Four-Day Work Week in Utah July 3, 2008
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Even Mormon politicians can be really dumb.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Starting next month, it will be “TGIT” for Utah state employees. As in: “Thank God It’s Thursday.”
In a yearlong experiment aimed at reducing the state’s energy costs and commuters’ gasoline expenses, Utah is about to become the first state to switch to a four-day workweek for thousands of government employees.freeing them to golf, shop, spend time with the kids or do anything else that strikes their fancy. They will get paid the same as before.
So, two years from now, please remember that Michael told you this was a really dumb idea. The “experiment” won’t work because it is an exercise in political expediency that flies in the face of economic reality.
It will be a fiasco. And why did it happen? I’ll tell you. Those folks in Utah are still resistant to Pure Lutheran Doctrine™, that’s why.
Utah is going to a 4-day workweek to save energy: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance
Utah is ignoring some basic realities.
The economy is a highly complex machine. The complex machine can only operate if it has synchronized parts, like gears that mesh. The parts are synchronized by rules, like a common agreement on standardized working hours.
Utah just threw it’s state government out-of-synch.
Why? What’s the real cause (aside from doctrinal errors)?
It’s because we are not now tapping the oil reserves offshore and in the ANWR. The leftards won that issue a decade ago. That pisses me off.
What’s funny about this article is that is predicts that Utah’s state employees will flock to play golf on Fridays. Golf courses. The most water-intensive recreational activity on the planet.
Erm, how much spare water does Utah have?
I can’t see this working for state employees, but it would be great at my company. We’d just work 4 days of 10 to 12 hours each. It would work out the same. The main problem would be shipping.
Michael, check your (yahoo) email.
Still resistant to Pure Lutheran Doctrine™
That’s one of Utah’s more popular bumper stickers. I’m not sure about this either. I’m doubtful you’ll get a state office to answer the phone after 4:00 (the way it is now). Higher ed. was notably left off the list. My life on the hamster wheel will not change.
State employees are usually pretty scarce on Friday afternoons anyway. Shouldn’t be much of a change in quality of service.
Well, when a real business figures out that you can get by with 20% fewer employees on a given day, layoffs come quick. The state? They probably end up hiring more.
“Erm, how much spare water does Utah have?”
Don’t worry, they’re good. The government figured out how to reverse-engineer Jesus’ miracle of turning water into wine.