Four ten-hour days work week? (salary, gun, death)

[springazure]

Originally Posted by nightcrawler

I think the work week shout be 6 hours long, anything over that is overkill, and not productive, lose interest also.
10 hours of say data entry, you would fall asleep....any job for that matter working 10 straight hours would be bored to death.

With all the technology and faxes and computers and stuff we have today, to make our lives easier, we shouls be working less time and enjoying life more....but our idiotic America rule is to die working....and to think, man makes this up, not God.

I respectfully disagree. 6 hrs/day for 6 days is only 36 hrs/wk. Not to mention the additional transportation costs.

[nightcrawler]

Originally Posted by springazure

I respectfully disagree. 6 hrs/day for 6 days is only 36 hrs/wk. Not to mention the additional transportation costs.

no, 6 hours a day for 5 days, and your lucky I didn't say 4 days....

I have other obligations and other fun things to do in life besides work, work, work, Do you??

is this what God put us here on this planet for, to work ourselves to death???

[Neuling]

Originally Posted by nightcrawler

I think the work week shout be 6 hours long, anything over that is overkill, and not productive, lose interest also.
10 hours of say data entry, you would fall asleep....any job for that matter working 10 straight hours would be bored to death.

With all the technology and faxes and computers and stuff we have today, to make our lives easier, we shouls be working less time and enjoying life more....but our idiotic America rule is to die working....and to think, man makes this up, not God.

Exactly. We invent all those machines to make life easier and work less, but then again we don't seem to want the time won and spend it on more work instead of less.

Sometimes people work more than they officially have to, simply because of peer pressure. There are unwritten rules like that one should try not to leave the office before most of the others have done so

[BigJon3475]

Originally Posted by nightcrawler

no, 6 hours a day for 5 days, and your lucky I didn't say 4 days....

I have other obligations and other fun things to do in life besides work, work, work, Do you??

is this what God put us here on this planet for, to work ourselves to death???

You found yourself on this planet after 1000's of generations before you did two things only to ensure your life, consume and reproduce. If you want to do either or you'll need to support your consuming habit and your reproductive habits.

[BigJon3475]

Originally Posted by Neuling

Exactly. We invent all those machines to make life easier and work less, but then again we don't seem to want the time won and spend it on more work instead of less.

Sometimes people work more than they officially have to, simply because of peer pressure. There are unwritten rules like that one should try not to leave the office before most of the others have done so

Or they'd rather be responsible for their own retirement. Not that that makes any sense to you government-is-god folks.

[NHartphotog]

It would be a great idea, if many modern corporations hadn't already forced workers to work 12-hour days, 5 days a week (and much more for anyone in management). It is amazing how much modern professionals will work after the company spends decades cutting 10% every single year.

All thanks to a lousy economy lasting our entire work careers, and entire industries which have continued to contract, which stopped us all from finding jobs elsewhere, or even maintaining the levels of pay and benefits that were standard 40 years ago.

[Neuling]

Originally Posted by BigJon3475

Or they'd rather be responsible for their own retirement. Not that that makes any sense to you government-is-god folks.

What does that have to do with government? Companies can reduce their hours all by themselves if they want to.

Regarding retirement, I prefer working less for more years than working excessively first and then hardly working anything anymore till death. Better for the body and better for the mind.

[NHartphotog]

Originally Posted by nightcrawler

no, 6 hours a day for 5 days, and your lucky I didn't say 4 days....I have other obligations and other fun things to do in life besides work, work, work, Do you??is this what God put us here on this planet for, to work ourselves to death???

Modern business thinks so, and with so many unemployed, they get away with it.

40 years ago we were discussing in school how all the productivity gains would inevitably result in 4 day work-weeks with only a few hours a day. Nobody expected that productivity gains would continue and accelerate, but those at the top of Big Business would take them all and pocket them. The average worker today works MUCH harder than people in the 50's and 60's and early 70's. Remember "Working 9 to 5"? That included an hour off for lunch. Even by 1983 when I entered the workforce, we were all working from 8 to 5 (because the hour off for lunch was now unpaid). And getting to the top of your career is now counter-productive: everyone with 10 years of experience worked much less in previous generations. Not today; now lots of experience and a "high up" job means you work more than everyone else, work all your overtime for free, and get called every night and on vacations.

I couldn't agree more that American should not have to work more than 16 hours a week, but after being locked in a crashed housing market in an area of horrendously high cost-of-living, getting out isn't easy. Particularly since the health care system is so messed up, and now much more so with Obamacare.

[Quick Enough]

Originally Posted by Frank DeForrest

Absolutely not.
It's for the business to decide it's hours of operation,work shifts and best use of resources, not legislators and bureaucrats.
Do you want the state to take over production as well?

In many businesses and governments it is an option already.

[GradyBaaBaa]

Originally Posted by Savoir Faire

It sure beats the tea party paradise, 6 - 12 hour work week

You complain about burnout in a 40 hr week and snivel about lazy people all in the same post.
Thanks for the laugh.