The Non-political ANGER THREAD

[LFS]

@pvn

go to the pharmacy drive-thru to pick up meds for my dad, they put my card IN THE BAG and STAPLE IT SHUT, I get it, people probably leave their card in the little drawer all the time but that’s their problem not mine

They once put my card in a little envelope and stapled the little envelope to the bag. By the time I got home I had forgotten they had done that so I just threw the bag away after removing the meds

[kerowo]

One of the joys of moving is finding out where the new grocery stores put their food. The Target I went to had a “Condiments” isle with no Mayonnaise. It was in the “Salad Dressing” isle. Someone at the checkout stand was astonished I could find the Mayo and we laughed and laughed at Target’s organizational skills.

[Danspartan]

It’s almost as if the goal is to make you wander up and down extra aisles.

[eyebooger]

Having an occasional 3 day weekend just makes me realize how much 2 day weekends suck.

With a 3 day weekend, you can be all of:

• Productive
• Fun
• Lazy

With a 2 day weekend, at least one of those activities suffers.

[Melkerson]

Somehow I have made it throughout my entire professional life with 3 day weekends. Sometimes I might have to work on my extra day off, but it’s rare. Unfortunately, they are more lazy than productive. But that’s not that bad in the grand scheme of things.

[Coasterbrad]

3 day weekends are significantly better than 2 day weekends. My problem is that I only make money when I work, so that extra day off is a day with no pay. The fact that I can’t have it both ways makes me non politically angry.

[Surf]

I think there going to be increasing societal push towards 4 day work weeks over next 15 years

[Melkerson]

@Coasterbrad

3 day weekends are significantly better than 2 day weekends. My problem is that I only make money when I work, so that extra day off is a day with no pay. The fact that I can’t have it both ways makes me non politically angry.

Yeah, it’s a tradeoff. I could work that day and make about 25% more money. That’s a lot of money, but I’d rather have the time.

[gman42]

@Surf

I think there going to be increasing societal push towards 4 day work weeks over next 15 years

And probably an institutional push towards 6, just so we can keep things the way they are and call it a draw.

[pvn]

I can see a 4-day 40-hour week becoming marginally more common but I don’t see it becoming “the norm” due to inertia. 5-day school schedules are more than anything going to keep things the way they are

[gman42]

I’m on the fence about whether I’d want to work 4x10. 3-day weekend is just enormous, but the flip side of it is that on days where I’m going to the gym and/or have shit to do after work, I’m either getting home at like 10pm, or getting up way fucking earlier than I’d ever want to (I hate early mornings with a passion) and then passing out early anyway so who cares if I got home at a more “normal” time.

I almost feel like the only way I’d adjust properly is if it were part of a job change that also cut my commute in half or more (currently 50-60 mins each way) so that the net difference in time out of the house wasn’t that drastic.

[Surf]

@gman42

I almost feel like the only way I’d adjust properly is if it were part of a job change that also cut my commute in half or more (currently 50-60 mins each way) so that the net difference in time out of the house wasn’t that drastic

Yeah I think the 5x8 or 4x10 is definitely such an individualized thing that impossible to say one is inherently better. Like you mentioned with commutes, for me when I work a longer schedule going in earlier and leaving later actually pretty dramatically decreases my time spent commuting due to traffic patterns, even ignoring the one less day of commuting.

[CaffeineNeeded]

This is what I do, and I’m not a big fan. My schedule is shit though because it’s so inconsistent.

[kerowo]

We’re on a weird 9 x 9 thing where we get every other Friday off and it works well except most people probably aren’t “working” the 9 hours every day thing. I hope they don’t get rid of it, every month should have at least one 3 day weekend.

[DUCY]

I would love 4x10 weeks. All of the production people in our plant have switched to that schedule and Friday is used as an OT day if needed. The problem is the auxiliary departments can get a bunch of maintenance and PM type work done on Friday when lines aren’t running so it would be tough to move all of them to the same schedule. They’d basically just end up working OT every week.

[CaffeineNeeded]

I feel the need to add two things:

4x10 is a lot harder when it’s 6-4,10-10, 4-2a, 4-2a in the same week

Standard for my industry is 32 hours per week is full time, as ER work tends to be a little more intense than other medicine jobs.

[eyebooger]

@Surf

Yeah I think the 5x8 or 4x10 is definitely such an individualized thing that impossible to say one is inherently better.

I want 4x8.

[Surf]

@eyebooger

I want 4x8.

Wouldn’t shock me if we start to see that too someday, obviously pending who wins elections.

Probably a step along the “optimistic” path of AI → UBI outcomes if society actually does something right for once.

[Danspartan]

It would certainly make sense for full employment.

Oh wait, we don’t want that. Gives labor too much power.

[pvn]

what is it with zoomers and their alien speech patterns/cadences when they are on the phone

I realize I sound like a boomer but come on people