This. If you work during the day anywhere around my town you have a good 30 minutes to do shopping before all the stores close at 4:30.

Never understood those hours, they lock out more than half of their potential customers

Add those local businesses for food or service type things that are more weekend things, but they close on Sundays cause JEBIS!

Fortunately lots of them also post political shit up in their business or signs whining that nobody wants to work, so I don't even want to partake in most of them anyway.

Doctor? Why would employers want you to see a doctor? If you make it to retirement age they have to pay that out and miss out on a cheaper replacement!

What you need are good laws, not so much a 4 day work week. I just go to the doctor during office hours and tell my employer I have to go. I even get paid time off for it, like everyone else working in this country. Same for the dentist or any other kind of medical thing.

Sure, it's not always optimal if you work in some sort of shift, but they are required to make sure you can go.

By the way, not that I wouldn't appreciate a 4 day work week, but this seems like a bit of a stretch to say that this is the reason why you would need one.

Not sure if that would really help the whole availability issue. We already force a large population of physicians to be on call 24/7 because there aren't enough to go around.

Because banks’ primary customer is not Joe Everyman who works a 9-5. Their primary customers are other companies. Your checking account is barely even a drop in the bucket compared to the billion dollar company that has five hundred accounts set up for their various incomes and expenses.

Funny thing is they’re there working after public hours. What are they doing? No one knows

No, because originally banks were for the wealthy that didn't have to keep another man's hours.

For a lot of time, i thought the 12 hour clock was not that bad

Until i saw people excluding the AM/PM. What does 6:30-2:30 mean? Are you working -4 hours? Are you working from 18:30 to 2:30 or from 6:30 to 14:30? Why do people choose this time format?

Seriously, I found out that my bank chain switched their opening hours to being 10a-4p and most branches are closed on the weekends. It's not even 40 hours of opening time for the week!

What the fuck kind of a schedule is this? Granted, I've hardly ever needed to go to a branch in person because the majority of things can be done online or at an atm, but still. Some things you do occasionally need to visit in person for...like getting a cashier's check which I had to do recently.

Thankfully the last time I needed one, I was able to drive far away to a location that was open for a couple of hours on Saturday but Jesus Christ.

In what cafes and sandwich shop do you go to? I've never seen one that was closed during launch hours.

It's getting rarer but their is some that only open in launch hours instead of the whole afternoon, restaurant can have some specific services hours. (And some cafes stop serving drinks while serving food.)

French culture is to eat at specific hours, so it would be almost impossible to serve food only outside those.

The poors are the ones who need to be at a 9-5 job all the time.

As a poor, I understand.

What I don't understand is when the government does it.

I have to take a whole day off because I'm obligated to go talk to some person behind a counter, who will tell me that I need form 87324, but won't be able to tell me what that form is, where to get it, or why I need it, then drive around from government office to government office trying to get the form, only to figure out another person at the first office has it, and when I finally get the stupid form, it needs some meaningless mandatory field filled out by my employer, who thinks I'm sick today.

I guess I'll cured until the day after tomorrow.

Ok......imagine the shops were only open from 4pm-11pm. And not open on your days off.

Does the liquor store not also sell cigerettes?

Aw hell, you should quit anyways!