If you worked a four day week…

[The Jokeman]

4 minutes ago, Gugny said:

I was torn between Wednesday and Friday.

 

I ended up choosing Wednesday, because I'd like the midweek break and it's just a good day to get non-work-related stuff done.  Ideally, my weekends are for fun/relaxation.  A day off during the week would allow me to go to appts., do yardwork, stuff around the house, etc., and Saturday/Sunday would be free and easy.

I agree with the mid week day off is best for appointments and like the break up of never working 2 more days in a row.  

[Figster]

I liked Fridays off, then work on Friday when needed for overtime.

[ExiledInIllinois]

6 minutes ago, Gugny said:

I was torn between Wednesday and Friday.

 

I ended up choosing Wednesday, because I'd like the midweek break and it's just a good day to get non-work-related stuff done.  Ideally, my weekends are for fun/relaxation.  A day off during the week would allow me to go to appts., do yardwork, stuff around the house, etc., and Saturday/Sunday would be free and easy.

That reminds me, I gotta get up and shower... Go to work today...Since I have been regularly scheduled off since last week.  😜 

[Gugny]

Just now, ExiledInIllinois said:

That reminds me, I gotta get up and shower... Go to work today...Since I have been regularly scheduled off since last week.  😜 

 

You shouldn't even be allowed to post in this thread.

[ExiledInIllinois]

1 minute ago, Gugny said:

 

You shouldn't even be allowed to post in this thread.

I didn't vote.  I don't want to commit fraud.

[Figster]

4 minutes ago, The Jokeman said:

I agree with the mid week day off is best for appointments and like the break up of never working 2 more days in a row.  

3 days off together allows for travel and recreation better IMO.

Edited December 3, 2020 by Figster

[The Jokeman]

Just now, Figster said:

3 days off together allows for travel and recreation IMo.

True that's when you use PTO to get a 4 days off in a row lol

[Gugny]

1 minute ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

I didn't vote.  I don't want to commit fraud.

 

@BringBackFergy/Tipster/IceBowl67 is gonna vote three times!!!!!!!!!!

[Seasons1992]

1 hour ago, teef said:

i do work a 4 day week.  every week.  fridays are my day off.  there's a good chance i'm in my office at some point during the weekend, but i'll never go back to working a full 5 day week.   the plan is to hire someone else going forward and working 3.  i'm too young for that now, but that's the plan.

 

***actual footage of teef***

 

[GoBills808]

1 hour ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

What if you work a 3 day week? 

What if you work a 7 day week

[ExiledInIllinois]

1 minute ago, GoBills808 said:

What if you work a 7 day week

I do that too!  Figure this one out:

 

Work:

 

Sun, Mon, Tues, Sometimes Wed. 

 

Off to FOLLOWING Thurs, Fri, Sat.

 

Do the math,  that's 7 days in a row.  7 days off.  😆 

[Bill from NYC]

Mondays off are great. It feels like the rest of the world has to go back to work while you are just hanging out.

[ocemur]

I used to work four ten hour days, Wed, Thu, Fri and Sat. It was a really physical job, so Sunday was recover, Mon and Tues was for getting stuff done when all other businesses were open. It's definitely the way to go if you can. Most of the benefits have been covered by other posters but let me just add this one. I never called off on Saturday. Not once in ten years. Why? because I always felt like I could drag myself through one more day to get to the 3 day weekend. No matter how crappy the week was I always walked out of that place on Saturday trying not laugh because it felt like I was getting away with something.

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

A maintenance department I worked in went to straight dayshift 4 X 10 hrs. instead of 5 X 8 hrs.  Half that crew had Mondays off, the other half Fridays.  The afternoon skeleton crew stayed 5 X 8 hrs.

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At the same employer, the long serving veteran in the truck weigh scale house claimed his supervisor dragged him into an office for a talk about his attendance.  "Why do you only work four days a week?!" thundered the foreman.  "Because I can't afford to live on three" was the scale man's reply.  He swore it happened, but in later years I've seen this published as an anecdote.

[DrDawkinstein]

Back in one of my first management jobs I had an employee on my team who had been with the company for almost 20 years, and therefore had something like 6 weeks (30 days) PTO every year.

 

It was a real eye-opening game changer when he submitted his request to schedule off every Friday between Memorial Day and Labor Day. It's 15 days. Gave him a long weekend all summer to be with his family and plan trips, and he still had 2 weeks of PTO left over for the rest of the year.

 

I was a young buck and up until then it had never crossed my mind to do something like that with PTO. We had the coverage so I happily approved it. Really an ingenious move, imo.

[teef]

1 hour ago, Seasons1992 said:

 

***actual footage of teef***

 

i have better hair than that character!

 

 

one thing we didn't mention was out of work time that's work.  i spend probably another 5 hours a week doing paper work.  it's not a ton, but it adds onto the work week.

Edited December 3, 2020 by teef

[Nextmanup]

3 hours ago, SDS said:

Would you go for the long weekend or split up the work week?

Long weekend.

 

Adding the day off to the weekend gives you a solid 3 day period away from work; recharges the batteries and that makes a difference.

Also makes for a noticeably shorter work week.  "Friday" (Thursday) comes awfully quickly each week when you are used to a 5 day work week.

 

Using the day off on, say, a Wednesday, wastes it.

 

 

[The Jokeman]

1 hour ago, DrDawkinstein said:

Back in one of my first management jobs I had an employee on my team who had been with the company for almost 20 years, and therefore had something like 6 weeks (30 days) PTO every year.

 

It was a real eye-opening game changer when he submitted his request to schedule off every Friday between Memorial Day and Labor Day. It's 15 days. Gave him a long weekend all summer to be with his family and plan trips, and he still had 2 weeks of PTO left over for the rest of the year.

 

I was a young buck and up until then it had never crossed my mind to do something like that with PTO. We had the coverage so I happily approved it. Really an ingenious move, imo.

I've been at my company for 15 plus years and get 25 vacation days off yearly and took off every Friday off in December this year.  

[ExiledInIllinois]

11 minutes ago, The Jokeman said:

I've been at my company for 15 plus years and get 25 vacation days off yearly and took off every Friday off in December this year.  

That's what I do to work 3 days a week.   6 days every fortnight pay period.  One day every two weeks I take off 8 hours.  6x12=72+8=80.  Every two weeks I earn 8 hours leave.  I keep 240 hours on the books every year too.  Can't carry more than 240 every leave year.

 

Comes out to be 26 days (8 hour days) I use a year, keep 30 days on books.  I get paid by the hour,  that goes up, my leave pay goes up.  They will cash that 240 hours out at retirement.  Straight up.

 

That 8 hours always "bridges" into the long string of regular days off... Even better when that 8 falls on a holiday I have to work.  I stock pile it against other full 12 hour days.

 

My last year before retirement,  I am NOT taking any leave, then retire one day before leave year ends.  That's another 208 hour $$$ + the 240 on books.

[The Jokeman]

1 hour ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

That's what I do to work 3 days a week.   6 days every fortnight pay period.  One day every two weeks I take off 8 hours.  6x12=72+8=80.  Every two weeks I earn 8 hours leave.  I keep 240 hours on the books every year too.  Can't carry more than 240 every leave year.

 

Comes out to be 26 days (8 hour days) I use a year, keep 30 days on books.  I get paid by the hour,  that goes up, my leave pay goes up.  They will cash that 240 hours out at retirement.  Straight up.

 

That 8 hours always "bridges" into the long string of regular days off... Even better when that 8 falls on a holiday I have to work.  I stock pile it against other full 12 hour days.

 

My last year before retirement,  I am NOT taking any leave, then retire one day before leave year ends.  That's another 208 hour $$$ + the 240 on books.

I'm 20 plus years before I retire yet that idea of retiring after acquiring more vacation makes sense since the company would have to pay me out 1000 hours worth of pay. As I'm now maxed out on vacation time off (not counting sick leave but unsure if they have to pay that off).

Edited December 3, 2020 by The Jokeman