I'm a fucking mercenary.
I'm not doing a single extra hour unless I'm told I'm getting paid.
I've had some bad rep over the years for being a "clockwork man", but my family time is precious to me.
I had to learn this the hard way.
I'm a fucking mercenary.
I'm not doing a single extra hour unless I'm told I'm getting paid.
I've had some bad rep over the years for being a "clockwork man", but my family time is precious to me.
"Japan needs more workers but can't find them"
You need to open your borders, Japanese friends. I know your culture hates it but otherwise you're at risk of extinction.
I read an interesting fact about Japan's polictal reporting the other day. Since 2010 they have went from 11th to 67th in the press freedom rankings. They are now the lowest in the G7. I assume Prime Minister Abe is responsible. The same for Japan's more apparent denial of WW2 atrocities and the push for a change to their constitution to allow for a military.
Fuck overtime.
My job isn't allowing it and lets us go home an hour early every Friday and still pays us for it.
I love it.
I have a reputation at my employer for being anti-overtime.
I established it immediately and have worked to keep adamant about it.
I've heard some jokes from coworkers from time to time about bolting out the door at the strike of 5 but idgaf.
Was thinking, "Wow, 159 hours is a long time" in regards of OT, but I thought it was in a week, and not a month.
Now, that's still way too many hours, but in my youth, I definitely beat that, for mutliple months straight, for a couple of years. 7 days a week, 12-15 hour days.
Haven't done anything like that in over a decade (working that nice and normal 40-45 hour weeks), but maybe that's why my memory isn't what it used to be.
Nice way to build up a nest egg, but it's rough.
Is OT as widespread a thing now-a-days? Seems like it's gone away in lead up to the recession (and continued on)
What do you do?
Was thinking, "Wow, 159 hours is a long time" in regards of OT, but I thought it was in a week, and not a month.
Now, that's still way too many hours, but in my youth, I definitely beat that, for mutliple months straight, for a couple of years. 7 days a week, 12-15 hour days.
Haven't done anything like that in over a decade (working that nice and normal 40-45 hour weeks), but maybe that's why my memory isn't what it used to be.
Nice way to build up a nest egg, but it's rough.
Is OT as widespread a thing now-a-days? Seems like it's gone away in lead up to the recession (and continued on)
Yup...I was a salary man in Japan for a while and worked way more and way harder in Canada. They worked long hours but they are not nearly as productive. The issue of excessive OT is not a Japanese thing.
There are some companies that pay for overtime and some give you a set amount of money per month. For example, they pay up front per month for 20 hours of overtime. This is great if you dont do overtime. However, if you do and if its over 20 hours, you will not get anymore money. Usually this is a sign you will be doing more than 20 hours of overtime lol. One job offered a position but it was usually 40-80 hours of overtime per month, which isnt bad.Do they get paid time and a half for that overtime?
I hope this wasn't meant to be a dick measuring contest. Not everyone has the capabilities of working that long, and you don't know what kind of mental stress she was going through.
I wouldnt think it'd be possible. That's like 1 hour a day for sleep. But I think I originally thought the topic was something in the same vein as those kids that'd play videogames for days straight and end up dying.I might be dumb but how would that be possible? A week has 168 hours total.
"Japan needs more workers but can't find them"
You need to open your borders, Japanese friends. I know your culture hates it but otherwise you're at risk of extinction.
I fear for my fiancés health sometimes. He sometimes works 90-100hr a week (during tax season) and doesnt get paid overtime.
Made the post several hours ago while on the subway and I only skimmed through the text and totally missed it was a woman. Apologies.Poor she
Japan needs to become more lax on immigration I it wants to counteract the dwindling population.They need to allow people time to fuck to fix their population issue. This isnt helping.
For reals these dumb fucks expect us to not have lives. I'm out the fucking door once I've worked my 8 hoursAs someone who works like 25 hours a week I will never understand this shit. Work to live, goddammit.
EDIT: I remember when I used to work as an office temp in London, my boss said I "wasn't a team player" because I arrived at 8:57am every day and was out the door by 5:03pm at the absolute latest.
They need to allow people time to fuck to fix their population issue. This isnt helping.
I clocked 7 hours of overtime in last 3 days, works out to 70hr/month. How dead am I?
Investment bankers work 110 hr weeks for multiple years. Its not just Japanese culture.
Yeah I've had that. And I've been told by my boss at my yearly review that my work is good, but I should spend more time socialising with coworkers as they often go out together after work. Fuck off, that's my time
According to my overtime tracker, I've clocked ~280 hours of overtime in the past 7 weeks.
My body def feels it, and I'm not even 30.
No offense but you come across as an asshole and that's probably why the guy who was just being nice never mentioned it to you again.That reminds me of this guy at work who wanted us to form a weekly snooker club. I told him "I already see you 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, why would I want to spend my free time with you as well?". He never mentioned it again.
Everything I've seen and read about Japan's working culture makes me wonder how they've not imploded as a country.
What's going on in Japan? Saw an article about people committing suicide because they couldn't take it anymore at their jobs? Why not just quit?