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  • decimalisation of the week
  • morpheus
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    10 day weeks, 3 days off

    who thinks thats a good idea?

    iDave
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    other way round would be better

    nonk
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    depends on the job.

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    Smee
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    Working 12pm til 1pm with an hour for lunch would be best though.

    MrWoppit
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    Larkin:

    "Why should I let the toad work
    Squat on my life?
    Can’t I use my wit as a pitchfork
    And drive the brute off?

    Six days of the week it soils
    With its sickening poison –
    Just for paying a few bills!
    That’s out of proportion.

    Lots of folk live on their wits:
    Lecturers, lispers,
    Losers, loblolly-men, louts-
    They don’t end as paupers;

    Lots of folk live up lanes
    With fires in a bucket,
    Eat windfalls and tinned sardines-
    They seem to like it.

    Their nippers have got bare feet,
    Their unspeakable wives
    Are skinny as whippets – and yet
    No one actually _starves_.

    Ah, were I courageous enough
    To shout, Stuff your pension!
    But I know, all too well, that’s the stuff
    That dreams are made on:

    For something sufficiently toad-like
    Squats in me, too;
    Its hunkers are heavy as hard luck,
    And cold as snow,

    And will never allow me to blarney
    My way of getting
    The fame and the girl and the money
    All at one sitting.

    I don’t say, one bodies the other
    One’s spiritual truth;
    But I do say it’s hard to lose either,
    When you have both."

    rob1984p
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    Pretty sure this is talked about in "talk to the snail", the french tried years ago. The only better scenario can be four on four off with 18 days off every so many weeks (a common shift pattern I think)

    muggomagic
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    I've done 4 on 4 off for sometime and the time off is great. The only downside is that nearly everything revolves around weekends for the rest of the population. So if you're on shift you either use a days holiday or miss out.

    bassspine
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    1) The working week is far too long
    2)am I the only one who heard the thread title in a Harry Hill jingle?

    DA_DOOD–lulz
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    What/how many days would be set aside for quiet christian reflection ?

    jam-bo
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    4 on, 3 off is what i'm working towards being able to afford to do.

    goon
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    You are not alone Bassspine.

    muddydwarf
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    Why should any day be set aside for "quiet christian reflection"?

    If christian, then why not Muslim/Jewish/Sikh/Hindu/Zoroastian/etc. & nothing would get done.

    If people wish to take time to reflect on their own personal religious philosophy thats fine, it shouldn't & mustn't be imposed on those who do not share those beliefs.

    crazy-legs
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    They've tried various days in a week in the past (right back to the Ancient Egyptians) and settled on 7 since it fits in so well with the lunar calendar which has always been the benchmark of time since it's so easily measured.

    Drac
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    3 days off, no thanks I prefer my 4 off.

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