Friends, I want to die.
The children downstairs are on summer vacation, and distant France has begun juilletites (July holidaymakers).
Only we, the East Asian Scroll King, were created to die in the hellish mode of taking breaks and working six days in a row.
People in the UK, last year began to do the "four days off three" experiment -
61 companies tested a four-day work week for six months.
After the experiment, 52 companies decided to extend the four-day workday, 18 of which decided to make it permanent.
"It really proves that the time has come for a wider four-day workweek."
I can't already scold the damn inventor of the recess.
I just want to ask: who stole my last four and three days!
Q1: Tell us about yourself
An unknown foreign company in Shanghai, with three years of service and three years off.
The shift occurred during the pandemic, when our leaders found that employees were surprisingly productive working from home.
It is the task assigned on Monday before, which can only be completed on Friday, but during the epidemic, I accidentally found that everyone can basically complete it on Wednesday and Thursday with quality and quantity.
Coupled with the particularity of foreign companies, and customers often have time difference and space difference, in fact, many times everyone is simply waiting.
After the Shanghai lockdown, the company's top management held a week-long meeting, and finally announced that it would be four days off and three days off.
At the same time, of course, the corresponding performance and bonuses were slightly reduced.
In the system of a small county in Chengdu, strictly speaking, it is not counted as four days off and three days, but on Wednesday afternoons.
Under normal circumstances, it is team building, but you can take leave at will, and the leader will not force you to participate.
This seems to be a tradition in many systems on our side, and my girlfriend goes ashore on four major trips, mainly on Friday afternoons.
But I'm not sure about the situation in other cities, after all, the underdeveloped small counties are still idle.
A coal energy company in Shaanxi, the tradition of this unit is to take four days off and three days, and there are seven days off and five days off in the park.
Mainly related to our industry, coal companies have large dividends and basically do not worry about KPIs.
I am mainly responsible for ground control, and the pressure is still relatively high when I go to work.
Q2 : What is the difference in mentality?
We are now incredibly efficient.
The mentality has changed a lot, and I always felt that working for the company, paid, paid fish is the norm.
But now after four days off and three days, everyone is worried that if the working hours cannot be completed, they will have to occupy three days of vacation, which is a big loss.
Focusing on a quick victory, high efficiency and high quality, the leader even compresses the meeting time to 20 minutes as much as possible.
Everyone is an experienced employee, receives the task just do it, according to the process, docking the department, there is no need for anyone to rush the progress behind the ass.
Occasionally the project requires overtime, colleagues are very cooperative, twisted into a rope to solve as soon as possible, rest as soon as possible.
I really don't have any complaints, and even feel that proper overtime is something I owe to the company!
To understand, it took some transition from cows and horses to humans.
The biggest benefit of Wednesday holidays is that there is hope every day.
Monday is full of energy, Tuesday is about to have a holiday, Wednesday morning fish to talk about afternoon plans.
Let's round up on Thursday and stay up for the weekend right away, and the whole enthusiasm is high.
I don't hide from you that I go to work every day to meet the masses, and I smile so much that my mouth goes to the root behind my ears, just like reviewing Shen Zhi and seeing that sentence: Serve the people wholeheartedly.
Thank you to my family for forcing me to take the public exam, and I will reach the end of the universe after graduation!
Emmm, I haven't experienced five days off and two days, and I haven't experienced six days off and one day, so I feel good about the last four days off.
I envy my buddies, take five days off, play games at home for a whole week, and fly.
Q3 : What do you do on your days off?
Buy Fly Free, the biggest advantage of Shanghai is the international metropolis, the transportation is super convenient.
I can make a short trip once a month, and my mentality has changed from checking in to enjoying local life now.
Generally, arrive on Thursday evening, eat a late-night snack to see the night view, and get up early the next day to visit the morning market.
After eating the super authentic morning tea in Guangzhou, the roasted pig's trotters at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night in the northeast, and the big candies in the early morning in Tianjin, they must be freshly cooked!
On weekends when you don't go out, you bask in the sun slowly at home, and Shanghai itself is not so rich on sunny days.
I used to feel that I didn't have time to develop a hobby, and the five-day shift was in a state of running out of battery, but this spring I put cycling on the agenda, often with my cyclists.
Obviously played for two days, opened my eyes and found that I could still wave for a day, and every Sunday morning, I had to roll around and scream with the quilt!
Half of the time participating in team building, our leaders are older, but they are willing to listen to younger colleagues.
I often organize camping, hiking, and farm stays, and I bought several sets of outdoor equipment.
Of course, there are also the necessary mahjong and tea drinking for Chengdu people, this is not detailed, anyway, it is mainly to play, do not gamble money, otherwise it will be reported.
The other half of the time I spent going to the mall, the mall was almost empty on Wednesday, the movie was casually chartered, and I would borrow my sister's college student membership to eat hot pot alone in Haidilao.
However, our own hot pot in Chengdu is more delicious, mainly because it is not to take advantage of discounts and eat pork belly chicken pot bottom.
On the first day, drink and play billiards until two o'clock in the evening.
The next day I went to bed, slept until twelve o'clock in the afternoon, and then called friends out for drinks and played games in Internet cafes.
Go to bed on the third day and wait for work.
Recently, I started learning to bartend, sometimes taking up half a day on weekends.
Then wait for May Day, make up for an eight-day vacation, and go to Thailand to play this year, just enough time.
Q4 : Are you satisfied with the salary?
Originally, because of the four days off and three days, the performance bonus was reduced.
But we overfulfilled the KPI for two quarters in a row, and the headquarters raised the bonus again.
Those former colleagues who left with n➕1 seemed to be quite annoyed.
But after I had a life, I didn't seem to care much about my salary.
Material desires have been declining, consumerism has begun to be rethought, and the happiness that can be obtained without spending money in life has become richer.
Watching my greenery blossom and riding through the shadows of Shanghai's trees, I had a very energetic energy in my heart.
I seem to understand why the French read a book forever under the sun.
Institutional wages are dead and nothing will change.
However, we Chengdu people are happy to know our fate, how much we earn and how much we spend, and we are rich and thrifty.
And I don't like to travel either, Chengdu is very comfortable, I don't like to be a special soldier, crowding crowds.
The money is basically only used to drink tea, eat hot pot, and lose mahjong money to the little sisters.
The annual salary is relatively high, but in our industry, there is no highest but higher.
I have seen that my colleague's year-end bonus is higher than my annual salary, and now my mentality is relatively peaceful.
Some colleagues and I joined the company for a year, and this year the coal mine was dug under my hometown.
Harm!
Q5 : I would like to say something to readers who take Friday and Tuesday
Pass on my good fortune to you! Save humanity on four days off and three days off! Hold on a little longer!
It's really not good to take the exam, I don't earn much, but the happiness index is high.
I wish your family to dig mines.
The average working week in China is 48.7 hours, up from 38.8 hours in 1970.
The working week in South Korea can be legally extended to 69 hours.
And Japan, in NHK's parlance, every year, Japanese work thirteen months longer than Europeans.
The documentary "Japan's Throwaway Worker" shows the daily life of Shota Nakahara in a large country where overwork dies:
"This life lasted for several years. The spirit is on the verge of collapse, there is no time to take care of the surrounding scenery, the four seasons are not distinguished, day and night are not divided. Every day, I shrug my head, drag heavy steps to work, sit in the office chair, I only have the computer in front of me, and I can't hear the sounds around me..."
We can also review the history of the 8-hour workday and weekend again:
In 1877, American workers launched a nationwide strike, putting forward two demands: "8-hour working day" and "setting up weekends".
In the same year, the capitalists agreed to set weekends.
In 1886, Chicago workers banded together and again proposed the "8-hour workday."
In early 1888, under pressure, it was finally passed and implemented nationwide.
Do not say.
May you and I in 955 and 996 have good luck for future generations.
If you're too tired, it's okay, today Friday, drink and walk away after work!