Fine by me.

An economy that doesn't serve its participants can as well go to hell.

Fridays meetings are a godsend! You will NEVER see agreements being closed this quickly, especially if you make it obvious you have all the time in the world while they want to leave early for the weekend.

The last time we had a work hour reduction in my country was in 1975. From 48 to 40 hours. Ever since, productivity has increased twofold to twentyfold, depending on industry.

And now people want to lower their work hours by 1/5. Not even their productivity, but yeah, let's say we lower productivity by 1/5.

Care to tell us how those companies even survived back in 1975? Cutting down hours AND having only about 20% productivity on average to start with? How did they even manage? How could they possibly stay in business?

Not so new at all. It's been the consultant's mantra for decades now.

"10% more with 10 percent less"? Never heard of it? Consultants have been selling that bullshit for ages. You can always increase your productivity by 10% and cut your workforce by the same 10%. Every year. No really, that's what they're selling.

And suddenly, after decades of following that creed religiously, it's a "ridiculous notion"? Perish the thought! You think the consultant who has been selling you this sage advice for so long could be wrong?

HERETIC!!!

That's fine, then give these people the structure of a work week and leave us who are capable of self organization out of that bullshit.

From a job, I need mostly money. I don't need an occupation, I'm quite capable of keeping myself occupied and busy.

I'm not here to cater to the sensibilities of fragile leadership. I'm getting paid to get shit done.

Pretty much this right here.

Fridays are the worst. Everyone's basically watching the clock tick down to 1pm which is also the time when I can safely break SLAs and start running the security tests I should only do after work hours, because nobody but me is around who would even notice that some systems go down.

You don't think anyone gets anything sensible done on a 9 to 1 Friday, do you?

You can keep that privilege, I don't give a fuck about that. But could I get two more hours to spend with my family instead?

This is in what way different from consultants giving advice who never really worked a day in their life?

And why shouldn't I expect it?

The weekly work hours were lowered from 48 to 40 hours in 1975 in my country. Ever since, we increased productivity per man-hour by 200% to 2000% percent in some fields.

Now a 20% reduction in time worked will break the camel's back?

Oh how did we ever work back in 1975 when we worked more and produced less? How did our economy even function at this level of abysmal productivity? How did our companies not go bankrupt left and right when we produced half to a magnitude less?

The rules of engagement, up until now, were pretty much "don't piss anyone off who could actually get laws changed that keep us from fleecing the flock".

If it happens to the kids of "important" people, maybe we're gonna see some improvements in security.

This is not about honoring anything, it's about not having to deal with it in the first place.

The reboot is already happening. With great visuals, but frankly, I didn't really want to play a part in it...

"Hey Mike, look up: the fucking monkeys are circling overhead in their fucking boats again."

"Uh oh... Better dive deep in case they came with their spikey things again"