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Years ago, one one my colleagues lived by a 6 day week - 6 days of 28 hours = 168 hours, rather than 7 days of 24 hours = 168 hours. Monday mornings when we arrived at 08:00, he had been working for 5-6 hours already. Tuesdays he started out an hour or two before us, Wednesdays a couple hours later, and Thursdays he wasn't there until after lunch. Fridays he wasn't there at all, having worked enough hours the first four days of the week.
This company employed you to get things done, not to sit there for 40 hours a week. If you completed your tasks in significantly less than 40 h/week, you were expected to be assigned more tasks. If your tasks required much more than 40 h/week, you were expected to ask for an assistant to offload you. Noone counted hours by the minutes. Certainly this simplified the formal issues of adapting to a 6*28 schedule, and the guys in his team managed to schedule meetings to fit his daily rythm.
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One employer I had in the early 90s changed to a two-week schedule consisting of 9 hours on Monday through Thursday, plus an 8-hour Friday and a Friday off.
Scheduling was such that they ensured that they had essential tasks covered every Friday. (e.g. there were two of us doing System Management of OpenVMS systems, and we couldn't have the same Fridays off.)
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: two-week schedule consisting of 9 hours on Monday through Thursday, plus an 8-hour Friday and a Friday off This is similar to my work schedule; Tuesdays through Friday have an extra hour added, and I have every other Monday off. There are others whose day is Friday. Either way, such is a WONDERFUL schedule: that extra "rest" day is very recuperative and it gives you a day to schedule all of those activities that MUST be during your normal work hours (doctor, dentist, automotive maintenance, home service personnel, etc.).
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Forogar wrote: I am now working a 34-hour week which counts a full-time or part-time depending upon who you ask.
However, the days are 7, 7, 7, 7 and 6 hours (on Friday) I have what in Germany is called the "Gleitzeit-Job". My contract is for 35 hours per week and a "valid" work range from 06:00h to 19:00h. Extra hours to be taken as spare time 1:1. I theroetically can do what I want, but...
Forogar wrote: and I was thinking of seeing if I can change this to four 8.5-hour days This is something we can't do, at least oficially on regular basis. We could do several weeks in a row like this, changing the free day. But it has to have an end and then be a 5 days week for a while. But I can still do two days early, two days later and one at home, if I would like to.
At the end, I usually work 5 days a week from [6:30, 07:00] to [14:45, 15:30] and get a day / couple of days off from time to time when I want / need them.
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Forogar wrote: How would you feel about such a change to your schedule? Please do.
I can probably reach 30-40 hrs a week. At the moment reaching 0 hrs.
Flexibility means I could be productive somewhere
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Yipes - you had me really scared for a moment. You mean a four-day WORK WEEK.
It seems that, under (not) your plan we'd have two twenty-hour days between weekends.
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I worked a four day week once too. 10 hours a day on Monday and Tuesday, Wednesday's off, and 10 hours a day on Thursday and Friday.
It was wonderful. 2 on 1 off 2 on 2 off.
Work is good for the soul. Too much work will kill you. Moderation in all things.
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I switched to a 30 hour, 4 day week a few years back. It's a 20% pay cut but a 50% rise in days off, and has felt like a good trade off.
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Physicians often work 12-hour shifts. Less productivity is better for everyone since it is measured by how many patients they see.
TOMZ_KV
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I'm actually thinking I should propose that, but without the 10-hour-day part. A way to ease myself into retirement.
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I got fed up in January. Said kiss my a$$ and retired. Less disposable income now, but I have never been happier in my life.
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I am hoping to do that soon - I just need that one lottery ticket to come up!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Our office allows 9 days (80 hours) worked over 2 weeks ( 1 pay period) in addition to the 4x10 schedule.
For groups that require a lot of coverage, individuals are assigned days throughout the week that rotate throughout the year. They are staffed at 90% on every work day.
For groups that don't require as much coverage most people take Friday off, so every Friday only 50% of the staff is present.
The 50% that is there has a lot of uninterrupted time on Fridays to really crank out projects, plus they usually leave an hour early so as to cap at 80 hours.
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I had a 9 x 4 week. Had Fridays off was great. I took two weeks of vacation one day at time, every Monday for July and August and Friday to Monday off, for the summer and I living neat the ocean. I used my vacation budget on front row concert tickets and sine short travel. Was a summer to remember
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I work 16 hour days.
... one hour on ... half hour off ... half hour on ... hour off ...
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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Dyscarnate - Nothing Seems Right[^]
This track is actually a favorite from last year, but I don't think it ever made it to SOTW.
There was always another track that I liked better in that particular week.
However, a year later, I'm still listening to Dyscarnate.
This week I've been listening to this particular song a lot and I think it finally deserves a spot in the SOTW!
It has a bit of a psychedelic vibe going on, in a technical death metal kind of way.
The video is pretty cool too
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The extent of my metal: Gary Numan
(and Iron Maiden, of course!)
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David O'Neil wrote: The extent of my metal: Gary Numan "Post a metal song that will make you say 'wait, that's not metal!'"
Pretty sweet though.
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Advance message you texted after the due date (9)
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
modified 26-Apr-19 4:30am.
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Postulate ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Well done, sir! That was quicker than I expected.
POST = message
+ U = you texted
+ LATE = after due date
= POSTULATE = advance.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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I worked it out but was ( and still am ) dubious about postulate meaning advance.
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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"Advance" in the sense of "Propose" would be a synonym of "Postulate"
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Yes it would but I still think it's boderline
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Not at all, I can postulate a theory or I can advance it.
First result for "postulate synonym" on Google gives advance as the third option:
postulate
verb
/ˈpɒstjʊleɪt/
1.
suggest or assume the existence, fact, or truth of (something) as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or belief.
"his theory postulated a rotatory movement for hurricanes"
synonyms: put forward, suggest, advance, posit, hypothesize, take as a hypothesis, propose, assume, presuppose, suppose, presume, predicate, take for granted, theorize
"such hypotheses have been postulated by highly reputable geologists"
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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