When you look at corporate culture vs work/life balance… And you consider a broader scope than just working hours and time off (vacation/holidays), apart from the weekend, you get shockingly few hours to do what you want. The vast majority of your day is serving the interest of the company.
Let’s start at wake up time. Assuming you’re a normal person and get up a few hours before work, so that you can go to work, and assuming you work in an office, and you commute there… You get up, have a coffee, that you paid for yourself, so you can be awake enough to get to work and be productive. You clean up, so you are visually appealing, or at least not visually repulsive, and put on clean clothes that you spent your own time and money to make clean. Now that you are energized, clean, dressed and presentable, you then get into the car you bought with your own money, to spend gasoline that you pay for (or electricity, if you’re an EV owner), to propel yourself to your companies office. You do this, every day. Hours a day of unpaid work, out of your own pocket, in service of the company, all before you do one thing that might actually generate revenue for the business.
You finally clock in and you’re getting paid.
Lunch comes around, and you’re hungry from working hard all day long so far, so you either crack open your lunch box and take the food your bought with your own money, out of the box to eat. Food you might not even like, but it’s cheap and works well for lunch, so you choke it down regardless… Or you go and spend your money buying lunch, which might actually be something you enjoy eating, but it takes so long to get to where that food is, order it, eat it, pay for it, and get back to the office that you get exactly zero time to enjoy yourself.
You then get a few fleeting moments to enjoy the day, before you have to get back to the office and make more value for the shareholders.
Quitting time finally comes but you’re not done for the day. Sure, you’re off the clock, but now you have to travel home. Could be an hour or more to get home with all this traffic!
So you finally get home, but wait, there’s more. You have to feed yourself so you’re not starving tomorrow, so you make food and eat then clean up … by the time you finally get to the part of the day that you can relax and do what you want to do, you get a precious couple of hours at most before you have to go to sleep at a reasonable time, so you can wake up and do it all over again tomorrow.
Let’s add it up, shall we? Let’s say you’re pretty efficient and live relatively close to work. You get up and shower, consume some kind of nourishment and get out the door in, say, 1.5 hours, then drive 30 minutes to the office, 8 hour work day, and the pitiful “break” you get for lunch, so, let’s say that’s 9 hours in total, from the time you get there, until you are headed to the car. Another 30 minutes to get home. That alone is 11.5 hours. Take time out for dinner, and cleanup after dinner, say, an hour and a half, we’re at 13 hours. Don’t forget your should get 8 hours of sleep! So you’ve now spent 21 out of 24 hours catering to, creating value for, or doing things in service of, your overlords… I mean your workplace. You get a pittance of 3 hours to do what you want, at the end of the day, when you’re tired and mentally drained from being at the office all day…
And companies wonder why people want to work from home.
I work from home. I get up maybe 15 minutes before work, make a coffee, go log into work. I’m then doing work until lunch, I eat whatever’s cheap and available, honestly, usually leftovers from yesterday. And once I clock out, I’m home. And I can start doing whatever I want right away. Cuts that 21 hours down to… What? 18? Tops? I easily get twice as much free time to do what I want during the day than you in office workers…
Ya but whats with the crocodile masks?
Which is why we go to the pub at lunch when they make us go into the office
Five days a week you also spend money and time to eat and sleep to be able to work.
I’d rather work to be able to eat and sleep comfortably.
Yeah, top comment is implying you need coffee to survive, like we need to eat and sleep.
Which is obviously not true.
I get free crappy coffee at my jail, from a WiFi-enabled, touch-screen enhanced coffee machine, that needs daily-cleaning and maintenance…
Yeah but that can be on the clock
I managed to quit drinking coffee about two months ago. Now I’m addicted to tea, but I feel like that’s progress.
I avoid drinking caffeine within 2 hours of waking up. This allows my body to wake up normally, because otherwise caffeine inhibits the “waking up” process of your body and when the caffeine wears off you’re back to being just as tired as before. Apart from that black coffee is fairly healthy from what I’ve heard
I’ve heard that before. Haven’t tried it though. I had two issues with coffee: the acidity sometimes hurt my stomach and the amount of caffeine would worsen my anxiety, especially if I hadn’t slept well the night before.
I do this as well. I can tell quickly when I’m starting to build a dependency on coffee and having grown up with boomer parents who exemplified the “don’t talk to me before I’ve had my morning coffee” trope, I never want to be in that position. I’ll have coffee a couple times a week at most. Usually black with a light roast. If it doesn’t taste good without stuff in it then IMO it isn’t worth drinking.
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If you drink black tea, that still has caffeine.
Far less than coffee though (on average).
I think all tea has caffeine, in various amounts.
Some amounts are zero. See: peppermint tea.
peppermint
teainfusionnot tea
Herbal tea is a synonym for herbal infusion.
Still tea
It’s a “tea” made out of peppermint. It’s not tea leaves.
Also, peppermint bark is not really bark!
What office doesn’t have free coffee?
I occasionally go down to the lobby to get a cup because (the office coffee is mediocre and) it means time to socialize and not stare at a screen. The twenty minutes or so I spend polishing off a cup is on the company’s dime.
A bank I used to work at offered coffee to employees and customers but stopped during the pandemic and never started back up again. Because, you know… money.
Most offices I have seen have really upped their coffee game since the pandemic. Presumably to encourage everyone back in.
Gone are the days of freeze dried instant. Forget those horrid nestle pod machines.
Full automatic espresso machines are the standard now. Being drugged for productivity.
What office does?
Even ignoring the “making your workplace not be an insufferable place to be” justification, providing free tea and coffee is basically a legal and fairly cheap way of plying your employees with stimulants. Literally any office with any sense does it.
Every single office I’ve worked in. Really, every single workplace I’ve worked in, from summer gigs in random places up until where I work today.
It’s baseline expected from any workplace in Sweden
Every job I’ve ever had in the US too.
Seek the truth, always.
On work days I drink enough coffee to stave off the caffeine withdrawal headache. On days off I drink coffee because I love coffee.
That’s why I always work stoned out of my mind. It’s the opposite of spending my money on a drug to improve workplace performance. Because A) I probably
stolebummed the weed and B) definitely work like shit when highThis is why I am quitting weed, it improves my performance and I can’t be footing the company’s drugs like this.
What’s your job, color namer? Taste tester? Quality control of chips?
Real talk, if it’s any kind of repetitive brainless work - some/most data entry, stocking shelves, fast food once you have the rhythm down, etc. - more likely than not you’ll be happier and more productive a little stoned.
First you get good, then you get fast, then you get stoned, then you’re (probably) good, not your absolute fastest but not that slow either, and happy/chill because you’re stoned.
Edit: Here’s an article about a study/shitty thing that happened in Canada back in the 70s with this in mind (I know, Vice, but I don’t want to deal with TorStar’s paywall. Consider it a jumping off point) - https://www.vice.com/en/article/i-was-paid-to-smoke-weed-for-98-days-straight/
Fuckin’ awesome!
He said that in line for coffee, though.
Maybe purple tie just follows red tie around to heckle them
Virgin drink for productivity vs Chad drink for the taste.
You like that it’s bitter and hot? Sounds like bottom behavior to me, but you do you.
i heard that there ways to have coffee that’s not all that bitter and instead fruity or nutty. if you live anywhere near a starbucks you can also have basically an expensive sweet milk drink with slight coffee aroma. i personally don’t drink coffee and instead choose to take a caffeine pill in the morning, but people do apparently enjoy their roasted bean juice. I also learned recently that some people just don’t taste bitterness.
Your talk of fruity nutty starbucks drinks has convinced me you’re in fact not a bottom.
Who knows. I might not be a bottom, but I am definitely a weak man. I am very sensitive to bitterness, it makes me feel dread and a sense of impending doom, as if I am about to die. I can’t stand that. Some people don’t have that at all.
As if I would ever pay for coffee for work. I’d rather go cold turkey on my beloved brew than subject myself to that
A political system that treats corporate groups (rather than the individual) as the basic unit of society is a drug?
Corporatism is an ideology and political system of interest representation and policymaking whereby corporate groups, such as agricultural, labour, military, business, scientific, or guild associations, come together and negotiate contracts or policy (collective bargaining) on the basis of their common interests. The term is derived from the Latin corpus, or “body”.
Corporatism does not refer to a political system dominated by large business interests, even though the latter are commonly referred to as “corporations” in modern American vernacular and legal parlance. Instead, the correct term for that theoretical system would be corporatocracy.
I feel attacked.
That’s how the system maintains itself.
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