Who decided we should work a 5 day week?

CrimeWave · 4 Mar 2006 at 16:24

I work on railway full time = 4 day week 35hrs and we have sooooooo many breaks its great and some days, when spare, we dont do anything!!! woooooo
When we do work its not much anyway but we get paid for what we know, not do.

oh.... can I see your ticket please!!!!!

Cueball · 4 Mar 2006 at 16:28

I love working full weeks. Makes me feel like I am actually doing something.

All I do at work is play games, take phone calls and play "pencil-roof-darts" with sharpened pencils and nice roofing tiles.

This, my friends, is the perks of being your own boss. I still make money... somehow.

Mundu · 4 Mar 2006 at 16:31

William said:
I have this, I hate working at night because its on your mind all day, and thus ruins it.

Yup. I used to work in the evenings and it completly runined the weekend for me.

Glaucus · 4 Mar 2006 at 16:35

CrimeWave said:
I work on railway full time = 4 day week 35hrs and we have sooooooo many breaks its great and some days, when spare, we dont do anything!!! woooooo
When we do work its not much anyway but we get paid for what we know, not do.

oh.... can I see your ticket please!!!!!

your part of the tea drinking gang

...

anyway 5 days is oretty much set up in an internal clock. Some country tried a 7day working week and everyone got ill..

Treefrog · 4 Mar 2006 at 16:37

Mundu said:
Yup. I used to work in the evenings and it completly ruined the weekend for me.

Hmm, I used to work 1830-0200 Sunday evening through till Friday morning and much preferred it to the bog standard 9-5. I'd go to bed on Monday morning feeling smug that I'd done my first day of the week and everyone else would be getting up to start theirs in a few hours!

And I liked 4x10hrs as well - more free time overall, you save on two commutes every week.

Glaucus · 4 Mar 2006 at 16:39

Treefrog said:
Hmm, I used to work 1830-0200 Sunday evening through till Friday morning and much preferred it to the bog standard 9-5. I'd go to bed on Monday morning feeling smug that I'd done my first day of the week and everyone else would be getting up to start theirs in a few hours!

And I liked 4x10hrs as well - more free time overall, you save on two commutes every week.

yep use to work 2 days a week, with as much over time as I ewanted.. So I use to just do 3 *12hr shifts, those where the days.. Its great having 4 days off every week.

Raymond Lin · 4 Mar 2006 at 16:40

Cueball said:
I love working full weeks. Makes me feel like I am actually doing something.

All I do at work is play games, take phone calls and play "pencil-roof-darts" with sharpened pencils and nice roofing tiles.

This, my friends, is the perks of being your own boss. I still make money... somehow.

What exactly do you do ?

j00ni · 4 Mar 2006 at 16:47

Radiation said:
I would like 4 or possibly 3 and a half days to be the standard so we all get a more laid back lifestyle.

I think you should look into becoming a GP

Kreeeee · 4 Mar 2006 at 16:49

I'd prefer 4 working days and a 2 day weekend, making the week only 6 days. I propose we erase mondays.

Mic · 4 Mar 2006 at 16:56

kreeeee said:
I'd prefer 4 working days and a 2 day weekend, making the week only 6 days. I propose we erase mondays.

Id be up for that.

I hate work

Arcade Fire · 4 Mar 2006 at 17:03

PinkPig said:
You lucky people who don't have lectures six days a week!

Hmmpph...

You aren't doing Maths or Natural Sciences at Cambridge, by any chance?

Cueball · 4 Mar 2006 at 17:09

Raymond Lin said:
What exactly do you do ?

Run my own business.

"Supposed" to be doing I.T. sales, support, stuff. Business is slow in 2006 though. Not that we actually did any work anyway--I.T. is the easiest job to work in ever.

SexyGreyFox · 4 Mar 2006 at 17:10

Some of you are missing the point by a long way.
When my Dad started work he had to go 7 days a week.
When I started in 1974 it was a 44hr week.
Because of the Unions they have slowly chipped away and 'engineering' companies now do a 37 hr week (4.5 days) which is what I do.
So to sum up - the people who said to do a 4-5 day week were the Unions and thank goodness they did.

Sp!ke · 4 Mar 2006 at 17:25

40 hr 5 day week for me but my 'weekend' is Friday/Saturday since I work Sundays. But since I'm in charge on a Sunday it's more like a 4.5 day week