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To cushion the transition back to in-person, the Portland teachers’ union has pitched one day of remote instruction a week for high schoolers after winter break.

On Monday, the Portland Association of Teachers proposed cancelling in-person class every Friday, during which teachers would provide small group tutoring online for half the day and let students out of school early so they can use the other half of the day for lesson planning, according to The Oregonian.

Awful idea. Who is going to watch my kids while I work the desk at the gun store?

SuperJail Warden wrote:

every Friday, ... let students out of school early so they can use the other half of the day for lesson planning

My god, these people really don't know teachers do they?

we need a four-day week generally. and friday should be renamed to 'Rave-day'. everyone gets free drugs. dilbert gets to loosen up.

fully automated luxury communism baby!

That sounds like a company leadership issue more than something inherently wrong with four days a week. If people aren't working or coordinating, there should be an internal review.

Apart from crunches, I don't recall ever getting more office work done spread out in 5-7 days than in 4. Lots of idle time usually when you give people long work weeks at an office. Waste of time and resources.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Apart from crunches, I don't recall ever getting more office work done spread out in 5-7 days than in 4. Lots of idle time usually when you give people long work weeks at an office. Waste of time and resources.

Getting your clothes ready the night before, going through your whole wake up, shower etc. routine, and a commute adds a bunch of stress that people don't need. 1 day less of in person time free up mental bandwidth.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

There is a certain derision in the business world for businesses whose office hours only run four days a week, and people who don't work absurd hours, that the country will have to get past sooner or later. This contest of who can work the longest, and the false notion that it equates to the best quality, need to end. Instead of being jealous of the accountants and government workers, more business people should push for that kind of experience themselves.

"I'm miserable so everyone should be miserable." < "I want to be less miserable."

A lot to unpack there.

I think most of the problems in this country stem from miserable people wanting others to be miserable like them. A lot of otherwise normal people could probably be helped with antidepressants once they reach early 40's.

Uzique wrote:

you prowl reddit all day looking for death

Yeah but I am also devoted to helping the ill. I am not out here voting Republican while scamming old lady's on their oil changes.

a lot of the time it's merely the inertia of 'workplace culture'. japan and korea are the paragons at this distinctly 1980s-style type of corporate belongerism. they work the longest hours in the OECD and do not see any marked increase productivity as a result; often times, it actually does harm to productivity (to say nothing of worker happiness and mental health, natch).

i work 3.5 hours a day, 5 days a week but occasionally 6 if i feel like it, and make as much as i did when on a full-time salary. no bosses, no office politics, no 50 emails a day, no pointless meetings, no nattering on instant messaging, and no hours-long phonecalls with needy/remonstrative authors. feel like i've stepped into something of a socialist paradise, here.

could pretty easily make 2x as much as i did with a salary if i wanted to work full-time equivalent, but i'd rather go gawp at things on a beach and miscegenate with the locals. living abroad helps with this too, considering i'm invoicing about 5x the average national wage per hour.

you should look into it dilbert. another life is possible!

Last edited by uziq (2021-12-02 20:21:47)

robots can breed themselves now. i just read it in the papers today.

200 years from now in an underground bunker beneath dilbert's skeleton and the ruins of Australian civilization: