"Work-Life Balance" is a Scam
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
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The "work-life balance" has been sold to us as the key to having a balance between your work life and home life, but in this video I debunk the myth of the work-life balance. Late-stage capitalism has eroded away at the boundaries between your personal and work life and many employers can't wait to exploit you under the guise of a work-life harmony/balance.
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I really dislike feeling like I only live my life 2/7ths of the time (sat and sun). I feel robbed of my greatest resource - my time. I dont know how to escape this and still have my needs met.
you havent all your needs met, you would feel better otherwise. Chances are, you are also not "feeling" like that, but probably are living only a fraction of your life.
Because most people do. We dont live anymore. We exist.
It’s crazy that we overextend our selves for our employers meanwhile if something happened to us that made us unable to work we would be REPLACED in a New York minute.
Precisely why several streams of income is the new income. They don’t really care about us in my MJ voice
Facts.
What kills me, is that they call us the lazy generation because we’re having this realization and don’t want to continue with it. I’m a teacher and it feels impossible to detach my job from my life.
I saw a quote that said the secret to “work-life balance” is generational wealth and I think that’s the truth… either that or abusing your mental.
I cringe when I hear employers use the term “work-life balance.” Reminds me of “we’re like a family here.” All just an attempt to sound like they care about you and they’re a “c00l b0$$” lol.
The way to find if it the work life balance is real is from glassdoor and if you are new at the job, try to come and go as you please and see if you get called out. If not, work life balance. And remember great companies don't advertise work life balance. They practice it. My best boss practiced work life balance by leaving early almost every friday. Which paved us the whole team to do the same. Plus he was the kind of boss who let us work and only came to us for emergencies which were few and far between. And if you need help, he would answer all your questions. I thought all bosses were like this. But boy was i wrong my last 2 bosses were way more demanding. One boss kept calling every hour via zoom and tracked my progress down to the minute.
Swedens answer:
* 5 weeks paid vacationdays minimum yearly
* paid parental leave 390 days + 90 days with lower pay
*majority of the time healthpromoting benefits ( example 200 dollars yearly for gym membership, massage or workoutshoes etc.)
* and a culture where unions are seen as normal and in the peoples best intrest
Bring unions back!!!!!
@@biguattipoptropica they went away with unions?
yea but have you seen the tax rates they pay? obscene!
@@TheDruzzayeahh but the citzens kno its for a good cause so they coo w it
And on the 2 days you’re off, you feel tired from the previous 5 so all you want to do is rest !
Indeed
Lets not forget to mention that having the weekend off is also something that most retail employees don't even get. It adds to the mental stress when you spend your whole weekend working for customers that are relaxing all weekend; and then when you have some time off it's the middle of the week and there's nothing to do. Plus your days off usually aren't two in a row, it will be one day here, one day there.
Seriously
My job went fully remote when Covid started and I’m much more content working from home 😊 I don’t have to commute, have forced social interactions with coworkers, cook from home, save more money, fit in some exercises, etc. I do data entry and type a lot at work, so I play podcast or music when I’m working and it helps create a relaxing work environment.
Dream job…
Because America is obsessed with individualism, the work-life balance "myth" is really just placing the responsibility of managing time, resources, and expectations on the cattle, I mean, employees....rather than a cultural shift that would bake in more time for rest and slowing down. Slowing down doesn't drive up profit margins!
i once had a discussion with my mom about workshifts i find most preferable, and when i brought up 2/2 shift she said that i couldn't plan my holidays with that shift like you do with 5/2. and i've just watched your video and now i sit like. wow. imagine having to rely on holidays so hard because you can't afford it in the middle of your worktime. it's just so sad.
I work at a restaurant and I have worked holidays. So much for the “Christmas Spirit” Because I didn’t have any of it let alone excitement for New Years
This isn’t a commentary on you, really, but I find it fascinating how much was done to undermine younger generations’ independence before people started to notice, especially the middle class. I’ve had these conversations since I was a teenager so it never occurred to me other people didn’t think “work/life balance” while being expected to pull five ten or twelve hour shifts was weird or toxic. I assumed everyone else knew that based on statistics hours worked should’ve gone down significantly and “the gig economy” was a scam to keep people reliant on following their parents orders and we just didn’t talk about it for some reason.
I work 6 days a week, it's been only 6 months and I'm already done with it, idk how much more I can take
When events like appointments, moving, meeting friends, doctor’s visits, or career changes arise, you're constantly on someone else's schedule. For anything to be addressed, it has to be significant enough for them to guilt-trip you. This same principle applies to an office job. The constant worry about what colleagues will say throughout the week is incredibly stressful and exemplifies office drama at its worst.
What gets on my nerves are these "get together" events, which you called pizza party in this video. It's when employers set up social gatherings for co-workers with the premise of bonding as a team. During that "bonding" time you of course can't have your work done and have to work even more extra hours because of that. It is getting more extreme with these, as if a normal professional with a healthy work ethic can't do a proper job in a team without knowing what her team mate Cathy is doing in her private life.
My current employer does organize Christmas team brunches in a restaurant, but you have to pay half of the cost yourself. My last employer didn't want to pay Christmas dinners anymore and changed it into Christmas get together events at the office, where the employees had to cook themselves.
At this point I avoid any of these gatherings if I'm not paid for the time spent there or I at least can network with people outside my department for future job opportunities. Work-life balance indeed is a farce!
My past employer would legit tell us they're throwing a pizza party for lunch and that we didn't have to clock out for it. The naive people I worked with thought, oh cool! They're buying us pizza on a stressful Thursday! And I'm like ?? They are discouraging you from leaving the office, they are discouraging you from stopping work, they are discouraging you from taking a break. I told them to take the free food AND clock out lmao
To be honest, when I worked from home during the pandemic, I felt the best work life balance I've ever had. Going into the office just destroys it.
Just found ur channel today and now binging ur videos!!! Can’t wait till you blow up girl, ur doing amazing things ❤❤
I’ll consider myself and OG because you deserve MILLIONS
Just found your channel today, really enjoying the content so far! I’m a university student working part time and I find it extremely difficult to manage. I genuinely don’t know how I can do it all and get 7-9 hours of sleep.
in my country we work 45 hrs/week. My job is not conventional, but even for that I get calls out of work hours and have unrealistic expectation for deadlines. I had my vacations planned and wass forced to cancelled it to last minute bc I "have" to finish a ton of work that, being realistic, is not gonna be complete even if I work 60 hours/week.... Half of my therapy is about how I feel in my job and not being payed enough...
I care much more now that I have a family. I only have 3 hours between work and bedtime every weekday, and only one hour of that with my daughter before she goes to bed, it makes me so sad but I couldn't afford to be a sahm anymore.
You're brilliant, Ashley - thanks for your commentary!
Totally. This kind of work /lifestyle is created for normal people so we don't have time to think about anything else but to survive. Better for certain people to control and manage.
Perfect video. Has really changed the way I see things
Rise up proletariat!
I agree with all the points you made!
This video is so on point
I want Bezos to spend 1 month working in his own warehouse and then come to the stage and repeat his bshit. Unless he couldn't because he would be in hospital.
Thanks!
I don't agree with your opinion. It is your own fault, if you can't seperate work from privacy, most of the time.
“Fast paced work environment” gotta be one of the cringiest corporate terms of them all.
Means lots for u 2 do
I love all of the points you made, Ashley.
“I went 7 years without a vacation” Yeah me too. It’s been seven years since I’ve been on any kind of trip because I can’t fucking afford anything because I’m broke, yet weirdly I’ve been working this whole time, so strange and unexplainable truly
Same :’)
Work-Life Balance made sense in the 1970's because work wasn't 24/7. I mean even TV shut off at a certain time. There were no computers, fax machines, no smartphones, no social media. Things actually stopped. I mean there was a time department stores didn't open on Sundays, or holidays. There was a huge outcry here in NY when Old Navy actually opened ON Thanksgiving, right after the parade. There's NO work-life balance today because things simply don't stop.
This. Our lifestyles now are 24/7 and everyone's on their phone 24/7 and then wonder why they have anxiety.
Faxx
@@michellek649indeed
@@michellek649Sadly
I used to work in an office for almost 10 yrs. Then we went 100% remote during Covid. This helped me mentally SO much bc it was 1 less stressor in my life (physically being at work, working in a cubicle for 8 hrs).
What also helped is I got another remote job that I actually really enjoy. This took me years to find though, so i understand ppl’s frustrations. Not offering this as a solution bc I understand how tough it is. Just sharing my journey, but I found that bc I enjoy my work I can unplug with ease. So maybe that’s the key. Finding something you enjoy doing so that it doesn’t feel like it’s over taking your life in a negative way. And an employer that isn’t just paying lip service and they really encourage you having a life (which mine does).
13:50 Corporate wont care for solutions. Their way of thinking is: i got what i want, which is profits.. sounds like a "you" problem dawg.
Any positive change in work (regarding the worker class) has been done by force. Corporations will only do something, if they have to.
They will never do so, by their own choice. And why would they?
I’m printing shipping labels at 3am. You speaking FACTS😂😂
Am in a book club rn watching The Wire and Severance, lowkey hard not to judge others when they ask things like "well why don't these characters just move somewhere else?" or even better "Are they taking supplements for their back pain?"
It's great when people are willing to listen and ask questions but it's just exhausting to explain these topics to people who think they've achieved a work/life balance. Helps to have videos like these that I can throw at them or articles about the history of Union Busting in the US. People are legit shocked when they hear about Gregg Abbot preventing mandated water breaks for construction workers, y'all really just seeing this now huh?
That sounds like a dope book club!
I started having seizures because I was so stressed out working at Walmart :( I ended up in the hospital several times this year and my medical bills now are literally half of my pay. I decided it's time to change things, I stopped caring so much, stopped letting managers and customers treat me like crap. I stopped doing the work of 3 people for pay that I can't even feed myself or pay rent with. I'm taking extra classes in college and I'm really working hard to enjoy life again. This system is literally killing us! But remember that we're all strong and resilient. My dad always says that the modern American capitalist system is made to isolate people and make them hopeless so they don't work together to make things better. I find that having friends and family helps a lot, we can support each other like humans have for thousands of years. I'm studying anthropology, humans would not be here today if our ancestors hadn't helped each other, mended each other's wounds, nurtured each other. Capitalists tell us that humans are naturally selfish and greedy, but science shows us ancient skeletons with healed fractures. Our brains are wired to work together and take care of each other. We're not wired to work and stress this much.
You are so right. In nature you die if you don't cooperate with your group. Bezos and others like him wouldn't survive with his extreme behaviour.
What's the solution? we are all primed for work from a young age via schooling schedules and working towards a chosen job.
Probably just more compact work schedules and more guaranteed paid leave. Companies now want too much overtime and often have basically a skeleton crew. The most popular reform is a 32 hour work week being considered full-time. Obviously, that’s not possible for every job, but ones that can’t reduce the hours should pay a premium to retain workers. (Also this is only possible if the ghost of Reagan is killed.)
EDIT: also unions. Forgot about unions (tbf I thought “unions” were implied.)
I suggest an international strike ☝🏾😌
I'd love to add, since I started working full time (I used to work part time when I was studying) I literally have not time left. I have to wake up early, I get home late just to cook my lunch for next day, take a shower and go to sleep. I'm so exhausted even if I have some hours left I don't have any energy left and I just want to sleep. On saturdays and sundays I mostly sleep a lot trying to get some rest.
Typing this comment as Sunday Scaries creep in 😭
Thank you so much ☺️ 🙏 hearing this unpicked some of the anxiety I’d been feeling about work - just acknowledging that our jobs aren’t great helps in a small way.
I wish I could like this video multiple times, the amount of facts spat in these 15 min 💁🏻♀
Honestly it's refreshing to come across a tactful and tasteful content creator❤❤❤❤❤
Your videos are excellent! You definitely deserve more exposure. I love your work videos, they are smart and original.
Great video. I can definitely relate. I am glad you addressed this topic.
Pretty crazy, and when other things come up in life your job basically dictates everything you do because you need money for everything 😂 then your mental health gets screwed. 5:39 true but your commute can be extremely mentally taxing as well
It’s so awful! “Work-life balance” isn’t just an unattainable goal that isn’t doable under the current hustle culture and expectations, but I feel like it’s just rhetoric used to shift responsibility to us as individuals to “do better” and “be better” when everyone is cracking under the strain.
The reality is that work and LIFE can’t be compartmentalized. Work - especially FULL TIME work - IS your life. Every moment you are living and breathing is part of your life. It affects you. It’s not some separate thing that “doesn’t count”.
But especially a full-time career in this culture where your job is basically your identity whether you like it or not (not saying it’s right - just observing), it’s NOT separate. The very notion that we try to live as though it is seems insane to me.
We are multifaceted beings, but we aren’t fractured. Those hours put into work are hours of our lives as living breathing human beings, not cogs in corporate machines.
I been knew this
I agree toxic jobs can effect you. People need to go to therapy for your pain.
last year I worked in a restaurant for the summer, I had only one day off a week and in august only one in the whole month. They paid me 4 euros for hour… I live in a very touristic city in italy and this is the sad reality of many young people. I worked 45 hours a week, and I was only 19. There are even worse conditions here, and young people still in high school or university are already tired of working ‘cause no one cares about their mental health, not the employers and not even the older generations. We can’t creat a “work-life balance” because we’re either studying or working already ourselves to death.
I don’t have none of these problems. My job yea I have a job, I’m an employee and my work stay at work….
Well... YES
Fedex Ground is worse than Amazon
Facts
Loving the content, but I do have a little bit of criticism. Your voice is louder than the voices in the clips you play. I crank up the volume for clips, but when you start talking I have to lower it back down again. It's annoying. It would be better if the whole video was one consistent volume.