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Emeritus Prof. Christopher MayChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk
Oct 24, 2026, 7:25 AM
This isn't the whole story, but this graphic makes the really important point, that behind low levels of job satisfaction & ongoing health issues, we need to focus on the shift(s) in the economic system, not the changes in jobs (although, unlike this graphic I'd want to argue that these too are significant drivers of people's negative experiences of the world of work & life more generally).
#Workers #politics #capitalism
h/t Paolo Gallo/LinkenIn
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Jennifer Moore 😷unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
Oct 24, 2026, 8:17 AM
@ChrisMayLA6
also
1980: no covid yet for humans (maybe it existed for bats by then!)
2026: covid frequently messing people up directly or indirectly, even if they're (as in that meme) acting like it's irrelevant
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Marcus The Board Gamerlordsplodge@brettspiel.space
Oct 24, 2026, 8:36 AM
@ChrisMayLA6 Two weeks “vacation”? Ugh. What a horribly American focused image. Looks like AI slop too?
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Emeritus Prof. Christopher MayChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk
Oct 24, 2026, 8:43 AM
@lordsplodge
Yes, maybe so (the slop issue) but it still made a good general point, I thought
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Marcus The Board Gamerlordsplodge@brettspiel.space
Oct 24, 2026, 9:01 AM
@ChrisMayLA6 Agreed. Aside from the 10-days “vacation” point. Although the expectation of employers that you remain contactable on holiday is yet another American capitalistic thing we’ve imported.
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MarjorieRmarjolica@social.linux.pizza
Oct 24, 2026, 9:08 AM
@ChrisMayLA6 while all to true as a general proposition (the exploitative nature of much 'work to live' these days) the figure for "vacation" in 2026 is wrong, at least for the UK.
Statutory entitlement to holidays and holiday pay is now 5.6 weeks (Working Time Regulation 1998, one of the better things from the Blair Labour Government). This was 4 weeks plus 1.6 weeks for public holidays.
This also applies, after a fashion even, if you have had your job re-defined by your employer as an independent contractor on a zero hours contract, but the calculation of holiday pay gets complicated and they keep revising how the calculation is done.
https://www.mha.co.uk/insights/a-brief-history-of-holiday-pay-calculations
Of course back in the day, this was called 'the lump', and we have never managed to outlaw it and in recent years has become far too common.
https://liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2026/08/21/how-working-on-the-lump-angered-trade-unions-and-caused-a-taxing-problem-for-the-government/
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Emeritus Prof. Christopher MayChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk
Oct 24, 2026, 9:22 AM
@marjolica
Yes, I think this is because its derived from US experience... I was less concerned with the details which were loose & rather the underlying message which I thought it summarised quite well
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Patrick Hadfieldpatrickhadfield@mastodon.scot
Oct 24, 2026, 10:05 AM
@ChrisMayLA6 I can't help thinking incipient environmental crisis and the onslaught of fascism on top of financial collapse have a role to play, too.
No wonder young people today are full of anxiety and stress!
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Emeritus Prof. Christopher MayChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk
Oct 24, 2026, 10:11 AM
@patrickhadfield
yes, these issue (outside the workplace) clearly are important too....
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Nininini@oldbytes.space
Oct 24, 2026, 11:05 AM
@ChrisMayLA6 It's an incredibly simplified version of the truth, one that makes for pithy posts on Facebook but I'd want something with a bit more backbone than the vague concept of how things feel and confirmation of my own biases. It's correct but only in the broadest terms in that things weren't as they were and I'd rather not play into the toxic mindset of blind nostalgia which builds a false view of the past hence why it's a pithy Facebook post, it's simple enough to pass around for likes and play on "back in my day" fictions.
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Emeritus Prof. Christopher MayChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk
Oct 24, 2026, 11:30 AM
@nini
Fair comment; as I said, not the whole story, but I did like (and agree with) the general conclusion....
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Nininini@oldbytes.space
Oct 24, 2026, 1:14 PM
@ChrisMayLA6 I don't disagree with it, just the framing is instantly going to make me dislike it.
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Nando161nando161@partyon.xyz
Oct 24, 2026, 11:33 AM
@ChrisMayLA6 #EatTheRich, #killyourlocalfascist, #killyourlocalcapitalist!
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Mark Koekmkoek@mastodon.nl
Oct 24, 2026, 6:59 PM
@ChrisMayLA6 seems a bit US centric - not like that over here (only 2 weeks vacation, my goodness)
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David John CrookDavidjCrook@mastodon.world
Oct 24, 2026, 9:16 PM
@ChrisMayLA6 When my Dad took a new job in 1961, I would say that everyone in the office lived within 5 miles of the office, and in time most died within 5 miles of the office. People were part of the community together, and it was easy for them to socialise together, and the families knew each other.
Now jobs just seem to be jobs. The social and community element of work seems to have gone. I think that is important.
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