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suicide? appreciating the good moments of the day without thinking about the wider hell you're in, somehow?

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[-] sntx@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

I love what I do, and work+uni combined, I approach the 70h/week of time investment anyways.

Though it only works because I like investing the extra time - I might start hating it, if it becomes the normality.

I fear many people in differing fields would get overworked quickly, the birth-rate would drop, as well as overall GDP.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

It’s called a wildcat strike

[-] Tazerface@sh.itjust.works 12 points 13 hours ago

I've been hearing about a 4 day work week but haven't heard anyone talking about 7 days.

I picture country-wide strikes, even for non-union workers.

[-] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 11 points 14 hours ago

Suicide. I'm dead already if I'm working 7 days a week

[-] LavenderDay3544@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

Eat the rich

[-] ace_garp@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago
[-] DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

With 7 working days, I think we might need a 13 day week.

[-] ace_garp@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago
[-] oo1@lemmings.world 24 points 20 hours ago

Or just don't comply with it ?

I mean no one uses fucking iso8601 and they never get brutally murderd anywhere near often enough.

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 12 points 20 hours ago

Good point, I should start murder more people who don't use iso8601.... It's about time!

[-] Majestix@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago

Excuse me what, in Europe we are snuggling up with the idea of a 4 day work week

[-] Vanth@reddthat.com 79 points 1 day ago

I join whatever new labor movement forms and sharpen my guillotine.

[-] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago

I stop working altogether.

For real. That's what happens. When I am in serious overload, I get kinda blocked and cannot achieve anything anymore.

But also on a global level, I think it would break down most workers quite soon.

[-] Sundial@lemm.ee 52 points 1 day ago

I buy a fucking guillotine.

[-] TheDeepState@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

Buy stock in guillotine companies.

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

You short-sighted investors are piling in on guillotines, meanwhile I've been snatching up shares in pitchfork and torch companies with strong fundamentals for pennies on the dollar.

[-] TheDeepState@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I’d think that you’d make more on the guillotines. The margins should be higher. No profits on torches.

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago

The profit on torches is the rebuy for more. You don't need to sink a lot in material, it just has to burn bright enough to sell.

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Exactly, the guillotine is a durable/capital good. Yeah, you make more on one, but how many are you going to sell relative to torches and pitchforks?

[-] oo1@lemmings.world 5 points 20 hours ago

My guillotines have DRM, non user serviceable parts and a mandatory service contract - cough - I mean you get free IoT and smartphone integration.

If you sharpen it youself, warranty is void.

[-] TheDeepState@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I don’t know. I mean you can reuse a torch or you can make your own.

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago

In this throwaway, instant satisfaction society? It's all about the price point. And the marketing.

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

That seems counterproductive.

Guillotine demand goes up, guillotine production company stocks go up, guillotine production owners become rich, guillotine production millionaires felled by their own designs.

[-] oo1@lemmings.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Hmmn, maybe petardes would be a better choice.

[-] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

I'll start a mobile sharpening business. Sell shovels to prospectors and all that.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 7 points 19 hours ago
[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago

Call in sick 3 days a week.

[-] Flummoxed@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

You think they'd be offering sick days?? I think you're bound for the camps if you can't keep up. Oh shit... This is starting to sound familiar...

[-] ShadowRam@fedia.io 27 points 1 day ago

Join the global strike that would inevitably happen.

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 2 points 20 hours ago

Ain't nobody got time for a strike. I gotta feed my kids and pay my rent

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

you could always pirate your food from your local big box grocer.

"you wouldn't download an Asparagus."

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago
[-] Nemo@slrpnk.net 8 points 23 hours ago

Bruh a lot of us are out here with two jobs already working nine shifts a week. People are gonna do what they got to do.

[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

The longest I ever did it was 5 weeks straight working 12 hour nights too. Everyone thought I'd quit, but I ran circles around them.

Everyone basically gets way less productive, especially with any physically strenuous activity. It's like you/your body knows full recovery is not an option. You don't get more done, you're just there when shit hits the fan.

I personally adjusted just fine. It is no different than slavery. All labor is technically wage slavery. I owned my own business before and after that job. Owning your own business is no different. The line between your life and your business is irrelevant when it is your own business, especially if you have employees.

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

I'm WFH with a pretty chill work day except I'm on standby 24/7 in case of something stupid happens at work. So not much would change for me, honestly.

[-] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 7 points 1 day ago

murder most likely

[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 7 points 1 day ago

Switch to a part time job.

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

By changing the global standard.

[-] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

I basically already have a 168h workweek since I'm always on call.

Edit: no one should have to work this bullshit. I'll do it so you don't have to

[-] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

Elaborate death traps for my enemies.

[-] papalonian@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

My first move would probably be to blow my brains out

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

Switch to freelance.

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 points 23 hours ago

Figure out a way to live cheaply, and work for myself. At least if it's 7 days a week I'm doing it for me and maybe I can become successful enough to not have to work those 7 days a week at some point.

this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2024
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