Comment on The ‘996’ work trend comes with dire health warnings
wetsoggybread@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Linkedin is just a hive of people trying to one up each other for internet points. If you work a 996 job and you’re not paid hourly, ie you’re salaried, you are 1000% getting taken advantage of. Even if you are paid hourly, the paycheck might look good but you’re just going to burn yourself out to a company that will replace you in a week
paper_moon@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Depending on that hourly rat, a lot of that extra money gets taken away from you anyway, trying to keep up with that lifestyle. If you’re working 9-9 you don’t have time to cook dinners or exercise or really do anything to keep yourself healthy, so you’ll either be buying take out meals, or home delivery, etc. Probably gain weight, then need a gym membership.
Then you start questioning why you’re living in a larger apartment/house when you barely use the space or nice location you’re paying a premium for…
It all gets fun real fast once you start burning out and can’t keep up the charade anymore.