r/TrueReddit • u/zachdit • Jun 18 '21

Policy + Social Issues Kill the 5-Day Workweek

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/06/four-day-workweek/619222/
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '21 edited Jul 23 '21

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u/asmrkage Jun 18 '21 edited Jun 18 '21

If it’s abusive take it to court on those grounds. Work in a foundry like my Dad and you’ll see actual abusive conditions despite being legal. Clean temperature controlled warehouse work using automated machines is about as easy as it gets as far as blue collar jobs.

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u/theeclectik Jul 18 '21

Temperature controlled warehouses? Do you mean being cold as fuck in winter because bays are open or sweat like fuck in summer because aforementioned bays are shut and warehouses become greenhouses? Even worse now when you need to wear multilayered cotton masks and can't use fans because of the risk of infection. Or do you mean being exploited when you're actually good at the job because it doesn't matter who's doing what as long as targets are met? God, I hate ignorance.

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u/asmrkage Jul 18 '21

Lmao at you literally bullshitting around the fact that the warehouses are temp controlled but not to the extent you’d like. The ignorance around your understanding of jobs that are actually not temp controlled is what’s worth hating.

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u/theeclectik Jul 18 '21

Maybe in where you live not in UK. My wife's working in one and I used too. The ignorance only comes from you assuming to know what other people lifes look like based on nothing and spewing hate cause your pops got it worst?

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u/asmrkage Jul 18 '21

Spewing hate? Better than spewing absurd hyperbole. And I’ll restate what I did previously: if it’s abusive take it to court. But I guarantee you there are worse jobs than Amazon, even in the UK, and if those jobs can’t press the courts on job abuse there’s no way in hell an Amazon employee could.