• Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      261·
      11 months ago

      And I will remain sleepless. I refuse to give up the only free time I can claw away. Its all a joke anyway, my bosses made a 140k position for some guy who doesnt do shit. Cant even work his computer. The world is a jest, and we its jesters.

      • tooclose104@lemmy.ca
        14·
        11 months ago

        It’s not as bad as 140k, I think somewhere around 100k, but I have a guy like this too and he’s the office joke. Worst part is the guy who can fire him knows but for some reason is still hanging on to him.

        He’s not the reason I participate in RSP though, that’s definitely my 4 kids and early wake up needs for work. Love 'em to pieces but I’ll be damned if I don’t get some quality silence or other mindful disconnect from reality before sleeping. Sometimes it’s just sitting in the lazy boy with the lights down low and my air pods in (noise cancellation on, nothing playing).

      • thesmokingman@programming.dev
        11·
        11 months ago

        Yeah! A lot of this comes from a lack of agency in your daily life. You have to do all sorts of things just to stay afloat, leaving little to no time for yourself, so you take revenge at bedtime. The classic argument that salary and hours are no longer tied to productivity applies here; working less for more money reduces the need to spend your sleeping hours finding satisfaction.

        I wouldn’t say this is a uniquely capitalistic problem, though. Capitalism is just a huge factor in the reduction of individual agency (unless you’re a capitalist and actually have agency) and it’s the most common setup we have currently. You could have the same lack of agency in another setup and see the same problem.

        • FrostKing@lemmy.world
          3·
          11 months ago

          So you would say a change within the system (whatever the system might be) is more necessary than a change of the system, because it could be a problem within any system?

          • thesmokingman@programming.dev
            4·
            11 months ago

            I think that’s a really good and very deep question. I think there are some changes within the system we could try. Universal basic income, for example, has a lot of promise in terms of getting people beyond the basics to what they can be passionate about. A four day (eight hours each) work week could reduce the need for revenge by giving back a lot of the time we should have. I think there’s good data for both of those things that shows an increase in agency.

            I don’t even know how to approach a change in the system. I would be concerned with just these changes because I am deeply cynical of capitalists and their lack of interest in sharing agency with the working class.

  • hOrni@lemmy.world
    23·
    11 months ago

    That’s assuming You fall asleep instantly. For me it’s “free time ends and 4 hours of trying to fall asleep begin, then another four of waking up every hour, and then another 16 of trying not to fall asleep”.

  • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de
    11·
    11 months ago

    Luckily, I don’t have that every night. But sometimes, like today, I definitely relate to this. 1:55AM here, tomorrow can suck it.

  • dingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    11 months ago

    For me it’s like when I’m having a bad day at work, I wish for the workday to end.

    But then I get home and I have to be alone with my thoughts until the next workday. And I find myself wishing the weekend would end so that I can distract myself with work.

    It’s a frustrating cycle.

  • iamtherealwalrus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    11 months ago

    Try having children. They wake up at ~5am every day and they are young enough that they can’t take care of themselves yet, so I must go to bed at 10pm if I am to get a decent night’s sleep.