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What do you honestly hate about work itself? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 1 day ago by pyrinix@kbin.melroy.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Coming home too damn tired to do anything else, even including chores, is top for me.

I have dishes lying around, laundry needing to be done at somepoint, some extra small tasks to do. But, trying to go 'above and beyond' for a shitty job just leaves you with nothing left to do them, having to waste time off to finally do them.

I'm in a building that's not my home, for 8 hours (used to have some days where it was 10 hours), a night. Where my company tries to tell me to treat their building that I work in, as a second home. Dealing with all of these tasks that ultimately mean nothing in the grand scheme of things. Dealing with people who conveniently forget a lot of the time, as to how to be a normal human being and they being at your expense.

And in addition to coming home too damn tired to do anything else, I'm sometimes worrying if what I'm making now for however many hours, is enough to cover everything I need to have or want to have.

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[–] wakko@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

That's the trick - I don't do everything. It just isn't physically possible. So, I don't kill myself trying.

For a full bathroom (sink, toilet, tub and shower), I prioritize the stuff that matters most - toilet and sink. Cleaning those takes me 10 minutes, tops. Those are what stays clean on a day to day basis. Everything else gets dealt with weekly (sweeping, trash), monthly (tub, shower) or less frequently.

The lie Americans have told themselves is that it is possible for a family of 2-4 to perform a ridiculous number of tasks to live in 4-star hotel conditions their entire adult lives. It's a fantasy that has people killing themselves to dust corners of their homes that literally nobody sees or cares about.

You've got better things to do with your time than dusting. Like resting from your day job.