Friday, November 14, 2008

Happy weekend

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:

Scarlett said...

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.

Moonshine said...

I am not very sure of getting used to "working sunday" concept.. at least thats what i feel right now...