Work From Home is great, just don’t do WFH as extra work, if you work from home it is work and you count your hours.
If your company is making you work overtime, unpaid, you can file a complaint and leave, let’s not everyone be so desperate to work that we give employers leverage to rape us even harder than they already are.
Unfortunately, if you work in the US, you are salaried (i.e. paid a fixed wage, not by hours worked) and make more than $684 per week (which would be very hard to survive on), the concept of overtime basically doesn’t exist.
My company could order me tomorrow to work 80 hours next week and there’s not much I could really do about that.
If you live in a state where employment is “at-will” or “right-to-work” (which is actually the opposite of what it sounds like), they can just get rid of you without cause.
I am lucky to have a boss who functions as a shield from all bullshit coming from above him. I refer to him jokingly as our “shit-shield” haha. He regularly goes to bat for us, but most people are not so lucky.
95% of the world is safe from having to work in America.
I work exactly the same hours when i work from home as when I work at the office. The only difference is the 90 minute commute on office days.
I’d say that I probably “work” more hours from home. At work if I get so tired I zone out and am fighting to stay conscious, that cycle of trying to stay awake, trying to focus, going for a walk, getting coffee, can all put a 2 or 3 hr whole in my day. At home, I will set a 15min timer on my phone and then go crash on the couch (just comfortable enough for a nap, but not for a long sleep). Even on rare days when I am really wrecked, after 45 min I am ready to focus and get back to work. Additionally, since I don’t have a deadline to beat traffic, and I take naps whenever I need, if I am focused and in the flow, I don’t just stop working at the end of the day. I ride that focus and flow to its natural fall off. Whereas if I am commuting, when my alarm goes off, I am done and out of the building like a god damn ninja.
Please, education is important. Cutting education and anti-intellectualism is are what helped fascists get in power
Education is important, reviewing previously learned stuff is important…but homework as a system does absolutely create a situation where kids are spending unbounded time outside of school on schoolwork. Practically, it’s way the fuck too much. IMO school time, like work time, should be bounded.
So problem is not homework but too much home work
Well…I think the “home” part of homework is also a problem. IMO we should really do review work at school or in some non-home space, and non-recreation time.
Like the 8 hour work day was supposed to be 8 hours work, 8 hours rest, and 8 hours recreation. School + homework + transit regularly exceeds the 8 hours. (And 8 hours work is way too much, we should be working wildly less with the incredible technologies that have been developed since the 8 hours work day concept was created.)
Why the hate on WFH? You get to do your regular job, but in the comfort of your own home and the added benefit of not spending time on transport to/from the office.
Imho home gets tainted by WFH. It loses some of its „hole appeal“
That’s a you thing, I haven’t had my home lose its „hole appeal“ after years of it.
I have been 100% wfh for like 4 years and I dread the day I need to start looking for a new job, cuz I’ll inevitably have to go back into the office again.
Fair enough, WFH is obviously not for you then, good thing for you then that no one is forcing people to WFH these days, quite the contrary.
Nah homework is how you create discipline in kids. So they learn how to do things on their own, plan and focus on things without constantly having an authoritarian figure watching them.
It’s why the smartest kids who never had to do homework or prep often struggle when they go to university where they have to read entire chapters to prepare for every class. Because they lack the discipline to plan and focus.
And even outside work life there are plenty of things where an adult needs discipline and planning skills to live a successful life.
Too bad more often than not the kids that actually do homework do it only if their parents sit down with them every night to do it together
“Too bad [some shit I just made up with no empirical evidence].”
Homework is a mass noun. It has no plural.
Clearly OP didn’t do enough homeworks
lol professions often require you constantly be reviewing and keeping up to date with meaningful changes in the field
Real life may actually require you to keep on learning 🫨
I swear it feels like people genuinely want the wall-e chairs
I do want the Wall-E chairs, but I would never actually accept them. It’s like how I want a 20-liter bucket of fettuccine Alfredo, but I would never accept and eat one.
Are you sure you’re not confusing what a want is with something that you don’t want?
For example you actually don’t want a wall-e chair because you would never actually accept one. Similarly, you don’t actually want a 20-liter bucket of fettuccine Alfredo because, again, you would never accept it.
A want is something you’d actually like to have so if you wouldn’t accept it that sounds like something you don’t want to have…
I want a world where I can use those things without doing irreparable damage to my body and mind. I can fantasize about them when divorced from the practicalities.
Even if we removed the health effects…sitting in a wall-e chair chugging Alfredo sauce is being irreparably damaged in body and mind
You can also just do that already by staring at your phone all day and eating processed food
sitting in a wall-e chair chugging Alfredo sauce
This is an unfair and libelous depiction of my utopia where I sit in a Wall-E chair chugging Alfredo sauce with, I’ll thank you to remember, fettuccine noodles mixed in.
Homework was a reinforcement exercise meant to turn the short term memory of what you learned that day into long term memory which could be remembered for years to come.
I never did my homework and was able to retain almost everything I was taught in class. The main issue with that is basically everything taught to my classmates and I outside of English and math turned out to be wrong as science and history and such learned more over time. Like how none of my favorite dinosaurs were even real; they just made shit up with different bones.
Our understanding of science constantly changes as we learn new things. Do you think we shouldn’t teach kids science because we might learn something new that shows what we used to know was wrong?
No. What? The fuck?
Did only one person understand what I said? The other replies and downvotes suggest not.
