I hate living in a country where they expect you to work more than 10 hours a day

[Morte]

Wherever I go to look for a job, the working hours exceed 45 hours a week and 11 hours a day. I'm currently neet, but I worked like that once and I can't imagine going back to that hell again for even a day. How did people even reach a consensus that this workload is humanly acceptable? The worstp part is that they don't pay me enough to barely survive, but if I refuse this abuse to remain a neet, they call me lazy. I truly hate this world.

 

[ApathyToLife]

Same stuff happened to me. Had a job with a 12 hour shift, it was a 2/2 job, you work 1 shift during the day and the next shift during the night. Would be an understatement to say that the job was hella stressful both physically and mentally and the pay wasn't even worth it. On top of that if you made a mistake they would punish you financially like 1 mistake = half of 1 shift worth of payment gone instantly. Then I got promoted to a senior there and shit got even crazier, the amount of responsibilities grew exponentially but the salary grew for like 15% of normal rate. I quit that hellhole because it was too much to handle and I don't regret this decision, been jobless since.

My point is: fuck 'em dude, they ain't worth it. They're literally asking too much for too little and when you don't meet their expectations they treat us like trash and call us "lazy".

 

[leavingthesoultrap]

Thats horrible. What country?

 

[Anon7b8]

Wherever I go to look for a job, the working hours exceed 45 hours a week and 11 hours a day. I'm currently neet, but I worked like that once and I can't imagine going back to that hell again for even a day. How did people even reach a consensus that this workload is humanly acceptable? The worstp part is that they don't pay me enough to barely survive, but if I refuse this abuse to remain a neet, they call me lazy. I truly hate this world.

Try being the heir of a failing family business. 24 hour work shifts, almost no pay, just food lodging, and an allowance as a salary. You don't even have real power, also If you make a mistake, workers salaries and food/rent gets blamed on you. Saddest part is, You can't even quit, as it's the only thing you know how to do for years. And that you're still liable with the loans you didn't take as your name is in the registration as "co-owner" and son even if you do.

Thats horrible. What country?

It's normal for most asian countries. On paper it's all 8 hour shifts, but reality its 10 to 14 hour shifts.

 

[gbi2]

Not that this helps your situation but I do think that the fact we aren't all working 2-3 day weeks now and 6 hours a day is a sign that governments and businesses have got a lot of things wrong.
Everything is built. Clothes are easy to make. Teach kids to do it and that's the one essential thing we need catered for when they grow up and make and sell them themselves. The machines should be available as 'grants' from governments. Then it's the food industry. Teach people more about farming again and put most of the workforce into that. That's it. That's the essentials dealt with. Anything else anyone wants out of life they work extra for and learn to do a part of what is involved in the products manufacturing. That way, late teens and young adults will work more because they'll need to do so to be able to have their phones and consoles but as people get older and slow down, they will stop doing those jobs because they don't need the luxuries anymore.

Older people will go back down to a 2 day week and anyone who wants to live a simple life will work 2 days their entire life. Everyone else, who consumes more, works more.

Obviously this is a simplified view of a better world but I just have never been able to accept that capitalism is the best thing. It's almost like people think if there were even other intelligent life, they would also have capitalism and jobs unattached to the consumption. I don't believe that. I believe other intelligent life would have realised that ones who want more, do more.


I'm unemployed at the moment and when I went to the job centre to answer all their questions I ( stated that I would spend 10 minutes travelling to work. They said I had to agree to spending 45 minutes travelling each way. So that would be about 1/2 hour each morning getting ready, 45 minutes travelling, 8.5 hours work, 45 minutes travelling home and 1/2 hour winding down. And they said I should accept minimum wage aswell. Just fuel for travelling 45 minutes round these rural parts would cost a few thousand a year. No wonder we aren't making much progress towards better lives when people think we should be doing that.

 

[tunnelV]

It's awful to be forced to do such long hours, especially for low wages. I've done it. Those types of hours are only worth it if the pay is good. Either way those hours aren't good for mental health nor adequate sleep. I don't blame you to find that intolerable. Most people worldwide aren't paid their worth. Most good things seem like connections from others. So basically some type of unfair advantage. Humans haven't gone past the behavior of snow monkeys and ranking/privileges through connections. This is max evolution. The environment changes but people remain the same.

 

[kane9191kosugi]

I pity you, as someone who also lives in Asia.

Luckily (not really lol) I am so fucked up due to depression+disability+social anxiety+communication disorder that I am literally incapable of even working for over a month, so I will likely take some kind of lively protection and disability pension.

Working for 8-10+ hours is one thing, but having to spend your time with your coworkers is just unbearable for me.

 

[gantaigarashi]

My main reason wanting to CTB is the fact I've to work more than 10 hrs a day to have a place to live and have food to eat.

Life never began for me. I just want to escape this hell instead of continue living in this wretched existence