I hate the rhetoric around jobs in general. This automated email I get each week always annoys me with the language it uses.

"Quiet Days" is what it calls my time outside of work.

But I don't like that term. Like: oh, you're quiet you could be doing more.

Look at all this free time you have. When it shouldn't be expected that I work more outside of my normal hours.

It should be seen as a bad thing. Not just a thing that happens or something I should be filling my days more with

This isn't even a my job thing. This is more the company that bought my workplace. It just... I don't like how important getting a job and being successful is measured in how much you put into it.

I think working and contributing (if physically/mentally capable. I'm talking in very broad strokes.) is a good thing to strive for, but I don't like how much of the world seems to put importance on constantly working

That's so irritating. Like, the little bit I did get to work from home, you were expected to keep your Teams status 'green' at pretty much all times except for break/lunch. If you went 'away' for more than 5 mins, they would question your ability to function working from home.

Like, my gawd. We do get up and move around and are away from our desks at work, too. Sometimes we are 'away'.

Also, the people who are 'constantly working' and putting in tons of overtime don't actually get more work done

Whoever really thought that humans needed to work until exhaustion or else we're lazy was a good thought?

Because if you overwork yourself, you become less and less efficient

^^yup

In fact, if you regularly work over forty hours a week you will get less work done than someone who only works forty

And your efficiency will improve if you drop down to thirty

I hate that we live in a society that looks more at how many hours you worked than how much you got done

I agree with all of this so much

And expects people to throw hours of their lives away for literally no one's benefit

No, there is benefits to someone. Just not yourself

if they want significant activity outside of working hours, they better give significant pay for it

I've never had it say anything differently as it's not actually linked to the software my company uses to monitor us. But I'd really hope it would say something like: you've done significant work outside of working hours STOP THAT

But for some reason i doubt that

damn i hate that

i have considered taking on extra jobs, particularly when my job wasn't paying me as much as i currently earn

but man, i work my hands to the bone 10 hours a fucking day

i deserve to be a 'lazy bum' the rest of the time