We have been covered up for months and I really need to work, but it is a holiday..... But I could make a lot of money..... But it's a holiday, but I have a month worth of stuff to catch up on...... But it is a holiday, do you think Dr. King took a three day weekend when he had a month of work to do? ...... But it is a holiday and all the employees will at home, GOOD, maybe I can actually do some work.
But it is a holiday! And I wouldd like the day off too, but there is too much to do.
Should I work Monday? why/why not?
If you won't be able to enjoy the holiday because of work hanging over your head, go to the office.
If you don't get any work done for wishing you were kicked back with the family, go back home.
nobody ever lay on their death bed lamenting they wish they had worked more.
It's a holiday?
Just had a couple days off 2 weeks ago. PLSO Conference next week. I'm planning on taking President's Day off next month.
It isn't a holiday here in the private sector. Now it is a holiday for all the government agencies and schools. Besides the oil field is still 24/7/365...
I Don't Like Mondays
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I'm almost positive I will have an extra worker on Monday. No holiday on my work calendar.
I Don't Like Mondays
You just had an easy month, go to work on Monday, and might was well show up on Saturday as well.
When are you going to get me your TPS reports? I need your TPS reports.
Don't forget to put a cover sheet on those. I'll get you a copy of the memo.
> It isn't a holiday here in the private sector. Now it is a holiday for all the government agencies and schools. Besides the oil field is still 24/7/365...
I was about to make a post about how it must just be for schools. My kids are off, but I'm still working on Monday for a public agency. Looked around a bit and come to find out that the City, the County, the State and anybody else I can think of are off.
I'm not ready for a day off yet, just had 4 days over the holidays.
Take the day off...it's the historical thing to do.
From The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure
One of capitalism's most durable myths is that it has reduced human toil. This myth is typically defended by a comparison of the modern forty-hour week with its seventy- or eighty-hour counterpart in the nineteenth century. The implicit -- but rarely articulated -- assumption is that the eighty-hour standard has prevailed for centuries. The comparison conjures up the dreary life of medieval peasants, toiling steadily from dawn to dusk. We are asked to imagine the journeyman artisan in a cold, damp garret, rising even before the sun, laboring by candlelight late into the night.
These images are backward projections of modern work patterns. And they are false. Before capitalism, most people did not work very long hours at all. The tempo of life was slow, even leisurely; the pace of work relaxed. Our ancestors may not have been rich, but they had an abundance of leisure. When capitalism raised their incomes, it also took away their time. Indeed, there is good reason to believe that working hours in the mid-nineteenth century constitute the most prodigious work effort in the entire history of humankind.
Therefore, we must take a longer view and look back not just one hundred years, but three or four, even six or seven hundred. Consider a typical working day in the medieval period. It stretched from dawn to dusk (sixteen hours in summer and eight in winter), but, as the Bishop Pilkington has noted, work was intermittent - called to a halt for breakfast, lunch, the customary afternoon nap, and dinner. Depending on time and place, there were also midmorning and midafternoon refreshment breaks. These rest periods were the traditional rights of laborers, which they enjoyed even during peak harvest times. During slack periods, which accounted for a large part of the year, adherence to regular working hours was not usual. According to Oxford Professor James E. Thorold Rogers, the medieval workday was not more than eight hours. The worker participating in the eight-hour movements of the late nineteenth century was "simply striving to recover what his ancestor worked by four or five centuries ago."
An important piece of evidence on the working day is that it was very unusual for servile laborers to be required to work a whole day for a lord. One day's work was considered half a day, and if a serf worked an entire day, this was counted as two "days-works." Detailed accounts of artisans' workdays are available. Knoop and jones' figures for the fourteenth century work out to a yearly average of 9 hours (exclusive of meals and breaktimes. Brown, Colwin and Taylor's figures for masons suggest an average workday of 8.6 hours.
The contrast between capitalist and precapitalist work patterns is most striking in respect to the working year. The medieval calendar was filled with holidays. Official -- that is, church -- holidays included not only long "vacations" at Christmas, Easter, and midsummer but also numerous saints' and rest days. These were spent both in sober churchgoing and in feasting, drinking and merrymaking. In addition to official celebrations, there were often weeks' worth of ales -- to mark important life events (bride ales or wake ales) as well as less momentous occasions (scot ale, lamb ale, and hock ale). All told, holiday leisure time in medieval England took up probably about one-third of the year. And the English were apparently working harder than their neighbors. The ancien règime in France is reported to have guaranteed fifty-two Sundays, ninety rest days, and thirty-eight holidays. In Spain, travelers noted that holidays totaled five months per year.[5]
The peasant's free time extended beyond officially sanctioned holidays. There is considerable evidence of what economists call the backward-bending supply curve of labor -- the idea that when wages rise, workers supply less labor. During one period of unusually high wages (the late fourteenth century), many laborers refused to work "by the year or the half year or by any of the usual terms but only by the day." And they worked only as many days as were necessary to earn their customary income -- which in this case amounted to about 120 days a year, for a probable total of only 1,440 hours annually (this estimate assumes a 12-hour day because the days worked were probably during spring, summer and fall). A thirteenth-century estime finds that whole peasant families did not put in more than 150 days per year on their land. Manorial records from fourteenth-century England indicate an extremely short working year -- 175 days -- for servile laborers. Later evidence for farmer-miners, a group with control over their worktime, indicates they worked only 180 days a year.
I am working Monday and don't regret that a moment.
With no disrespect to the deceased Dr King, he never hesitated to slow down for my day.
Holidays are for those that are not on a deadline to complete or else be replaced.
I have known many people that always worked overtime, holidays and their own family's celebration days because of the extra pay.
I am gonna work when I have something to work on and play on the days I don't.
B-)
"But it's a holiday, but I have a month worth of stuff to catch up on......"
Whether you work on MLK's BD is up to you. I can't imagine being a month behind in anything. You are apparently finacinally independent!;-)
In my world, but in your situation, I wouldn't care if the Pope, President, Queen, or Jesus hiself were visiting, I would be at work.:-)
Have a great weekend.B-)
Jesus favored the lazy Mary over the industrious Martha. I imagine Martha gave him the most severe version of "the look" when he said Mary took the better part but apparently he was impervious to it. My wife would've dumped the bowl of spaghetti over his head.
:good:
I plan on getting up very early and setting a few corners because the site will be closed (a bank), and traffic will be minimal. I will then head back to the office (house), and probably work around there helping the wife get some stuff taken care of around the house.
She works on the Navy Base, so she has the day off, and we will have a house full this weekend, so we'll be playing catch up on Monday.
Good thing about being solo is that I am never more than a few steps from my office. Believe it or not, I like it that way. My office is a small building about 50 feet from my back door.
Thats a good way to get in shape, walk to work every day, and save some money on gas.