The 40.00 is only what they are legally allowed to say/propaganda. Otherwise even 80 would be depicted as barely chad.
We had protests and deaths to achieve that 40.
Actually, we had protests and deaths to achieve 40 hours a household. Now it’s 80 hours a household. They’ve scammed us. We’re working twice as much for less pay.
How much death and destruction to get that down to 20?
A tragedy of about 2 dead billionaires?
Bcs 20 is plenty.
Most companies would comfortably survive doubling their wage costs. And the ones that wouldn’t could still just live with a lower production.
this is something I didn’t expect would bother me until it did
growing up I thought “part time” hours meant you could just pick a set of hours and work but that’s “contract work” instead (don’t get me started on time sheets)
and so for full time in thought you get to pick your days or schedule or any, nope, all HR and company policy.
I’d work 4x10s if I could and have a nicer and longer weekend if I could
Turns out most people would actually, there have been multiple surveys done now and that’s always the winner, but then how would businesses cope?
White collar, I’ll take one 40h block please. 2 20’s if necessary. no rest for the wicked…
Where I currently work, there’s a culture of insisting you don’t need a break. Of course, I see people’s faces at the end of the day and think, “you need a break”. I’m going insane.
In my country, when the state finds this out, even if YOU want and enjoy doing work for more than 6h without a 30min break, your employer will get a fine because of you.
But I don’t want to be at work another unpaid half hour. Can’t I just die instead?
Yes. You can’tn’t.
Yes, same here. I suppose it’s to stop any plausible deniability.
SWIM wants to know which country this is?
I’ve once worked an entire year with no breaks whatsoever during the 8 h shift. High speed, intense, no-errors-policy. After a year, it had taken a huge toll on my health.
I’ve actually mentioned to one of the higher-ups that I want to reach 40 with my back intact!
More blood for the machine!
Speaking as a professional carpenter with a pretty nice lifestyle, 25 hours a week is pushing it. You guys work too much.
looking forward to leaving the tech industry for farming or woodworking
A fella down the street across the county line by one of the lakes is a radiologist who works 14 weeks a year and get $780,000.00/year.
And they bragged about it on /r/salary.
The United States is still a slaver nation if you adjust for inflation.
And tell any doctor that says they, too, want “medicare for all” to STFU. They lying.
Depending on the workplace and the labour laws in effect, they could well prefer you to work 39.7 hours a week so you’re not considered full time which would cost more for the company.
A lot of grocery stores around where I live schedule you just under the 40hr full time threshold so you get no benefits.
