Atmospheric Rivers sounds like the WORST fucking Jethro Tull album EVER! A case of the Mondays can only be solved by the anticipation of Taco Tuesdays, therefore nullifying Monday completely. Everybody's new Slack message: "I won't be at my desk on Monday; the day has been nullified." This could work! Yes? No? Is it Tuesday yet?
Team One-Day Work Week, no question. That was all the time I needed to GSD with any organization I worked for. Then I shifted to full-time freelancing, and went 24/7 - where (somehow) the shit is never done 😉
I think the one day work week is a great idea. Years ago, I tried to convince people to change to the 3 day week and 3 hours a day, 9am to noon. Who ever wants to come back after lunch? It's always downhill from there. And as you mentioned, Monday and Friday are shit shows.
The 6 day weekend would mean more time to fart around on the internet than you already do when you're at work.
Toward the end of my career, I tried to get rid of cases of the Mondays by taking vacation days. It turned Tuesdays into Mondays, but Tuesdays were never as busy.
I think we can blame the 5-day workweek on the nuclear family. Parents (mothers) need somewhere to send children and will take no less than 5 days of it. Once the teachers have to work, so do the administrators and janitors. So do the people in factories making 5 days worth of institutional-grade paper towels and toilet paper. So do the bus drivers, mechanics, snowplow drivers, and locksmiths called in to open 7th grade lockers jammed with fruit leather by 9th graders. You see how it goes. If we quit having children, the one-day work week is a sure thing.
Love the one day work week idea 😂 Though perhaps not so great for us self-employed folk, since GSD tends to equal getting paid!! Lots of companies here in New Zealand are trialling 4-day work weeks on 5 day pay, and judging by the complete absence of traffic on the roads on Fridays, NOONE but me goes to the office on a Friday anymore! Times are a-changing, but you're ahead of the game there 😀
As a recovering workaholic, one day a week may be too tempting for me. As alcoholics have to abstain so they don’t fall off the wagon, then I must as well.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. How I’ll live I’m unsure, but that’s a story for another day.
I haven’t worked in almost two years due to disability. I can’t remember what it was like to work 50-60+ hours a week and then somehow get most of my personal shit done over a two-day weekend. Like, HOW? It’s an insane expectation of any human. I’m down with the six-day weekend. That gives us plenty of time to call all of the corporate overlords that erroneously billed us to fight with them (that is how I spend a lot of my time now, it seems. Usually these are medical overlords, but they’re all cut from the same profits-over-people cloth).
Awesome post Michael. Love your storytelling. I am tempted to integrate the one-day work week as a stepping stone for my clients who want to get to the opportunity of a 7-day weekend. I myself tried it because I could and found that it's not for me but knowing I have the option will be attractive for many. Thanks for giving me a way to offer a gradual expansion of the weekend.
A city utility i worked for had a 4x10 work week. City government office! We had to keep emergency response crews running 24x7, but the oddice workers could GSD whenever. It was glorious, hhough a downside was govt holidays didnt matter any more.
This week is essentially a six day weekend for me and I feel at loose ends and worried the Protestant work ethic has irrevocably done me in for feeling guilt about leisure. But the guilt hasn’t really motivated me to work so maybe not all is lost.
Atmospheric Rivers sounds like the WORST fucking Jethro Tull album EVER! A case of the Mondays can only be solved by the anticipation of Taco Tuesdays, therefore nullifying Monday completely. Everybody's new Slack message: "I won't be at my desk on Monday; the day has been nullified." This could work! Yes? No? Is it Tuesday yet?
Team One-Day Work Week, no question. That was all the time I needed to GSD with any organization I worked for. Then I shifted to full-time freelancing, and went 24/7 - where (somehow) the shit is never done 😉
I think the one day work week is a great idea. Years ago, I tried to convince people to change to the 3 day week and 3 hours a day, 9am to noon. Who ever wants to come back after lunch? It's always downhill from there. And as you mentioned, Monday and Friday are shit shows.
The 6 day weekend would mean more time to fart around on the internet than you already do when you're at work.
Toward the end of my career, I tried to get rid of cases of the Mondays by taking vacation days. It turned Tuesdays into Mondays, but Tuesdays were never as busy.
I think we can blame the 5-day workweek on the nuclear family. Parents (mothers) need somewhere to send children and will take no less than 5 days of it. Once the teachers have to work, so do the administrators and janitors. So do the people in factories making 5 days worth of institutional-grade paper towels and toilet paper. So do the bus drivers, mechanics, snowplow drivers, and locksmiths called in to open 7th grade lockers jammed with fruit leather by 9th graders. You see how it goes. If we quit having children, the one-day work week is a sure thing.
I'm here for the one day work week. I'll get the movement started in Australia and we can meet in the middle.
Tuesday is just Monday’s ugly stepsister. After that even the calendar says WTF on the slide to the weekend. 😏
Love the one day work week idea 😂 Though perhaps not so great for us self-employed folk, since GSD tends to equal getting paid!! Lots of companies here in New Zealand are trialling 4-day work weeks on 5 day pay, and judging by the complete absence of traffic on the roads on Fridays, NOONE but me goes to the office on a Friday anymore! Times are a-changing, but you're ahead of the game there 😀
I am Team Mortimer…one day work week, naps in soft comfortable places, and donuts.
As a recovering workaholic, one day a week may be too tempting for me. As alcoholics have to abstain so they don’t fall off the wagon, then I must as well.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. How I’ll live I’m unsure, but that’s a story for another day.
I haven’t worked in almost two years due to disability. I can’t remember what it was like to work 50-60+ hours a week and then somehow get most of my personal shit done over a two-day weekend. Like, HOW? It’s an insane expectation of any human. I’m down with the six-day weekend. That gives us plenty of time to call all of the corporate overlords that erroneously billed us to fight with them (that is how I spend a lot of my time now, it seems. Usually these are medical overlords, but they’re all cut from the same profits-over-people cloth).
4. I treat a case of the Mondays either by reading in bed all day or watching "Office Space," one of the funniest movies of all time.
Awesome post Michael. Love your storytelling. I am tempted to integrate the one-day work week as a stepping stone for my clients who want to get to the opportunity of a 7-day weekend. I myself tried it because I could and found that it's not for me but knowing I have the option will be attractive for many. Thanks for giving me a way to offer a gradual expansion of the weekend.
A city utility i worked for had a 4x10 work week. City government office! We had to keep emergency response crews running 24x7, but the oddice workers could GSD whenever. It was glorious, hhough a downside was govt holidays didnt matter any more.
Hell, yes! But I would easily settle for a 4-day work week.
This week is essentially a six day weekend for me and I feel at loose ends and worried the Protestant work ethic has irrevocably done me in for feeling guilt about leisure. But the guilt hasn’t really motivated me to work so maybe not all is lost.
At first I felt betrayed by my namesake. But I had it completely wrong. Eric is the Yoda of our generation.