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It's called a work-life balance. I know, crazy idea.

by carlm42 10mo ago

parliament32 10mo ago
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- jfindper 10mo ago
  >Covid was fun, I get it, but that was a long time ago man. I don't understand what you gain from trying to be super abrasive on a forum. Is it fun?
  - baiwl 10mo ago
    The "I know, crazy idea." from the parent comment is even more abrasive.
    - jfindper 10mo ago
      Calling out every abrasive comment would take more effort than I'm willing to expend, and would itself be pretty abrasive. So I picked the comment where they called Covid (the event where many people died, had their businesses ruined, etc.) "fun" over the one that mentioned work-life balance.
    - carlm42 10mo ago
      The person you're replying to asked if it was fun. Consider that my sarcasm was meant to be sort of tongue in cheek and not incredibly serious, which is a very different kind of tone from other comments in this chain.
- roadside_picnic 10mo ago
  > Throughout hundreds-to-thousands of years of history your options have been You might want to brush up on your anthropology a bit.
- ribosometronome 10mo ago
  >Throughout hundreds-to-thousands of years of history ... but that was a long time ago man. This seems like a self defeating argument.
- lovich 10mo ago
  99% of the working class doesn’t have the expectation of answering a page at 2 am, or working long hours without extra pay to make a deadline. Don’t act like that’s an apples to apples comparison
  - paradox460 10mo ago
    Al, Wake up! It's 3AM and we need you to come in urgently! Why? What happened? We need to make sure we have shoes on the shelves! Bob had a nightmare there are no more shoes left!
- paxys 10mo ago
  The practice of an entire working population commuting from an hour+ away to a few buildings in the center of the city, sitting on their ass for 8 hours a day, eating a packed lunch, and commuting back home is at most a couple hundred years old. But sure, go on about your "hundreds-to-thousands of years of history".
- carlm42 10mo ago
  Honestly, if the bus/delivery driver needed a mid-shift break to deal with some life stuff, yeah by all means, I personally think they should be able to do that kind of stuff (though maybe we start by giving them bathroom breaks?). The business hiring them should adapt.
- tayo42 10mo ago
  People did this, I used to do jiu-jitsu with a ups guy that would stop and join the class mid day, then go back on his route. I Had a manager that would go and drink beers in his car durring breaks. I had Coworkers that would leave the office to pick up their kids pre covid. Lots of people are messing around

It's called a work-life balance. I know, crazy idea.

by carlm42 10mo ago

It's called a work-life balance. I know, crazy idea.

parliament32 10mo ago

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jfindper 10mo ago
>Covid was fun, I get it, but that was a long time ago man. I don't understand what you gain from trying to be super abrasive on a forum. Is it fun?
- baiwl 10mo ago
  The "I know, crazy idea." from the parent comment is even more abrasive.
  - jfindper 10mo ago
    Calling out every abrasive comment would take more effort than I'm willing to expend, and would itself be pretty abrasive. So I picked the comment where they called Covid (the event where many people died, had their businesses ruined, etc.) "fun" over the one that mentioned work-life balance.
  - carlm42 10mo ago
    The person you're replying to asked if it was fun. Consider that my sarcasm was meant to be sort of tongue in cheek and not incredibly serious, which is a very different kind of tone from other comments in this chain.
roadside_picnic 10mo ago
> Throughout hundreds-to-thousands of years of history your options have been You might want to brush up on your anthropology a bit.
ribosometronome 10mo ago
>Throughout hundreds-to-thousands of years of history ... but that was a long time ago man. This seems like a self defeating argument.
lovich 10mo ago
99% of the working class doesn’t have the expectation of answering a page at 2 am, or working long hours without extra pay to make a deadline. Don’t act like that’s an apples to apples comparison
- paradox460 10mo ago
  Al, Wake up! It's 3AM and we need you to come in urgently! Why? What happened? We need to make sure we have shoes on the shelves! Bob had a nightmare there are no more shoes left!
paxys 10mo ago
The practice of an entire working population commuting from an hour+ away to a few buildings in the center of the city, sitting on their ass for 8 hours a day, eating a packed lunch, and commuting back home is at most a couple hundred years old. But sure, go on about your "hundreds-to-thousands of years of history".
carlm42 10mo ago
Honestly, if the bus/delivery driver needed a mid-shift break to deal with some life stuff, yeah by all means, I personally think they should be able to do that kind of stuff (though maybe we start by giving them bathroom breaks?). The business hiring them should adapt.
tayo42 10mo ago
People did this, I used to do jiu-jitsu with a ups guy that would stop and join the class mid day, then go back on his route. I Had a manager that would go and drink beers in his car durring breaks. I had Coworkers that would leave the office to pick up their kids pre covid. Lots of people are messing around