Are these really the people that should be required to work so much? Isn’t their job about handling life and death daily? Wouldn’t we want exactly these people to come fully rested to work every single day and be fully staffed?
I don’t know if there are jobs with similar stakes that are so carelessly staffed and disgustingly paid.
There’s a not-so-small difference between weird and annoying leftovers in specific areas and going all in with it in everyday life and still teaching it to every child.
Right, I was just highlighting the fact that globally we ARE still stuck with imperial system for shit that gets used daily! I can’t fathom why we haven’t moved to centimeters for rim measurements, and why so much machining is still done in thousandths of inch. There’s also no good excuse as to why every lathe and CNC machine on planet earth has 1/2 in chuck keys instead of 13 mm, why ratchets use a 3/8ths drive instead of 10mm. It’s just instilled from decades of use and nobody does anything about getting away from it in automotive or tooling! I’m sure there’s lots of other weird leftovers in other fields, just naming the ones I work with on a daily basis. At least nobody is producing shit with whitworth standards anymore, although I do occasionally have the misfortune of having to work with that as well.