Sri Lanka declares all Wednesdays off to conserve energy

I used to bartend with a Friday Saturday Sunday schedule and I can concur, it’s a great way to go through the week. Having a four day weekend every week is quite the luxury.

Lots of nurses work 3 12s

Used to do something similar when I worked in a microchip fabrication facility. Schedule was Sun-Tues + every other Wed. They were 12-hour shifts, but it was great always having 3-4 days off each week with the option to pickup extra shifts on the other days if desired. Pay was pretty solid for someone fresh out of high-school, too. Kinda miss that schedule...not the job, just the schedule.

I hope this isn't too invasive of a question but wtf kind of job is that schedule and wfh? Some kind of emergency dispatch? Telehealth?

I work the same schedule, best shift pattern I've ever had. It means that if I book 2 days holiday I get a week off.

There's a local company that has a schedule they call 9/80 that consists of 5 8 hour days with 2 days off, then 4 10 hour days with 3 days off. That one always interested me too

That's not what the article said. They don't want government services to be shut unavailable for 3 days in a row.

Island of Sri-Lanka is like 436 kms across by 200km, the situation with fuel has to be BAD bad if they have to conserve fuel on that scale, considering that a lot of people drive 2-cylinder ICEs there, that are like 2-4 liters per 100 kms

Ryan started the fire

It was always burning since the world's been turning.

I mean, specifically this time we (the US) kinda did...

It was always burning since the worlds been turning

with Epsteinia

...or better yet, improved public transport.

Not just EV, but renewable energy as a whole. Lots of people are going to realize how much money solar is saving them when electricity prices go up too.

Well well well looks who's the largest EV manufacturing country

It would help if we could get rid of all the right wing news or at least tame it down.

Can you explain this? I’ve seen a few references to IMF predatory lending but I can’t seem to find anything well sourced or I’m searching wrong

The IMF doesn’t give a shit about being paid back. Defaulting the point. Then they privatize national goods and services.

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So like it's that you either get amazing weekends with a day that is completely free from "unwinding from work" and "preparing for more work" versus "ultra-productive errands day that frees up the shorter weekends"

It was the 70s, things were a lot more slack back then

It was a way to make things work tolerated by the government. They didn’t want more people on strike or more industrial shut down.

It could be. Legal in my state in the US Edited to add of at least was during covid shutdowns, perhaps it was a temporary thing

I'm just completed playing Resident Evil 4. Never played in this universe before. I was reading some of the lore. I don't want to spoil (a decades old game, but still, it was new to me!), so I won't get too far into it. One of the lines hit me though. Paraphrasing, because I don't remember the actual line "Mind control even one insider in a government and you can control the entire government" .......when was this written?? I stopped right there for a few seconds. Mind control can come into many forms. Feels very familiar right now.

Prisoners with jobs, who love him and call him sir, with tears in their eyes.

(I wanted to post this in case any company or management is interested in this and wants some starting points) I was once on a team in a corporate office that was discussing a 4 day work week. The bigger deal was that many of the things we did ended up keeping us clocked in beyond quitting time, but since they didn't want to pay overtime, they often let us leave early on Fridays to make up for it. The flip side issue is that the team got really low staffed on Fridays, and if anything came up on a Friday afternoon evening, then everyone stuck there would be getting overtime. So they thought of a 4 day work week of 4x10s. Everyone on the team liked this idea. We couldn't have a super low staffed Wednesday though, so we thought of a rotation schedule. An individual would have Monday off one week, Tuesday the next, Wednesday the next, and so on. Everyone's schedule would be varied so that on any given day, only a fraction of the team was out. Shifts could be traded between individuals if needed. We also discussed a permanent schedule (you would always have X day off), the issue here was the high interest in people wanting Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays off, so how do we decide who to screw in getting their less preferred day off? Additionally, we worried this would have lead into less shift swapping, which people saw as a benefit to flexibility. Upper management pushed back that if many people wanted to take a particular day off, you already had a few people off because of their schedule, plus a few people off via PTO, so potentially a lot of people off. We countered that that is why the trading shifts would be beneficial, people who wanted a particular day off could trade for it (saving their PTO), but upper management countered with potentially Friday being a none day off, and only rotating Mon-Thurs (obviously they just viewed this as essentially giving this team more PTO and wanted to avoid that). Another pushback was "team cohesion" and issues with team meetings. There was a big company wide shakeup so this team completely shifted focus anyway, but there was whole team but in from this, and I think if it weren't for the redirection, it would have been implemented one way or another.