#WorkLifeBalance #CorporateBS #OverlookedReality
Ever feel like the 40-hour workweek is just one big joke? 🙄 You’re not alone. Think about it – you spend 10 hours a day away from home dealing with office BS, leaving you with only 6 hours for “fun” after accounting for sleep and basic human needs. And let’s be real, those 2 days off aren’t nearly enough to recover. 😩
So here’s the question – what’s the most overlooked aspect of this so-called work-life balance? Is it the lack of time for self-care? The constant hustle of cooking and chores? Or maybe it’s the financial burden of eating out because cooking is the only option?
Let’s break it down together and share our experiences. Your thoughts could shed light on a reality many of us face but rarely talk about. Ready to dive in? 💬🤔 #LetsTalk #ShareYourStory #WorkLifeStruggles
Agreed, I have long argued that from the moment that fuckibg alarm went off was the moment my working day started. It didn’t end until after I changed out of my office attire. That was frequently way more than 8 hours.
Noone could or would pay me enough to endure that soul crushing commute and that awful feeling once I arrived at my office again…
Even WFH is a ball ache from what I read, micromanaged, mouse tracked, performance monitoring, bullshit management by the consultancy handbook not to mention the cringe UNmotivational posters..
We as a species and particularly at this time are doing it all wrong and for the WRONG REASONS!!!
Yep. I have a 9 hour workday. By the time I drive home, cook dinner, clean up, I have about 1.5 hours before I need to go to bed. It’s ridiculous.
You forgot grocery shopping, cleaning, recycling, personal hygiene, dressing, house maintenance, car maintenance, physical exercise and family obligations.
Bit rest of the time you are free!
this is why i sleep 5 hours on a good night. gotta use those extra 3 hours for all the stuff i cant do during the day. most of which are household related not work. it sucks. im on year 27 of this. im tired.
That’s the point of the system in the US. If the general public had the time and money they needed to not be anxious, workers would be less motivated and stock prices would drop.
Salute to all the people with kids and wife/husband. I’m single and I have no energy after work.
I see that kind if post like every week, i don’t think it’s overlooked tbh
I don’t mind doing 30 min lunches, what pisses me off is being forced to clock out even when i don’t need/want lunch.
Wait till you hear about how much time kids take up
Pets, in this economy?
It’s straight bullshit
Labor laws are a joke in the US we basically have modern slavery
Posts like these don’t translate to the real world
Wanting less than 40 being full time is generally fighting a losing battle, most jobs are 5 days
And none of the politicians give a shit bc they get all summer off on a $187k salary and ever increasing corrupt insider stock valuation. ::melts into nothing::
You guys are sleeping 8 hours and they only make you work 8 hours per shift?
“Overlooked”
Shit, I don’t take a lunch, and work is 15 minutes away. That means my total work day is about 8 1/2 hours. Wouldn’t trade it for the world.
This is exactly why I won’t even begin to consider a job that’s not remote. Even before remote work, 20 minutes was my absolute maximum commute range.
The logic behind it was 8-8-8, but the suburban experiment made 1-hour commutes the norm.
We need to be rioting in the streets. I can’t do this anymore
this is not overlooked? we know this lol
Not overlooked at all lol
It’s like- one of the biggest gripes of the 40hr work week
That’s because the 40h work week was designed with the idea that there would be one adult homemaker at all times to do the chores, cooking, cleaning, and errands.
I got bait and switched. Job advertised as 4×10 with hybrid. Turns out it’s 5×8 in office. I told them you have to give me 2h lunch. no way in hell am I not doing laundry during the week. No way in hell am I taking PTO to go to the bank or get a haircut.
I handed my notice due to the commute adding on a hefty 10 hours per week…and that’s when traffic was moderate. They offered to move me to a different location as a solution, I accepted. Now, I’m commuting 10 minutes each way for the past 7 months. No traffic or other bullshit.
Furthermore, more recently, I handed my notice again and said I’d be seeking out a part time role somewhere else (I have a good side gig on the weekends so no need for me to be working insane hours), they once again met me half way and have me cutting work week down to 29 hours coming into effect in the next 2 weeks!
Wage slavery.
COVID forced our business to see we can work remotely, however since 2022 they’ve been slowly moving us back to the office. 1 day a pay period whenever you want, now you need to meet as a team, now it’s 2 assigned days and moving to 3 days. Simultaneously they have been moving our offices, I originally was a 10min bike ride to my office, now I still bike, but then have an hour long train commute in the middle.
(From am American perspective) We have to fight for our rights to exist comfortably – how we obtained the regressing benefits and time off we currently have. Especially under our current outdated and undemocratic economic system.
Automation is only getting better, yet only our boss’s boss’s boss is wealthy enough to live the “American dream”, by design – to be a capitalist is to capitalize off the labor of others. Why ultra-wealthy CEOs tend to be sociopaths.
And we’re all raised to perceive this as normal, as the only way that works. To failure we sabotage and sanction countries that aren’t beholden to our capitalistic goals. Then use their failure we caused as examples, vilefying and “othering” them.
Too many of us are like the troopers from the movie Starship Troopers. We believe we fight for freedom and democracy, it’s easier that way. We cant fathom we could be the ones impeding it, all so a handful of billionaires can exist at humanity’s increasingly collective expense.
It’s the rich men’s wars, but the poor who fight and die.
you guys are getting 8 hours of sleep?
7:15 am – 7:00 pm on a bad day.
7:15 am – 6:30 on a good day.
I like my job, but moving closer is not affordable and owning a car is not affordable, 1.5 to 2 hr bus ride each way.
That’s not overlooked at all…
The people that could be making decisions that benefit working class folks in literally any meaningful way refuse to make those decisions.
The issues you’re describing all boil down to the death of the single income household. Wages need to go back to where they were for boomers- one income at any job could support a whole family.
This is why i have a problem with jobs. You go to your job to work, then you come home and have more work to do. And then you have more work to do on the weekends. Work is good, jobs are fuckin terrible.
Not to mention the fact that by the time you get off, every fucking thing is closed. Banks, all offices, govt services. So if you need to utilize another business that isn’t retail, you have to either give up your lunch hour or take pto to do it. So fucking stupid. Let me skip lunch and leave at 4 so I can hit the bank on the way home.
And if you’re a parent…psssssh. What’s free time??
I honestly feel like this is another huge reason most of us aren’t gonna have kids. I feel like I could possibly sustain one financially but do I want to give up my 2 evening hours for me to somebody else? Do I fuck, I’ll lose it and end up rage quitting my job and topping myself.
I wanna know how anyone gets 8 hours of sleep. I’m hardwired for 4-5.
Now try adding a baby into that schedule.. or two or three lol no surprise birth rates are rapidly declining! Were being priced out of reproducing
Sleep 8 hours? Who has the time?
People should stop thinking in hours per week, or days per week, and instead think of hours per day. Two hours are not necessarily the same, and this is speaking from experience.
For example, 6 hours a day with no breaks, for 6 days a week, while being 36 hours, are disproportionately less demanding than 40 hours spread over 5 days. They are even less demanding than 7 hours for 5 days. Imagine starting work at 7, and finishing at 1pm.
The only time I’ve felt recovered is after a weeklong vacation. At this point even a single three day weekend isn’t enough to properly get back the mental and emotional energy that jobs steal from you.
Personally I think the clock should start running when you get in your car for the day. Now abuse will always happen and people will be passed over for positions because of this. However, when people were all WFH during the pandemic and then they started dragging them back to the office I couldn’t help but think “well if they want me to waste part of the work day driving to an office I guess I will” and we should all have punched in at 9 when we left the house.
I resonated with this so much. I’m super perplexed at how anyone manages to juggle their personal life on a 9 – 5 without losing their sanity. I barely ever felt I had any time for myself to reset or feel at ease. I can’t imagine how difficult it is to raise kids or pets in addition to that. I’m sure a positive work environment helps a lot, but It’s still completely exhausting and soul sucking. The burnout always hits me quick even after changing jobs.
Fuck it man, existing is exhausting
This is one reason why OT is particularly difficult and is often paid at 1.5x or 2.0x or even 3.0x if you have a good employer or union agreement. Working an extra couple hours on top of a regular schedule leaves very little/no time to live your life.
I thought this was pretty common knowledge. You’re gone from 7AM-6:30PM for your “9-5”. Yeah it sucks.
This is why people should be paid for their commute.
Work weeks should be 24 hours FT and minimum wage $40 an hour
Don’t forget the mandatory 1 hour lunches.
They say it’s 40, but what about the commute? The commute is anywhere from 1-2 hours if life threatening traffic where road rage, blazing speeders, and pollution exists. After risk your life by driving two hours, you have another hour of unpaid lunch where you have to sit idly to fill your belly. Lunch costs another hour’s wage due to inflation and corporate greed. So now you’re down 4 hours of work and it’s only noon. Then two more hours of life threatening traffic. Your 8 hour day just became 14 hours. Then you can’t sleep because of stress induced trauma, adding 2 hours of laying in bed. I want off Mitch McConnel’s wild ride.