upvote.au ) 1•28 days ago
In Australia at least, it’s common for office jobs to either be 9 to 5 with a half hour lunch break, or 9 to 5:30 with an hour lunch break. Companies I worked at when I lived there (before I moved to the USA) usually did the latter. An hour break was nice because I worked in the center of Melbourne and could walk around the city, get lunch, go to the bank if I needed to, buy stuff from one of the computer stores nearby, etc and still make it back to work on time.
- Venator ( @Venator@lemmy.nz ) 2•22 days ago
He’s getting shopblocked.