I hate glamorizing over-working. It’s not healthy. The fact that there are so many people going without sleep, food, personal hygiene (not to mention time for relaxation, personal time, and socialization, which are very necessary for mental health) just to stay afloat is not something to be celebrated or applauded. It’s a problem, not a goal that all good employees should aspire to, or a norm everyone should be expected to perform.
we should be taught how to work smarter not harder, but corporate culture makes overworking a virtue
random but I actually DETEST the phrase work smarter not harder! it’s so dismissive of the fact a lot of people just have to work hard, for long hours, with little to no breaks. it’s not that they aren’t smart & it’s shitty to imply that’s the case. fuck every person who says that bullshit.
^ Right. you gotta pull 10-hour shifts 6 days a week working retail to survive? No amount of working smarter will make that easy.
True. ‘Work smarter’ just puts the blame back on the worker and the student who should never have been saddled with this much work in the first place. It makes not being able to cope with excessive exploitation into a personal failure.
yeah also “work smarter” doesn’t change anything to the first idea, it’s the same state of mind of being productive and making profit (or more likely allowing other people to make profit on your back). “Work smarter” = “work more efficiently so that I can profit more quickly from it”. it’s totally inscribed in the capitalist mindset.
And because of how capitalism works, ‘work smarter’ may mean less work for a minimum amount of time until the boss finds out what you did to save time, enforces it for everyone and adjusts the workload until everyone is hopelessly overworked once more. Oh, and of course all that extra work you’re doing means the boss gets to fire a few more people. Under capitalism working more efficiently only means more pressure, less jobs and more for the boss.
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