The 40.00 is only what they are legally allowed to say/propaganda. Otherwise even 80 would be depicted as barely chad.
We had protests and deaths to achieve that 40.
102Actually, we had protests and deaths to achieve 40 hours a household. Now it's 80 hours a household. They've scammed us. We're working twice as much for less pay.
64Isn't it just someone else watching the kids and cooking the food? Except now that daycare worker or cook might be a man.
It's certainly an efficiency improvement (different people different skills) but not double the work IMHO.
Now when covid hit and we had to educate our own kids and cook our own food, while holding down our jobs - that was double the work.
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How much death and destruction to get that down to 20?
4A tragedy of about 2 dead billionaires?
Bcs 20 is plenty.
Most companies would comfortably survive doubling their wage costs. And the ones that wouldn't could still just live with a lower production.3
Well that's nice. I've worked multiple salaried positions where the unspoken rule obviously was "We can't explicitly tell you to work more than 40 hours per week, we're just going to strongly imply that you have no potential for advancement here if you don't put in extra time."
60I worked a job where not getting your tasks done would result in termination. Working overtime required permission from management, who never gave it. Working overtime unauthorized was also a fireable offence. The way it was phrased was "lots of employees work unauthorized overtime to get their work done, but they don't ask for payment, so we look the other way."
46Last time I applied, I filtered out anyone requiring 40h/week.
I now work 35h/week, with 42 days PTO I can (actually, have to) take.
Pay is for a full time position and supports my wife and me comfortably.
Flexibility is given, I just (at 8pm) told my team leader I won't be coming in tomorrow.
My resumé isn't exactly an HR department's dream, I got a BSc in Ecology when I was 31.I guess what I'm trying to say is, what you're describing isn't normal. And it shouldn't, and doesn't have to be, either.
25You live in hell. Go somewhere else.
14Your choices are hell and hell+
10I have. But, in construction engineering, that expectation is pretty commonplace. To be fair, they offered straight pay for OT. I've never heard of anyone giving time and a half for it.
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Pshh places that want to avoid hiring full time will gladly take your 39 hours.
2530 hours is what's normally considered full time, but there is no federally mandated minimum, so it's really up to the individual employers.
5Correct: I have had two jobs where I only worked 32 hours/week, but was considered a full time employee with benefits and all that.
However, just because your employer considers you full-time doesn't mean other organizations will. When I was getting my mortgage, it was with one of those 32 hr/week jobs, and my loan company would not sign off on an approval until I could show a paystub with 40 hours/week.
I told them I'm considered full time at my company at 32 hours, and they basically said that's great, but their policy is 40.
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this is something I didn't expect would bother me until it did
growing up I thought "part time" hours meant you could just pick a set of hours and work but that's "contract work" instead (don't get me started on time sheets)
and so for full time in thought you get to pick your days or schedule or any, nope, all HR and company policy.
I'd work 4x10s if I could and have a nicer and longer weekend if I could
19White collar, I'll take one 40h block please. 2 20's if necessary. no rest for the wicked...
2A 10 hour day leaves me drained with no energy for anything after work
1yes but for me every day at work leaves me with no energy on a 9 to 5 so I'd rather have 4 no energy days than 5
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Where I currently work, there's a culture of insisting you don't need a break. Of course, I see people's faces at the end of the day and think, "you need a break". I'm going insane.
16In my country, when the state finds this out, even if YOU want and enjoy doing work for more than 6h without a 30min break, your employer will get a fine because of you.
12I've once worked an entire year with no breaks whatsoever during the 8 h shift. High speed, intense, no-errors-policy. After a year, it had taken a huge toll on my health.
2I've actually mentioned to one of the higher-ups that I want to reach 40 with my back intact!
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Speaking as a professional carpenter with a pretty nice lifestyle, 25 hours a week is pushing it. You guys work too much.
6looking forward to leaving the tech industry for farming or woodworking
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More blood for the machine!
4A fella down the street across the county line by one of the lakes is a radiologist who works 14 weeks a year and get $780,000.00/year.
And they bragged about it on /r/salary.
The United States is still a slaver nation if you adjust for inflation.
And tell any doctor that says they, too, want "medicare for all" to STFU. They lying.
4Depending on the workplace and the labour laws in effect, they could well prefer you to work 39.7 hours a week so you're not considered full time which would cost more for the company.
A lot of grocery stores around where I live schedule you just under the 40hr full time threshold so you get no benefits.
2We have a standard 40 hour work week where you come in at 8am and you are on call until 8am the following morning.
2Well two days and the rest of the week off. Nice!
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