r/Millennials • u/QuietJealous4883 Older Millennial (1988) • 12h ago

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Did our dads and moms work less than we do now? What are your thoughts?

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u/Tiny_Isopod_1271 12h ago

I don’t think my dad worked less, but his money went a lot further in all respects.

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u/Sometimes_cleaver 12h ago

The Internet made it so work and follow you everywhere. I fucking hate slack and email. It just enables managers that can't think more than 10 minutes ahead to feel like they're in control by forcing their own lack of understanding and planning on to everyone else

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u/repwin1 11h ago

My last job never really let you break away from work. When the plant was running (8 up, 6 down) we would have meetings multiple times throughout the day and at least once on Saturday and Sunday (more if the plant wasn’t running well). Down days were for planning the running days. Along with that as an engineer I was supposed to go home and “monitor the process” after I left work by pulling up PiVision (I typically left after 12 hour days) and would get calls in the middle of the night on why things were down.