#it’s wild how higher up you go the better use of time you get#like if I was a base employee I’d have to be busy constantly and have to take that 30 minute lunch#with my time super heavily monitored#where as now I have more responsibilities but more down time with less oversight (tags by @preciouscommoditybears)
I think this is actually a huge issue - a lot of people who "work really hard" in high-paying jobs often have a lot of flexibility in their work day and they frequently don't see it. On the other hand, work days in low-paying service industry jobs are often so heavily regimented they leave little room for human nature.
I sometimes don't feel well, but I have the opportunity to end work earlier that day and work longer on a different day, or shift to less demanding work and do the demanding work once I feel better. Nobody complains. Not so for someone who needs to do X tasks within an allotted timeframe, often while understaffed.
One of my former bosses spent like half of his working hours at events (often catered), but could not understand how working in an office (the office he was the boss of!!) with no external windows, where the phones keep ringing for ten hours a day and mails need to be responded to within 24 hours might eventually burn a person out. He was working very hard too!
