Nine to five and traffic jams

I hate jams so much I changed jobs and now cycle to work (20 mins) which is much better.
I used to work in london and had to drive in at 4.00 am and sleep in my car until 8.45 which ment no traffic jam to sit in.

been sat here since last monday or so it seems..a great way to meet new friends

Sack your job off and become an artist..its a fxxxng doddle. You can easily make your salary and you don't have to bother with daily 'how do you do's' or miserable biscuit faced fxxxng collegues pretending that they like you!
Buy some paint some canvases pack a tent and fxxk off to France, Italy or Spain. This country is full of cynical fxxxers who pin you down with their 'oh you bet not do that or it's a bit of a risk' fxxk them take the plunge...or you will be the next statistic. Do you really want to part with 75 percent of you living days to being a slave? Pack your backs and do it....cliche...but life is no rehearsal

I hate traffic jams too! Unfortunately I have to travel on the M25 a lot, at least 2-3 days a week, sometimes every day. Stressed is NOT the word!! I found a website: ihatetheM25(.co.uk) which is great cos you can rant and let off steam, heh heh. AND you get a fab email address too.

I totally agree with the original gripe. I get up at 6am , leave at 7.30 to get to work for 9am - a usual 45 min journey at rush hour takes 1 hr 30 mins. But I like my job very much so I gotta put up with it . My other half has to start work at 8 am - takes a hour to get to work , his company he works for is basically a gestapo toilet and the hours are 8am till 6pm - even though no ones actually starts calling the office until 9am. He works relentlessly , doesnt take time off sick cos they will sack him for that , has over 31 final warning letters for being in two minutes late , ( what about all the times he works till 8 or 9pm at night? ) at the end of the week is physically and mentally exhausted , sleeps all weekend . You could say that he should leave - but you know how it is - when you wanna leave you can get another job! - I feel out of the 7 days of the week - its not right that only 2 days of that week are for your own personal time. Its all very well if you like your job - but a prison sentence if you dont.
its all work and no play - even when I go to see my dad on a sunday I'm sitting in a queue on the M1 - how are we rewarded ? speeding fines , toll gates , possible new black box in cars charging you by the mile to drive on the flaming road - etc etc

Being an electrician I have to drive to work and around at work to do my job and everyday get stuck in jams with suited persons alone in thier cars,These people do not need to drive they only have to take paper from home to an office and could easily do this on public transport. However as these people are all seriously overpaid for shuffling paper they can easily afford any petrol hikes or other ideas the government uses to get people out of thier cars so the only people who suffer are the few minimum wage workers who drive to work as there are never any buses anywhere that arrive before nine oclock.

hmm yeah lets open all the shops 24hrs a day - just as long as we dont have to work in them. how do you all think you were able to shop right up until the last minute on christmas eve and then first thing on boxing day? Also RP lazy assistants I think not we start at 6am where I work an work till 8pm we dont all do 9-5 like you claim!

I agree with everything this articles says. The working culture of this country is completely out of date. In fact, workers in Great Britain work the longest hours in Europe. Why on earth do we work an average but arbitary forty hours a week? During the industrial revolution, many philosophers believed that there would be far more leisure time available to us in the future. Indeed, the American thinker Buckminster Fuller felt that 90% of the work undertaken by mankind served no use whatsoever. For those of you who are interested (ie: not you RP) here is a list of websites dedicated to the delightful anti-work message:

idler.co.uk
timeday.org
anxietyculture.com
whywork.org
shalomctr.org
timesizing.com
worklessparty.com
worktolive.info
swt.org

Have fun!

Actually Bill, it is called . . .ahem. . .lazyness. Lots of people get up before dawn because they care about what they do. Those who don't, have no care in the world, they bash their brains to the point of. . .well. . . hysteria. They cannot ever conceive the idea that some of us get up early because it is the right thing to do! No matter what ailments they might have, some people manage to pull their weight! Some don't, but that is their problem.

Rollocks RP,Get real folks, No point in shops opening any time before or after 9, as most people are too lazy to shop before or after then.

Rollocks RP,

On the continent 24 hour shopping work, and works well. It's just the UK shopping Laws that's to blame.You can buy anything you want, sundays included, here,10am till 4pm,and thats your lot.Bloody stupid I say.

Or rather the 'WON'T get up sindrome' Never mind, at least they can have a nice little lazy lie in while everyone else is doing their bit for society!!!!! Some of us have 'pride' and work towards it. At least we can die happy in the knowledge we have done something usefull. Heheh . .

Get real folks, No point in shops opening any time before or after 9, as most people are too lazy to shop before or after then. Some do of course. I had the misfortune of going to a shopping center in the north of England, only to find I had to wait two hours. . . YES TWO HOURS while the lazy assistants dribbled in to get to their shops in time for 10:30! Doesn't matter what time they work to in the evenings, they are too lazy to work proper hours. I agree, we should be more flexible, but hey, sadly a lot of people will choose to come into work late rather than early. It is the 'cant(. . . ahem. . . )get up sindrome'