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

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        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.

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            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.

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              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?

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                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.

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        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.

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    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.

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    Or just don’t comply with it ?

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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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          I had a bad schedule for my jobs and, for 2 weeks, I had no sleep on Saturday night. I only had like 4 hours between closing one and opening another shop, and the buses near Anderson were scarce at that time; so it was get home, shower, re-dress, get back out. Yeesh.

          Back then it was 2 hour minimum scheduled shift for $5/h min and I hope to hell it’s better now. Tips and a longer shift or GTFO.

          Either way, it’s no life.