Let's get everyone back to the office, though! Amirite‽ (Lookin' at you Mayor Bowser.)
FFS
this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2025
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42 hours with family, friends.
Corporate media's sycophantic bias laid bare.
Sleeping. Preparing food that's not instant garbage. Etc.
Now that the unpaid time you dedicated to getting to and from your job opens up they suddenly wanna claim it like it was always theirs.
My take is i should get paid the second my alarmclock goes off on a time i would in my free time have preferred to keep sleeping. Either that, or i should not get paid at all, my hours become my choice and basic comfort becomes free to all.
It feels a bit radical but I feel the same way. Maybe not before I leave my home, because then they'd wanna tell me what I can do with that time, but commuting? Heck yeah.
It's like paying for shipping and handling. I wouldn't otherwise be expending resources to go do this thing, and I'm being compelled to do it by currency. Sounds like employees need to tack on a "transportation fee."
And this is basically how I explained to my boss once upon a time that suddenly requiring us to go into the office more was a de facto pay cut.
I hate how they frame it as a "full work week lost".
No, this was "time with family" lost, "time to better your health" lost, "time to focus on mental health" lost...
Also, being in a car for that long (instead of using a more active form of transportation), likely results in time lost off their lifespan, too.
Yeah as they say sitting for long periods physically doing nothing is similar to smoking for cardiovascular health.
...I shudder to think of the effects of being stuck in traffic while breathing in everybody else's fumes.
Oh I know, let's add more lanes and car traffic flow controls. That's proven successful
One more lane bro! It'll fix traffic this time I swear!
Some people commute longer than that in a month
Well fuck economic growth.
And more/wider highways induces more car congestion. Remember that when your politicians demand multi billion dollar highway projects, claiming "one more lane" will fix it THIS time.
Motorcycles and lane splitting ftw