Shared in Comic Strips@lemmy.world 2 days ago

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day

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hark@lemmy.world 12 hours ago

9/7/1926?

rumba@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago

UG, i’m more like 11>6>7 or 11>7>6 depending on how bad work is :/

JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.world 2 days ago

0 hours for corporate busywork.

pseudo@jlai.lu 2 days ago

9 August or 7 September. Either way I don’t see how it is labor day.

Soggy@lemmy.world 2 days ago

The US celebrates Labor Day on the first Monday of September. It was established by the government through President Grover Cleveland in 1894 as an “apology” of sorts for the fallout of an anti-police-brutality protest (keyword Haymarket Affair) but actually to intentionally distance the day from the labor rights movement that established May 1 as what would be International Workers’ Day. This separation was reinforced for the next hundred+ years because the class war never ends.

UnequalExchange@lemmy.world 2 days ago

the 40 hour work week is archaic and barbaric nonsense in the modern world. Humans can and should work less.

But nobody wants to change this cause people, as usual, are afraid of the truth . So… enjoy that y’all.😏

SoloCritical@lemmy.world a day ago

Support your local unions

UnequalExchange@lemmy.world a day ago

youre gonma have to do A LOOOT more together with your unions’ trademen than just support each other… 😏

Has anyone heard of the AFL-CIO?

fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 2 days ago

8 Hours for work, plus lunch, plus commute. That doesn’t leave 8 for me.

MissingGhost@lemmy.ml 2 days ago

Of all the people that claim they sleep for 8 hours like they should, how many do you think actually do? Like it’s not reduced to 6 hours for some reason? Trouble falling asleep? Wake up for the kids? End up fucking for 30 minutes? Wakes up 8 times from traffic noise?

balsoft@lemmy.ml a day ago

Idunno, I actually sleep more than 8h often. Today was ~9.5 (from 23:00 until 8:30) The thing that makes it possible for me is (1) WFH so no commute, (2) no kids, (3) “white-collar” job so I can just sleep in and start working a bit later.

I realize that this is incredibly privileged and not everyone can sleep like that. But it is definitely possible too.

StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 12 hours ago

I also have to get 9-10 hours to be fully refreshed, which was quite difficult when living and working in the US.

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 days ago

Well for me it’s around 8 and i often sleep less and notice it clearly through the day.

merc@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago

The idea that people should be getting 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep is a bit of a myth.

Sure, a lot of people don’t sleep as much as they should, but it’s not like 8 hours is a magic number, or like interruptions haven’t been a factor in sleeping since proto-humans first climbed down from the trees.

In the past in England it was normal to have two periods of sleep in a night. In hot countries an period of sleep during the hottest part of the day is normal.

locahosr443@lemmy.world 2 days ago

Average maybe 5, last few years, maybe less. Was horrible at first, now im coping by just going outwardly insane.

I’m not really complaining cos im self employed and secure as a result. Most people seem to be experiencing the same but only barely survive

Axolotl@feddit.it 2 days ago

8 hours of work is too much

2 hour of commute + 8 of work is basically 10 hours away from home

10 hours + 8 to sleep + 2/3 to do chores = 20/21 hours of your day, so you have max 4 or 3 hours to ““enjoy”” (you will just unwind from work and enjoy little or nothing) and this is without counting overtime work to meet the end of the month
FUCK EVERYONE WHO WANT THIS! We deserve way better!

merc@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago

8 hours of work is too much

If you feel strongly enough about that, you need to do what the organizers did to get to that 8 hour day: organize workers to form powerful unions, then go on strike, survive confrontations with the police where many people die, keep battling for several decades, and then eventually your shorter work day will maybe become a reality.

Getting to an 8 hour work day required a lot of blood to be spilled. I personally doubt that today’s workers are motivated enough to put in the work and sacrifice required.

Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 2 days ago

2 hour of commute + 8 of work is basically 10 hours away from home

Forgetting the hour lunch that isn’t paid, so to get your time you spend 2 hours commuting, 8 hours working, and 1 hour “on break”, so that’s 11 hours of your day gone just because of work. With sleep, you are already down to 5 hours to do literally everything else your life requires. Grocery shopping, home/car/lawn maintenance, budgeting/planning bills, etc. God forbid you have kids and you have to figure out how to keep another human alive in that 5 hours on top of keeping yourself alive…

Demdaru@lemmy.world 2 days ago

See, the commute is meant to be counted into it… xD

Ann Archy@lemmy.world 2 days ago

Everyone should know that labor day internationally, GLOBALLY, is May 1st, in honor of the labor movement and the martyrs who were killed by the US government in the Haymarket Affair in 1886.

The reason they made it a different date in the USA is so they would distance themselves from what they did and so people would stop connecting May 1st and the labor movement, so people wouldn’t suddenly get a martyr remembrance day and all come together and think about hanging the rich every year.

The Haymarket affair was a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. The rally began peacefully in support of workers striking for an eight-hour work day; it was held the day after a May 3 rally at a McCormick Harvesting Machine Company plant on the West Side of Chicago, during which police killed two strikers by opening fire at the crowd as it surged to the gate to confront strikebreakers.[2]: 190 Many others were injured. At the Haymarket Square rally on May 4, an unknown person threw a dynamite bomb at the police as they acted to disperse the meeting, and the bomb blast and ensuing retaliatory gunfire by the police caused the deaths of seven police officers and at least four civilians; dozens of others were wounded.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair

merc@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago

Yes, it’s funny how a labour uprising in the US on May 1st ended up becoming the most important holiday in communist countries. Meanwhile, the Haymarket Affair is basically forgotten in the US.

It’s also ridiculous how people today think that an 8-hour work day is some natural thing that happened because everybody agreed it made sense. The reality is that the bosses thought that a 12 hour work day made sense, and it took protest and violence to convince them to change their minds.

Anybody who wants a 4 day work week or a shorter work day needs to be aware of their history, and know that the only way to get there from here is massive union organization, and probably violence (mostly violence inflicted on the workers by the powers backing the status quo).

Soggy@lemmy.world 2 days ago

Yes, it’s funny how a labour uprising in the US on May 1st ended up becoming the most important holiday in communist countries. Meanwhile, the Haymarket Affair is basically forgotten in the US.

A century of propaganda will do that to a populace.

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago

Is Nancy not entitled to the sweat of her brow??

MoffKalast@lemmy.world 2 days ago

No the dehumidifier is entitled to that.

Caesium@lemmy.world 2 days ago

so I work retail which means labor day is just an excuse to have some kind of sale. And of course I didn’t get labor day off. Anyway someone unironically said to me ‘you must be pretty busy because everyone is off today’

‘except for me! (:’

she didn’t say anything else for the rest of the transaction lol. it’s like they forget we too are humans who are WORKING on LABOR day

Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago

Did you get holiday pay at least? I dont think I got holiday pay even when I worked retail. My husband got 8 extra straight hours, and was paid time and a half for the shift he worked yesterday (unionized labor).

I dont think retail does anything like this. Fuck retail. I know exactly what you went through, and it is why youll never see me shop on a holiday.

Caesium@lemmy.world 2 days ago

yeah thankfully I do get time and a half, and I thibk my store also gives an extra 4 hours of pay for anyone who works on the day. It’s definitely better than nothing and I don’t mind the extra money :3c

its just the insensitive folk who remain ignorant to the fact that everyone else around them is living a life as varied as theirs that gets to me.

but same! honestly if I could I would even like shut down my entire home and spend the day out in the wild so I don’t have to give work to the people making sure utilities are still functional too. those Homies also deserve a break, and a hell of a lot more than time and a half