Comment on Bernie Sanders Champions 32-Hour Work Week With No Loss in Pay

• JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Yeah not for everyone. I’m thinking higher paying areas like technology and programming where pay is high but people are getting really burned out.

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  • curiousaur@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I’m a programmer, and it’s very different from hourly work. Realistically, any programmer is coding for like 1-2 hours a day. There are meetings so we understand the problem we have to solve, and a lot of time thinking through the problems and architecture solutions. We’re not sitting there typing for 8 hours a day, or at least those are the ones getting burned out. Realistically I’m working like 30 hours a week already, with only 10 hours being real coding, the rest being talking, researching, learning, and pondering. Maybe I’m lucky I work somewhere that that stuff isn’t seen as slacking.

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    • Nemo@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Ugh. I once did some independent programming and the guy insisted I do it in front of him because it involved his proprietary data. So much griping about the time I spent looking at documentation or referring to coding assistance sites like Stack Overflow. I quit on day two.

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  • treefrog@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Yeah, I can see in those specific situations. Cost of living tends to be high in areas with a lot of technology jobs though so I don’t know.

    I’m not those people so I can’t speak for them.

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