The industrial tycoon said Russia needed a radical increase in labor.
    • Shyze3D@feddit.orgEnglish
      18·
      1 day ago

      As long as this is about people in Russia and as long as this will lead to an end of the war, I don‘t care. Seems like sanctions pressure them to suggest this.

    • azimir@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      My school tried to schedule me teaching 9 hours straight (sorry, with a 45 minute break, so a total of 9:45). Get fucked. Teaching is fraking energy intensive and I literally can’t keep going that long. Their reasoning? It’s hard to schedule the classrooms since we refuse to get enough of them, so we’ll just have the faculty and students have insane schedules. Did I mention it was also going to have university students be in class 9 hours per day? NO ONE can learn like that, but it’s really good at saving money.

      • idiomaddict@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        23 hours ago

        I’ve been doing four hours teaching at a university in the mornings and six as a barista in the afternoon, and I’m fucking dying from the energy drain. Nine hours of just teaching would have me curling up and bed rotting every day after work.

        • azimir@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          4 hours ago

          Huge hugs all around for those making ends meet with their own two hands!

          My so-called university is run by people who have never taught a class in their lives. I’m getting out asap.

          • idiomaddict@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            52 minutes ago

            Good, for you (not sarcasm). I know some people teach at universities mostly to support their research, but if you’re there to educate, it sounds like a horrible environment for all involved.

            • azimir@lemmy.mlEnglish
              2·
              12 minutes ago

              Thank you. I do like the teaching and student outcomes more than research. That’s not a route to huge success as a professor if you’re measuring on the money, rank, and fame scale, but it’s who I am and seeing my students succeed is my life affirming activity.

              When I get out asap it’ll be to another school where I hope I can find a community who values education, not just a grant size measuring contest. It’s somewhere out there.

  • weeeeum@lemmy.worldEnglish
    251·
    1 day ago

    This will surely help their demographic crisis!

    “Mothers, fathers, please work 6 days a week, 12 hours a day, while raising half a dozen children for the meat grinder”

  • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
    2·
    22 hours ago

    Man, imagine if all those soldiers were suddenly called back into civilian life, I’m mr tycoon there would love the “radical increase in labor”