Technology needs to downgrade some things that went in the wrong direction

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Are the jobs no longer 8-530 because of the tech?

I heard back in the day jobs were 9am-5pm but then humankind became less productive or something, and that's why we seem to be working longer hours on top of lengthening commutes. /tangent

I sm sorry if I am on holidays I am holidays not on work. It's not like I have them booked already and approved. If the place I work have no other person to do my job for when I am out that's a they problem not a me problem.

At the end of the day people make a choice whether to be available and that's OK so long as they're appropriately recompensed for it. The problem only arises where you aren't recompensed for it. Ultimately if someone else can do it, and will do it, when you won't then you will hit your peak at a much lower level.

Technology just makes it easier to be on the profitable side. You can sit down for lunch on your holiday on a Sunday in Tokyo and check an email from someone back in the office looking for unique information that only you know and you can reply within 10 minutes, facilitated by modern technology and you can get paid a premium for that availability and knowledge.

If you're not available and won't respond then the client or employer will make sure that next time it's not you that's being paid a premium to be available and then it becomes a you problem.

So instead of checking a phone and replying to emails for maybe an hour per day, you end up wasting your life away on a salary that you're not happy with, complaining about the affordability of housing that's being snapped up by others who can affford it. Convinving yourself that the cans of lager that you bought in bulk at a reasonable price for your Saturday night at home again is better than the night out to eat in the restaurant that you want but can't afford. And worse still, your cherished annual leave is wasted on a package deal to Lanzarote again because you've been to Majorca the last two years and the kids are just too bored to go there again. Meanwhile you're moaning about they guy who checked his email in bed when he woke up, again when he had lunch and then a third time when he came home to change for dinner while on holiday, but he's somewhere that the guy who wouldn't ruin his holiday could only dream about.

I was not really been serious. But yes your stuff for your personal life should not be mixed with your work life