>”My parents told me to keep coming to school even if I am killed. The people who did this to me don’t want women to be educated. They want us to be stupid things.”
– SHAMSIA HUSSEINI, 17, who has returned to school in Afghanistan despite being injured in an acid attack. From the New York Times.
I wanted to clarify my last post about the four day work week. I would love to only work four days a week, even if they were longer days. What I don’t like is the hours proposed and the days. Since I have a two hour commute, that means I wouldn’t get home until 8:00 pm, leaving time for me to do nothing in the evening. Also I would have to use leave time on Wednesday to get home in time for my class.
However, I feel this would not be very soon in the making, considered the compressed work week program, after a successful trial run, has yet to make it to the rest of the state.
The comment left expressed the thought that studies show 4 day work weeks do not cause a reduction in energy use and I am sure that is true in general, however, if all the State Offices are closed an extra day, that would save the state the cost of operation for that one day. However, there are some departments that have offices in non-state owned building, like the one I’m in, and the one in White Plains that I used to work at, I don’t know how reducing to a 4 day work week would affect us.
On an unrelated topic, I had to get a new counter for my blog, the other one just stopped showing up. Weird. Anyway, this one doesn’t count visits from my IP address so the count will be more accurate. It is also more depressing.
Belleza
just a city girl 