A fun fact ;) and a commentary

Ronni

Ronni

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After Monday
and Tuesday .............


Even the calendar says W ednesday T hursday F Friday !!

:lol:

If you're retired, I would assume the pending weekend doesn't mean as much to you. But if you work, like I do, then I start vibrating for the weekend before the new week has barely begun!! I love my work, don't get me wrong, but I sure do love to play, too! :) I get to be with Ron on the weekends, we don't see each other during the work week usually..he works too, has his own construction business, and we're both going flat out during the week, and then we both collapse when we get home!!

I get to catch up on personal stuff, see the grandkids, do household things.

I remember when the kids were little and I was a stay at home mom for a while. I loved that. I loved feeling like monday thru friday was just a very long weekend, loved losing track of the days because there were so many of them between weekends, loved the sense of freedom of having one day blend into another.

Weekends are two short. I think we need to lobby for a 3 or 4 day weekend, don't you? ;)
 

I have a 7 day weekend now, after taking early retirement last summer.:D.. but yes I always used to think a 3 day w/e would make more sense...especially if you have children, and have so much to catch up on in just 2 days ..sometimes on a day!!
 
Weekend means every place is crowded with working folks. Us geezers should stay home.
 

I've been retired for over 24 years now but remember 3 days off in a row were great when I was a union member. As management with comp time off & other advantages 3 days in a row didn't matter much.


With that in mind when I was working & in the position to make life a little easier, I offered employees a 10 hour 4 day work week by splitting the crews into two sections. There would be an overlap because the whole week had to be covered. With their average of 4 weeks vacation, 11 holidays, and 3 paid personal days. Not hard to see planning right could give them more days off in a row. If the work week was from Monday to Thursday. Friday off schedule 4 days vacation the next week, schdule 4 vacation days the following week. 17 days in a row, 8 days of paid vacation used. Pretty sweet deal I thought.


Two of the crew complained to the union that working a 10 hour day beat them out of 2 hours of overtime. No way was overtime going to be paid so that as a plan went away. About a month later those two figured out that the offer was great for them & wanted to get in on the 4 day work week. To late the union wouldn't undo their complaint.
 
Ken N Tx said:
Ditto...
Sometimes I wonder how I got so much done when I worked!!!
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Boy, that's the truth! I could scoot out on my lunch hour and get an amazing amount of stuff done. Even before and after work, I could run errands. Weekends were a whirl of activity.

Now, without the sense of urgency egging me on, I move around slower than a hybrid snail/sloth.
 

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