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britocabritoca Member Posts: 1,484
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interesting question:

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  • lazorrazorlazorrazor Member Posts: 3
    yes, definitely. extending the weekend into monday would do wonders. rest on saturday, go to church on sunday, rest on monday, then BAM. work time. sounds good to me. seriously... when i went to school, i would constantly tell my friends that making the threeday weekend standard would be much preferred. i mean... i would much rather stay in school for an extra hour or so a day just to get another day on my weekend. heck yeah. 

  • BoozbazBoozbaz Member Posts: 1,918

    Nice survey questionair. 3 day weekends would greatly increase people's ability to get goals done OUTSIDE of work.


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  • britocabritoca Member Posts: 1,484

    yeah, I mean, think about it, 5/7 days, your intire work career.  How many great moments with friends and family will forever get lost in that time?

    not to mention the time spent commuting.  It's not really 8hrs work, 8hrs personal time, 8hrs sleep.  It was idealized that way, a 1/3 of the day for work, a 1/3 for urself, and accounting 1/3 for sleep.  in reality, it's more like
    8 hrs on the clock, + 1 hr for a lunch you could have eaten anywhere else u'd prefer (but u can't since u need to make back into the office anwyways), + the (depending on you distance) 2hrs communting, + the time spent for dinner (u do HAVE TO eat, believe me, I wouldn't if I could)

    It's a very lame system.  Out of 24hrs in a day, I have about 5hrs to do whatever I feel like, the purely free time.

    Talk about a sour deal!  What a lemon!



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  • reavoreavo Member Posts: 2,173
    I agree.  I spend Saturdays catching up on the stuff I had to do all week but didn't have time for.  Then Sunday's I spend depressed thinking about Monday. 

    I've heard that American's work more than any other country's people in the world.  I don't like that.  What are we doing it for?  So we can say we're number 1?  Number 1 at what?  Staying away from our families and spending time with people we don't even really care that much to be around or that could give a dang about us either?

    Life is about family, friends, and doing good things.


  • britocabritoca Member Posts: 1,484
    yeah, that's true.  I come from a "slow" country, bathed by almost constant sunshine in the summer, delicious food, nice beaches, history abounds in densities unfanthomable by US standards...  Portugal is quite nice when it comes to those things.  But then people don't work, lol, not nearly as much as they work here.

    There must be a midway point somewhere


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  • Malachi1975Malachi1975 Member Posts: 1,079

    You know, silly as it may sound, what I really want more than another weekend day added is something we all had back in Kindergarten. Nap time.

    I don't know if I am the only one who thinks this but I'd gladly be willing to work from 9-6 instead of 9-5 if they tossed an hour of naptime back in there. Now, I am not saying we break our the little blue mats and milk (though cookies would be cool) but I think a little mid-day power nap would make everyone a bitmore efficient.

    Then again, I dunno what I am really talking about. In my line of work if you are good at what you do you work 2 hours a day tops and you're an insurance policy the rest of the day. Of course, when it rains it pours and when entire networks crash you can pull a couple 17 hours days real fast too.

    "What is it I have against Microsoft, you ask? Well, you know how you feel when you wait for an MMO to come out and when it does you feel like you've paid to play it's beta test for another 6-9 months before anything even thinks of working the way it should? Being a network engineer you feel that way about anything Microsoft puts out."

  • ZnithZnith Member Posts: 212

    Originally posted by reavo
    I agree.  I spend Saturdays catching up on the stuff I had to do all week but didn't have time for.  Then Sunday's I spend depressed thinking about Monday. 




    Well it's nice to know that I'm not the only one that feels down or depressed when Sunday rolls around.  I'd say by 4pm Sunday I'm really dreading the feeling of work tomorrow.  Whenever I make a comment to co-workers about how I feel on Sundays no one understands. 

    IMO American's work way to much, we work ourselves to death.  For what?  For retirement?  Heck by the time you retire your almost dead because of being overworked. That great retirement nest egg you built is worthless as you can't enjoy it.  I could never understand this mentality and probably never will.  I want to enjoy life while I'm in good health, fairly young and able to enjoy myself to the fullest.  I do not want to try to start living life at the ripe age of 65 sitting around with the senior citizen aches and pains and senility setting in.   I'm not saying that happens to everyone but you don't know what your life will be like 30+ years from now, however you do know what life is like right now.


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