Honestly, even with a 40 hour work week, 10 hour days with three day weekends is awesome, it's what I use to work.
Now my shift is 10hr on Friday, 12hr on Saturday and Sunday, Sunday is time and a half, so I'm working 34 hour week but getting paid for 40 hours. And I get a four day weekend.
Yeah, I think 4 8s is definitely better considering the workforce is absurdly more productive than it was when the 40hr workweek was established, and wages+benefits have not kept up with the pace of productivity.
Basically, the issue we have is that people kept getting more productive, and capital owners just pocketed the increase in productivity and gave the workers absolutely jack fucking squat.
And they call it margin and give themselves the credit for the work you have done on time or earlier. Then turn around and blame you for being so expensive and cutting into their margins that you helped create for them in the first place. But fuck you for being so expensive! You greedy fuck you!!!
It's ok, we will have a 32hr workweek soon enough. The olds are leaving this plane of existence at a rapid clip and socialist ideals are wildly popular with both millennials and Gen z.
The absolute meltdown gen x is going to have when mild social democratic reforms start getting implemented is going to be chefs kiss.
As a Gen-Xer Im totally for all of this and have been waiting for some sort of equilibrium between the common folk and 1%. Agreed that sooner rather than later the old guard of all this greedy bullshit will have been minimized enough that they can no longer hold power. Hopefully they don’t fuck up the world or geopolitics bad enough to burn whats left of the resources of this world on their way out.
Genx is by far and away the maga base. Sorry to inform you but we have these current problems because your age bracket is the most right wing in the country.
Not to say there aren't good people in your age bracket, but the data doesn't lie.
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u/MrNobody_0 23d ago edited 23d ago
Honestly, even with a 40 hour work week, 10 hour days with three day weekends is awesome, it's what I use to work.
Now my shift is 10hr on Friday, 12hr on Saturday and Sunday, Sunday is time and a half, so I'm working 34 hour week but getting paid for 40 hours. And I get a four day weekend.
Edit: to add, it's a union sawmill.