Comment on The bosses are never going to just hand workers a 32 hour workweek.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 1 week agoI think it’s unreasonable to call it “wasted”. Like telling a pro-athlete “if you’re not running the ball continuously for every minute of the game you’re wasting your potential”.
Marathon runners take no breaks. If you’re requireing constant breaks due to mental fatigue, like any other muscle training and work it.
How do you think tradesman handle working 8 hour shifts with only a 30 minute break? They’re constantly on their feet, being physical, they are also doing calculations, looking around at their surroundings in case something is wrong or going to happen.
So yes, it is in fact wasted.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Marathon runners take breaks between every marathon. Runners can require nearly a month of downtime between races in order to perform optimally.
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Resting isn’t wasted time any more than sleeping is.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Right, but they handle the full shift of their duties in that time, and get their REST after. They get no breaks.
Thank you, that’s a union job, makes my point quite well, other tradesman would be canned for doing that. They can go a full shift without breaks.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That’s just a job. If you think people are working harder without a union, you’d be surprised. More often they’re being paid less to do less work, because the workers aren’t trained by their veteran peers to manage themselves.
The suffocating bureaucratization of the corporate world tends to make work sites more difficult and dangerous to navigate, tires people out more quickly, and ends up with exactly this kind of “six guys staring at a hole in the ground while one guy works” dynamic - because corporate only delegated one shovel for six people, to save money.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Nope.
Each one has their role, and can’t start till the one before is done. But it’s too difficult to coordinate and people don’t like sitting around at home not being paid. So they just pay everyone to stand around.
It’s why union jobs cost 10x as much as private, and do the exact same job.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
Just because people are standing around, does not mean that they are all “lazy” construction workers fyi. Any number of them could be engineers or municipal employees.