New Observation... days/holiday weekends get fuzzy

[W2R]

If my laptop computer did not have a clock and calendar on the righthand side of the taskbar, I'd never know what day it was!

And so, I'd never know if I really DID take my pills that day or not.....

Which reminds me: Saturdays are when I fill my pillbox.

[TheWizard]

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Originally Posted by googily I depend on my pillbox.

I sometimes miss a days worth of pills when I'm traveling, so that won't work for me...

[old medic]

I'm looking forward to adding to the confusion....
DW is looking at going to 4/10s a week, and can pick her days off.
Friday then Monday... that gives us 4 day weekends every other week...

[Koolau]

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Originally Posted by old medic I'm looking forward to adding to the confusion.... DW is looking at going to 4/10s a week, and can pick her days off. Friday then Monday... that gives us 4 day weekends every other week...

Megacorp tried that (allowing individual divisions or departments to adopt 4-10s if they so desired.) My dept. tried it. There were a couple of issues. 1) Folks "of a certain age" found 10 hours too long a w*rk day. 2) Since we did not use time cards/time clocks it was discovered that some folks abused the flexible start/stop times (w*rking less than 10.) 4-10s lasted about a year. YMMV

[Exchme]

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Originally Posted by Koolau Megacorp tried that (allowing individual divisions or departments to adopt 4-10s if they so desired.) My dept. tried it. There were a couple of issues. 1) Folks "of a certain age" found 10 hours too long a w*rk day. 2) Since we did not use time cards/time clocks it was discovered that some folks abused the flexible start/stop times (w*rking less than 10.) 4-10s lasted about a year. YMMV

Where I worked, the older folks were the workaholics (folks that weren't workaholics got out of the business or were pushed out in the wild business cycles we experienced).

Funny story about 4/10's: Management was 100% convinced people were taking advantage and not working the 10 hours since the garage was emptying out by 4 pm. So they put in traffic counters for a week to gather the data, that way they could really lower the boom.

The traffic counters showed that everyone except management arrived by 5:30-6 am (folks had to coordinate with overseas offices). Management moseyed in at 8 and hadn't noticed. Never heard another peep complaining after that.

[RobbieB]

Hmmm, I wonder why?

After all, isn't the goal of management to work less by having people under you work more?

[Koolau]

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Originally Posted by Exchme Where I worked, the older folks were the workaholics (folks that weren't workaholics got out of the business or were pushed out in the wild business cycles we experienced). Funny story about 4/10's: Management was 100% convinced people were taking advantage and not working the 10 hours since the garage was emptying out by 4 pm. So they put in traffic counters for a week to gather the data, that way they could really lower the boom. The traffic counters showed that everyone except management arrived by 5:30-6 am (folks had to coordinate with overseas offices). Management moseyed in at 8 and hadn't noticed. Never heard another peep complaining after that.

Yeah, unfortunately, we documented the problem in the hourly workers. The "exempt" (professionals or whatever you choose to call them) spent 45 or 50 hours as usual - some even coming in the 5th day if need be.