#work ethics

[vintagepromotions]

‘Good money deserves Good measure’ ‘Full pay deserves Full time’

A poster from the ‘Bill Jones’ work ethics poster series, featuring a shopkeeper pressing down on a scale to increase the price of an item, and a man leaving work early while others continue working (1928).

[marilynthornhilllover]

Being a psychologist made me realize how fucked up the world really is....

[sentimental-apathy]

How do I bring up the issue of break time at my new job?? They only give a 10 minute break for a 6 hour shift and I looked it up and in WV employers are, by law, supposed to give at least a 20 minute break for 6 hours or longer. What do I do? How do I bring it up without possibly bringing on repercussions? I need this job but it pays kinda shitty and it's a bit of a drive. But I'm desperate for a job cuz I've been unemployed for well over a year and struggling. Idk how to approach this or if I should just suck it up and deal.

[joandfriedrich]

In her novels, Louisa May Alcott emphasises characters' spiritual transformation when they fall in love with one another. This happens to Laurie when he falls for Amy and to Jo when she falls for Friedrich. How did Louisa May Alcott and other transcendentalists view love? They saw love as something sacred, based on the idea that you build something bigger with your significant other.

[goodblacknews]

Celebrating NBA Champion Kobe Bryant and His Wisdom on Work Ethics (LISTEN)

Celebrating NBA Champion Kobe Bryant and His Wisdom on Work Ethics (LISTEN)

by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) Today, GBN celebrates the accomplishments and legacy of NBA champion, Olympic Gold medalist, Academy Award winner and philanthropist Kobe Bryant. To read about Bryant, read on. To hear about him and some of his wise words, press PLAY: https://goodblacknews.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/GBNPADpod041822.mp3 [You can subscribe to the Good Black News…

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[starship-melancholy]

Here is a problem with the idea of "you get to play when you've done your homework".

While on a surface level, this seems like a good way of teaching children healthy work ethics and a sense of responsibility/the idea of a work-reward correlation, it can seriously backfire and cause lasting damage one has to undo through hard work during adulthood.

As a "closeted" neurodivergent kid, I was raised with abled standards and expectations, which I gradually fell short of, but while I was obviously less and less able to keep up with the workload that was expected of me, noone ever cared to adjust the expectations, which lead to me overworking and breaking myself over and over again. Then, when I was obviously stressed to a point of full dysfunction, those same people would tell me that I needed to relax, which was honestly just confusing, because a, that's two conflicting rules that are mutually exclusive, and b, how the hell was I supposed to know what even relaxing meant when I never really got to explore that option, because I was too busy being perpetually behind on my "homework".

So basically, while the idea of "you get to play when you're done with your homework" is great in theory, but in action it played out something like this:

What I did not get:

- good work ethics

- a sense of satisfaction or being rewarded for my work

- motivation to do whatever my "homework" was

What I did get:

(As a child)

- sloppy homework (most of it done at school between or during classes)

- not being able to enjoy playtime because after a full day of schoolwork, extracurriculars and studying I rarely had the energy to actually enjoy anything

(As an adult)

- not having had a moment of guilt-free pleasure for the past 25 years

- feeling like I don't deserve fun

- feeling inadequate

- lots and lots of internalised ableism

- never having learnt what relaxing means

- never having learnt what I might find enjoyable as free time activities

- fun, joy and relaxation being the lowest on the priority list, and eternally associated with a sense of guilt, shame and cheating

- feeling like I had to earn even the most basic human needs being met, and if I couldn't do the work, I wouldn't have the right to rest, relax or do anything restorative

- the idea that my worth as a human being was solely defined by my level of productivity

- the feeling that getting what I want/need is forever unobtainable.

So yeah, that's what I'm trying to unlearn now. I don't have a better suggestion as to what to teach children, honestly, I still think that it's not a bad idea to teach children tangible responsibility through connecting work and reward, but I would also kindly suggest to adjust the message and maybe spend more time on unpacking the meaning behind it, just in case the kid turns out to be the kinda weirdo who would get seriously fucked up by getting the wrong end of that story.

[figureskatingconfessions]

“I honestly think that coaches should think twice about speaking ill of their atheletes’ work ethic. I feel like this is common with Russian coaches, like what happened to Serafima Sakhanovich, and the rest of Eteri's former students.”