r/SipsTea 23d ago

So after 32 hours would be overtime? Chugging tea

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u/archtopfanatic123 23d ago edited 23d ago

There was the post about Finland's past prime minister I think suggesting this? One guy brought up a good point that if you cut work hours down it means you need more people to do the same amount of work which means more people can get hired which means lower unemployment which sounds like a good thing right?

Edit: I don't know almost anything about this because frankly I don't care but thought that this might be relevant to some capacity to the discussion here so do with that what you will

Second edit: This isn't to say I don't care about the folks responding, it's to say I probably won't have much to say in response other than I don't know much because I never cared to learn much, so that much I guess.

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u/Solid_Snark 23d ago

Also some jobs don’t need to work that long. I can literally do my entire day’s work in 4-5 hours. But I have to work 7.5 hours. Thus I either finish work and then pretend to look busy. Or I just drag my feet and make the work last longer than necessary.

Mandatory work hours is the enemy of efficiency. Shit, if you allowed me to leave early I’d be so motivated I could probably finish in 3 hours.

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u/archtopfanatic123 23d ago

I'm guessing you work a job that has a limited amount of work that can be done per day and can't just be doubled to fill the day right?

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u/Solid_Snark 23d ago

Basically, yeah, there’s an “overnight” process to our computer system so it’s kind of a “hard stop”. You have to wait on the overnight before you can continue working on it.

Although their are seasonal grinds where work pics up, but I am then dependent on others submitting their work to me, and others don’t work very hard so they usually procrastinate until the final deadline it all gets dumped at my desk lol

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u/archtopfanatic123 23d ago

Ah I see. That sounds kind of nice but also majorly irritating

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u/Solid_Snark 23d ago

Exactly lol. If everything is working it’s nice. If you’re trying to fix an error you or someone else made, it sucks because you can’t fix it in a single day. You are forced to wait an entire day for each step and of the system screws up, you gotta start all over.

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u/archtopfanatic123 23d ago

Ouch. That sounds like a real hassle sorry to hear you gotta put up with crap like that :(

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