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True. And some even have extremely inconvenient hours changing many days a weak. Think of long distance pilots, hospital doctors, and many low paid service jobs
by usr1106 3y ago
True. And some even have extremely inconvenient hours changing many days a weak. Think of long distance pilots, hospital doctors, and many low paid service jobs. My wife has them and I can see the effects on her health. So I find it ridiculous that every year there are big articles about this one hour twice a year, while other have to damage their health many basically 11 months a year (assuming 4 weeks of consecutive vacation we at least get in here Europe)
- kerkeslager 3y agoSure, and we should definitely reform those jobs as well. Part of why there's a shortage of medical professionals is due to the insistence on putting them through terrible hours.
- Eisenstein 3y agoI'm not sure that you can make that argument fairly. Shift, on-call, across-time-zones (etc) workers have a job with a recognized hazard which is fully known at the time of acceptance. If your wife did not want to deal with such a schedule then another career should have been chosen, and if she is suffering health effects now then there should be options for disability leave or transfer to a different set of responsibilities. If this is not available I would advocate for it -- but her suffering is not a reason to shift the time scale of the rest of society against their will and to their detriment. Let's do less harm to fewer people and not use some people being harmed to justify doing it to more of them.