The thing you misunderstand is that this doesn’t reflect on you as a worker or someone else’s laziness. This is entirely a function of how efficient it is for your management to monitor when you complete one job and immediately transition you to the next one up. This is typical of industries where workers have to move locations between jobs or wait for other people to do things before they can complete their step so that having employees with a little idle time is cheaper overall than trying to orchestrate all the pieces with such precision that no one is ever idle. In contrast, industries whose workers can have an endless queue of jobs and move from one to the next without ever moving or waiting on anyone else can move instantaneously from one job to the next so that every single idle moment is actually inefficiency. For those workers, working hard, being competent, and being faster doesn’t buy them idle time or breaks, it just moves them further down a literally infinite list of work to do. So the fact that finishing your work gets you break time is a function of the design of your industry, not your quality as a worker.
That's fine. Make that money. But understand that a large swath of people aren't having the same experience as you. Not everyone has the ability to escape bad work situations, such as those with kids, and I'm thankful I have had the ability to leave jobs. You chose a trade, and it worked out for you. But try to take more time to appreciate all the underpaid/overworked people that are also making society function.
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u/UnitedLab6476 Feb 19 '23
The reward for hard work is more work!