I get so tired of hearing how much harder these people work. Every “manly man” job I’ve had is mostly talking to the boys and drinking coffee unless there’s something really important going on.
I temped in some industrial supply offices in my 20s, and this is what I saw back then, too. I kinda suspect that these kinds of jobs sorta foster that “I work SO HARD!” attitude as a form of denial and an attempt at preservation of a facade.
Just like the men who removed the most about women gossiping are always the first ones to grab a beer and start yammering the second someone starts wrenching on something. 🙄 dudes rock.
Everyone talks about doing that big double shift or that month where we worked a billion hours etc but nobody talks about how, averaged out over the year, we still didn’t actually work even close to a full day
my partner and i work in the same place, he’s on the ‘blue collar manly man doing thangs’ side and i’m on the ‘get screamed at for 8 hours by rich boomers and xers who basically think of me as furniture’ side and from his own perspective his job is less stressful, less constantly engaged, less supervised, and overall just less work. he also makes ~2.5x what i make. unfortunately most of his chud ass colleagues think like the rabid gammons on tweeters so they’re not even willing to organize amongst themselves let alone with us ‘nutty old bints’
Actually yes they should 
I temped in some industrial supply offices in my 20s, and this is what I saw back then, too. I kinda suspect that these kinds of jobs sorta foster that “I work SO HARD!” attitude as a form of denial and an attempt at preservation of a facade.
Just like the men who removed the most about women gossiping are always the first ones to grab a beer and start yammering the second someone starts wrenching on something. 🙄 dudes rock.
Everyone talks about doing that big double shift or that month where we worked a billion hours etc but nobody talks about how, averaged out over the year, we still didn’t actually work even close to a full day
my partner and i work in the same place, he’s on the ‘blue collar manly man doing thangs’ side and i’m on the ‘get screamed at for 8 hours by rich boomers and xers who basically think of me as furniture’ side and from his own perspective his job is less stressful, less constantly engaged, less supervised, and overall just less work. he also makes ~2.5x what i make. unfortunately most of his chud ass colleagues think like the rabid gammons on tweeters so they’re not even willing to organize amongst themselves let alone with us ‘nutty old bints’