Posted on 08/15/2023 6:49:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Exactly. And you don’t get paid for it, either.
That would be: Listening to the "news" on your Volksempfänger.
Regards,
That’s correct.
I don’t know anyone who became morbidly obese in a cubicle against his will. Do you?
It’ll be interesting to see how humanity survives without Westerners supporting most of everything that keeps the process going.
I imagine a Chinese-Russian style gulag society where slavery and mass genocide is on order for those capable of working.
You’re able = You work
You’re not able = You die
I’m on the clock right now. My metrics are still better than target.
I still don’t understand how many Americans think working yourself to the bone is a part of the American dream.
I’ve seen numerous people let go to be replaced by a younger minority or female. What is moral about that?
Why should anyone feel any loyalty to that?
Capitalism is a system. The people decide what is the proper behavior of a system.
(Insert Howard Beale here…)
So any behavior is acceptable as long as the person doesn’t fight back?
People like you deserve what’s coming.
I met my goals and now? Well, keeping busy in retirement isn’t hard for us. Too many folks, IMHO, make work their life.
This country was founded and built by men who never even dreamed of a “paid vacation.”
I absolutely agree with your last statement. That’s precisely what I was trying, unsuccessfully, to get to.
It’s job dependent, but mandatory 40 hours are useless for many jobs.
Most aren’t assembly line workers.
The first 3 months of every year, I’m working to pay the Federal Government.
One never really owns their property. Try missing your tax payment.
Luckily my money is being used to kill people in Ukraine though.
This country, in no way, resembles what the founders intended.
Get back to work slave.
I always kind of envied and admired the Europeans for those monthlong summer vacations. I remember as a kiddo when we were stationed in Italy, things would pretty much shut down for all of August - all of the factories, the steel mill, the Olivetti typewriter factory, office buildings, etc. Instead of rush hour traffic, there was beach traffic.
As a young adult, I worked as a material expeditor and a buyer in the oil and petrochemical biz and we all knew we had to work around that August shutdown schedule with our European suppliers.
As the left continues to destroy everything good, it’s not surprising to see that summer tradition get whittled down or simply disappear.
LOL! Free and clear doesn’t exist. Maybe the ‘homeless’ have the right idea. Folks don’t understand why the tax funded homes don’t work out but a lot of those on the street don’t want to be involved in order to stay out of the ‘system’.
Maybe I’ll ride the rails and write a book.
It worked out for Eric Hoffer…
I am nobody's slave.
That’s an odd statement to see here on FR. Those European summer vacations you describe are a perfect example of big-government socialism at work.
They are ending because they’re running out of “other people’s money.”
” How many Americans have nearly worked themselves to death, only to get shitcanned for Raj Patel?”
I got replaced by four Brazilians thank you. Funny thing is IBM couldn’t work them like they did us because they are union. No 24 hour days for them.
I agree and I know several people like that. They brag about how many hours they work, they thump their chests about working on weekends and through holidays and they somehow think that elevates them over those of us who can be quite productive while working to live instead of living to work.
I sometimes wonder what motivates that.
I never understood how they were able to take the whole month of August off over there. Through multiple companies I have found European offices are a ghost town for the month.
We had a VP from France stop our practice of weeklong annual maintenance shutdowns because our sister plant in France didn’t do them. Our response was they shut the whole place down for a month every year when all we wanted was a week. His response was that “it wasn’t the same”, but that is another story.
The most important metric (imho) is whether you truly enjoy your job and look forward to getting up and working.
If you do then working long hours is fine.
If not then it is toxic.
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