4 day week

luka

luka

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my shift pattern is incomprehensible. sometimes i do a 4 day week, sometimes a 3 day week. sometimes 2 days off, sometimes 3. but i do, on average, 45 hours a week.
 
shiels

shiels

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When I worked in the suicide prevention place four years back we had a staff away day. The agenda was a ‘Bitch and Pitch’ where we got to talk honestly in small groups about organisational problems and then pitch solutions, which we’d put to a pishy democratic post it note vote. I manoeuvred the operations director and two others to focus on poor prioritisation, burnout, the irony that mental health staff were fucked by working there and then proposed a 4 day week to unanimous praise, won the vote (of course). The CEO, being the pathetic and insecure worm that he is couldn’t take it, hated the fact that his presentation was beat? wouldn’t acknowledge it as any more than staff wanting another day off. But a few months after I left they introduced a fortnightly bank holiday, staff get to pick a day off ever other week that’s not deducted as holiday. It’s not enough but it does make me kind of proud to think about it
 
Benny Bunter

Benny Bunter

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I managed to get out of doing shifts cos I've got a kid under 12 years old. Dreading the day I have to go back to them, they proper fuck you up.
 
luka

luka

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shift work is not all that bad compared to 9-5 monday to friday but week to week i lurch from getting up at 3am to getting home at 2am and that definitely fucks me up.
 
Benny Bunter

Benny Bunter

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Worst thing is when you have an afternoon or evening shift, have the whole morning to yourself in theory but you don't know what do with yourself and just end up wasting it, thinking about how you have to go to work later on. It's unnatural
 
Benny Bunter

Benny Bunter

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Yeah it might be fine if you're not a drinker, you'd go for a jog or something. But when you've got the prospect of work hanging over you, you can't even enjoy reading or whatever it is you like to do with your free time. When I was on shifts I still woke up at 6.30 every day even if I didn't have to. Then you finally get to your days off and you're too tired to do anything.
 
luka

luka

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im starting at 5.15 am on friday. two days off before then though. every day i think about quitting. i make much more money from poetry anyway, provided the weather stays dry.
 
shiels

shiels

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One of our biggest problems is obviously the glorification of work and also creativity and expression, make more, say more, do more… your ideas are valid! The world must hear them! that’s the cultural yoke we’re under isn’t it. But what about shut the fuck up and go back to bed you needy little jobsworth cunt
 
entertainment

entertainment

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shiels said:
One of our biggest problems is obviously the glorification of work and also creativity and expression, make more, say more, do more… your ideas are valid! The world must hear them! that’s the cultural yolk we’re under isn’t it. But what about shut the fuck up and go back to bed you needy little jobsworth cunt
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I think there's a fair trade off to this. You don't contribute, you get to feel a little bit bad about it unless you have what it takes to convince the rest of us that you don't care what we think in which case you have earned your freedom in a way
 
entertainment

entertainment

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but yeah it's true that there is an excessive tendency to view eveyrthing in terms of productivity that also fills me with weltsmerz
 
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