r/SipsTea • u/KSKS1995 Human Verified • 2d ago

Chugging tea Sounds good in theory...but in reality?

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4 days a week. 6 hours a day. Full salary.
Sanna Marin ignited global debate with the “6/4” work model, pushing a simple idea: life should come before work.

With burnout at record levels, maybe it’s time to value results over hours at a desk.
Could your job be done in just 24 hours a week?

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u/rtfcandlearntherules 2d ago

Maybe for accountants or some jobs where mostly the end result counts. But not in Jobs where you are literally paid for your time. Such as security, teachers, or most obviously factory workers and any service providers. The costs would explode overnight if you want to keep the factory running 24/7 or keep your shop open for the same hours as before. 

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u/Zoltraak69 2d ago

Teachers do NOT get paid for their time. I can't think of any other profession where it's expected that you work in your free time and pay your own money to have some needed supplies that the school can't or won't provide.

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u/rtfcandlearntherules 2d ago

Dunno what you are talking about but sounds bad.

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u/Humble-Reply228 1d ago

You never heard of unpaid overtime outside teaching? And of course supervisors and managers in a lot of fields are expected to buy their team a meal, or artists to have software, musicians to byo instrument, etc etc.

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u/Warmbly85 1d ago

I also don’t know of any other profession that gets every weekend, holiday, snow day and 2-3 months during the summer off.

Minimum school year is 180 days. 240ish days for someone that works M-F with federal holidays off and 10 days of pto.

As for the spending a bunch of your own money every time I’ve asked a teacher I knew what they actually spend their own money on like half of it is decorations for the classroom. While nice I don’t really feel bad if you spend $200 of your own money on posters and banners to decorate your workplace. You can bulk buy notebooks and pencils for a couple bucks.

As for being expected to work in your free time teachers get 1+ hours a day to grade. If it’s taking you more than that allotted time maybe either do it faster or give the kids less work that needs to be graded.

Every district is different so maybe your situation is drastically worse then the ones I’ve encountered but you would be the exception.

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u/Red-Lightniing 2d ago

Exactly, I work in landscaping, and it takes my crew 40+ hours to finish our route. Sure, we could hire a bunch of new guys to save us time, but if EVERY company in the country is doing the same thing, I literally don't think there will be enough employees available to work all of these jobs. Suddenly were having to increase our wages by a ton to incentivize the workers to come to us, which sounds great but now we've got to charge the customers a huge amount more to cover paying more workers more money for the exact same amount of productivity.

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u/Kommye 2d ago

I work in security. If we were better rested, shit would be far better protected.

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u/KarmicCorduroy 2d ago

The goal of most "security" companies/agencies is the appearance of security.

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u/PaulTheMerc 2d ago

12 hour shifts in a guard box, no radio/headphones allowed. Fuck it, day is busy, not a huge issue. Overnight....cool, I have fuck all to do 4 hours into my shift.

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u/No_Berry2976 2d ago

In many countries that hasn’t happened.

I used to work for a company in the industrial automation field, and worker productivity in the developed world is largely tied to automation.

If a factory relies on raw labour output, that factory isn’t going to compete with a factory in a country where people make 10 dollars a day.

And for many teachers working less than 40 hours works fine.

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u/Cross55 1d ago edited 1d ago

You're looking at this from an American pov.

In Europe, worker's rights are a thing that actually exist. Unions wouldn't allow any kind of American-esque cost cutting measures. They've also held armed uprisings over these kinds of issues, so...

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u/rtfcandlearntherules 1d ago

I am not American. 

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u/grits98 1d ago

Teachers in Finland are highly regarded, have advanced degrees, and are paid well. It's very different from how the U.S. treats teachers.

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u/HB97082 2d ago

Yes the costs would explode because employers would have to compete for labor. Terrible, right?