I did not bother reading your story.

It is not true in my work place. We work 9/80. We get every other Friday off. In a good week we get one weld every other day. Making the work day an hour longer does not get us more welds but taking a day off means we get less welds. Weekends are already disruptive because if you prep before the weekend the two or three day delay means you need to repeat the prep on Monday because the prep is really only good for a day. If we weld on Wednesday and we are going to have Friday off, really Thursday is a lost day too because there is no point in preping the next weld. So we can prep Monday weld Tuesday, prep Wednesday weld Thursday and all is fine. If we get some disruption, if something in the prep is out of spec and we have to take a day to work it out and it is an off Friday week then we get just one weld that week. Weeks where we work Fridays we almost always get two welds a week but weeks where we have an off Friday it is hit or miss.

Consider a restaurant. Do you think they have as many sales in a 4 day week as they would have in a 5 day week. You ever wonder why restaurants are usually open either 6 or 7 days a week.

Banks used to be open only 5 days a week. That sucked and we made them open on Saturday. Same deal with the post office.

4 day work weeks are for elitist lazy suckers.

TEK