Sunday, October 17, 2004
Which ones are your week-end days? or, How I managed single-handedly to bring about a revolution in Iran!
In Israel we have Friday and Saturday.
From Friday afternoon (close to one hour before the first star appears) to Saturday night when the stars are with us again - we have no public transportation and very few shops stay open.
So now there is talk of adding Sunday to the week-end.
I've asked my source about Iran and it turns out that over there the week-end arrangement is really special: Tuesdays and Fridays are off.
I think it's like starting the week twice. You have at least eight weeks in a month and longevity prospers.
I do not know how the school vacations are in your places.
Here (one thing we have not yet copied from USA) - school is still open on Friday, which parents love - gives them a few hours of quiet.. While kids and teachers demand in one voice to have Friday off.
It's probably going to happen soon.
Then the fight for school off on Friday as well will start.
The Palestinian children are having so many school days off. It's not fair indeed...
10:00 P.M.
LAST MINUTE Update:
The week-end in Iran is Thursday to Friday.
My words here must have hit home with you-know-who-in-the-dark-chambers-where-longevity-is-a-forbidden-word.
...my source claims it was just a typing mistake. Now, who do you believe?!
Comments:
There were times when in the kibbutzim the highest compliment or quality used to be: S/he has working ethics!
Indeed we worked like donkeys and how proud we were of this, and how spiteful of the Oblomovs amongst us.
Once I heard from a friend, when asked if his wife is happy with her job.
His answer was: "Happy on Thursdays, miserable on Sundays."
When I worked in the North at this Hilai not-for profit project I founded over there, one guy, a veteran municipality workman, offered his unasked for advise:
"Why do you work so hard? Be like me. Haffif."
Now "Haffif", which I suspect comes from Arabic, means -superficial.
It is my conviction that people can be happy with their work only if it is creative.
The problem is that creative people are hard to rule. Undesirable.
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Indeed we worked like donkeys and how proud we were of this, and how spiteful of the Oblomovs amongst us.
Once I heard from a friend, when asked if his wife is happy with her job.
His answer was: "Happy on Thursdays, miserable on Sundays."
When I worked in the North at this Hilai not-for profit project I founded over there, one guy, a veteran municipality workman, offered his unasked for advise:
"Why do you work so hard? Be like me. Haffif."
Now "Haffif", which I suspect comes from Arabic, means -superficial.
It is my conviction that people can be happy with their work only if it is creative.
The problem is that creative people are hard to rule. Undesirable.
