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[–] 215 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

Millennials are wasting a 1/3 of their day in laying in bed. We spoke to industry experts about how this generation habit is impacting productivity.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    They’re killing the furniture industry! Their habit for laying in bed is reducing the demand for things like dining room chairs, recliners, couches, and sofas.

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  • [–] 135 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Millennials attempting to kill the food industry by buying less of it. Economists baffled.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Your comment reminds me of that time The Wall Street Journal unironically told people to save money by skipping breakfast.

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  • [–] 120 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    Millennials "quiet breathing" oxygen in the company-owned building.

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    [–] 115 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    if quiet quitting is "doing your job", then wouldn't having a normal lunch break be "quiet starving"?

    I write this as I am quietly constipated.

    I'm kidding, this is the loudest shit I've had in weeks. The acoustics in here are fantastic.

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  • [+] 77 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)
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    I'll never get over the fact that the people ruining the world economy, pushing millions/billions into poverty and thus being indrectly responsible for health issues and even deaths of countless people, got severance payments of 100+ million dollars...

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    [–] 71 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    Millennials being blamed/credited for an incredibly short lunch break is amazing.

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    It's to make any millenials that read it think that their own 60 minute lunch break is too long

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    And then there's me, just barely Z, office job, heading for lunch at 12 with my boss, his boss and some other colleagues, chatting about whatever (not work), eventually getting up to head back to work around 1250 because some of us have meetings at 13. My boss asks me if I want to grab a cup of coffee with him, we end up sitting in the break room for another half hour, eventually turning to work topics too.

    On my timesheet, I write lunch 1200-1230 for the legal minimum 30 min break. My boss signs it. Nobody bats an eye.

    Sure, I'm incredibly lucky, but I'd wager being in a unionised company in a country with fairly strong union protections (Germany) does some work too. If my boss started being a stickler for rules, I'd be talking to my union rep, and that just doesn't end well.

    They're scared enough of the union that, when a round of negotiations failed to achieve the result they were hoping for and the union put out notice (as in, flyers in the break rooms) that they're considering the threat of strikes, the CEO immediately announced raises retroactively effective for the whole month, "as a show of goodwill".
    Previous negotiations have also resulted in flat one-off payments even for working students. A 500€ tax-free bonus might not sound like a lot if you're making 4k+ net, but for me it was half a month of wages.
    Also, I have 30 days of paid time off, on top of bank holidays and unlimited sick leave (provided I submit a doctor's note on the third consecutive day). One coworker was sick for over half a year.

    Unions work.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    People actually get 60 minute lunch breaks? Is that with two 15 minute paid breaks too?

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    All these online outlets are ragebait trash. The fact that they paywall is the cherry on top

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Quiet nourishing costs 30 billion a year in lost productivity. Shame, millennials

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    [–] 40 points 2 years ago (19 children)

    I'm Gen X and you bet your sweet bippy I quiet nourish, usually ending up eating my lunch at 10 am. And nobody could do anything to me about it because I'm in a union. I'll suck every morsel of fun or comfort out of my workday I can. Hell I might just take this new job I interviewed for which is from home and take up crochet. There's not a thing they can do. Unions are great.

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    [–] 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (15 children)

    Unions here require you to take 30 minute lunch breaks plus a 15 minute break between that and end of shift (for the regular 8 hour shifts)

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  • [–] 47 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    France here: 45 min lunch break minimum legally, but it's usually 1h30 (or 2h).

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    Finland here. Legally it's supposed to be at least 30 if not 45 min, and we've laws about overtime and what have you but I never got them in a single place of work and somehow the bosses just kept getting away with it.

    Even somewhat large companies.

    I have never worked a job in my life that I was actually afforded the protections and rights that the law required. Some I left, some just wouldn't change.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    I have never had that long of a break, even in grade school my lunch was 15-20min including standing in line to and from the cafeteria

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    [–] 35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Also, do you really NEED sleep?

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    [–] 31 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    What about "quiet shitting"?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I take a whole hou- oh wait I'm unemployed

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    God forbid we have lifes.

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