The Dudeism Forum

So, my opinion..man..is that, while the dude abides in a lifestyle of leisure..he/she also has to, you know feed the monkey (I mean--hasn't that ever occurred to you?).

Since there are a variety of ways to satisfy the insatiable primate and fit right in thar....and thus work is inevitable...maybe it's time to consider the Dude-friendly practice of the four-day work week (4 10-hour days..off friday-sunday).

A 2008 study shows this kind of schedule is the best way to roll:

http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/article_e5e96c0c-7ee6-5787-b46f-c8ac9990c440.html

Since most, it seems, employees only get any real work done in about four hours per day, this really should be maybe a 20-30 hour work week.

But, the square community doesn't give a shit about doing what follows the natural flow...they have to make an appearance that 40-plus hours is necessary to justify the whole durn human economic comedy.

What say you, Dudes?   

That's what I do in my current situation.  It's pretty nice.   Sometimes I like to take Wednesdays off instead of Fridays so I never have to work more than two days in a row.

Personally I am all for the five day weekend.

But every time I try to get them to implement it here at work they tend to suggest that a seven day weekend is available at the local job center.

Meekon: Real reactionaries, man

The French Revolution, along with attempts to institute a standard metric system of measurements for length, volume and weight, tried to institute a "decimal" week: Ten days, with the tenth replacing the Sunday sabbath as a day of rest. It -was- the eighteenth century, after all. The concept of our weekend would probably get you burned as a witch or something. ("TWO days off?!!? Zut alors!") And don't even mention modern labor unions to those guys.
Plus a "mid-week holiday" in the middle.  Three of these decades a month. Imagine I succeeded at making an accent on the first 'e' in "decades," if you will.  So, you go to work on, say, Firstday, work through Fourthday, take a day off, work Sixthday through Ninthday, take Tenthday off.

And, yes, those were the names, 'cept it was in French, of course. 

Needless to say, the idea was scrapped in pretty short order, by, like, 1802 or something.
I'm sure ten years of that foolishness was enough.  Oh, and then there was decimal time:  ten "hours" of one-hundred "minutes" of one-hundred "seconds" in each day.  Yeesh.  Gotta love crackpot revolutionary ideas.

Mark it 10, dude...