Changing full employment

[astuffedshirt_perv]

I really like successful, smart people. Unfortunately, it is hard to write about young people like that because the ones I know are so driven they don't have a lot of free time. Working all the time can sure be an impediment to a good erotic story. So I had an idea, and now it turns out Amazon is implementing it.

My idea: JPM's Jamie Dimon is forced out after the London Whale deal. His successor implements a growth plan: 30 hour weeks, firm, with periodic surges. JPM grows employees by 30%, but they all work a lot less and therefore have a lot of free time. So you have young, driven, educated, wealthy people available to play in your story.

 

[Hypoxia]

If they're driven and money-oriented, they'll quit JPM for employers paying more money for more time worked. JPM will be left with slackers and will be devoured by competitors. R.I.P. JPM.

If you want to include young workaholics in a story, give them opportunities for quick fucks at work. Dimon's successor institutes snuggle rooms and staff sex workers. Productivity soars!

 

[astuffedshirt_perv]

If they're driven and money-oriented, they'll quit JPM for employers paying more money for more time worked. JPM will be left with slackers and will be devoured by competitors. R.I.P. JPM.

I radically disagree. While wall street is currently driven by a money-above-all mentality, there is a significant amount of talent that leaves every year when they have had enough. If there is one thing a company cannot have enough of, it is talent. If JPM could not only retain the best talent but also get more of it, they could become an even bigger juggernaut. We'll see how this pans out a Amazon.

 

[CuttingEdge]

France tried a 32 hour work week and it was a colossal failure and went back to a 40 hour week.

 

[tomlitilia]

France tried a 32 hour work week and it was a colossal failure and went back to a 40 hour week.

This might risk turning this thread away from the subject, but do you have a souce for that? My understanding is that it has never been tested on a large scale.

 

[Hypoxia]

I radically disagree. While wall street is currently driven by a money-above-all mentality, there is a significant amount of talent that leaves every year when they have had enough.

But would they move to a less-stressful but still profit-oriented big organization? Or would they head to NGOs and Small-Is-Beautiful enterprises? Or go independent?

The QUARTZ article Technology is taking jobs away from men—and reviving a pre-industrial version of masculinity suggests we're moving from the Industrial Revolution model of employment (working regular hours away from home, taking orders from somebody) to the earlier artisan / farmer model (work at home for yourself when you need to). Such transitions are traumatic:

Many men lost their jobs when technology made them obsolete. The new jobs available were soul-crushing, undignified, and required an arduous commute—and that’s assuming companies would hire them. Most employers wouldn’t, because the men were considered too old and unskilled for the new work. And then a false prophet with messy hair emerged, promising to give power back to workers and decried the indignity of what work had become.

Sounds familiar? I’m not describing the current economy, but 19th century England during the industrial revolution. Back then, technology also radically altered how humans worked. It upset men’s place in society. And it makes what’s happening today seem tame.

But what's happening today is accelerating. Many of those ground-up and spat-out by NWO machinery, such as the Wall Street "talent that leaves every year when they have had enough," as you say, are just more likely to leave that world behind IMHO.

 

[astuffedshirt_perv]

But would they move to a less-stressful but still profit-oriented big organization? ... Many of those ground-up and spat-out by NWO machinery, such as the Wall Street "talent that leaves every year when they have had enough," as you say, are just more likely to leave that world behind IMHO.

As I said, Amazon is giving it a try, so I guess we'll find out. It does lead to interesting questions on the work-life balance. 75% of a million dollar bonus is still good dough. Plus there is the surge idea: when the acquisition in in the final weeks, JPM now has a third more players to put in the game.

 

[Hypoxia]

Let's get LIT-erotic here.

JPM's new boss (promoted from within) has observed that smiling employees emerging from storage closets in pairs are very productive afterward. S/he sets up some private offices as "relaxation lounges" where staff can retire for an hour's privacy. The program is so successful that the boss orders an "expanded lunch hour", a three-hour mid-day break... with lunch and wine delivered to each "relaxation lounge" in the office and every rocking RV in the parking lot. Now the workday is 3 hours of morning meetings, 3 hours of midday lounging / eating / fucking, and 3 hours of afternoon creative work.

Productivity and profits soar. Do competitors notice, and try to copy the program? I await Amazon's on-campus fuck-rooms.

 

[astuffedshirt_perv]

My use of this idea was more in the creation of a story space for sexy times to develop.
Example: newly hired college grad is not only pulling in 6 digits, but also has a free week every month. Having slaved away during college, they now get tempted by more earthly pleasures. Plus, they have the funds to explore...or be explored.

It is really hard for me to buy into a passionate, all consuming love affair when the parties are working 60 hour weeks. Much better having time to reflect and fan the flames of passion.

 

[Hypoxia]

Example: newly hired college grad is not only pulling in 6 digits, but also has a free week every month.

That's the IRL problem. One doesn't pull in six digits working part-time. Financial-world success comes from monitoring the numbers full-time. Missing action by even an hour can be ruinous. I have personal losses attesting to this.

This is not theoretical. My sis-in-law was a VERY senior exec in a MAJOR financial firm. She was on the road and in the air 24 days per month, and at her desk the other days, year after year. When she sold her division to another firm, she wrote herself out of the org chart. That's how she retired. People who didn't put in those hours didn't make very much and had no chance at promotion.

Where to take the idea? I suggested a fuck-for-work program. We could also have a hard-driver who schedules regular fuck-breaks. Fun comes when they party. Drama comes when there's a major market shift while they party. They re-surface in time to deal with the volatility, then return to partying. Oooh...