Why are we still working 40 hours a week? (1 Viewer)

[bicycle_seat_sniffer]

lol sounds like it.  Don’t tell my boss I’ve been dicking around on the Internet all day

im in IT let me check the innerwebs traffiv

 

[Dan Lambskin]

im in IT let me check the innerwebs traffiv

Can your work on getting MyFantasyLeague off the black list

 

[B Maverick]

Can your work on getting MyFantasyLeague off the black list

A buddy of mine started a company FF league with the IT guys just so they would allow MFL to be accessed. 

630-3 monday - friday here.  Usually eat at my desk if I bring a lunch so noone notices if I take an hour the next day.  Usually dont unless the boss is with me.  Small company often alone in the office.

When the need arises I will put in a few extra hours or work from home, but overall a nice 40 hour week.

 

[ghostguy123]

40?  What are you?  French?

I can't remember a non-vacation week in my life where I've worked less than 50.   Right now it's 7 days a week, 10 hrs per day.  Even if 5 hours per week are personal like FBG (stress relief I guess), it's still 65.  And it's my own business, so no boss (well, except the clients).

I remember my annual review with my PwC partner about 20 years ago.  What they cared about was utilization rate (how many billable hours we had, 45 being standard per week for PwC).  I had averaged 54 that year.  Well the threshold to even get a bonus was 50 billable plus 10 non-billable working on proposals and such.  He was a friend, so he gave me a small bonus since I had done no unbillable, and he put me on a proposal team.  So I then went 10 hours per day to my billable job, then 2 hours per night to work on non-billable activities, plus some weekend work.  Yes it paid off.  Huge bonuses.

Luckily I got a couple of years where I didn't have to work at all.  Just watched my kids.  But not working 9 hours a day would be zzz.  I can't imagine what retirees enjoy.  I love golf and TV and all that.  But everyday?  So zzz.

ETA:  people should be proud to get to work.  and do so in a good country.  there's reasons people want to come here.  Jobs one of them.

Sounds terrible.  Unless you like to work, in which case you fall into a small percentage of people.

Also depends what you do, obviously.

 

[bicycle_seat_sniffer]

Can your work on getting MyFantasyLeague off the black list

lol thats too funny....i used to work with keerock until borders books went under....whats the odda of working with two fbgs?.....actually 3 apu worked at borders too

 

[Slapdash]

I rarely show up in the office before 11 or stay after 5....if I drag my ### out of the house.

 

[Gianni Verscotchie]

me too.  there must be an easier way to make your IM status always show as “online”

Google “mouse jiggler”

 

[perbach]

40 hours per week?   I would love a part time job like that.

 

[AAABatteries]

If you're interested in this subject, I can't recommend highly enough the book  Bullcrap Jobs (name edited to circumvent language filter).  It totally changed the way I think about a lot of these issues.

Here's the thread I started about the book after I read it.

@fatguyinalittlecoat - I somehow missed the original thread and this post but I would argue that what has happened is with automation and technology we have taken what 10 people could do and reduce it down to 1-2.  However, it’s not that there’s 8-9 bull#### jobs but rather we’ve spread the work out to those 8-9, so many folks don’t have enough to do during the 40 hours.  They do vital work but not enough to justify making them work 40 hours.  But you will never convince most companies to reduce hours any much less by a lot.  Just my take on things.

 

[Apple Jack]

40 hours per week?   I would love a part time job like that.

 COVID come for the ventilators, stay for the 60+ hour work weeks. So true.

ETA: hmm where's that booze thread.

 

[Terminalxylem]

26.25 on average here, but the shifts are clustered so I work up to 70 hours in a 7 day stretch.

For many professions, work should solely be based on productivity. Working 8, 10 or 12 hour days to reach an arbitrary duration doesn’t make sense for everyone.

Gonna cut back 1/3. Extra shifts are always available if I want to work more.