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suicide? appreciating the good moments of the day without thinking about the wider hell you're in, somehow?

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[-] Vanth@reddthat.com 99 points 2 weeks ago

I join whatever new labor movement forms and sharpen my guillotine.

[-] Sundial@lemm.ee 70 points 2 weeks ago

I buy a fucking guillotine.

[-] TheDeepState@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago

Buy stock in guillotine companies.

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

You short-sighted investors are piling in on guillotines, meanwhile I've been snatching up shares in pitchfork and torch companies with strong fundamentals for pennies on the dollar.

[-] TheDeepState@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

I’d think that you’d make more on the guillotines. The margins should be higher. No profits on torches.

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 6 points 2 weeks ago

The profit on torches is the rebuy for more. You don't need to sink a lot in material, it just has to burn bright enough to sell.

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Exactly, the guillotine is a durable/capital good. Yeah, you make more on one, but how many are you going to sell relative to torches and pitchforks?

[-] oo1 5 points 2 weeks ago

My guillotines have DRM, non user serviceable parts and a mandatory service contract - cough - I mean you get free IoT and smartphone integration.

If you sharpen it youself, warranty is void.

[-] TheDeepState@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

I don’t know. I mean you can reuse a torch or you can make your own.

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[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

That seems counterproductive.

Guillotine demand goes up, guillotine production company stocks go up, guillotine production owners become rich, guillotine production millionaires felled by their own designs.

[-] oo1 3 points 2 weeks ago

Hmmn, maybe petardes would be a better choice.

[-] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

I'll start a mobile sharpening business. Sell shovels to prospectors and all that.

[-] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

Don't give money to Big Guillotine, build your own.

[-] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 40 points 2 weeks ago

I stop working altogether.

For real. That's what happens. When I am in serious overload, I get kinda blocked and cannot achieve anything anymore.

But also on a global level, I think it would break down most workers quite soon.

[-] oo1 36 points 2 weeks ago

Or just don't comply with it ?

I mean no one uses fucking iso8601 and they never get brutally murderd anywhere near often enough.

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 18 points 2 weeks ago

Good point, I should start murder more people who don't use iso8601.... It's about time!

[-] TechieDamien@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

I mean they should be using rfc3339 as it is an open standard unlike the iso.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 35 points 2 weeks ago

Call in sick 3 days a week.

[-] Flummoxed@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

You think they'd be offering sick days?? I think you're bound for the camps if you can't keep up. Oh shit... This is starting to sound familiar...

[-] ShadowRam@fedia.io 33 points 2 weeks ago

Join the global strike that would inevitably happen.

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

Ain't nobody got time for a strike. I gotta feed my kids and pay my rent

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

you could always pirate your food from your local big box grocer.

"you wouldn't download an Asparagus."

[-] Tazerface@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 weeks ago

I've been hearing about a 4 day work week but haven't heard anyone talking about 7 days.

I picture country-wide strikes, even for non-union workers.

[-] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

Suicide. I'm dead already if I'm working 7 days a week

[-] ace_garp@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago
[-] DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

With 7 working days, I think we might need a 13 day week.

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[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

Try to move out of China.

They literally have 6-7 day work weeks, 10-12 hours a day.

Fucking brutal.

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago
[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

It’s called a wildcat strike

[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

The longest I ever did it was 5 weeks straight working 12 hour nights too. Everyone thought I'd quit, but I ran circles around them.

Everyone basically gets way less productive, especially with any physically strenuous activity. It's like you/your body knows full recovery is not an option. You don't get more done, you're just there when shit hits the fan.

I personally adjusted just fine. It is no different than slavery. All labor is technically wage slavery. I owned my own business before and after that job. Owning your own business is no different. The line between your life and your business is irrelevant when it is your own business, especially if you have employees.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 points 2 weeks ago
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[-] Majestix@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Excuse me what, in Europe we are snuggling up with the idea of a 4 day work week

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[-] Furbag@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Small acts of rebellion. Take extra long breaks. Automate parts of my job and then don't tell anybody that I did it. Break some shit on purpose and act like it was an accident. Steal as much stuff that isn't nailed down as possible. The list would go on, but I'd honestly have no idea what I would actually do in that situation.

I'm certainly not giving it 100% at whatever job I'm working at. I would say form a union, but that's hard to do when you are working for 56 hour workweeks plus commute, not including overtime. That's assuming the 7 day workweek remains 8 hour shifts rather than moving down to something like 6 hour shifts with an unpaid lunch break.

[-] LavenderDay3544@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Eat the rich

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago

I'm WFH with a pretty chill work day except I'm on standby 24/7 in case of something stupid happens at work. So not much would change for me, honestly.

[-] Nemo@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

Bruh a lot of us are out here with two jobs already working nine shifts a week. People are gonna do what they got to do.

[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 8 points 2 weeks ago

Switch to a part time job.

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

By changing the global standard.

[-] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 7 points 2 weeks ago

murder most likely

[-] Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago

I work 35 hours a week, and I go to university for around 25. Last year I had 7 day weeks all year and it was very much not fun.

I could do it if I had to for a bit, but the whole 'being too exhausted to exist' thing gets old fast.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

I did that at 20. I had three part-time (ohai Calgary) jobs at one point, trying to perpetuate this schooling habit.

So tired. At 20 I was failing to exist. I can't imagine that now.

[-] Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

Cow town has no chill. I'm tempted to take on another job, but right now I only have one day completely off and it's just. Not. Enough. Time.

Like, I have to decide each week how much cleaning gets done or if I'm making food that week. There isn't enough time to do cleaning and shopping, and I'm busy most days 10am-1am between work and school, assuming I sleep 7 hours a night.

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[-] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

Elaborate death traps for my enemies.

[-] papalonian@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

My first move would probably be to blow my brains out

[-] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I basically already have a 168h workweek since I'm always on call.

Edit: no one should have to work this bullshit. I'll do it so you don't have to

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[-] zerog_bandit@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Wake up from that terrible nightmare and go to my 4-day/week job?

[-] sntx@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

I love what I do, and work+uni combined, I approach the 70h/week of time investment anyways.

Though it only works because I like investing the extra time - I might start hating it, if it becomes the normality.

I fear many people in differing fields would get overworked quickly, the birth-rate would drop, as well as overall GDP.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

Stay in the union .

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