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I'm pulling for Monday. Friday's already mostly a write-off.

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[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 55 points 1 month ago
[-] OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 47 points 1 month ago

I'd be so disappointed by this.

Every time I take a day off midweek, it feels like doubling the number of weeks in the week, rather than reducing the number of days.

[-] SmokeInFog@midwest.social 10 points 1 month ago

I've found it precisely the opposite: Monday is like a Thursday (so experientially two Thursdays and two Fridays) with a free day to schedule doctor's appointments, car fixes, and all the other little things you'd normally have to take PTO for but now do not

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 month ago

Wait, so you get a 4 day week but everyone else has to do 5 days so you can go to your appointments?

[-] SmokeInFog@midwest.social 7 points 1 month ago

No. It's not like businesses that are open 7 days a week require all of their employees to work every one of those days

[-] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

When I worked 32 hours at my first job I took out the Wednesday. It's a great rhythm to get into, two days of work and a day or two in between.

[-] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago

That's effectively what I had as an undergrad and it was lovely. Wednesdays were (mostly) reserved for labs, so if you weren't taking chemistry or another class with a lab, you had Wednesdays to sleep in. I rather miss that.

[-] philpo@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

I am self employed and actually do that whenever possible (which is a rare occurrence these days,but I managed to do it for six month once). It sounds counterintuitive to do so, but it's actually a fairly nice concept. You work for two days, which is not that long and offers you enough chance to really work "all in". Then you sleep in in Wednesday and do most of the weekly chores - all that shit you would normally do half of your Saturday. And then you do another two days, already approaching a full weekend - which is far less likely to be interrupted by these lousy chores you normally need to do. And if some things remain,you are not having four but two work days in your bones - which makes them easier and usually faster to put behind you.

[-] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Can I ask what you do? I need to get a job and I'm dreading it after being out of the work force for a bit. Id much rather be my own boss.

[-] philpo@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

I am a CEO/founder of a small healthcare consulting company.

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