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How about that 80% working the full 40 hours? Have you looked around? There's no shortage of things that need to be done, fixed, maintained, repaired, overhaule

How about that 80% working the full 40 hours? Have you looked around? There's no shortage of things that need to be done, fixed, maintained, repaired, overhauled. There's no dearth of resources to learn how to do this. I'd sooner see investment in apprenticeship programs and other efforts to reduce the "mooching" as you called it, than somehow thinking that having me work ten hours less a week is going to provide anything for anyone. How does me doing less work enable that? There's not a fixed supply of "work that can be done", by any stretch.

vkou 7y ago
Why not 80 hours a week, then? Or 120? It's because I'm not trying to increase the amount of crap we produce. I simply postulate that we could get the same work done, by a better distribution of labour. Whether or not we need to produce more is another question entirely. > than somehow thinking that having me work ten hours less a week is going to provide anything for anyone. Take three people in your position, and you'll create a job for a fourth. And, after all, in our society, job creation is some holy grail that we need to bend over backwards on laws, regulations, and smart business sense for. Instead of compromising on those things, why not compromise on 'normal' working hours, instead?