Long hours, low pay and a nightmare boss: How we spend 106 days of our life moaning about work

August 1st, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

By
Emma Clark

PUBLISHED:

14:53 EST, 31 July 2012

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UPDATED:

14:53 EST, 31 July 2012

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse…it turns out we’re wasting up to 170 days of our lives moaning.

The average person spends 14.5 minutes off-loading problems and gripes on friends and family when they get home from work, a survey found.

However, replaying our worries and whines helps relieve stress levels over the course of our working lives, the study claimed.

A poll of 2,000 people found that we are finding it increasingly harder to shed our worries after leaving the office.

Almost half of us, 45 per cent, are having a harder time relaxing than we did a year ago.

Women find it harder than men to switch off from work, according to a new survey

Time spent moaning about their worries equates to 106 days in the average person’s working life.

Geordies came in as the biggest moaners, spending 23.5 minutes a night on average replaying their problems – equivalent to 170 days over a lifetime.

Christine Stoddart said: ‘With work and money pressures mounting for the average family, the living room, and the sofa in particular, have become absolutely vital to the wellbeing of the nation.

‘Whatever job you do, from hairdresser to lawyer, the importance of that “Ahh” moment, when you finally get to relax into your evening and switch off, cannot be underestimated.’

Men and women have to put up with their partners moaning about work for around 14 minutes when they get home

Almost half of us, 45 per cent, are having a harder time relaxing than we did a year ago

Women and young people struggle the most with switching off more than one in two admitting to finding it difficult to leave work behind.

But surprisingly it was hairdressers who have the hardest time unwinding, followed by chefs and nurses.

In contrast, West Midlanders spend just nine minutes each night, equal to 65 days over a lifetime.

The research, by furniture chain DFS, found lounging on a sofa was the most popular way to de-stress after work (56 per cent), followed by a hot bath (16 per cent).

The average person takes 45 minutes to switch off from their working day.

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Stop whining…..go on the dole….it’s a nanny state…..they “owe it” to you.

– pop, boston, 01/8/2012 03:22

Try working at Sports Direct

– tom, Cambridge, 01/8/2012 02:03

Just 106 hours in a lifetime? I have been working for 12 years and have heard the same bunch of people whinging about work countless hours every day (often myself included – it’s a group activity!). 106 hours per year sounds about right!

– Wandering Brit, Here and There, 01/8/2012 01:51

I quit my job job as a stablehand last year because I was criticised for being ‘too thorough’. I worked my backside off looking after animals who were worth 10s and sometimes 100s of thousands of dollars who were stuck in stables most of their lives. I consistently worked for longer than I claimed so that I could get things that NEEDED to be done and weren’t being done by the weekday worker. My boss asked me why couldn’t I just do what ‘X’ did during the week-as that was ‘good enough’, and I said I’m sorry but I could never lower my standards that far; he used to hit the horses for no reason, not fill and clean water containers, not administer medicines…the list goes on. The owner bought another stallion from OS (6 figures all up) but begrudged paying me $17 an hour to care for them!

– Penelope, Canberra Australia, 01/8/2012 01:21

I imagine that figure is overshadowed by the amount of time people spend moaning about the weather.

– RossD89, Lancashire, 01/8/2012 00:24

I don’t, I love my job.

– I was looking for news, and all I got was this, 31/7/2012 23:40

Go on benefits then. I’ve not worked since 1973 and get about 400 a week in all. Just got in from the pub with a kebab.

– pete, sheffield, 31/7/2012 23:39

Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.

– PET, London, 31/7/2012 23:12

Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.

– KKD, London, 31/7/2012 23:07

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.