That's load bearing free time, better not touch it.

That's why I love my free time, it's FREE! It's not to give away!

Under all freedom pandering hierarchies, My freedom is freedom to your time.

Sir, you have coined a term I will use regularly.

Right?! I already have a phone call to make today. That's two hours to prepare for the day, shower, breakfast etc., an hour to prepare for the call, an hour for the call itself, an hour to process and act on the results of the call, then lunch. That's six hours right there!

Maybe we should start calling "free time", "recovery time"

Plan your "free" time.

If couchmaxxing is important to you, put that time on your calendar. Don't call it "free time" when you budget for it. Call it a "recharge interval" or something else that denotes how important it is.

There's no such thing as free time. We're all granted a finite number of hours in our life. Use them wisely. Time to chill is important for mental health and should be treated as such.

I don't know why someone down voted this.

I've had several friends block off time on their calendar for i-dont-know-what. It was marked as busy and it could've been anything from napping to elden ring. It's their time.

Though I think a lot of people don't use a calendar for their personal life and I can't relate to that level of chaos. I can't remember my plans and everyone's birthdays in my head.

I've replied a few times over the years with similar versions of this. It always gets downvoted.

I'm literally telling people "take control of your life; your recreation time belongs to you and you deserve that time, so protect it" and that's too much responsibility for some people.

I don't think we need more therapy speech. Imo we should call work "nonfree time" since subtlety has died among the managerial class.

My comment was meant as a joke to the same effect, making it obtusely obvious to managers that this time is not to be disturbed

My father disliked me playing with the computer during the day on the weekend. He always gave me things to do whenever I was in the middle of getting destroyed in Unreal Tournament.

He tried it once but I told him it's not because I'm doing nothing that I have nothing to do.

It stunned him and worked for like an hour but it felt so good. Speech 100 moment!

Well, from a theoretical standpoint your employer “buys” both your work time AND the non work time in which you are supposed to rest and recover so you can work again the next day. But because we live in a hypercapitalist hellscape non work time is seen as lazyness and not as a requirement for productivity.