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Originally posted by vetran View Postmost shift jobs have lost the concept of the weekend over the years. Never underestimate the power of managers to shaft the proles.
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Originally posted by unixman View PostYou have now. But if all days become equivalent, what's to stop your client/employer asking you to work any of the 7 days for the same money ? Without a weekly repeating template, the notion of a weekend eventually disappears.
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Originally posted by expat View PostWhy is there a "week" at all? Where did a 7-day period come from? Every other calendar period has a physical/astronomical meaning but the "week" doesn't seem to correspond to anything real.
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Why is there a "week" at all? Where did a 7-day period come from? Every other calendar period has a physical/astronomical meaning but the "week" doesn't seem to correspond to anything real.
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Originally posted by Chuck View PostThere is no equivalence between Mon-Fri and Sat currently. Why would Sunday become any more of a weekday than Saturday is now?
Better if we reduce opening hours on Saturday too, and have 3 day weekends. I'd go for that.
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Originally posted by unixman View PostYou have now. But if all days become equivalent, what's to stop your client/employer asking you to work any of the 7 days for the same money ? Without a weekly repeating template, the notion of a weekend eventually disappears.
There is no equivalence between Mon-Fri and Sat currently. Why would Sunday become any more of a weekday than Saturday is now?
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Originally posted by VectraMan View PostI have 2 days that are different to the 5 where I go to work.
And just because shops are open doesn't mean you can't sit at home in your underpants.
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Originally posted by VectraMan View PostUsually one of the arguments is the poor workers forced to work on a Sunday, but in reality plenty of part-time or temporary workers are delighted to have the extra hours.
Oh I forgot - the rich have all the money.
Sometimes, not often but sometimes, I can see why people give up work and sponge.
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Originally posted by unixman View PostWhat he said. I like one day being different, it gives a pattern to the others. If Sunday becomes the same as every other days, we might as well abolish weekdays and weeks altogether,
And having 1 day where we are not cramming our cake holes with icecream/ipads/chasing worthless tat is sort of cool.
And just because shops are open doesn't mean you can't sit at home in your underpants.
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Originally posted by Gumbo Robot View PostBad.
I'm not religious but I like the concept of a day where the world shuts the F*** up.
And having 1 day where we are not cramming our cake holes with icecream/ipads/chasing worthless tat is sort of cool.
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Originally posted by Gumbo Robot View PostBad.
I'm not religious but I like the concept of a day where the world shuts the F*** up.
Usually one of the arguments is the poor workers forced to work on a Sunday, but in reality plenty of part-time or temporary workers are delighted to have the extra hours.
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Sunday closures are a leftover of a bigoted religion and not of this time
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Bad.
I'm not religious but I like the concept of a day where the world shuts the F*** up.
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