this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2025
66 points (95.8% liked)

Rant

325 readers
119 users here now

A place where you can rant to your heart's content.

Rules :
  1. Follow all of Lemmy code of conduct.
  2. Be respectful to others, even if they're the subject of your rant. Realize that you can be angry at someone without denigrating them.
  3. Keep it on Topic. Memes about ranting are allowed for now, but will be banned if they start to become more prevalent than actual rants.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
66
How do people even function on a 9:00 to 5? (self.rant)
submitted 1 week ago by StarvingMartist to c/[email protected]
22 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

For like 12 years I've worked in the service industry. That means sporadic hours and shifts that can happen whenever. About a year ago though I got a 9:00 to 5:00 job and it has been absolute hell trying to live my life as I have. How do normal people do this? All the business hours of places that you need to go, the bank, the doctors, the post office. Office they're closed by the time you get off of work. I have to actually call off of work just to get anything done. There's no way the majority of people are living like this, right?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] index 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

How do normal people do this?

They don't, look around everyone has some sort of problems they are either sick, mentally ill or braindead.

People and society need to acknowledge that the current work ethics are alienating humanity and destroying the world.

Edit: i misread and though op was talking about working hours in general not allowing people to do much with their life after they are done working

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

And the most broken, fucked up people act like they are vaguely 'stronger' because of it.

[–] StarvingMartist 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not that I don't agree with you, but I think we would still have the same problems if we shifted to say a 4 day work week, because then the bank tellers and postal workers and such would either have to work the same days to allow people to use the services or we all do 4 days and still no one can make use of them. It seems like people get shafted no matter what

[–] index -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Who said that you have to work 4 days a week or 40 hours a week? These are arbitrary numbers crumbled down from slavery.

[–] StarvingMartist 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think we're talking about different things here

[–] index -3 points 1 week ago

oh i though you were ranting about working hours in general