Don’t say you’re willing to make sacrifices for it, because the capitalist machine will and they won’t be the kind of sacrifices you’ll like. You want the 4 day work week do ya? Well, time to slash a little down of those benefits and any other dirty trick they’ll pull.
Inb4 “if you only want to work for 4 of 5 days then you must only want 80% pay and oh by the way we still expect you to come in all 5 days anyways because corporate culture or something.”
We can do that but dang, we’ll have to get rid of health insurance. Oh, you want health insurance? Darn, we just can’t see any possible way to do both.
Funnily enough that would push a lot more people into the Healthcare Marketplace (Obamacare) which is often better than healthcare offered through work, depending on your circumstances. Then we might get more people asking why we don’t just switch to socialized medicine and be done with it.
Don’t say you’re willing to make sacrifices for it, because the capitalist machine will and they won’t be the kind of sacrifices you’ll like. You want the 4 day work week do ya? Well, time to slash a little down of those benefits and any other dirty trick they’ll pull.
Inb4 “if you only want to work for 4 of 5 days then you must only want 80% pay and oh by the way we still expect you to come in all 5 days anyways because corporate culture or something.”
The workplace is a big family after all. You surely don’t want to only spend 3 days a week with your family do you??
We can do that but dang, we’ll have to get rid of health insurance. Oh, you want health insurance? Darn, we just can’t see any possible way to do both.
Funnily enough that would push a lot more people into the Healthcare Marketplace (Obamacare) which is often better than healthcare offered through work, depending on your circumstances. Then we might get more people asking why we don’t just switch to socialized medicine and be done with it.