Interesting 2040 Predictions

[robert.]

Many towns forced restaurants into reduces hours. Even for takeout and curb side. Curbside in Doylestown is a mess. Some cafes closed @8:00 pm. while WaWa that s essential remained open. WaWa sells gas and hand sanitizer that makes them essential. WaWa pays more. Ma & pa cafes and restaurants pay $2.35 plus tips. Not many tips with curbside and takeout. Every night they show some local restaurant owner crying " Nobody wants to work. everybody wants to sit home and collect pandemic money." Well no sheet. Pay your people more. Don't make people rely tips for a living. raise the price of your product and pay more. Make everything up front. People will then come back to work. TIP To insure profit.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Every night they show some local restaurant owner crying " Nobody wants to work. everybody wants to sit home and collect pandemic money." Well no sheet. Pay your people more.

Is bringing to light just how badly paid people are that we give no thought about....and then complain about for wanting a wage that gets them above poverty levels.

[robert.]

You can work for target,lowes or Hone Depot for $15.00 to start. 38 hours a week. You could do a second job for 38 hours. Yes that would be 76 hours a week. That’s $1140 before taxes.
In my area ( within a 20 minute drive) there are a few call centers. Mortgage, credit card and insurance related. The offer $ 23.80 plus benefits and 4 hours a day overtime and free pizza. Along with performance based $25.00 gas cards weekly. After 3 months. You have the chance to work from home.( if your performance requirements are up to par). Only skill required. Type x amount of words per minute. They can’t get employees. Why? Their theory. “ lack of open daycare. “

[Rufus T. Firefly]

You can work for target,lowes or Hone Depot for $15.00 to start. 38 hours a week. You could do a second job for 38 hours. Yes that would be 76 hours a week. That’s $1140 before taxes.

Real question is whether any of those come with any benefits and then what's left after taxes, commuting, etc. And, just how long do you think anyone can carry a near 80 hour work week? I used to be close to that in hours working 7 days/week when I was working fully running my research program because if you didn't, you'd be gone.....and out the door.

In my area ( within a 20 minute drive) there are a few call centers. Mortgage, credit card and insurance related. The offer $ 23.80 plus benefits and 4 hours a day overtime and free pizza. Along with performance based $25.00 gas cards weekly. After 3 months. You have the chance to work from home.( if your performance requirements are up to par). Only skill required. Type x amount of words per minute. They can’t get employees. Why? Their theory. “ lack of open daycare. “

Was talking to folks in PA Sat. about just this - was told that there are places local with 80+ openings; they can only hire maybe 40 at best.....then 20 don't stay and the other 20 fail the 1st drug test. Maybe the other 40 are tied up with a lack of daycare.....

How many words/min? I'm probably too slow....

[robert.]

With legalized weed. Lots of people are failing drug tests. That's something these rope smokers never thought of. Well it's legal i can smoke it. Yes you can and an employer can can you for it. For years i did 75-80 or more hours a week. 12-18 hour days. Not now it's not worth it to me. No longer do the risks out weight the benefits.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

With legalized weed. Lots of people are failing drug tests. That's something these rope smokers never thought of.

Pretty sure where I am in PA legal has very little to do with their sources, Wait until the Fed legalizes it in some form and taxes it hard. Legal won't enter into the equation then at all.

Well it's legal i can smoke it. Yes you can and an employer can can you for it.

Yup.

For years i did 75-80 or more hours a week. 12-18 hour days. Not now it's not worth it to me. No longer do the risks out weight the benefits.

It was survival for me most of my career; it was what you did to keep your head above water and stay. That requisite has not changed in that environment. It's aspect of a STEM career that rarely gets revealed and survival rate is low. Worth to me then; now I'd have to wonder why, but the rewards were quite significant vs. other careers elsewhere.

[sleepmac]

Found this today. by Emelyne Museaux:

"Nobody wants to work anymore."

Nobody ever want to work at all. We wanted to be productive, be creative, be part of a community, be supported, and have the time and space to truly rest. No one actually wants to trade in hours of their life to "earn" necessities.

True or false?

Dan Weinhold

[sleepmac]

Also came across this today:

Lindley Ashline
May 14 at 8:05 PM ·

As the extreme pressure from employers to return to the office (for white-collar work) begins, remember:
1. Offices are designed to exclude minorities, particularly those who are neurodivergent and/or mobility limited.
2. When remote work primarily benefited those populations, companies weren't willing to accommodate it. It was only when thin, white, neurotypical, able-bodied people needed remote work during the pandemic that it became "okay" and supported on a grand scale.
3. The push to return to physical offices is an effort to reclaim social and psychological power by people -- primarily, but not limited to, older white men -- who are used to seeing butts in seats and enjoy holding that power over employees.
4. The fact that this once again pushes out the neurodivergent and mobility limited is a feature, not a bug.
And yes, I do indeed have a dog in this fight. My neurodivergence made office jobs slow, grinding torture for me. The one where I was seated *in a lobby* to do creative and writing work for a while was particularly bad.
Could I have performed every one of my full-time corporate jobs, save the one that needed occasional classified computer access, from home with no loss of work quality or performance? Absolutely.
I worked for many years to gradually transition to fully-remote corporate work, only to find that even when it was technically allowed, managers were so uncomfortable with it that it hurt my career, even when my actual performance was outstanding.
My last full-time manager, who'd hired me with the explicit understanding that I'd be working remotely (the company only had a few U.S. employees and didn't even have a real Seattle office where employees could work), was so uncomfortable with it that he'd call me five or ten times per day with questions that could easily have been messages or emails.
This is one of the primary reasons I now run my own business. The corporate world lost an impressively productive and creative employee when it refused to bend before I broke.

Dan Weinhold

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Found this today. by Emelyne Museaux:

"Nobody wants to work anymore."

Nobody ever want to work at all. We wanted to be productive, be creative, be part of a community, be supported, and have the time and space to truly rest. No one actually wants to trade in hours of their life to "earn" necessities.

True or false?

That all depends on how you define "work" and then how the good/bad choices that you've made align, or not.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

As the extreme pressure from employers to return to the office (for white-collar work) begins.......

Not so sure that's really all true now - a lot of businesses have woken up to the simple fact that folks working at home are more productive and costs of office space is crazy. It's the ones that can't adjust that are going to find themselves on the outside looking in.

[robert.]

As the extreme pressure from employers to return to the office (for white-collar work) begins.......

Not so sure that's really all true now - a lot of businesses have woken up to the simple fact that folks working at home are more productive and costs of office space is crazy. It's the ones that can't adjust that are going to find themselves on the outside looking in.

Back to the office won’t happen for many. Merck in skipback pa will keep their paper pushers home. Along with Etna blue Cross and Blue shield. Bell labs in Orange NJ sane thing.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

As the extreme pressure from employers to return to the office (for white-collar work) begins.......

Not so sure that's really all true now - a lot of businesses have woken up to the simple fact that folks working at home are more productive and costs of office space is crazy. It's the ones that can't adjust that are going to find themselves on the outside looking in.

Back to the office won’t happen for many. Merck in skipback pa will keep their paper pushers home. Along with Etna blue Cross and Blue shield. Bell labs in Orange NJ sane thing.

Not surprised - Gov't learned long ago it was far more cost effective to let the cubicalville workers work from home and to stop wasting money one the square footage they occupied. Corporate world will have learned this over the past year 1st-hand and will celebrate the savings going forward and eliminate all that costly office space.

[HONDO74]

Long working hours killing 745,000 people a year, study finds
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57139434

Long working hours are killing hundreds of thousands of people a year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

The first global study of its kind showed 745,000 people died in 2016 from stroke and heart disease due to long hours.

The report found that people living in South East Asia and the Western Pacific region were the most affected.

The WHO also said the trend may worsen due to the coronavirus pandemic.

[up148]

No one ever said "work" was easy......if going to work every day was easy, it would be called "fun". I know that sounds outdated, but it's the truth. Fortunately, I still bump into a lot of younger (50 and less) people with old school work ethics and the quality of their work is good. It's inspiring and gives one hope for the future.

Last night about 8:30 a young female Amazon driver rang the doorbell, rather than just drop the package off and run. The box was wet and damaged and she wanted to know if we still wanted to accept it and have to send it back. We checked it out and kept it, but it was an uplifting experience from a delivery driver.

Actually, our Fed-X and Amazon drivers have been really good the past 6 months or so, UPS is the one who has fallen sharply. Virtually every package UPS delivers has been broken open, crushed, torn or run through with a fork lift. We have a "ring" on our doorbell, so we would know when packages are delivered, as ringing the door may be done 25% of the time by drivers. But, with UPS, you seldom need a ring, you can hear the package tossed on front stoop.

I used to request that all my models were shipped via UPS and I would always ship by UPS, but no longer.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

No one ever said "work" was easy......if going to work every day was easy, it would be called "fun". I know that sounds outdated, but it's the truth. Fortunately, I still bump into a lot of younger (50 and less) people with old school work ethics and the quality of their work is good. It's inspiring and gives one hope for the future.

I was fortunate in many ways to be able to actually have a career working doing something I liked doing - much of it really was "fun". Odd perhaps, but good choices and decisions can be made and things can work out.

Last night about 8:30 a young female Amazon driver rang the doorbell, rather than just drop the package off and run. The box was wet and damaged and she wanted to know if we still wanted to accept it and have to send it back. We checked it out and kept it, but it was an uplifting experience from a delivery driver.

Our local Amazon drivers have been pretty good as well.

Actually, our Fed-X and Amazon drivers have been really good the past 6 months or so, UPS is the one who has fallen sharply. Virtually every package UPS delivers has been broken open, crushed, torn or run through with a fork lift. We have a "ring" on our doorbell, so we would know when packages are delivered, as ringing the door may be done 25% of the time by drivers. But, with UPS, you seldom need a ring, you can hear the package tossed on front stoop.

Fed-ex, not so much here - toss, drop & run as stealthy as possible. If I were not aware by tracking info, or did not hear the truck, stuff might sit on the front porch overnight. UPS has been the worse - masters of the toss, drop & run away delivery.

I used to request that all my models were shipped via UPS and I would always ship by UPS, but no longer.

I never considered UPS as viable for personal shipping of just about anything unless someone else requested it specifically, or it was a pre-printed return label for UPS.