A lot of the biggest questions of culture, to my mind, have to do with figuring out how to make work dignified at all levels. If there is one sin that signifies the west it is greed/gluttony.
Thanks for posting. I've experienced this first hand at a large grocery chain and a multi-national cafe. It was insanely tiresome to constantly plan each day around the chaotic scheduling (made more difficult with transit schedules) and two days off isn't enough to recover, especially when those days aren't together. For future jobs I'll walk if they use these systems. I don't want to deal with that again, it's very much not worth it.
Ironically, the only company I've ever worked for that didn't follow this regime was Amazon. Full time, no matter what. If there was nothing to do you could just sit there if you'd like; though, I always just went home. This was in Canada though, so the heavily enforceable labour laws very likely played a part in that. Likely different elsewhere.
A lot of the biggest questions of culture, to my mind, have to do with figuring out how to make work dignified at all levels. If there is one sin that signifies the west it is greed/gluttony.
Thanks for posting. I've experienced this first hand at a large grocery chain and a multi-national cafe. It was insanely tiresome to constantly plan each day around the chaotic scheduling (made more difficult with transit schedules) and two days off isn't enough to recover, especially when those days aren't together. For future jobs I'll walk if they use these systems. I don't want to deal with that again, it's very much not worth it.
Ironically, the only company I've ever worked for that didn't follow this regime was Amazon. Full time, no matter what. If there was nothing to do you could just sit there if you'd like; though, I always just went home. This was in Canada though, so the heavily enforceable labour laws very likely played a part in that. Likely different elsewhere.