I am a 32 year old father of 3. I've been a department manager at a major retail grocery store for the last 12 years of my life. I don't know how much more of the 6-2, 9-5, 11-7, 2-10 bullshit I can take. Aside from having covid and losing both of my grandfathers in the span of a month last year, I've been working 6+ days a week for the past couple of years. The demand is through the fucking roof in grocery stores, and the pandemic has made life inside a living hell for workers.
The point of this thread is just to simply discuss how fucking draining a 40+ hour work week is. I'm usually spent after about 5-6 hours, I lose most of my steam and end up drifting through the remainder of my day. Not having a steady schedule is also exhausting. There's days I work until 10 or 11 at night just to turn around and open the following day. Being a dept manager also means being expected to work most weekends, holidays.
We need a complete overhaul of the standard work week. Can you imagine making the same pay, or something fairly comparable, while working four 6 hour days?
The point of this thread is just to simply discuss how fucking draining a 40+ hour work week is. I'm usually spent after about 5-6 hours, I lose most of my steam and end up drifting through the remainder of my day. Not having a steady schedule is also exhausting. There's days I work until 10 or 11 at night just to turn around and open the following day. Being a dept manager also means being expected to work most weekends, holidays.
We need a complete overhaul of the standard work week. Can you imagine making the same pay, or something fairly comparable, while working four 6 hour days?