Comment by parliament32
Comment by parliament32 2 days ago
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Comment by parliament32 2 days ago
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Calling out every abrasive comment would take more effort than I'm willing to expend, and would itself be pretty abrasive. So I picked the comment where they called Covid (the event where many people died, had their businesses ruined, etc.) "fun" over the one that mentioned work-life balance.
> Throughout hundreds-to-thousands of years of history your options have been
You might want to brush up on your anthropology a bit.
>Throughout hundreds-to-thousands of years of history ... but that was a long time ago man.
This seems like a self defeating argument.
Honestly, if the bus/delivery driver needed a mid-shift break to deal with some life stuff, yeah by all means, I personally think they should be able to do that kind of stuff (though maybe we start by giving them bathroom breaks?). The business hiring them should adapt.
Al, Wake up! It's 3AM and we need you to come in urgently!
Why? What happened?
We need to make sure we have shoes on the shelves! Bob had a nightmare there are no more shoes left!
People did this, I used to do jiu-jitsu with a ups guy that would stop and join the class mid day, then go back on his route.
I Had a manager that would go and drink beers in his car durring breaks.
I had Coworkers that would leave the office to pick up their kids pre covid.
Lots of people are messing around
The practice of an entire working population commuting from an hour+ away to a few buildings in the center of the city, sitting on their ass for 8 hours a day, eating a packed lunch, and commuting back home is at most a couple hundred years old. But sure, go on about your "hundreds-to-thousands of years of history".