- Emmy: I told you to stay back.
- Luke: Yeah, but Emmy, you said there was a dog!
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Fun fact! Having a job every day is actually a fairly new thing.
In olden times, people had daily chores and other things to do but their workload/ daily working hours was actually much lower than it is today. Even in farming communities.
The concept of working super hard every day actually comes from capitalism, which in turn comes from Puritanical ideology.
The Puritans believed in salvation through work and in no play.
Early capitalists adopted this ideology because it meant higher productivity and therefore more money if their factories were running near constantly.
The idea of needing to be continuously productive in order to be useful/ allowed things like food and shelter, is actually quite an insidious ideal that is deeply rooted in the American culture.
4 day work weeks have actually proven to be more productive than the 5 day week. But corporations won't adopt it willingly because it means less of a stranglehold on their workers.
So, if you're doing a labor-type job instead of a creativity-based job, doing four 10-hour shifts in a week (with at least one break in the middle of course) is more productive than five 8-hour shifts. [if you're in a creativity-based job, most people become worthless after 3-4 hours and might as well go home]
On the business side of things, a lot of your shift at work is burned in setting things up, breaking things down, not starting a new task because you know that you're not going to be able to finish it before you clock out... having fewer shifts means you go through less of those wasted segments while still doing the same number of hours on the clock, which means more of your time is actually being productive.
And on the personal side, you're putting in 25% more time on a work day (not counting commute time, which is totally wasted), but you're increasing your number of days off by 50%. That's huge. More opportunities to get together with friends or family, more possibilities for trips you could take without going into actual vacataion time... or just switching from 'one day to recover from the work week, one day to dread the next one' to having a whole day in the middle between those things all to yourself. And being better rested means you're more alert, which means you do more work and dramatically reduce the chances of accidents, which could be costly or actually dangerous.
But the problem is, a lot of modern companies aren't actually interested in profit. They don't give a fuck about efficiency. They want control, both over the customers and the workers, and they're willing to lose a lot of money to get it.
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Nahhh I'm skeptical on this one. Not wholly unconvinced mind you, but this reads like when people were up in arms over how many people "thought Corona beer caused the Coronavirus" and then that turned out to not be the case, at all. How big was the sample size? How were participants selected? Is that the question they were directly asked or is it a paraphrase?
Always remember; lies, damned lies, and statistics.
According to the source, the sample size was 2000.
I love that this post doesn't include the actual text of his tweet, just his impending presence. This is the visual equivalent of a scare chord.
Beige coat...
“Help, I want to look like Columbo but I’m too handsome and people keep mistaking me for Castiel”
