Sun and Fun for Monday

I am off to the beach tomorrow morning for a little sun, a little fun, and some well needed relaxation. I truly believe that every weekend should be a three day weekend or at the very least, let's require one per month to provide our brains and our lives a little downtime from all the crap that we have to deal with on a weekly basis. (Even if this will never become a reality, the more I work, the more I appreciate the three day weekends that I do get as they provide me with a chance to simply become a human vegetable.)

Apparently, however, there are individuals in this society of ours that ignore the productivity that can result from the downtime provided by a three-day weekend and feel the need to work through these breaks. Although I may not agree with such a mindset, I cannot criticize these individuals as long their own desire to work 24/7 does not affect the lives of other individuals at their place of business. When it does, however, then, it's open season on this backwards mindset.

A sad example of such a situation is the friend of mine, who has spent the majority of the weekend working for a boss, who on Saturday of this weekend came to the office early and immediately began to complain about the fact that the remainder of the office was not there at nine in the morning. (ON LABOR DAY WEEKEND) I mean is this not Labor Day weekend, a weekend meant for the workers? A weekend that in the legal profession and most others marks the end of the calm summer months providing all of us with a chance to rest up for the upcoming stressful fall season.

In my friend's situation, however, instead of allowing his workers to spend a relaxing weekend with their families and friends in order to refuel, this boss has lost touch with reality and decided to force his office to work in an apparent attempt to exploit and alienate each of his employees. And sadly, I believe that he finds nothing wrong with the fact that his office is working this weekend while so many others are not. In his warped mind, he feels that the office needs to be working subscribing to the flawed philosophy of since "I am working, why shouldn't they?"

In my mind, such an approach has to be one of the more ignorant and simple minded philosophies that I have ever experienced because any type of output that is achieved by bringing in the office on the three day weekend is negated by the longlasting detrimental effect that such a practice has on office morale and future productivity. (Not to mention that half the office probably wants to quit on a daily basis.) I mean by making his employees come in this weekend, he is creating an work environment that is not only contentious but one where the employees have no respect for their boss. (In most cases, they probably hate the fucken man, which may actually be a positive since atleast they are unified in that regard.)

Moreover, even if they come in, are they really putting forth their full effort or are they simply stewing at their desks about the fact that they are in the office while their friends and family are at the beach or other places relaxing? Actually they are probably spending the majority of their time IMing anyone who is not at the office about how they want to murder their boss or atleast their not so secrete desire to leave a bag of shit under his desk when he leaves.

And how is this maximizing productivity? Clearly, it is not, instead this mandate to work this weekend is simply appeasing the insecurities of a workaholic who forgot a long time ago what it means to actually live life. The more I think about it there really should be counseling provided for this individual or atleast some type of public castration. Actually since I know he has a pretty firm grasp on the law, let's just make such practices illegal with fines to those violators who want to ruin other people's chance to get a free day off to spend with their families.

So to my friend, I wish that I could bring you to the beach with me tomorrow so that you do not have to spend anymore of your time doing work.

And to your boss, I hope he gets laid (actually maybe simply getting an erection will suffice) or atleast goes in for that medical procedure that removes the giant stick from his ass although I have a feeling that the stick is pretty well up there. Or maybe and more realistically, he needs to take his own personal three day weekend and spend that time trying to figure out where he lost his love for life while reconsidering his priorities and the life that that he is living. (And for this personal three day weekend, I am suggesting that you make him a three day supply of pot brownies to assist him in this life reevaluation.)