I dont understand this. Like… we know that productivity falls like a rock after 8 hours so even an evil soulless capitalist would have a reason not to want to work people for longer than that in a day. But I guess South Korea is hell bent on retaining its awful work culture until the birthrate drops to zero.
I believe it’s entitlement. The managerial class believes there are owed employees’ time like that.
Like all of this class, they are very short sighted and can’t conceive of the knock on effects.
I worked at a small business and actually had an interaction like this with the owner. There was a power outage that basically made doing business impossible. It wasn’t going to be a short term thing either. The power could be out all day.
I asked the owner if I could go home for the time being. If the power came back on, then he could give me a call, and I’d be right back in. He scoffed at the idea! I was a salaried employee! I had already been paid for a FULL day of work! So what? The power’s out and I can’t do my work without power. He was adamant that, since he paid me, I had to do whatever he said for that entire day. If he wanted me to scrub the floor, then I’d scrub the floors! He paid me! I need to listen to him! I ended up sitting at my desk, in the dark, doing nothing, for 6 hours. The owner did the same thing in his office. It was wild.
It’s then that I realized we both saw employment from very different perspectives. I saw it as a trade, but he saw it as indentured servitude. I belonged to him until he said otherwise because he gave me money.
That doesn’t surprise me. Some people really do have an empathy problem. I recall someone once claim that if you spend time at work not working (like a break) you’re committing theft.
In your example I’d wager that the dude didn’t fully understand what you actually did there.
15 hours. That has nothing to do with productivity. That’s just sadism.
Edit: I also like how they frame a 52 hour week „40 hour week“. If your maximum is set at 52 hours, your shitty boss will make that the norm.
I hope the Korean people riot
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I think I’d be setting that building on fire on my next 15 hour shift.
The building is innocent.
The boss on the other hand.
I dont think that for a poor born south Korea is any better than north Korea. You say anything but not even slaves from 150 years ago worked 15 hours a day.
I read this as Kansas Supreme Court and was really confused. Korean Supreme Court makes more sense.
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