The people who will benefit the most from this economically, are not the people who will have to actually work on Sunday.

I cannot star "fuckshitstack" enough

NOT TRUE. After 20 years in Paris, I assure you that many adults cannot get errands done and it is a major topic with parents, for example. So many of us have to work til 8 pm, at least, then grocery stores are mostly closed. Try and get everything in your life done on a Saturday, dragging kids around! But wait, no…

I think the problems you raised are themselves symptoms of the much stricter American workplace culture. It's perfectly acceptable everywhere I've been (this is Australia, which from what I've heard is somewhere between EU/US on workplace culture) to pop out of the office to, for example, post a package, as long as…

Family Day: where only families with non-service jobs get to spend quality time together!

100 Euros sounds like a fuckshitstack of money to me. Not that I'm hating; I bet the food was delicious and worth it!

I am, truthfully, surprised at the overwhelming amount of comments that are condemning this consideration. I fully and openly support various improvements to the labor industry—living wages; vacation, sick, and family time; not subjecting people to overwork; paying for overtime, and so on—but I also support abolishing…

You say this, but have you ever lived somewhere long-term where this wasn't the case?

Exactly. I've just reached this place where I've started thinking, "This is, as far as I know, my one life. And I spend 60-70 hours a week NOT making ends meet, but definitely working. I love my job, but dang, where is the time with my little girl, my other family, my friends, or just my life?"

As much as it annoyed me when I would try to, say, go to the post office in Europe and a "out for lunch" sign was on the door with no return time and the doors locked I was mostly like, respect. I wish we were so laid back about our slavish work schedules in the US. And a lot of western European countries have like a…

No, France. You're better than this.

You know what? I really hope they don't do this. I don't want other countries to emulate our ridiculous work schedules. They suck. They are awful. They are inhumane, frankly. I just don't want them to go there. I want some parts of the world to retain some sanity about buying things.

Am I supposed to hump a pound of coffee at the Starbucks interview?

I can see how it would make sense to want your employees to actually enjoy and be interested in the work that they're doing, but this type of attitude is HEAVILY biased towards people that have the economic and educational means to do what they want to do. When you think about it, you have to find something that: a)…

Almost all of my performance evaluations at my old job told me I should smile more. It used to piss me off so much. Eventually I'd use an example of a guy coworker (someone who was well known as grouchy but a good worker) and asked if he was told to smile more. Of course he fucking wasn't.

As someone currently looking for a job that I don't loathe (last one was so stressful I lost 15 lbs) I think this is so true. Also there is a big gender thing going on because women are expected to me more overtly pleasant and happy than men. I think the "showing enthusiasm" part can be really tough when ladies are…

I'm pretty sure the tech industry is where the idea of vocation as "passion" originally came from. People started to see that you could hire passionate nerds who loved coding and would do it whether they were getting paid or not, and lo and behold! you could get these nerds to work extra hours on your projects instead…

I hate my job. It's easy, and I am well paid but while not a start up, it's a similar style of environment. They want my soul.

Thank you.

I know, and I'm good at it - years of practice propping up bullshit moutains. But I still hate that it's becoming ever more necessary in the working world. It signifies that more and more companies have lost touch with reality which scares me.