Comment by kristjank
7 hours ago
This resonated with me especially since the 9-5 maxxing of modern society constantly discriminates against working members of society. My post office is open so sparingly that I have to find an unemployed friend or my grandmother to pick up my packages sometimes. Same story with health services, banking or any store that isn't a huge grocery store.
I could get inflammatory and say that functional members of society are being discriminated against in this way, or flip it around, stating that any disadvantage that requires you interacting with public services is systemically pushing you away from meaningful employment.
It’s not discrimination man. People (including bank and post office workers) work during 9-5 working hours, so it makes sense that these services are only open during working hours.
You’re reasoning from a presumption that ‘people’ _should_ all work 9-5. Why should they, and their customers, have the same working hours?
You're right. Why do their customers insist on working the same hours they do? You'd think they'd work different hours so they could run their errands when things are open.
No one presumes you 'should' work 9-5, but that is the way it is, and the bank/postal office/whatever employees don't have the option to work evenings. It is the way it is.
Now whether we could have a better system -- Sure! I'm all for a better society. I'm just saying it's not the way it is because of discrimination or some other conspiracy.
People working night shifts or other odd hours are not functional members of society? WTF?
Get mad at your employer. My 9-5 office jobs always allowed me to take an hour or so to run errands that could only be done during work hours.
This flexibility can exist for office jobs, but customer-facing roles typically need somebody present for the whole shift.
Many customer facing rolls either are dealing with dedicated buyers who are paid to work 9-5 as well and so there is no issue (false - but I'll ignore that you customers are often on a different continent)
If the customer is a retail customer in the majority of cases you are open extended hours. Your employees either work a 6-2 shift and so have the evening, or they work 2-10 and have all morning. (often they are working a shorter shift).
The final group are doctors/dentists. Every boss knows you need to take an hour off to see them every few months and makes provision. They have to have this anyway because sometimes people are sick, or die over night. Thus if it is critical for the job that you have people you have extra people around to make up slack.
And businesses like that could create their schedules such that all employees would have some time for errands during normal working hours, but they usually don’t because it’s easier not to.
Blame your boss