The new normal in work culture is for everyone to be in touch. Always. No exceptions. A friend of mine who works in public relations has taken to wearing an Apple Watch because she’s not allowed to go more than three hours without responding to a client. That’s on the weekends. During the week, it’s an hour. Another friend, a former White House staff member, had to leave a wedding to take a work call. This was for his new job, where he is no longer working for the leader of the free world, and he still felt that he couldn’t wait until the couple said “I do” before jumping on a conference call.
| Jennifer Close, The Vacation-Taker Denier in Chief
Work has colonized every compartment of our lives. There is no ‘leisure’ – which has seemed a quaint term for a long-time – there is only work and its absence, fleeting spans of involuntary non-work, increasingly brief moments when we shut down to sleep, procreate, eat, shit, or are out of touch of wifi. And we are supposed to accept as little non-work as is humanly possible is we want to be winners, strivers, doers, makers not takers.
Downtime is for losers.
Vacation? What vacation?
Get back to work, you fucking slacker.
(via stoweboyd)
This is why I wanted (almost) nothing to do with my Old Company.
My present job holds zero “growth” promise, but not living in this kind of work hell was a precondition for taking it.
I still log in on weekends, sometimes, and only when I want to.
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