re: #60 Targetpractice

Businesses can go back to working fewer people for longer hours. This is, of course, supposed to be a boon to employers because it means they can start laying off staff again to “cut costs.”

It’s just another version of “speeding up the line” that they used to do in factories. You work harder, for shorter hours, and no benefits, and your “work week” is different every single week in many sectors, like retail, service, etc.

My grandson works at least 40 hrs a week, but he doesn’t know from week to week which days he’ll work or be off. It’s very unsettling, although if he knows in advance of an appt or needs to be off, his boss is pretty amenable to giving him that day off. Still. It’s not the 5 consecutive day, 40 hr week that I had as an office worker for so many years.

And I’m so old, I can remember medical insurance costing me nothing—all paid by the employer. I paid a couple of bucks a week to cover my 2 kids.