There was a Carol Burnett Tim Conway skit. They were a couple working alternate shifts. He gets home and she gets up and they move through an intricate choreographed bit with no dialog. Finally, she leaves and he settles down to sleep. He’s been laying down for a minute when the door opens, she pokes her nose in and says the first line of dialog. “Oh, by the way, I’m pregnant.” He considers this for a long beat and then says, “No way.” It was hysterical.
I can remember when Macy’s sent their employees home with merchandise to be delivered to customers who lived near their homes. A judge made the retailer pay them to for that trick. Put a stop to it. There is evil in capitalism and slavery was the ultimate. Don’t think anything has changed.
It was like that LOL.
Trouble was, the ‘who does the laundry’ arguments were legendary. IF my job had been the one I EXPECTED when I was hired it wouldn’t have been a problem for me to do laundry. IF we had lived in an ordinary suburbia house with its own washer/dryer it would have been no big deal. As it was, it was a humonguous apartment building with laundry in the basement. ‘Doing laundry’ was a 2 or 3hr commitment of your time. And infringed on sleep time LOL.
Some weeks I actually worked closer to 80hrs a week. No time to grocery shop so every meal was takeout or fast food or delivery. House cleaning wasn’t done. Course we were never home so it wasn’t THAT big a deal. But still.
So yeah. I turned the beeper ‘off’ after a couple months of that. At that point I’d called the head hunter, informed him the company had LIED about the job realities (I was like the 3rd person in a week that had picked up the phone and called him about this company LOL) and I wanted OUT OUT OUT OUT OUT. I had 4 interviews over the next 5 days and took a new job the following week. So yeah, I can see a need for ‘honest dialogue’ about job responsibilities prior to anyone getting hired. And I went to a job with real on call with real on call pay. And UNsurprisingly (to me anyways) actually worked FEWER hours. And developed a shoe habit. We won’t discuss the shoe habit...