The four-day week: less is more

[Transborderwife 4,666]

i don't even know a single soul that doesn't work seven days a week. i've never worked anything less than eight days in a week before in my life.

Eight days a weeeeeeek....I loooooooove you. Ok enough singing

[yuna628 9,873]

Who me? I'm not judgemental, just talking from experience. I'm not talking about you or me or anyone else that has never worked less than 50-55 hours a week. Hell there are times my wife and I even today(during peak times like major holidays) work 110-120 hours in a week. We go on very little sleep. I consider people that think 40 hours a week is alot to be lazy. 40 hours a week is a vacation.

A 40 hour work week is not a vacation or lazy.

My sister is up at 4:30 every morning. She travels over an hour to her job. From then she is on her feet all day selflessly caring for patients. There is rarely even time for her to take a bathroom break, let alone lunch. She returns home at 7, with barely enough time to eat or relax before she has to get up and do it all over again. She has even done work unpaid, and come in on unpaid weekends. This year she is even barred from taking her earned vacation time. On her only day off, she's so exhausted I often find her asleep in her chair, when she had intended to catch up on the hours of missed tv or other paperwork. Weekends aren't restful for her either, as there's always errands to run. Please be careful making blanket statements, because you are not in any one else's shoes or know or understand what they do or their working conditions. She knows what it's like to work 40 hours and work beyond 40 hours, as she's done this for over 30 years. Lazy she is not.

[Harpa Timsah 13,260]

When a job creator wants you to work for less than minimum wage with no overtime, you say Thank you SIR! God bless America!

[Jacque67 7,328]

[smilesammich 10,727]

i'm so confused, is that a hologram of mj?

[Jacque67 7,328]

i'm so confused, is that a hologram of mj?

https://www.google.co.jp/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=4&ved=0ahUKEwjF4sm-6dTMAhVCFZQKHcWICjAQFggfMAM&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.billboard.com%2Farticles%2Fevents%2Fbbma-2014%2F6092040%2Fmichael-jackson-hologram-billboard-music-awards&usg=AFQjCNE7EONoFR4VJlwG73hfZp5tel_mtQ&sig2=xf1TqsTiuu46PPkhHvd9ng

[smilesammich 10,727]

https://www.google.co.jp/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=4&ved=0ahUKEwjF4sm-6dTMAhVCFZQKHcWICjAQFggfMAM&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.billboard.com%2Farticles%2Fevents%2Fbbma-2014%2F6092040%2Fmichael-jackson-hologram-billboard-music-awards&usg=AFQjCNE7EONoFR4VJlwG73hfZp5tel_mtQ&sig2=xf1TqsTiuu46PPkhHvd9ng

i'm not a fan. i find it creepy. the future is scary.

[Rob L 3,811]

Who me? I'm not judgemental, just talking from experience. I'm not talking about you or me or anyone else that has never worked less than 50-55 hours a week. Hell there are times my wife and I even today(during peak times like major holidays) work 110-120 hours in a week. We go on very little sleep. I consider people that think 40 hours a week is alot to be lazy. 40 hours a week is a vacation.

Thats nothing

When I was a kid I would get up even before I went to bed, milk the cows and then walk to school, over 20 miles, uphill, in the snow, both ways, and we liked it!

[smilesammich 10,727]

Thats nothing

When I was a kid I would get up even before I went to bed, milk the cows and then walk to school, over 20 miles, uphill, in the snow, both ways, and we liked it!

oh my god, you had cows? we had to panhandle for wet nurses.

[GandD 5,966]

i'm not a fan. i find it creepy. the future is scary.

You know how I know you're getting old?

[smilesammich 10,727]

You know how I know you're getting old?

get off my lawn.

[Jacque67 7,328]

Thats nothing

When I was a kid I would get up even before I went to bed, milk the cows and then walk to school, over 20 miles, uphill, in the snow, both ways, and we liked it!

At least Ori's slaves have names...give him some credit!

[Rob L 3,811]

oh my god, you had cows? we had to panhandle for wet nurses.

You had wet nurses? We just an old oily rag that we dipped in some sugar water and had squeeze them by hand!

[smilesammich 10,727]

You had wet nurses? We just an old oily rag that we dipped in some sugar water and had squeeze them by hand!

props.

[Teddy B 17,252]

I'm sure it can be.

There was this girl once we used as holiday help in our shop. $10 an hour cash as a subcontractor. All kosher with the IRS.

We then wanted her to come in for a few hours every Tues. At the time she was working part-time in a jewelry store a couple blocks up from us. One day she walks in, says she's not going to be able to keep working on Tuesdays cause her boss in the other place offered her more hours cause she prefers her there more so that it doesn't affect her work and she "can only work so much". AFTER being offered the extra hours she was still under 40 hours a week.

People are lazy.

At $10 an hour for a subcontractor, you should've kissed the ground she walked on. She was responsible for all the paperwork and you simply pressed the open button on the cash register.

Edited May 12, 2016 by Teddy B