⚡️MINI: Are We The Worst Burnout Country In The World?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
If you're listening to Will and.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Woody is Australia the burnout capital of the world. It's
really wild. I reckon there's a premise because, as you
were saying to me beforewards, that's certainly not. We do
everything we can in Australia to give off this image
that you know, everything's.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Chill, laid back, we're just taking it.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Easy, but in truth we're all working bloody hard. Yeah,
and again I do recognize the irony of the fact
that two guys are doing a two hour radio show
talking about this, But the reason I want to talk
about it we might need that music again. Tell me
because political activists Sally Rugg she's off to cut a
rug because she's she's walked out. She was the chief

(00:45):
of staff for one of those Teal independents and she's
suing her saying, you're working me too, bluddy heart. Seventy
hours sometimes, seventy hour weeks. Sometimes that's ten hours a day,
well done. If working week in, well done, well done.
That little bit maths working hard, but bloody clever too. Yeah,
So seventy hours a week she was working sometimes and

(01:08):
she was like that's too much. I can't be working
that much, and she was saying, we're the burnout capital
of the world and I and there's obviously this counter
argument here that you know, the boomers are basically saying,
you know, harden the hell up, you sure get you know,
get back at it, and all you people that want
to work at home, you're over indulged.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
And yeah, yeah, sure, we.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Know the argument. Yeah, you know the argument of course. Now,
not surprisingly, I'd like to throw my cap in the
ring for working smarter not harder. Here we go, now,
now I do I want to bring something up here,
and it does tie in, and that is that one
in four one in four after the Osaka earthquake in Japan,
because let's face it, Japan's got probably the most hectic

(01:49):
work culture on the planet. Yep, right, it's almost this
on our culture where you're disgracing yourself unless you're you know,
literally chained to your desk and you're not leaving at midnight.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
And different to us, there's a lot of pride attached
to it's all how long you work.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Their whole societal structure is based on his idea of pride. Right, Yeah,
but that is getting so hectic over there, and I'm
not sure if it's getting to this point in Australia,
but it's getting to the point in Japan where one
in four Japanese people, there's a survey done recently, have
admitted to actually dreaming about murdering their boss. Wow, and
not just dreaming about like plotting them, like how they

(02:24):
would do it, what they would use because they hate
them so much, but they're not allowed to say it.
They hate them.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
So that is the plot of Horrible Bosses too, and
one actually for that mat I don't know why went
stretched the sequel.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
I didn't know the plot. So after the Osaka earthquake
in Japan, where like the roads were ripped open, the
trains are falling down into the earth, the are buses,
people dying everywhere. It happened at seven fifty eight in
the morning or something right, So when they're on the
way to work, all these Japanese people reported getting messages
from their boss where they'd check in. First of all,

(02:57):
and they were like, oh, my boss is checking in
with me. But then they realized that the check in
was just basically to see whether or not they could function. Oh,
and then they would say you're expected at work in
an hour.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
During an earthquake.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, and they'd say, well, they'd be like, I can't
get on the bus because the road's open, so I
can't get the bus to work anymore. I want to
go and check if my family's okay. And then they're
right back and be like, well you can walk.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Oh yeah, So there's a real question for you. Yes,
do you fantasize about killing Big bad Briani? Oh wow,
bloody girl.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Absolutely?

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Can he deal with it if the earthquakes.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
If he wasn't so terrifying. But he's intimidating. He's intimidating.
I feel like I get in there, he could kill
me with his eyes. He's a very scary man. But
I do I do fear that. I just I don't
know that in Australia we are very good at I
do think there's a real issue with the fact that
we guilt people for not working hard enough, and I

(03:57):
reckon that's the wrong way to go about it. It's
just it's just not the point. Like my sister in
law started working in Denmark recently. She said they rock
up at nine and to leave at four and they
work four day week, but they get more done there
than when she was working in the Netherlands because they
just know when they're at work, they work bloody hard.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
I know what you're thinking. Which day are we cutting
Friday on Monday? Oh, let's drop Wednesdays.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
So many people who read the mid are now going
made you work two hours a day, buddy, that you
work two hours a day, and you said last four
minutes complaining about here we are absolute slaves.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
We're wrapping up today.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
That's it for us.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
The songs for the next hour. Hear more of the
Boys on the Full Show podcast, all on the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Oh wherever get your podcast.