well, you hadn't actually provided that part. i suspect the rest of us haven't perfected our mind-reading skills, so some specificity is actually helpful and interesting, despite the unnecessary snarkiness. i can understand not wanting to say where you work, but can you give us an idea of the industry/sector/something like that? this is really interesting, to me, anyway. as an academic (at the moment), i keep thinking we ought to have classes only four days a week, or possibly even three, when so much time for tenure and tenure-track faculty is taken up with committee work, advising, etc. etc. To regularly have three straight days, or even four, without having to *be anywhere* or being expected to respond to calls or emails, would be great both for getting other work done and for having actual time off.
of course, leisure time is fuzzy in academia, at least when you take either or both of your teaching and writing seriously. On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Sandwichman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 7:41 AM, Doyle Saylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sandwichman's idea about shorter work is a bit > > abstract, > > I don't know about that. I work a three-day week by choice. Seems > perfectly concrete to me. Where I work, the collective agreement > permits us to restrict our hours. We qualify for benefits at 24 hours > a week. Most people work a four-day week. We just negotiated a new > contract with a raise and extending the right to restrict hours. I was > on the bargaining committee. We got 100% ratification. What's abstract > about any of that? > > -- > Sandwichman > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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