Would you go to work if the world was ending soon?

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PostWould you go to work if the world was ending soon?
by Peter Crisp » Wed Jan 17, 2018 2:42 pm

Pretty simple topic really as the question is in the title.

Would you still bother or would you decide "strawberry float it I'm spending my last few years posting on GRCade!".

I'm a strawberry float no I'm staying home and watching Blue Planet 2 UHD on my new TV until the power goes out forever and I finally have to start reading the hundreds of books I have that I'm yet to get round to starting.

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PostRe: Would you go to work if the world was ending soon?
by Rik_ » Wed Jan 17, 2018 2:48 pm

Depends how soon, if it was say a couple of weeks away then strawberry float nah, if it was a few months or a year I'd keep going till it got closer. If people stopped working when the apocalypse was months away we'd just end up having to live through a collapsed society for several months before we get wiped out which wouldn't be that fun.

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PostRe: Would you go to work if the world was ending soon?
by bear » Wed Jan 17, 2018 2:51 pm

If previous Grcade threads about the apocalypse have taught me anything it's that there's a worrying number of people out there who will turn into rapists when faced with the end of the world. I'd protect the integrity of my arsehole and stay home.

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PostRe: Would you go to work if the world was ending soon?
by Garth » Wed Jan 17, 2018 2:52 pm

If we're talking years and if society doesn't instantly collapse, yes because I'd probably still need money.

Days or weeks, hell no!

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PostRe: Would you go to work if the world was ending soon?
by Moggy » Wed Jan 17, 2018 2:52 pm

It all depends on what you mean by soon and whether the end of the world was preventable.

If you mean in the next week or two, no I wouldn’t bother going to work.

If it was in a few months or years time, then it would depend on what everyone else was doing, working would seem pointless but I’d still have to eat and I wouldn’t fancy risking spending the last months of my life in jail. If everyone else stopped working and went looting then I guess I’d be forced to join in.

If we are talking decades, then I would imagine there would be a period of chaos before people settled down and we would probably have to continue working until we got closer to the end.

If the end of the world was preventable like sending Bruce Willis to drill the meteor, then I would hope (although not expect!) that people would carry on as normally as possible and so I’d be forced to carry on working.

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PostRe: Would you go to work if the world was ending soon?
by Moggy » Wed Jan 17, 2018 2:54 pm

bear wrote:If previous Grcade threads about the apocalypse have taught me anything it's that there's a worrying number of people out there who will turn into rapists when faced with the end of the world. I'd protect the integrity of my arsehole and stay home.


Actually under current law it doesn’t count as rape if you force yourself onto a bear.

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PostRe: Would you go to work if the world was ending soon?
by Peter Crisp » Wed Jan 17, 2018 3:04 pm

By soon let's say 2 years.
The end of the world will be caused by the moon falling out of orbit just because :shifty: . Maybe the fake moon landing robots explode or something.

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PostRe: Would you go to work if the world was ending soon?
by Moggy » Wed Jan 17, 2018 3:11 pm

Peter Crisp wrote:By soon let's say 2 years.
The end of the world will be caused by the moon falling out of orbit just because :shifty: . Maybe the fake moon landing robots explode or something.


Well in that case I would still need to eat, feed my family and keep a shelter over us for the 2 years. We can’t stop the moon falling on us, but we’d have to make the best of it during the 2 years we had left and looting wouldn’t be much fun once all the good stuff had been stolen.

But in that scenario I think there is a good chance that society would collapse so I don’t think I would have the option of going to work anyway.

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PostRe: Would you go to work if the world was ending soon?
by Dual » Wed Jan 17, 2018 3:32 pm

I'm a good productive citizen so would turn up even if the earth only had 24 Hou left.

Someone needs to file these accounts!

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PostRe: Would you go to work if the world was ending soon?
by Peter Crisp » Wed Jan 17, 2018 3:36 pm

Well yes, I think we all expect Karl to keep the forum up and running even if the entire solar system has been wiped from existence as where else are we going to moan about it?

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PostRe: Would you go to work if the world was ending soon?
by OrangeRKN » Wed Jan 17, 2018 3:59 pm

I don't think I'd be able to go to work because I think society as we know it would collapse if it became apparent the world was going to end

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PostRe: Would you go to work if the world was ending soon?
by Oblomov Boblomov » Wed Jan 17, 2018 4:03 pm

Everything would quickly fall into chaos and there would be no work to go to.

It'd be awful to live through and you would most likely end up being murdered at some point before the moon came crashing down.

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by That » Wed Jan 17, 2018 4:06 pm

If it were happening in two years then I would personally want to do something productive in that time. Humans are very good at finding hope where there isn't really any, so even if the moon were going to crash into the planet I imagine there would be lots of projects to try to survive or preserve something. Can we work out where the moon will hit? Could we get an ark up into space where it would survive the blast? Would vaults or bomb shelters or underground cities help? I would feel the need to try to do something.

If it were in two days I would probably just spend it wandering around some nice countryside in the middle of nowhere with my partner, hopefully away from all the anger and looting and so forth.

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PostRe: Would you go to work if the world was ending soon?
by Squinty » Wed Jan 17, 2018 4:14 pm

I would want to continue working to support myself if it was two years. Maybe have enough time towards the end to do whatever I want.

I think society would fall apart well before it was up though. It would be an insane thing to live through, I can't imagine people would want to continue working their jobs, even though other people may be reliant on them (food production etc.)

All sense of order would be gone. The rich would be okay, everyone else would be fighting over scraps.

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PostRe: Would you go to work if the world was ending soon?
by Moggy » Wed Jan 17, 2018 4:20 pm

Squinty wrote:The rich would be okay, everyone else would be fighting over scraps.


Would they? If society completely collapsed then money in the bank would be irrelevant very quickly. Sure they might own big houses and lots of land, but that would soon become the main target for mobs of looters.

Somebody living in a shithole would probably be left alone more than the rich guy in a mansion.

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PostRe: Would you go to work if the world was ending soon?
by Rik_ » Wed Jan 17, 2018 4:36 pm

Depending how quickly stuff collapsed though, the rich could buy gooseberry fool tons of supplies in the early days then as stuff goes downhill they hire people to protect them and pay these people in food.

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PostRe: Would you go to work if the world was ending soon?
by jawafour » Wed Jan 17, 2018 4:43 pm

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PostRe: Would you go to work if the world was ending soon?
by Rightey » Wed Jan 17, 2018 4:49 pm

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:Everything would quickly fall into chaos and there would be no work to go to.

It'd be awful to live through and you would most likely end up being murdered at some point before the moon came crashing down.


This. Loads of the most expensive projects have projected life spans of decades. Even if we knew the world would be wiped out in 50 years we'd probably have a massive collapse of society as there would be no point in investing in the biggest infrastructure, which would have a trickle down effect on everything else.

On the plus side there would probably be lots of investment in:

1) A way for us to survive whatever calamity might befall us

2) Genetically engineered cat girls/ sex robots.

So you know, not all bad.

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PostRe: Would you go to work if the world was ending soon?
by Squinty » Wed Jan 17, 2018 4:52 pm

Moggy wrote:
Squinty wrote:The rich would be okay, everyone else would be fighting over scraps.


Would they? If society completely collapsed then money in the bank would be irrelevant very quickly. Sure they might own big houses and lots of land, but that would soon become the main target for mobs of looters.

Somebody living in a shithole would probably be left alone more than the rich guy in a mansion.


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PostRe: Would you go to work if the world was ending soon?
by False » Wed Jan 17, 2018 4:57 pm

I work for an ISP so if I stopped (and others like me in other important services industries) then that would in general lead to a global collapse apocalypse scenario, really.

If it was years ahead then I guess most people would keep working though I expect most bosses would have a different view on work/life balance. If it was tomorrow then I would probably maybe perhaps call in sick.

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