There’s been recent momentum around shaming people for getting high-paying physical jobs or for demanding better working conditions. There's nothing 'conservative' or 'traditional' about wanting workers to suffer and get paid less. If we want to encourage families (and we should), this is one place to start.
If you get sick and don't rest up and take care of it, you are liable to get more sick. Man and machines need down time and maintenance. The idea that you keep working through illness sounds like false Stoicism to me.
Excellent rebuttal to the critics of sick leave. While there are numerous cases of abuse, denying or not taking sick leave is a form of pride in reaction to sloth. Neither sin is a virtue in the light of the other.
I've experienced the effects of draconian sick leave policies. Illness spreads like wildfire when companies force sick people to keep working. This usually stems from a lean staffing mindset that makes no provision for setbacks and allows no spare personnel. Likewise creating annual leave blackouts leads to use-or-lose scenarios, bad for both morale and productivity.
Great discussion, one that I have toiled with since I was a kid at Saint Pat’s elementary school.
No matter how much I agree…
I am always taken back to Genesis 3:17-19 and work/toil/sweat of the brow being part of our punishment for our original sin…
“And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.”
Yes, I think we have to remember that original sin is extinguished in Baptism; happily, work is no longer a curse in the age of Grace. Cheer up Will :)))
I think Matt Walsh's comment was more in reaction to the feminizing of men found in many a workplace. It's truly pathetic the level of abuse of leave; stealing really.
Work is hard, no one truly loves it. Oh yes "do what you love, and you won't work a day". But most work because they have to eat. Sweat, anxiety and danger are a part of that work for most.
Sure, look for better, safer, easier methods. Look at India, China, Africa.
You sound way too Catholic. Like why they used to be afraid to let so many Catholics in to the US. But don’t worry, clearly those kind of Catholics don’t last long here.
I would like to give Matt a temperature of over 100 and take him out to the construction site, give him a hammer and skill saw and tell him to frame this house. His comments are from somebody who has never done physical labor.
Thank you, Sarah. I particularly needed to hear this now as I'm constantly guilt tripping myself when I spend too much time not working my secular work. But we work to live and support the work of the holy spirit.
The sooner we can put to grave for good the Chamber of Commerce, Wall Street Journal editorial page, essentially in many respects valueless--except with regard to purported "economics" and "anything goes" LOL--libertarian strain of purported "conservatism" that has dominated both the Republican party and to some extent in certain ways the "post liberal" country for a good half century the healthier, purer, and more happy America will be. There also is a LOT more to life and what comes next than how hard we work for money today.
You'd also have to put to bed the far out leftist so-called progressives (socialists) in order for your vision to actually work and create the value necessary to support that happiness - wouldn't you Micheal?
If you get sick and don't rest up and take care of it, you are liable to get more sick. Man and machines need down time and maintenance. The idea that you keep working through illness sounds like false Stoicism to me.
Excellent rebuttal to the critics of sick leave. While there are numerous cases of abuse, denying or not taking sick leave is a form of pride in reaction to sloth. Neither sin is a virtue in the light of the other.
I've experienced the effects of draconian sick leave policies. Illness spreads like wildfire when companies force sick people to keep working. This usually stems from a lean staffing mindset that makes no provision for setbacks and allows no spare personnel. Likewise creating annual leave blackouts leads to use-or-lose scenarios, bad for both morale and productivity.
Great discussion, one that I have toiled with since I was a kid at Saint Pat’s elementary school.
No matter how much I agree…
I am always taken back to Genesis 3:17-19 and work/toil/sweat of the brow being part of our punishment for our original sin…
“And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.”
Genesis 3:17-19 KJV
https://bible.com/bible/1/gen.3.17-19.KJV
Yes, I think we have to remember that original sin is extinguished in Baptism; happily, work is no longer a curse in the age of Grace. Cheer up Will :)))
I think Matt Walsh's comment was more in reaction to the feminizing of men found in many a workplace. It's truly pathetic the level of abuse of leave; stealing really.
Work is hard, no one truly loves it. Oh yes "do what you love, and you won't work a day". But most work because they have to eat. Sweat, anxiety and danger are a part of that work for most.
Sure, look for better, safer, easier methods. Look at India, China, Africa.
But please, work.
Excellent points, thank you for this
It's like being human is suddenly a liability. They want autobots doing route routines, not human beings with.a life.
You sound way too Catholic. Like why they used to be afraid to let so many Catholics in to the US. But don’t worry, clearly those kind of Catholics don’t last long here.
Walsh sounds like a guy who never worked a real job in his life.
I would like to give Matt a temperature of over 100 and take him out to the construction site, give him a hammer and skill saw and tell him to frame this house. His comments are from somebody who has never done physical labor.
Thank you, Sarah. I particularly needed to hear this now as I'm constantly guilt tripping myself when I spend too much time not working my secular work. But we work to live and support the work of the holy spirit.
The sooner we can put to grave for good the Chamber of Commerce, Wall Street Journal editorial page, essentially in many respects valueless--except with regard to purported "economics" and "anything goes" LOL--libertarian strain of purported "conservatism" that has dominated both the Republican party and to some extent in certain ways the "post liberal" country for a good half century the healthier, purer, and more happy America will be. There also is a LOT more to life and what comes next than how hard we work for money today.
You'd also have to put to bed the far out leftist so-called progressives (socialists) in order for your vision to actually work and create the value necessary to support that happiness - wouldn't you Micheal?