2007-03-23 06:29:09 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I don't know who is complaining.
Is the mother that spends the weekend grocery shopping and doing laundry and doing the big cleaning jobs around the house.
Most people work not only at work and at home and maybe a second or 3rd job.
Most likely the complaints or real and realistic.
Why can't companies work with employees on hours worked and days off.
On days my child was not in surgery I was willing to work as much as I could to off set the time I needed to take care of my family.
I worked at a Farm and Fleet Open 7-9 Mon - Saturday and 7-5 Sunday. I took the job hoping I could have flexible hours. The owners and managers decided they needed babysitters for the teenage employees that wanted to work the evenings and week ends. So they strictly enforced an every other week end for mothers.
Point being they had the employees will to work the various shifts but rather than think my responsibilities as a mother were important baby sitting sub par teenagers.
2007-03-23 06:50:12 · answer #1 · answered by granny_sp 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it is in that same 48 hour period, not stretched out over 120 hours in the course of a regular work week. So about 16 or so of those 48 hours are spent in sleep. A weekend is really only 32 hours and you need to cram everything you need to do into that time...at the same time everyone else is doing their shopping etc....
In the US a 40 hour week is rare. Most people I know work 50-60 hours a week and at home as well. That's why we are so stressed out all the time. Weekends don't exist for many as leisure time.
2007-03-23 13:49:39 · answer #2 · answered by slipstreamer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Besides China, I think we are the only country that works 40 hours per week. If you include commute times, someone's 40 hour week can turn into 60-70 hours a week. I do, however, think that most people don't put in a full 8 hour day. Everywhere I've worked, people slack off more than they work. Of course, when you go talk to them, they are too "busy" to help you out.............
2007-03-23 13:39:51 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because around 16 hours of this they are sleeping. This is what we have to do every day, not just the weekend. ( Now we are down to 24 hours.)
Seriously, how many of us have a job which doesn't mean some weekend work. I am a teacher. The weekends are non-contact days which allow me the time to do all the things that can't be done in the classroom because I'm a bit busy actually teaching.
2007-03-23 13:42:02 · answer #4 · answered by John M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most people I know work more than 40 hours a week, then you factor in long commutes and preparing for work and you're talking more like 70-80 hours a week.
The weekend isn't really 48 hours, most people have to sleep....
2007-03-23 13:33:06 · answer #5 · answered by Jahn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have become a society that lives our life around our 40 hour a week jobs instead of our 40 hours a week job being a part of our lives.
2007-03-25 12:04:59 · answer #6 · answered by MaBoo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
20 of which I spend sleeping to make up for the work week, the other 18 I spend doing all the mundane chores I didn't have time for during the week.
Sounds like fun. Wait, no it isn't.
2007-03-23 13:32:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't know. you know you can't really just satisfy every one. i work 40 + a week and still have the weekend off. i'll take that and run. those are call lazy *** folks who don't want to work.
2007-03-23 13:33:45 · answer #8 · answered by missk102 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They just like to complain.
2007-03-23 13:34:59 · answer #9 · answered by *Cara* 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋