When people say flexible job I imagine they mean 0 hour contract with randomised shift work run by literal Satan as a shift manager and never being able to plan for anything ever because your life doesn’t coincide with anyone elses but also not flexible because you can’t ever reasonably take time off and whatever time you do take will earn you a last minute shift change or getting fired. Or the opposite, anxiously waiting to be alloted work that never comes and wondering how you’ll afford rent.
So yeah a 9-5 is probably better than a “flexible” job. The bar is low for better.
true. I forget that type of shit exists in office work honestly. It’s less common where I’m at (outside of like, food service ig), despite the fact that as far as I know, most jobs are effectively zero-hours because we have no labor rights here.
The way the article is phrased/framed I assumed they meant flexible as in work from home or the office as you choose but I wouldn’t put a little dishonest framing past Business Insider
I think the term for home/office is called hybrid rather than flexible. At least thats what they are calling it where I am.
The terms are stupid because they don’t reflect what they are.
Hybrid = wasting 12 hours a day to sit in the disease nexus and listen to asshat scream down the phone
Flexible work = we own every second of your life without pay and you will beg us for work
Yeah, I went from shift work on tips to a 9-5 and it’s nice. The political bullshit you have to deal with from owners and higher ups sucks, but overall it’s not that bad where I’m at compared to other horror stories I’ve heard.
I’ll take a 60 year old former JP Morgan employee that’s on the spectrum as a boss on a guaranteed 40 hours over some angry cokehead shift lead on a 0 hour any day.
If you want true hell, try working a factory job, which is what I do.
8 hours a night, on 3rd shift, at least 5 days a week, because half way through the week JIT logistics could just decide you need to work a 6th and 7th day.
