Why Everyone Is Quitting The 40 Hour Work Week

112 thoughts on “Why Everyone Is Quitting The 40 Hour Work Week”

1. People are quitting because companies love to hire awful managers, have no progression strategy, dangle the carrot to get you to run, while paying you terribly. Mix all of that with the increasing inflation with stagnant salaries makes it not worth the high stress for little.

   1. Exact reason why I quit

   2. Its very stressful! I make more than I ever have before and I have never been more broke!

   3. Truth

   4. Sad but true. Companies turn normal people in terrorist managers.

   5. Then they bring in immigrants on visas keeping the wages down so there’s no point

2. Because we realized that working 9-5 will not get us a house and family like our parents gen did.

   1. That’s a big part of it!

   2. That’s true.

   3. 100%, there is no more carrot doing the 9-5 anymore, it’s pure stick

   4. I guess being homeless is a better option

   5. I remember looking at coats at Sears years ago. A guy and a girl in their late 20s walked by and the guy said, “I actually know someone who bought clothes here once”, and the girl kind of laughed.
      It’s what my parents did and it’s what I do. We make our coffee and our meals at home and my old car runs just fine.
      So have your daily $4 latte and order something from Uber Eats, get the latest phone and make sure you’re never seen in a non-designer clothes. Then marvel at how the previous gens had it so easy.

3. The HARSH TRUTH is most jobs SUCK.

   1. People looking for jobs suck more.

   2. @@MrAndi1281 If you pay bad and make your workers buy the stuff they need for YOUR WORK than GFYS

   3. ​@@MrAndi1281 All of this, and other social media influencing/activism could end very fast if there was no advertisement money to be earned on these platforms.

   4. Not the job itself. It’s the people you work with that makes or breaks you wanting to work there.

   5. ​@@TheAnonymous916not 100% though, some companies are just run badly or have terrible policies that cause unnecessary stress and hardship for their staff.

4. I’m going to be 62 this year. Comparatively, I made a lot more money in the 90s. I don’t blame any younger person for wanting to drop out of this system.

   1. I’ll be 62 myself and 100% agree. Young people, if you can find a way to sustain yourself without a 40-hour job for a corporate, do it and don’t look back

   2. I’m born in 95 so 29 y/o, I can tell you I feel this. My parents make more money now then they used too but they don’t feel as rich as before it’s really weird. Things didn’t get worse but they don’t take as many vacations and worry about grocery prices where as before when they seemingly made less the were doing more (95-10)

   3. @@gman4141007 Yes, things have gotten very expensive. ✨💖✨

   4. When I was a kid my dad worked one job while my mom stayed home to watch us kids. Now both parents need a job to support their family and pay for daycare.

   5. @@gman4141007 The purchasing power of the $ is half of what it was 40 years ago. So even with more money you can afford significantly less.

5. Always remember that if you died for your job they’ve have your replacement before your obituary was written.

   1. 100%

   2. I saw this in real time and it was scary. His job was in the classifieds and his face in the memorials of the Sunday paper

   3. I will never understand people killing themselves for a job. Destroying your body and mind so your boss can have a third car or a bigger swimming pool.

   4. It’s true. I dear co worker of mine actually did die tragically – got hit by a car crossing the street to our office building! Within the week they were posting an opening for her position. Disgusting

   5. Replacement? No they just disperse your responsibility to your remaining coworkers.

6. If your soul leaves the job, your body should follow.

   1. I needed to hear this

   2. Best comment

   3. My soul never arrived for any job

   4. that’s a bar right there

   5. Be wary of putting your “soul” into any job.

7. It’s easy to answer: working a 9-to-5 job no longer gives us a life, but servitude.

   1. That’s precisely it. There’s no benefit to work. We all only do it because we’re threatened with homelessness and starvation for not working for someone. Many of us still go hungry and homeless even when employed by multiple jobs

   2. Aww poor thing

   3. If you are lucky to survive and are still mentally and physically well

   4. In 2022, the average work week was about 35 hours per week. In 1980 it was closer to 45 hours per week. We are moving away from slavery, but there is no doubt that today is slavery. We are all better off living off the land, hunting, sewing, and giving up our cars, TVs and PCs. Not all slaves were beaten. Some were treated very well.

   5. Might as well become a streamer

8. 98% of people want to quit their job 97% of people need their job to survive

   1. Exactly, one thing people need to live skinny, (within their means) by a used car instead of a new one, scrap cable, skip starbucks etc. I don’t mean live like a pauper, just don’t overdo it.

   2. @@3108frank1….people do live like paupers, poor spending habits are not why people are poor.

   3. Exactly😂😂😂

   4. @@3108frank1”just don’t overdo it” as if people don’t deserve to be able to spend their money on leisurely/luxury things after all the blood, sweat & tears they pour into keeping this system operating? So you want to perpetuate people living increasingly miserable lives and to just make do with the shillings they get from their slave wage jobs?

   5. And what does that say about modern society ? That most of us work jobs that keep us poor while making management and the bosses richer and richer ?

      If workers could at least maintain a basic standard of living even if they didn’t like their job then they’d be fine with it. Not everyone is fortunate to love their jobs, some work has to be done, we just ask we be able to put a roof over our heads and feed our family

9. I recently lost my mom, talking to my dad about it. His biggest regret is that he wasn’t able to be there more for her and the kids. This man was working easily 50-60 hours a week on a slow week to supply us all with food on the table. It shouldn’t have come to this, you shouldn’t have to choose between feeding your family and being a part of your family.

   1. That is so sad but I think as parents we all feel that pressure.

   2. This is sad.

   3. Right

   4. He was being there for them by working. Albeit excessive hours.

   5. Oh well, he knew that but did not do anything about it, and so he did accepted his deep regret to his dying days. But now, the question turns to us, are we going to do the same, and repeat the cycle?

10. The shift from “We live to Work” to “We Work to Live” is really a strong statement summarizing the issue

    1. 14:12 But what had “printing billions of dollars” to do with it? Sorry, but this made the video bad, in fact here in Germany (green line) a reason that our economy is not recovering from Corona and russian war is caused by a liberal finance minister who is blocking all goverment investments – money printing – in anything. The first thing people notice comming to our Soccer-EM was the trains are delayed. Yes cause the train infrastructure is famous for decaying since 1994.

    2. That’s not what is happening though. If you are plugged in, you will notice that the people who are quitting are not thriving — many of them are too exhausted or “lying flat”. Ambitious people who have the ability to work, are working two jobs.

    3. Printing more money, just makes more money to circulate, making the money esch person has worth less.
       Hope that makes sense.

    4. And that vicious cycle must be broken by your Second Amendment.

    5. ​@@larrypaulus9070 That is the first thought that comes to mind and like all first thoughts it is not the best. In reality people are not buying money every day, they are buying food and in reality banks are giving credits not the country so no, it does not make sense.

       Even assuming it was right our german finance minister would do the same thing as all goverments before so expecting the outcome to be different is like trying to hit the gas pedal harder when car fuel was already empty.
       Now nearly even liberal economists are against the stuff this guy tries to come up with. One of his party’s solutions was already to “allow” people to work more as pensioners or “allow” tax free overtimes.

       As a young keynesian economist point out there are many mistakes in modern liberal economic beliefes:
       If a state would start collecting its own money instead of printing to eliminate its depts and so “increase the wealth” he could only zero out resulting in the destruction of all money. This make zero sense and would not benefit anyone.

       In reality no one pays higher food price cause anyone anywhere printed more money – how should people even know about it? Companies only increase there prices for example when they have higher production cost like higher ressource costs or higher energy costs.

       Corona block cheap ressources from China and russian war cheap gas? Oups, look like there are some major reason right ahead.

11. “I wish I worked more” said no one ever on their death bed.

    1. Unless you’re not on salary and they pay you for the hour/project 🙂

    2. 😂😂😂true!

    3. “I am glad I never had steady work” said no one shivering and starving to death homeless under a bridge.

    4. @@colonialscientific1067 At least they were free.

    5. LOL Exactly.

12. I’m tired of looking up apartments and getting discouraged that the 20$/hr 45 hours a week I work is not enough to rent a studio apartment. This world is dumb. It needs to change.

    1. In the same boat 😢

    2. This issue is mostly in America only.

    3. @@mjgfromDDD not really

    4. @@mjgfromDDDexcept that’s not true.

    5. @@kami_sama0803 know examplea of living expenses and job market in other countries?

13. If I’m gonna work all day and still not afford a house and family then I don’t see the point.

    1. That is literally what i think! I have no desire to even start a family and have kids when i’m barely saving money monthly even a DOCTORATE. And home ownership is out of reach unless i want to work 60 hours a week for 15 years.

    2. whats even worse in my country working 40hr weeks puts you at the limit of the low tax bracket like it jumps from 17.5% straight up to 30% so if you worked 50hrs a week with minimum wage your only really getting about 5k extra a year which is absurd for the extra amount of time you traded

    3. So how did that college degree work out for ya?​@joshhowe9264

    4. @@jamesharmon3827 I’m glad I have it because i don’t have to struggle as bad as most people but i just feel there’s not many things to aspire for other than saving money very slowly and wishing I could afford a house lol. I am grateful overall there’s people in worse situations with crippling debt from college and no job or worse jobs than mine.

    5. So you work very little and can’t afford anything or are you on government assistance and still can’t afford anything.

       Gone are the days of independence and self reliability.

14. I am so sick of being over worked, underpaid, and unappreciated

    1. If the sheeps only knew that they are the real powers that should be, and have the courage to wield it.

       And you’ll see, mankind back on track *since the Declaration of Independence* !!!!

    2. Henry Ford initiated the 40 hour work week in 1926. He found his assembly line workers were more productive than those working longer hours. It was codified in the Fair Labor Standards Act.

    3. Then don’t ever be self-employed and never ever employ anybody else. Employees have all the rights, little to no responsibility, are too expensive to employ, can leave at the drop of a hat and cannot be sacked for, slowness, laziness, or rudeness to customers without several prior warnings by which time they can ruin a business.

    4. ​@analyticalhabitrails9857 noone has the nuts to take back anything anymore.

    5. I never did expect to be appreciated at work. I only expected to get paid on par with the quality of work i did. Sometimes, you just have to quit expecting too much.

15. People don’t realise it, but this is a spiritual revolution. People realise that they are working to maintain a system that is destroying human wellbeing and a healthy planet that humanity relies on.

    1. @EmbraSolomon People, my friend, are waking up after a very long trance which allowed them to be manipulated, by a small, but very powerful elite against their best interests and the good of mankind. It’s called transcendence. It’s gone on for centuries. Trance…end…dance. It’s time…time to forge a new relationship with ourselves, our beautiful world and save ourselves from the abbess that we are all heading into.

    2. 🎯💯😁👍

    3. facts

    4. EXACTLY❤

    5. Absolutely, and sadly many of us had to go through tough times to fully awaken

16. Because the 9-5 is actually 9-6(1h lunch break) add to that getting ready and commute it’s 8-7, after that you are completely drained and you still need to cook, clean, shower who the heck has time to have a life on this schedule and to raise children, I don’t even have time to date… we need part-time jobs with full time pay, otherwise what is the point of all this technological advancement?!

    1. Some employees get an extra hour a day for smoke breaks, on this basis non smokers should be able to go home an hour early

    2. I get only a 30 minute lunch break unpaid no breaks

    3. You guys are getting 1h breaks? 😢

    4. @ poor thing 🥲

    5. And try to raise a family on top of all of that.

17. I’m sick of constantly learning new skills, going to school, getting more certifications to continue making less, while everything costs more. It’s exhausting.

    1. You’re getting the wrong certificates and degrees!

    2. This is the boat I’m in. It’s like work and school endlessly 😔. I work in dentistry so it’s a lot

    3. ​@Anthonycapone8146 so pursuing your dream is basically chosing the wrong carrer path too? Tf?

    4. @BeansLive567  how do you know she’s pursuing her dream career? But yes, if it doesn’t generate enough to support yourself. Maybe your dream is better suited to be a hobby.

    5. @ sounds a bit unfair considering theres other ways to make money. im doing graphic design as a carrer in a university and i dont want to give up and do something that im gonna absolutely hate

18. If you just take a step back you really see how much we prioritise work and the illusion of stability. 40 hour week doesn’t include the work you take home or the overtime you get roped into. The travel or the work performance reviews twice a year where they pat you on the back at the same time increasing your workload by 10%. You put up with it because your financial situation is that you locked in. Your salary pays for the car you need to drive to work, the clothes you wear and the house you live in. Puts food on the table and sends your kids to school.

    1. u get paid more for doing more work and having more responsibility

       there is no work less for more

       then there is no point in promotion

19. Companies stayed open by using remote work. People got used to having a better work life balance. Now those companies are making everyone go back to work. Someone I know is looking for a different job because she’s being forced to return to the office. Staying home actually saves her money. She doesn’t have to buy new clothes, waste gas to drive to work, and all the time and wear and tear on the car. The job can be remote. Keep it that way!

    1. If you have a job that can be done remotely, you don’t have a real job. Answering emails and making phone calls all day is not working.

    2. @@WH17Y I disagree. Take a radiologist for example, much needed and very real profession that saves lives and can be done at home with access to a computer

    3. @@WH17Ywhat an ignorant comment, grow up and wake up

    4. That is dangerous. Why should they hire you then? They can hire someone from Nigeria, India… That is more skilled than you and is going to get paid half of what you’re asking. Hybrid is the best, but fully remote is dangerous for the future.

    5. @@WH17Yget a life 😅😂

20. If the pay literally cannot support even a one bedroom apartment, that’s not a job.

    1. Even slaves got food and housing.

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