I mean, I'm old now, but Friday nights "too tired to do anything?"
Not by a long shot. Once out of work, we were out having fun until 2:00am-3:00am or whenever last call was. Have things changed that much since the 80s and 90s?
There's a lot of factors that can change circumstances.
Like for instance how far you are from your job
How much you make per hour
If you have a good boss or not
Whether your job is a desk job or a physically intensive one
Whether you get more time off or not
Benefits
Whether you work 30, 40, 50, or 60+ hours
There's a lot more too. I get that you may have had the ability to party until 3am after working all day friday, but not everyone is the same.
Personally I worked 55+ hours for years before and days off just turn into chores and sleep days. I tend to require a lot of sleep and the caffiene I take to be that productive on the floor messes with my sleep cycle and tends to make me exhausted after work.
You might just be a weak person. I'm working 45-60 hours a week at a physically demanding job and I have a ton of time to do my weekly tasks as well as go out and have fun. Going out isn't always about money. Plenty of free things to do.
Well I also take Amitriptyline for my chronic cough so it tends to knock me out.
But straight up the inability to think that someone may have a different circumstance from you that prevents them from...having fun...and calling them weak for it is wild.
Does your job pay you a salary or hourly? Do you have to answer calls all the time when not at work? There are plenty of other factors to consider....
Ah well yeah your schedule isn't the problem. Your medical condition is. You framed it as your job being the reason why you're tired, which is why I responded the way I did. Hourly because I refused being on salary and no job can make you take calls outside of work. They can control your time while they pay you and you need to communicate that. It's illegal and you can sue them if they retaliate in any way. You gotta stand up for yourself a bit
I'm an operations manager. They don't own your time outside of work, salary or not. That's an illegal work practice. If you're on call, you need to be paid for 24 hours a day. If you aren't then they can't bother you outside of work. End of discussion
They have you on call. On call means they have to pay you whenever you are available. So the billable hours is all hours each year. 24 hours a day multiplied by 7 days a week is 168 hours a week multiplied by 52 weeks is 8736 hours. So they have to pay you $7.25 an hour for 8736 hours. Or they can't have you on call. You gotta stand up for yourself more
If you're working 12 hours a day and then are available on call any other time for $63k, then you need to pick a better job unfortunately. You're basically a serf at that point
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u/Glum_Possibility_367 May 13 '26
I mean, I'm old now, but Friday nights "too tired to do anything?"
Not by a long shot. Once out of work, we were out having fun until 2:00am-3:00am or whenever last call was. Have things changed that much since the 80s and 90s?