Work to live or live to work? The balance between private life And professional is increasingly a source of heated debate, in Italy It is in the world. In recent years, in fact, and in particular in the new generationsa pressing desire to chase the happiness instead of it salary and career, and this has sparked numerous complaints (particularly on social media) regarding the lack of free time, the lack of flexibility in working hours and, in general, the terrible working conditions Work to which one is subjected.
An employee of Dana Incorporated, a US company producing products for the automotive industry, used TikTok to talk about his condition, criticizing a system that does not take people’s well-being into consideration: at his colleaguea teenage boy, was not given the day off at the ceremony for his diploma.
Work: unlivable conditions
«At my job, at the moment, they are making us work 7 days a week – explains the man in the video published on his TikTok account -, and it has been going on like this for about two and a half months. It’s 8 hours, every day.” To better explain how the well-being of employees is not the company’s first priority, he says of one of his colleagues: «There are some employees who go to high school here. They work second shifts, like three to eleven, and I think it’s really difficult. I can’t even imagine going to high school and doing this stuff.”
Specifically, «this kid asked for a day off. Not holidays, he didn’t want to be paid, just a day off because he has to graduate. They told him no. They were like, “Sorry, but you’re not officially employed, so you don’t have vacation, so you can’t take days off.” And he said he had to… he literally had to graduate, it was his graduation day, “I just want to go to the graduation ceremony.” And they said, “Sorry, but you can’t.”
The man explains that he wanted to talk about the incident on social media in an attempt to go viral and, perhaps, broaden the conversation on the issue: «The world of work in the USA is bullshit – he says -. Terrible, really, really terrible. Even just working all week, for months, and then you give employees five days off, and you can’t take a day off.” The users totally agree and write: «No job is worth that much», «We need to normalize the fact of “informing” the company when you take the day off, rather than asking for it», «Perhaps the CEO should be forced to be there eight hours a day, 7 days a week.”
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