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The practice of an entire working population commuting from an hour+ away to a few buildings in the center of the city, sitting on their ass for 8 hours a day, eating a packed lunch, and commuting back home is at most a couple hundred years old. But sure, go on about your "hundreds-to-thousands of years of history".

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jfindper 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>Covid was fun, I get it, but that was a long time ago man.

I don't understand what you gain from trying to be super abrasive on a forum. Is it fun?

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baiwl 9 hours ago | parent [-]

The "I know, crazy idea." from the parent comment is even more abrasive.

	▲	jfindper 9 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Calling out every abrasive comment would take more effort than I'm willing to expend, and would itself be pretty abrasive. So I picked the comment where they called Covid (the event where many people died, had their businesses ruined, etc.) "fun" over the one that mentioned work-life balance.
	▲	carlm42 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The person you're replying to asked if it was fun. Consider that my sarcasm was meant to be sort of tongue in cheek and not incredibly serious, which is a very different kind of tone from other comments in this chain.

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roadside_picnic 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Throughout hundreds-to-thousands of years of history your options have been

You might want to brush up on your anthropology a bit.

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ribosometronome 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>Throughout hundreds-to-thousands of years of history ... but that was a long time ago man.

This seems like a self defeating argument.

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carlm42 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Honestly, if the bus/delivery driver needed a mid-shift break to deal with some life stuff, yeah by all means, I personally think they should be able to do that kind of stuff (though maybe we start by giving them bathroom breaks?). The business hiring them should adapt.

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lovich 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

99% of the working class doesn’t have the expectation of answering a page at 2 am, or working long hours without extra pay to make a deadline.

Don’t act like that’s an apples to apples comparison

	▲	paradox460 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Al, Wake up! It's 3AM and we need you to come in urgently! Why? What happened? We need to make sure we have shoes on the shelves! Bob had a nightmare there are no more shoes left!

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tayo42 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

People did this, I used to do jiu-jitsu with a ups guy that would stop and join the class mid day, then go back on his route.

I Had a manager that would go and drink beers in his car durring breaks.

I had Coworkers that would leave the office to pick up their kids pre covid.

Lots of people are messing around