SOTD: Saturday 19 - Friday 25 November 2022.

mrasparini said:

Try Stirling Gentleman. My wife despises it, and of course I love it. She tells me I smell like an "old drawer" when I wear it. Not clear what she has in mind

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Palmolive fox said:

16-hour day & night shifts use to be a regular thing for me. Now i only work 8–10 hours max. 16-hour shifts are no good for quality production, and most importantly for your health. I say to my production manager 'That i work to live, not live to work' he might, but i don't! which doesn't make me a very popular chap amongst the staff, but I'm not bothered as they show no respect for the people who actually do the job, they are just yes men, who need to grow a pair of balls and stand up for themselves...Hopefully your 16-hour days will end soon, I understand the reason you need too, "needs must," unfortunately especially how things are at the moment. Take care. Yours-Barry

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hotmetal said:

Yes, I'm going through the same this week and all too regularly. It's making me ill for sure. It's not even "getting ahead", it's become the expectation. I spoke to my director about it and the health problems it has caused, and he said, verbatim, in front of the whole team "welcome to 2021, if I tell you to work all night you bloody well work all night!". He's a young ambitious little upstart with a care only for his progression, and if we die of heart or mh problems he'll kick our bodies out of the way and hire more. I would leave but I get the impression everywhere is like this now and it's just become commonplace. Everyone talks about mental health on LinkedIn but the reality is that they push and push until people break and then say "he could not hack it, no loss to us".

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