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Out of curiosity, is it possible that tech jobs follow a more global schedule than more local/traditional professions?

by fhood 9y ago

gcb0 9y ago
from someone who lived briefly in madrid: offices take up to 2h lunch. smaller shops and commerce takes around 3. workday can go up to 8pm, like most offices around the world and nobody expects extra paid hours. now, that was changing at the time. big stores, mostly H&M/zara/forever21 style of chinese fashion dump, are open from 9 to 9 like in the US. big international brands of super markets too. thats was causing lots of conflicts from unions and such. and that was over 6 years ago. so maybe those companies managed to redefine it in the last decade?
- natzar 9y ago
  smaller shops and commerce takes around 3 ¿? In spain no one have more than 1hour for lunch.. The only ones that could fit in that description are cookers or restaurants staff, working in 2 parts. (12:00 - 16:00) and (20:00 - 23:00). Im from spain btw.
  - gcb0 9y ago
    thats was almost a decade ago, but in downtown madrid I couldnt find any local clothier or bank (other than hsbc) that was open during those ~3H. dont remember about other type of places.
    - RBerenguel 9y ago
      As mentioned elsewhere, though, it's not a 3h break, but 3 hours closed to the public. Usually 1-2 of those hours is back office, maintenance, inventory, accounting, etc (well, for banks I'm not sure, but for independent shops that's definitely the case, usually at least)
  - tfvghbv 9y ago
    > Im from spain btw. I can tell. Your command of English grammar and vocabulary is atrocious, man.
    - wavefunction 9y ago
      Downvoted for hostility.
    - deleted 9y ago
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professorTuring 9y ago
I believe that more "artisan" work or traditional professions does not have an schedule. Also, if you work for yourself you don't have a schedule neither. A carpenter, for example, will work in projects and probably doesn't have an specific schedule (I believe this applies globally). A policeman or a nurse will work in work shifts... But this I can tell you, practically nobody will have a three hours stop in their typical work day. In the retail industry it's a bit different and you can find small shops owners that usually close from 14:00 to 17:00) and people working in big companies like "Ikea" or "MediaMarkt" that are being forced to have strange daily workshifts with 4 hours working in the morning and another 4 hours in the afternoon... But they are usually young people that hate that and usually goes to the gym with that extra time...

Out of curiosity, is it possible that tech jobs follow a more global schedule than more local/traditional professions?

by fhood 9y ago

Out of curiosity, is it possible that tech jobs follow a more global schedule than more local/traditional professions?

gcb0 9y ago

from someone who lived briefly in madrid: offices take up to 2h lunch. smaller shops and commerce takes around 3. workday can go up to 8pm, like most offices around the world and nobody expects extra paid hours. now, that was changing at the time. big stores, mostly H&M/zara/forever21 style of chinese fashion dump, are open from 9 to 9 like in the US. big international brands of super markets too. thats was causing lots of conflicts from unions and such. and that was over 6 years ago. so maybe those companies managed to redefine it in the last decade?

natzar 9y ago
smaller shops and commerce takes around 3 ¿? In spain no one have more than 1hour for lunch.. The only ones that could fit in that description are cookers or restaurants staff, working in 2 parts. (12:00 - 16:00) and (20:00 - 23:00). Im from spain btw.
- gcb0 9y ago
  thats was almost a decade ago, but in downtown madrid I couldnt find any local clothier or bank (other than hsbc) that was open during those ~3H. dont remember about other type of places.
  - RBerenguel 9y ago
    As mentioned elsewhere, though, it's not a 3h break, but 3 hours closed to the public. Usually 1-2 of those hours is back office, maintenance, inventory, accounting, etc (well, for banks I'm not sure, but for independent shops that's definitely the case, usually at least)
- tfvghbv 9y ago
  > Im from spain btw. I can tell. Your command of English grammar and vocabulary is atrocious, man.
  - wavefunction 9y ago
    Downvoted for hostility.
  - deleted 9y ago
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professorTuring 9y ago

I believe that more "artisan" work or traditional professions does not have an schedule. Also, if you work for yourself you don't have a schedule neither. A carpenter, for example, will work in projects and probably doesn't have an specific schedule (I believe this applies globally). A policeman or a nurse will work in work shifts... But this I can tell you, practically nobody will have a three hours stop in their typical work day. In the retail industry it's a bit different and you can find small shops owners that usually close from 14:00 to 17:00) and people working in big companies like "Ikea" or "MediaMarkt" that are being forced to have strange daily workshifts with 4 hours working in the morning and another 4 hours in the afternoon... But they are usually young people that hate that and usually goes to the gym with that extra time...