Current Events > Korea proposes increase in work from 52 hours to up to 69 hours per week

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WolfFangHowell posted...

Nope. You can damn sure make time easier than you can make money. That's kinda how it works.

I I dont think you understand what time means. You cannot make time. You can find time. You can choose not to do other things and do things instead in that time. But you cant. make time. You can only use it up. Whereas money, whatever man. Lots of ways to get that.

The entire original point the other poster was making is that youll be able to find money later on, but making time for the things you care about and enjoy is more important now. I tend to only sort of agree, but your response of no you can just make time is weird.

Sub 60 is already enough for me. But I'd consider it if working on a major life goal for the near/far future. Like a present, vacation, or down payment on a house.

Noice

Fuck that. I work a max of 35/week and that's more than enough.

Fuck. No.

Solid_Seb posted...

Seems excessive

...Unless he actually did it

He got mad about something and blamed it on me. Even with proof another person was responsible for what happened, he still said it was my fault. I had enough and let it fly out. He wanted to fight afterwards. A week prior he fell and broke his arm so I wasn't trying to fight an already injured man.

Like I said, it's all blown over now and we're closer than ever.

I wouldn't work that many hours but I would support a similar law to limit the maximum amount of overtime. There's industries in the US that mandate 80+ hours per week during peak seasons; it would be great to make that illegal.

Korea should not go the route of Japan or their workers will drop like flies quickly.

kage_53 posted...

I dont get why East Asian countries have this obsession with working a lot of hours.

Probably the Confucius thing about working hard to do what's best for the collective thing, or something.

it just says to allow people to work up to. so is a standard work week like 40 hours?

like in the USA we don't really have any limits. just places with a union will probably put the limit at 12 hours a day but plenty of jobs work 16 or even 24 hour shifts. can work over 80 hours a week. america should try to limit mandatory work to 40-50 hours a week. a lot of jobs have mandatory overtime and i've had to do 7 12s for a few months during the busy season and it's horrible. some people want the overtime but not everyone does.

so all this just depends on if that's the standard or just allowing people to work more overtime if they want to.

Naw and anyone who proposes that to me can F off

Once you brought in OT it was gone- I'm going to work 70 hours a week, and have MORE overtime? You're asking to work at a normal rate for 29 more hours a week, and then more on top of that.

Fuck no. I work to live, I don't live to work

Isnt their suicide rate the highest on the planet

If you work everyone to death, who are you going to get to work for you?

40 is too much as it is.

apolloooo posted...

Isnt their suicide rate the highest on the planet

Whether it is or not, it certainly is going to increase along with it.

Korea is led by a bunch of morons at the moment that keep doubling down on bad decisions.