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Tsundoku, on 14 December 2018 - 12:00 PM, said:
The last 3 weeks have been absolutely freaking insane. None of the usual slowing down toward end of year thing.
Nope, it ramped up and was way worse than usual. And in my workplace it's constant lastminute.com with incomplete info, gotta be done NOW etc.
As a nice last day example - us clerks went until almost 1700 today, when everyone else knocked off early before 1300 and simply walked out, we were fixing their fuckups. When you start at 0630 it gets pretty tiring, and except for last Xmas with a 3.5 week break and a few days here and there, that's been my world for the last 2 years. I often remote log in as well after hours from home.
And they're saying next year's tempo will be worse. Which will be great when we just lost 3 clerks out of 8 total - none of whom will be replaced apparently - and our senior clerk goes overseas from the start of next year for over 6 months, then will be coming back to go on long service leave for the rest of the year. That will leave us with 4 out of 8, when we really should have 10. Fan-fucking-tastic.
Did I mention the heat wave we had a week or so ago, followed by the ghastly humidity? Having no aircon makes it really character building, especially when you're dripping with sweat and can't think, and you finally have something to eat around 1400.
So tired all the time.
Ah well, #firstworldproblems I guess.
Nope, it ramped up and was way worse than usual. And in my workplace it's constant lastminute.com with incomplete info, gotta be done NOW etc.
As a nice last day example - us clerks went until almost 1700 today, when everyone else knocked off early before 1300 and simply walked out, we were fixing their fuckups. When you start at 0630 it gets pretty tiring, and except for last Xmas with a 3.5 week break and a few days here and there, that's been my world for the last 2 years. I often remote log in as well after hours from home.
And they're saying next year's tempo will be worse. Which will be great when we just lost 3 clerks out of 8 total - none of whom will be replaced apparently - and our senior clerk goes overseas from the start of next year for over 6 months, then will be coming back to go on long service leave for the rest of the year. That will leave us with 4 out of 8, when we really should have 10. Fan-fucking-tastic.
Did I mention the heat wave we had a week or so ago, followed by the ghastly humidity? Having no aircon makes it really character building, especially when you're dripping with sweat and can't think, and you finally have something to eat around 1400.
So tired all the time.
Ah well, #firstworldproblems I guess.
No, its not really a first world problem. This same thing is happening everywhere in different shapes and forms.
Do more with less.
Work longer and harder for lesser compensation.
People leave and are not replaced.
This is everywhere, a concerted effort to squeeze absolutely everything out of the workforce and the consequences are extremely negative. Overwork and lesser pay means greater exhaustion, social isolation, alienation, skyrocketing trends of mental and physical illnesses. This is a quiet plague on modern society and it needs to be fought.
