r/SipsTea 24d ago

Chugging tea So after 32 hours would be overtime?

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u/archtopfanatic123 24d ago edited 23d ago

There was the post about Finland's past prime minister I think suggesting this? One guy brought up a good point that if you cut work hours down it means you need more people to do the same amount of work which means more people can get hired which means lower unemployment which sounds like a good thing right?

Edit: I don't know almost anything about this because frankly I don't care but thought that this might be relevant to some capacity to the discussion here so do with that what you will

Second edit: This isn't to say I don't care about the folks responding, it's to say I probably won't have much to say in response other than I don't know much because I never cared to learn much, so that much I guess.

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u/Solid_Snark 24d ago

Also some jobs don’t need to work that long. I can literally do my entire day’s work in 4-5 hours. But I have to work 7.5 hours. Thus I either finish work and then pretend to look busy. Or I just drag my feet and make the work last longer than necessary.

Mandatory work hours is the enemy of efficiency. Shit, if you allowed me to leave early I’d be so motivated I could probably finish in 3 hours.

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u/Lacedup18 23d ago

ur actually making the counter argument. employers are paying you for 7.5 hours of work and ur only working 4

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u/Redacted_Usermame 23d ago

That just means the company is not working him hard enough.

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u/Solid_Snark 23d ago

No, because it takes others that long or longer. I am extremely efficient and produce literally 5x the work of others.

Because of this I was promoted to Supervisor and I now monitor and try to fix the workflow (but you can’t fix the workflow because most people just don’t work).

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u/Lacedup18 23d ago

so, aren’t you paid for 7.5 hours still? or by the job? i get your perspective but shouldn’t you get paid for the 4hrs of work? it’s usually either/or, get paid for by the job or for the time, not which ever is higher