And you close on weekends
Is this some dayshift joke that I’m too nightshift to understand. I go where I want provided I don’t care about sleeping.
Hopefully not. Just imagine wanting to go to any store that is only open at times inconvenient to your schedule. I don’t think it’s hard to understand?
I had hoped the “provided I don’t care about sleeping” would have made it clear I was joking.
Ah, I just assumed you meant you generally don’t care about sleeping per insomnia or something. Several of my friends on night shifts seem to function with less sleep than everyone else.
Ok…imagine the shops were only open from 4pm-11pm. And not open on your days off.
That’s approximately second shift. I suspect the original comment is referring to third.
(Though the point still applies)
I genuinely miss third shift, though.
I actually am working second but only because my workplace stopped doing a third shift durring covid. Damn do I miss third shift. I actually enjoyed 3rd shift in winter when I could go months without ever actually seeing the sun.
My condolences regarding your second shift.
I have a family living a normally scheduled life now, but if I didn’t, I would go back to third shift in a blink.
Yall are crazy, second shift is the greatest. It helps that there’s nowhere to go even during the day, lol. So I just get to wake up and go to sleep whenever I feel like it.
God I hated second shift. Everything was closed by the time I was off, I had maybe ~10 minutes to drove to the nearest food that wasn’t taco bell assuming other places didn’t just close early for the hell of it (I refuse to be a karen about it, I’d want to close of shit was slow too). Fucked up my sleeping habits so badly. At least third shift can get breakfast food.
Yeah, if I had to pick a shift, second would have been my third choice.
What would first choice be? Third? And second pick is first shift?
Pretty much, yeah.
Is this a dayshift joke that I’m too nightshift to understand?
i work 20-06. lol
He’s getting shopblocked.
I’m still bitter about the lumber place down the street closing. 9-5 and only till noon on Saturday. You got get so many discounted items! Doors, windows, screws, random tools, all kinds of building materials.
Rarely got to go there, had to spend my $ at Home Depot.
Is buying online not a thing or did I miss something
Not every store sells online…
The cigarette stores nearby all close at 6pm. Like what the fuck? The liquor store next door don’t close until they legally can’t sell alcohol.
Does the liquor store not also sell cigerettes?
Aw hell, you should quit anyways!
In my town the liquor store I work at can’t sell certain items. We can’t sell food or cigarettes.
You guys have cigarette stores?
Most people don’t actually work 9 to 5 though. That was an idiotic song.
I work 10-630, I can’t go anywhere either. If they open at 9 I don’t have time to go and be back before work.
Yea! It’s more like 8-5!
Thats because back then you got a paid lunch and in the 1990s companies stopped offering that and said it was a boon to workers because “you can leave the property for lunch” and other excuses like “liability” and such.
Now workers have to stay an extra hour and dont get paid for that time.
In Australia at least, it’s common for office jobs to either be 9 to 5 with a half hour lunch break, or 9 to 5:30 with an hour lunch break. Companies I worked at when I lived there (before I moved to the USA) usually did the latter. An hour break was nice because I worked in the center of Melbourne and could walk around the city, get lunch, go to the bank if I needed to, buy stuff from one of the computer stores nearby, etc and still make it back to work on time.
The shop workers.
They are there from 8am-6pm.
Everything closes at 5pm
They will never be able to go to anyone else’s shop.
(We forget about the people that work there have it worse than we do and they seem to figure it out just fine)
how do they “figure it out”? I’ve always wondered this.
We don’t work 7 days a week, and we usually work at least one weekend day, so we shop (and do other chores) during the week.
Fair enough. Basically what others have suggested in this thread. Flex time, lunch hours, swap shifts with a co-worker.
I’ve had the opportunity with an old job to work 4-days a week before and I wish this was the norm. 4x10 days should be the standard.
Go there during lunch time or use some flex time if you can.
instead of using that lunch break to eat, or spending flex time doing something meaningful that you enjoy.
Lunch?
Time?
The words you speak are strange and foreign to me.
Protip: Some of those shops are not meant for the poors to shop at, and set their hours accordingly.
The poors are the ones who need to be at a 9-5 job all the time.
As a poor, I understand.
What I don’t understand is when the government does it.
I have to take a whole day off because I’m obligated to go talk to some person behind a counter, who will tell me that I need form 87324, but won’t be able to tell me what that form is, where to get it, or why I need it, then drive around from government office to government office trying to get the form, only to figure out another person at the first office has it, and when I finally get the stupid form, it needs some meaningless mandatory field filled out by my employer, who thinks I’m sick today.
I guess I’ll cured until the day after tomorrow.
The government? Oh that’s easy. They just don’t care.
What I don’t understand is when the government does it.
This is by design! Republicans love reducing hours of government offices and introducing new partworkd and requirements to make it harder for The Poors to meet whatever new arbitrary requirements they’ve added to access a given program or be able to vote
Easy. Every day you spend working, or working on working, or working on government-mandated stuff, you don’t spend reflecting on your life. You won’t start to question what you’re doing, you won’t organize, you won’t revolt. Especially you muricans with nearly no day-offs.
I know your comment is probably more broadly focused than just me (the commenter you’re replying to), but…
Fun fact, I’m not American.
Oh sorry. It sounded like you were 😊
Bank: Perfect.
five o,clock is much to late for a bank to be open.
5 o’clock!? Are they having a sleepover?
Historically bank hours were because they had to count and tabulate every transaction and check for the day after closing, so historically “bank hours” meant very long working hours. Tabulators and computers greatly improved this of course
Seriously, I found out that my bank chain switched their opening hours to being 10a-4p and most branches are closed on the weekends. It’s not even 40 hours of opening time for the week!
What the fuck kind of a schedule is this? Granted, I’ve hardly ever needed to go to a branch in person because the majority of things can be done online or at an atm, but still. Some things you do occasionally need to visit in person for…like getting a cashier’s check which I had to do recently.
Thankfully the last time I needed one, I was able to drive far away to a location that was open for a couple of hours on Saturday but Jesus Christ.
Oh, now it’s great, there are apps. Before the internet it was misery and before ATMs it was just spiteful. The whole point seemed to be to make sure that you never get to extract cash from your accounts.
Wait until you hear about banks lol
They open after everyone’s at work and close before anyone finishes work
Because fuck you, that’s whyBecause banks’ primary customer is not Joe Everyman who works a 9-5. Their primary customers are other companies. Your checking account is barely even a drop in the bucket compared to the billion dollar company that has five hundred accounts set up for their various incomes and expenses.
I bank at a local credit union. It’s a very small operation with only a few branches.
They have the same hours.
But the reason there is a local bank branch in your neighborhood isn’t for that one business owner nextdoor to deposit their brief case of cash at 11am
Isn’t it, though? I mean this as a genuine question. The alternatives are to either buy a safe or to have tons of cash in your register at the end of every day, so I could honestly see banks getting plenty of business for this purpose, but maybe I’m wrong about that.
Sure, their physical office is closed outside of business hours, but they have a 24/7 website and a call centre that runs late into the night. The last time I physically visited a bank was years ago and they actually couldn’t answer my question and referred me to their call centre instead.
Outsourced and overseas call centers don’t count.
It’s called “Work from Home”. Not outsourced and overseas call center.
Lol ok sure
No, because originally banks were for the wealthy that didn’t have to keep another man’s hours.
Funny thing is they’re there working after public hours. What are they doing? No one knows
guess the’re counting the money they ripped off from you without you noticing anything. counting that much can take hours !! ;-)
A lot of bs paperwork and recounting, mostly.
Reading the part of this article about London being paralysed by tube workers I could only think about the Crowdstrike shutting down millions of systems and yet, life went on as if it didn’t even happen unless you were yourself affected
This is why I refuse to work first shift and don’t have weekends off.
I need to be able to access things like the fucking bank and any govt service whatsoever.
Honestly imo there’s no reason these services aren’t 24/7. They are necessary for modern living and therefore shouldn’t be constrained due to shift schedule.
If people are working during the night then all essential services should be open 24/7
Anyone who works an office job should be able to set their own hours. I choose 6:30-2:30. I can still hit up local shops after. My colleague chooses 10-8 and shops before work. There’s no reason we can’t make this work.
I had a job once with core hours. Everyone had to be there 10 am to 2 pm, but you could decide when to come in and leave as long as you were there 8ish hours, and you were there during core hours.
That’s a pretty good idea.
Yeah, it kicked ass! Everyone was happy with their schedule, since they pretty much set it themselves.
The company would have to hire more shitty middle managers to micro manage you during a wider amount of hours, we can’t have that.
For a lot of time, i thought the 12 hour clock was not that bad
Until i saw people excluding the AM/PM. What does 6:30-2:30 mean? Are you working -4 hours? Are you working from 18:30 to 2:30 or from 6:30 to 14:30? Why do people choose this time format?
Do all Europeans choose to purposefully misinterpret information that is actually very easy to understand based on context?
I think it’s worse that someone from programming.dev doesn’t understand time.
The meaning is clear in this context, but not all of them. Especially when instead of a range of hours it is a single one.
Although it is possible to determine they “probably meant this one”, why would you waste your time guessing based on context and risk being wrong when you can just use 24h and be precise.
Even though you’re right, context is also important. They’re talking about working in an office, so it shouldn’t be difficult to understand that they’re referring to working 8 hours, from 6:30 AM to 2:30 PM
choose
Do we?
Adding 12 to a number isnt that hard
Neither is subtracting it. It appears we are at an impasse
Guessing if you need to subtract it is, however
Gee it’s 16:00, I wonder if I should subtract 12 to convert the time
Guessing each time if 12 needs to be added (with usually important consequences if you guess wrong) is.
If you need to guess to convert, wouldnt you need to guess if its AM or PM?
Yes. You need to guess if it’s AM or PM. That’s what the comment is about.
If whoever says the time uses 24h or explicitly says AM/PM there’s no guessing involved.
Are you ten years old or something? How is telling time this difficult for you?
I got confused by the message i was replying to, thinking they were saying that you have to guess to convert between the 2
Yeah my company doesn’t care when I come and go as long as I work 40 hours and don’t miss meetings. 4 day workweeks are generally frowned upon but you can do it now and then.
Did you reply to the wrong comment?
(Cool though!)
I think I just got confused, sorry.
No worries mate
Yes
06:30-02:30 (note the 0!) means 6:30 am to 2:30 am the following day. Anything in pm would be +12 hours. 6:30 pm becomes 18:30; 2:30pm is 14:30. Using this format you want 06:30-14:30 which is 8 hours.
This format is important because it actually solves the problem you are trying to explain (am/pm). Regularly I need to give EST database timestamps for a PST server cluster while living in another timezone myself and speaking to someone in India which is :30min difference in time zones and trying to account for daylight savings. Removing am/pm just makes it easier to track what happens in different places without looking at the wrong time window. Time math is messy and stupid, be specific by using 24 hours instead of 12
Why would anyone care about putting a 0 before the 6 in 6:30. It solves nothing
That’s how international and military time works. It’s a four digit format.
I’m confused by this comment.
Do you not understand how to tell time?
I’m thankful I can do this. My employer measures performance based on what we actually do, not how long we work for.
I’m usually at work 10 AM to 6:30 PM (which helps avoid peak hour traffic), but I can come in and/or leave earlier or later and it’d be fine. I work from home two days a week, too.
This is exactly why we should have 4 day work weeks. Especially when you replace “shop” with “doctor’s office”
What you need are good laws, not so much a 4 day work week. I just go to the doctor during office hours and tell my employer I have to go. I even get paid time off for it, like everyone else working in this country. Same for the dentist or any other kind of medical thing.
Sure, it’s not always optimal if you work in some sort of shift, but they are required to make sure you can go.
By the way, not that I wouldn’t appreciate a 4 day work week, but this seems like a bit of a stretch to say that this is the reason why you would need one.
Yup. This is the way.
But I live and work in the US which means I have no paid days off at all and even if I tell them I have something to do they can call me to tell me to work and be upset if I don’t immediately come to the aid.
I really wish we just believed in reasonable work life balance but I will accept a shorter work week but that’s just gonna go to the upper classes only again.
Sorry to break it to you, but they gonna work 4 days too
But not necessarily the same four days as me.
Doctor? Why would employers want you to see a doctor? If you make it to retirement age they have to pay that out and miss out on a cheaper replacement!
Not sure if that would really help the whole availability issue. We already force a large population of physicians to be on call 24/7 because there aren’t enough to go around.
With an additional day off, more people can go to med school!
I also wonder if there would be more doctors if they didn’t have such an abusive onboarding process that doesn’t necessarily ever get any better after they finish their residence.
It seems like there’s a vicious cycle going on where the crazy hours lead to burnout, which leads to some people leaving, which then leads to more crazy hours to try to make up for the shortage.
What you think there is something wrong with an absolutely necessary industry such as healthcare having a falling practice rate and one of the highest suicide rates of any profession?
You some kind of commie?
Where I live, everyone gets paid leave when they need to see a doctor during working hours. Same is true for everything else that is “important”.
So 4 day work week for you, but 5 day work week for everyone else you would want to visit on Friday?
Nah, we should have different days off, duh. Let me have Wednesdays off, some peeps can have Fridays.
Actually, I would prefer to have weekdays off instead of weekends, easier to focus with less people at work.
