I work full time and it’s 12 hour shifts. My commute is about an hour. I have zero free time on my work days but only work 7 days in every 14 days. Today and tomorrow, I’ll be catching up on housework, dishes, laundry(work clothes) etc and need to go shopping.
My dad used to commute an hour each way with a 5 day work week but he had a wife that got up early and made him lunch to take with him and was working on dinner when he got home. She was a housewife so the only chores he had was mowing, shoveling snow etc until those became my chores. He always said a 15-20 minute commute is about right. Gives you time to adjust your mindset from work to home or visa versa.
Yes, being single and working full time can seem like you’re only living to work and working costs money too. Clothing you normally wouldn’t need, gas, wear and tear on a vehicle, buying easy button food because coming home and cooking for two hours and the one hour cleanup from that is not something you feel like doing.
But by the title of the thread, I thought he was talking about the whole HR thing because I’ve heard his thoughts on that and he’s not a fan. Neither am I.
The first place I worked was run by an Italian guy and his three sons, one of which was the shop foreman. They also had a secretary/receptionist and a bookkeeper. 100 employees and they ran it fine with no HR. If you were late a lot, Tony, the shop foreman, would notice and say something, plainly and bluntly. “You need to start showing up on time if you want keep your job.”
AND they didn’t refer to you as a “resource” like the raw materials they use up while calling all the equipment and machinery “assets” and only to refer to a person as an asset after they had used themselves up for the company.
They didn’t need a spreadsheet to track something they could simply notice. There were no head games. There was no rah, rah, go team. No psych 101 games to try and mold you into a part of team.
I saw a questionnaire that someone else got that they’ll likely spring on me at some point with questions like “What do you think your greatest strengths and weaknesses are?”
I will not be filling that out. I didn’t sign up for some wanna be therapist’s experiments.
Every once in a while, this HR lady still wears a mask to show she’s a good little cog in the machine.