Scientists need to find a way to make weekends last longer!

[yoda313]

Man science can solve a lot of problems but they've still been unable to do one important thing - add more hours to the weekend!!!!! I mean its Sunday afternoon already and here it was Friday night just a few hours ago it seems. We need time warp technology and pronto!!!

[MackemX]

I've got a simple effective way, quit your job

my weekends are really long as it's been one helluva long weekend since I did 8). I think it's around 2am Saturday morning for me right now :P

[yoda313]

No thanks I think I'll look for another option

[MackemX]

how about working overtime at weekends then?

That will take you mind off thinking about the weekend ending and going back to work on Monday

[yoda313]

Nope..... don't like that either....

[MackemX]

how about throwing away all your clocks and calendars then?

[yoda313]

Hmm... tempting

[ZAPPER]

I thought that I had posted this before, but maybe not. Here is my solution to the time/money problem for us working class stiffs.

First, elect me, Zapper, king of the world.

Then as your new king I will change the clock/calendar to a better system.

I would change the clock to a 30 hour day. Midnight to midnight is still the same astrological/Earth rotation duration (I would be king, not God) but it would be divided into 30 units.

The week would go from seven days to eight days. I would call the new day, "Zapaday" (One of the perks of being king of the world)

Now I know that I may have lost some of you peasants, but follow along and I will explain.

Everybody that works will now have to work a ten hour day instead of eight. Oh don't get your panties in a wad, it is still only one third of the day and you will be getting paid for 10 hours.

Now you will work for four days to get your 40 hours and then you will have a four day weekend. (everyone knows that even a three day weekend isn't quite long enough to do what you want, what with travel time, bad traffic, iffy weather and so on)

You see now, this will help the unemployment rate too. Because the four days that you are off, someone else will have the oppertunity to fill your job. (don't be smug and think that nobody can take your place) Now bussiness can operate 24/7 err I mean 30/8. Thats three ten hour shifts for four days. There will be no closings for hoidays or nights or weekends. If there is a job that needs to be done someone will be there to do it. Just think about it, bank inperson 30/8. Get your car tags 30/8, what ever. No more rushing to beat the closing or taking off from work to go do personal stuff.



Ahh, it's good to be king

[yoda313]

All hail zapper!!!

though whats a hoiday?????

[ZAPPER]

Well, you see, under the old system there were these special days that people were not supposed to work. And it was kind of a good idea to give people a break. But what happened was that the real workers had to go in and work on those days anyways because only the select few actually got to take off for those holidays. And even some of those select few would have to fight and beg for those days off, and to get paid for a day off, forget about it.

[MackemX]

I thought that I had posted this before, but maybe not. Here is my solution to the time/money problem for us working class stiffs.

First, elect me, Zapper, king of the world.

Then as your new king I will change the clock/calendar to a better system.

I would change the clock to a 30 hour day. Midnight to midnight is still the same astrological/Earth rotation duration (I would be king, not God) but it would be divided into 30 units.

The week would go from seven days to eight days. I would call the new day, "Zapaday" (One of the perks of being king of the world)

Now I know that I may have lost some of you peasants, but follow along and I will explain.

Everybody that works will now have to work a ten hour day instead of eight. Oh don't get your panties in a wad, it is still only one third of the day and you will be getting paid for 10 hours.

Now you will work for four days to get your 40 hours and then you will have a four day weekend. (everyone knows that even a three day weekend isn't quite long enough to do what you want, what with travel time, bad traffic, iffy weather and so on)

You see now, this will help the unemployment rate too. Because the four days that you are off, someone else will have the oppertunity to fill your job. (don't be smug and think that nobody can take your place) Now bussiness can operate 24/7 err I mean 30/8. Thats three ten hour shifts for four days. There will be no closings for hoidays or nights or weekends. If there is a job that needs to be done someone will be there to do it. Just think about it, bank inperson 30/8. Get your car tags 30/8, what ever. No more rushing to beat the closing or taking off from work to go do personal stuff.



Ahh, it's good to be king

that's one of the best posts I've seen in a long time

bloody hilarious ZAPPER 8)

[ZAPPER]

Hilarious? What is hilarious about ? I have been thinking about this for a loooooong time. OK, I admit that there a few bugs that need to be worked out like school days/hours and maybe a couple of more others. But hilarious? I am hurt.


OFF WITH HIS HEAD!


NO. Wait! A king needs a Jester! Or maybe food tester. Yes that is it. A food tester. Now I won't have to worry about being poiso...eck...agh...cough. Whew! That was close! I thought the Queen had slipped a little something extra into my drink.

This king of the world stuff may not be all it is cracked up to be.

[MackemX]

Hilarious? What is hilarious about ? I have been thinking about this for a loooooong time. OK, I admit that there a few bugs that need to be worked out like school days/hours and maybe a couple of more others. But hilarious? I am hurt.


OFF WITH HIS HEAD!


NO. Wait! A king needs a Jester! Or maybe food tester. Yes that is it. A food tester. Now I won't have to worry about being poiso...eck...agh...cough. Whew! That was close!

This king of the world stuff may not be all it is cracked up to be.

I'd say I'm the best candidate to be Jester :P and I'll test any food that anyone can 'throw' at me

I thought the Queen had slipped a little something extra into my drink.

wouldn't you prefer to be slipping something into the Queen?

[AlecWest]

Back in the 1970s, I worked for a forward-thinking employer that allowed flex-time ... four 10 hour days a week vs. five 8 hour days. Every weekend was a three-day weekend. Just now, my current employer is considering such a scenario. And (grin), at the rate of speed they move on such suggestions, I'll probably be retired before it's tried out.

It's actually a pretty good idea, I think. My 1970s employer said that, once instituted (it was voluntary), the hour-for-hour absenteeism rate for flex-time employees was far lower than employees who chose to retain the traditional work-week. When an employee knows they have a 3-day weekend coming up every week (4-days if a holiday comes into play), I think they tend to slug through colds and other minor ailments more than people on a traditional schedule.

[ZAPPER]

Nah, once a king, always a king, but once a night is enough!

As for making the weekend longer, try spending it with my Queen. Sometimes it seems like an eternity.

I wish that there was a good Pub to go to, my favorite keeps closing.

[ZAPPER]

@ AlecWest

I have worked four tens a few different times and I do think that production actually goes up. Start up and shut down times are killer on some jobs and the extra hours are great for just such purposes. I also think that most people hit their stride after lunch and up until quiting time. The confusion of what do I do and everything else has been worked out. On the 24 hour system two extra hours of work can get you out of the afternoon rush hour too.

I worked for a couple of out of town construction companies before that brought their superintendant in and worked them four tens and then gave them the long weekend for travel. This was killer for us locals, we had forty Thursday quittn' time and Friday was optional and all overtime!

There is a point though, where production or quality drops off, I say around ten hours. I sometimes have to do way more hours than that, but I can see the difference. I hate those kinds of jobs. I see mental errors and physical decline in performance of me and my men. If it was ditch digging it wouldn't be a big deal, but when machinery or high skill is involved it is no good.

[Epicurus8a]

Great post Zapper!

I used to work four ten hour days and had Fri, Sat, & Sun. off. I thought I was in heaven! Then, without warning, I was switched to a five day work week (Mon - Fri). At first I was upset, but I quickly realized I actually prefered this shift because it gave me more free time during the week. (Besides, I couldn't afford to take weekened getaways every weekend.)

BTW, I remember hearing about some guy who lobbied for a sort of "daylight savings" plan on a weekly basis. It went something like this: Every night (Mon - Thurs) you set your clock back by 1/2 hour. On Friday, you'd reset your clock to the correct time, but find you had an extra two hours (because of the set backs). Sat and Sun were the only normal days.

[yoda313]

BUMP!

Well I've come to a sad conclusion of how to solve this problem - Get up eariler in the morning! I'm not a natural morning person but I have found that if you get up at 8 or 9 in the morning on Saturday and Sunday you have a lot more daylight to work with. I do like staying up till 2 or 3 am fooling around doing some video encoding and the like. But the big drawback is sleeping in till 10 or 11 and then your daytime hours are screwed up.

[träskmannen]

If daylight saving time is used where you live there should in theory be one hour taken away from everyone there. Could be worth a try to get your hands on a few of those?
Of course you need to find out how and where they are stored first.

[ZAPPER]

I am thinking about how weekends are killing me.

This weekend;

Worked Saturday. OK it was OT but big deal, 10% goes into my 401K another chunk for taxes and insurance and I take home maybe a hundred bucks. Then I do baseball for the kid and start to do some yard work.

Sunday, more yard work. Did I mention that it is like 90 friggin degrees out today? Put some ribs on the grill and will keep an eye on them off and on while I work. At some point I have to reconcile my paperwork for last week and get it all in. (Yeah, yeah, I know it is supposed to be done daily, but I broke the little tiny wire that goes to the antennea on my wireless notebook cell card [possibly another rant]) I got to get the trash rounded up and to the road, my work clothes washed and dried and all of the yard equipment crammed back into the garage.

These days off are killing me!

[smearbrick1]

This could all be solved by going to the 4 day work week. If only employers (my employer) would change these archaic business practices, things could be so much better. I propose the following: (It's only two items - does this constitute a list?)

1. Those who currently work 40 hours over a five day period will now work 40 hours over 4 day period.

2. Those who have a job that does not require them to actually "go to the office" will now telecommute. The only time they will need to actually go to the office is for meetings and the occasional birthday party.

I believe these changes could really increase our quality of life.