killin those lifts man
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Work for this arvo:
20mins run.
It sucked. It rained. My shoes have holes in them. This sucked.
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A few months ago (when I was jogging somewhat regularly) it started raining while I was a mile from home. I saw this dude mowing his grass, and like me, he continued what he was doing despite the rain.
(To be fair, I didnāt exactly have a choice - walking would have resulted in getting even more wet)
I thought to myself, he wants a nice lawn exactly the same way I want a nice (whatever it is that Iām supposed to get from running - low BF, GPP, CV health, ālikesā on the T-ransformation thread LOLā¦)
We do what we gotta do. And we get a sense of satisfaction, I think, when we do it in spite of inconveniences.
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Some good discussion about life, work, balance, and economics in this thread. I like it.
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I didnāt mean to imply your career choice in particular but rather your specific place of employment. It sounds like your place of work is not very ethical. Ya, that would be a shitty place to work at.
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I donāt think work life balance can be a real thing if youāre in a company is trying to stay globally competitive/dominant. The best thing would be for everyone involved to be honest about it and for managers to find ways to properly compensate their employees- be it financially or emotionally. I think many of the shitty companies have managers who are willfully ignorant about this, which breeds discontent.
No one officially expects me to do 72 hour weeks. They expect a project to be completed within a certain time-frame. And the only consistent rule in all project planning seems to be that people underestimate the required effort.
I mean, thatās why exempt employees exist in the U.S., right? Thatās why I find people solely talking about 40hr workweeks strange. Itās like they forget that there are another, entirely separate category of employees out there.
And I just find it mind-boggling when the exempt employees start demanding 40hr workweeks. I meanā¦ your contract LITERALLY tells you that you are exempt. Why do you think the concept of the 40hr workweek applies to you? You shouldnāt have signed that piece of paper to begin with.
I was at one hell hole where they actually Paid supervisors to schedule their crews to work weekends, plus completion bonuses, and the scumbag actually took a company allowance for our division Christmas party and kept it, buying us each a scratch off lottery ticket and trying to explain how that was sooo much better than if he had done a catered party with a little extra in an envelope.
Talk about discontentment. When that news got out he had to go work somewhere else.
So there was really quite a lot of incentive to work us as hard/long as possible. We were hourly, but still, coercion at the threat of job loss so he could rake in bonuses is really dickheaded.
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I imagine that, if one of you guys actually did win, he would have demanded that it be shared (with him getting the lionās share of course) cause it was his brilliant idea to buy those tickets.
Thatās fucked. Honestly, what fucks any decent idea people have is that there will always be someone who is going to abuse the shit out of it for their own personal gain.
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Well, this is what I meant with my later post about exempt employees. I have no idea what the labor law in England is so I donāt know if any of what I write applies.
If a promotion caused you to go from hourly to salaried with a massive increase in expected time investment and without the appropriate financial benefit then I think that company is taking advantage of you and they can go fuck themselves.
Iām already salaried. The salary would increase noticeably, but so would the expectation of work levels and commitment.
You have to remember I work in food retail, where exploitation of labour is absolutely the bedrock the entire industry is based on. My company is actually among the best in the industry at compensating fairly, but thatās only because the barbis so very, very low.
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Work for this evening:
100 burpees
Fuck me. I think running was better.
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Oh Gosh. You have my condolences. I cannot imagine working in that field.
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Running is never better, my dude. Never.
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This is rampant in my industry also. Maybe not as bad as food production. But the pseudo self employed is where we get it.
āWeāll pay you Ā£1.50 for every meter of kerbs you put inā
2 guys can install 120m of kerb on a straight run. But on the radius stuff - lucky to hit 50m a day. If they kick off - they are shipped back to the EU and 2 more guys arrive and do the same work.
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Work for this morning:
TBDL (ss. BPAs):
5 x 1 @ 120kg
Notes:
- Was planning a whole load of swings and stuff after but something went fucky in my back on the third rep here. I was stupid enough to put a belt on and finish the ārequired workā but not stupid enough to push further. Is fairly painful.
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Work for today:
Front Squat:
5 x 5 @ 85kg
Press:
5 x 40kg
5 x 50kg
3 x 55kg
1 x 70kg
1 x 70kg
0 x 72.5kg
8 x 57.5kg
5 x 10 @ 42.5kg
Pull ups:
50
Decline Bench Russian Twist thingies:
50
BPAs:
100
Notes:
- All supersetted in various ways.
- I want to make 70kg standard for me on Press so Iāll do it as a joker every main pressing session. Got greedy with the 72.5kg. Felt like a million tonnes, definitely a mental barrier.
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The curve at the top end of pressing is just absurdly steep. Goes from relatively okay to completely impossible over just a couple kilo.
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Pin presses, baby.
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Sure, for some people at least? Never tried them myself, but it seems more likely that will help people who have trouble locking out at the top of the lift?
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Iāve tried them. Did absolutely nothing for me at all.