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> you can sleep when you're dead Joke's on you, I already feel dead from not sleeping :( I also don't identify with that statement at all. As someone who does

by hnick 7y ago

> you can sleep when you're dead Joke's on you, I already feel dead from not sleeping :( I also don't identify with that statement at all. As someone who doesn't sleep enough, I'd rather quality over quantity - less hours awake but make them more enjoyable. It is so easy to get stuck in a rut where you barely have the energy to execute your daily loop of necessities and end up making no progress towards longer term goals. In Australia, stores are typically still open 9am-5pm which is a relic of a time when housewives dropped the kids off and went shopping. Now that many of us have jobs this should be the first and easiest thing to change. Even 10am-6pm would be a massive improvement for both the workers and customers.

TeMPOraL 7y ago
In Poland, chain and franchised grocery stores were smart enough to go into two-shift mode, and are generally open from 6am to 10pm. However, most other stores - and more importantly, services sector, banks and government offices - were not. They work 8 hours a day, smack in the middle of everyone else's workday. It's no surprise so many people in their 20s-40s want to do everything on-line, because it's either that, or taking days off at work for errands (and while you can do some things on Saturdays, banks and government offices don't work over weekends). This is IMO stupid, and I'm increasingly of the opinion that the society should be run in mandatory shifts. I can't understand why the market won't fix that itself? Why leave all that money on the table? There is huge demand for services open outside regular office working hours. For instance, personally, I chose dentists by their opening hours - most of the money I spent on dental was with a place where I could come at 8pm. In pre-Internet banking era, I would've picked the bank that had branches open past 5pm, if any existed. I don't shop at places open 9-5, because I only have time earlier than that, or later than that. Etc. </rant>
- yetihehe 7y ago
  > I can't understand why the market won't fix that itself? They are more interested in making LED signs showing temperature and how to squize more money from customers. I call this "PRL" mentality, they want to get money directly, not indirectly by making themselves better for clients. They don't care about clients, because their performance is measured with money and opening for more hours will cost money in short term.
  - ajmurmann 7y ago
    Do they need to be open for more hours? What's the point of being open during hours that nobody but unemployed and retired people can use your business? Instead open at 3pm and close at 11pm. I'd love 6am-9am & 5pm - 11pm but that's probably not practical.
drevil-v2 7y ago
The store workers have children of their who have to be dropped off at school/day care in the morning and picked up in the afternoon. You can’t change one gear in a complex society without having to also adjust many other variables each with it’s own cascading effect

by hnick 7y ago

TeMPOraL 7y ago

In Poland, chain and franchised grocery stores were smart enough to go into two-shift mode, and are generally open from 6am to 10pm. However, most other stores - and more importantly, services sector, banks and government offices - were not. They work 8 hours a day, smack in the middle of everyone else's workday. It's no surprise so many people in their 20s-40s want to do everything on-line, because it's either that, or taking days off at work for errands (and while you can do some things on Saturdays, banks and government offices don't work over weekends). This is IMO stupid, and I'm increasingly of the opinion that the society should be run in mandatory shifts. I can't understand why the market won't fix that itself? Why leave all that money on the table? There is huge demand for services open outside regular office working hours. For instance, personally, I chose dentists by their opening hours - most of the money I spent on dental was with a place where I could come at 8pm. In pre-Internet banking era, I would've picked the bank that had branches open past 5pm, if any existed. I don't shop at places open 9-5, because I only have time earlier than that, or later than that. Etc. </rant>

yetihehe 7y ago
> I can't understand why the market won't fix that itself? They are more interested in making LED signs showing temperature and how to squize more money from customers. I call this "PRL" mentality, they want to get money directly, not indirectly by making themselves better for clients. They don't care about clients, because their performance is measured with money and opening for more hours will cost money in short term.
- ajmurmann 7y ago
  Do they need to be open for more hours? What's the point of being open during hours that nobody but unemployed and retired people can use your business? Instead open at 3pm and close at 11pm. I'd love 6am-9am & 5pm - 11pm but that's probably not practical.

drevil-v2 7y ago

The store workers have children of their who have to be dropped off at school/day care in the morning and picked up in the afternoon. You can’t change one gear in a complex society without having to also adjust many other variables each with it’s own cascading effect