The practice of an entire working population commuting from an hour+ away to a few buildings in the center of the city, sitting on their ass for 8 hours a day, eating a packed lunch, and commuting back home is at most a couple hundred years old. But sure, go on about your "hundreds-to-thousands of years of history".

>Covid was fun, I get it, but that was a long time ago man.

I don't understand what you gain from trying to be super abrasive on a forum. Is it fun?

> Throughout hundreds-to-thousands of years of history your options have been

You might want to brush up on your anthropology a bit.

>Throughout hundreds-to-thousands of years of history ... but that was a long time ago man.

This seems like a self defeating argument.

Honestly, if the bus/delivery driver needed a mid-shift break to deal with some life stuff, yeah by all means, I personally think they should be able to do that kind of stuff (though maybe we start by giving them bathroom breaks?). The business hiring them should adapt.

99% of the working class doesn’t have the expectation of answering a page at 2 am, or working long hours without extra pay to make a deadline.

Don’t act like that’s an apples to apples comparison

People did this, I used to do jiu-jitsu with a ups guy that would stop and join the class mid day, then go back on his route.

I Had a manager that would go and drink beers in his car durring breaks.

I had Coworkers that would leave the office to pick up their kids pre covid.

Lots of people are messing around