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Nobody who works 40 hours.....
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Nobody who works 40 hours.....
Is a line I hear from the well intended left, and I am a liberal. That line appeals to the middle class and working class for sure. But it isn't just about worker pay. Ask anyone and most people I would guess, even outside pay, is that a staggered schedual, where you work a morning one day, an evenening another, and overnight another, fucks with your sleep cycle. Most doctors will tell you to work when the hours your body is used to. So if you are a morning person, you should work in the morning. If you are a night person, you should work at night. If you are a night owl you should work the graveyard. But far too many giant corporations put the worker in a staggerd schedual position, and the long term effects are burnout and health problems. 

So when the left argues "thank unions and liberals for the 40 hour work week", that is incomplete and missleading. They are not wrong, but it is incomplete.  I agree that if one is working 40 hours a week, they should be able to pay their bills off of one job. But even with that, workers should have set scheduals so they are not thrown off in their sleep cycles. I hated 7-11 because it constantly would have me working mostly evenings or overnight. Then sometimes I would be scheduled for the morning, after working an evening shift even if not overnight. That fucks with you. The worst was working an evening shift, but not overnight, then having a morning shift the next day.

Sleep cycles are important on any job, no matter what shift you are used to. 

I myself have always loved working mornings. Even if when I had to be there as early as 6am. I hated working evenings and overnight, because I had no energy by the time I went in a following morning shift. Point is there is lots of lots of lost productivity in staggered scheduals. America needs to insentivize more set scheduals.
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Nobody who works 40 hours..... - by Brian37 - May 1, 2021 at 5:48 pm
RE: Nobody who works 40 hours..... - by Brian37 - May 1, 2021 at 6:09 pm
RE: Nobody who works 40 hours..... - by Brian37 - May 1, 2021 at 6:54 pm
RE: Nobody who works 40 hours..... - by Brian37 - May 1, 2021 at 6:30 pm
RE: Nobody who works 40 hours..... - by Brian37 - May 1, 2021 at 8:36 pm
RE: Nobody who works 40 hours..... - by onlinebiker - May 1, 2021 at 6:41 pm
RE: Nobody who works 40 hours..... - by Brian37 - May 1, 2021 at 9:36 pm
RE: Nobody who works 40 hours..... - by Foxaèr - May 1, 2021 at 9:54 pm
RE: Nobody who works 40 hours..... - by Brian37 - May 1, 2021 at 10:05 pm
RE: Nobody who works 40 hours..... - by Losty - May 4, 2021 at 9:59 am
RE: Nobody who works 40 hours..... - by Losty - May 4, 2021 at 9:56 am
RE: Nobody who works 40 hours..... - by Brian37 - May 4, 2021 at 10:10 am
RE: Nobody who works 40 hours..... - by arewethereyet - May 4, 2021 at 10:12 am
RE: Nobody who works 40 hours..... - by Brian37 - May 4, 2021 at 10:19 am
RE: Nobody who works 40 hours..... - by arewethereyet - May 4, 2021 at 10:27 am
RE: Nobody who works 40 hours..... - by Brian37 - May 4, 2021 at 10:42 am
RE: Nobody who works 40 hours..... - by Drich - May 4, 2021 at 1:37 pm

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