For much of my 30+ year career I worked nights and weekends. Early on I had Tuesday Wednesday days off then got to Monday Tuesday, then got to Sunday Monday. To get weekends off I had to take a pay cut and work in a different location for 2 1/2 years. I did that when my children were small so that I could be home nights and weekends and do the activities at other parents got to do on a regular basis. But then I had to make a choice that would affect my retirement and chose to go back into the operation with Monday Tuesday days off and then Sunday Monday days off for many years.
The shifts that I worked were not consistent, either. The schedule that we followed where I have worked followed a 221 rotation. Two evening shifts, he usually 3 to 11 or 2 to 10. To the shifts, usually 7 to 3 or 622. And then either a dayshift or a midnight shift. This rotation was put in place many many years ago to maximize the weekend for us. Repeated studies have shown that this is one of the worst schedules someone can be on for their health and personal lives.
I share all that to say that while I enjoy my weekends now and like having evenings off during the week I don't celebrate Fridays. So many times my people and even I would cringe when staff people would come in and go "it's Friday woo hoo!" Because almost everybody that heard them still had one two or three days left in their work week.
In our always on 24/7 culture that we have developed in our society I still find it odd that marketing and activity companies stick to the same old five days of work with two days off on Saturday and Sunday model. And if you offer something different that it fails because it doesn't get any support from the public or the company.
Interesting.
