Its Fridayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!! The entire weekend stretches out in front of me.. ok so not the entire weekend (going to somebody's place for lunch tom.. she cooks very well..so not a hard thing to do on a saturday afternoon).. but 2 days of sheer bliss..
Weekend - the most loveliest word coined in history.. i wonder how it originated..
Even if i used to work on weekends, i used to like it.. like working on weekends.. coz i could do as i pleased.. theres no one to question about anything..
Did i just say "like working during weekends"??? Ok so that was aeons back!!! I DO NOT work on weekends.. at least i have tried to in the last 1 yr. Weekend is a weekend is a weekend afterall..
So anyway, this friend of mine came down from Dubai.. she was telling me that they used to be off on Thursday /Friday .. but then the entire world is shut on sat/sun.. so now their weekend is Friday/saturday.. so actually, if you think of it, their sunday is saturday....
I dont think i will ever be able to adjust to working every sunday.. i think i would be mentally traumatised.. having been brought this side of the world where Sunday is a part of the weekend..every plan is made for Sunday.. Sunday is a day for pure lazing (like i used to do.).. sleep till late.. get up have lunch.. sleep again.. wake up, have tea, have dinner and then back to sleep!!! So i went on asking this friend of mine.. how she felt working on a sunday etc.. shes been there for more than a yr now.. and she says shes adjusted!!!
I could never imagine this scenario.. everyone working on a sunday.. sunday - work as usual day...
What if our weekend was Monday/tuesday.. or something....all the special programmes on Tv would be on Monday.. movies will release on sunday.. cricket finals (india -aus match) would be beamed on a tuesday!!!! Just imagine this topsy turvy world!!! thank god it is not.. actually it could be.. at the end of the day it would still be a 5 day week.. but it would be a strange concept.. the mind is just not able to accept it...
Its such a powerful concept, come to think of it... the acceptability of Sunday as a "rountine work day" is so very unacceptable.. its so deeply ingrained in every pore of your body and mind.. an idea that cannot be defeated!!!! ... a perfect branding exercise is it not..
Coming back to the weekend concept.. in my previous organisation, i used to work 6 days.. initially it took me time but i got used to it.. but now that i am on a 5 day week again, its difficult to imagine how i did that.. you just get one day to recuperate.. and then you are back to work.. Terrible!! Slavery it is!!
I hear in some countries the government is pushing for a 4 day week?? Its such an attractive thought.. will it become the next world dictat?? One can only wish!!! And maybe, you never know, it may come true...
So anyway, have a happy weekend everyone!!! :)
2 comments:
I think quite a few Canadian companies have a 4-day workweek. And French too! In fact, someone was telling me of a French company in Gurgaon that has a 3-day weekend (Fri-Sun) & if you end up working even one day of the weekend, you get a comp off the following week. Nice, id'n it?
And coming to the concept of having a working Sunday, guess you do get used to it once you've been doing it for a while & everyone around you is doing the same. As in, everyone would be celebrating Friday as we celebrate Saturdays, so it might be the same thing after all.
I am not very sure of getting used to "working sunday" concept.. at least thats what i feel right now...
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