Yeah, right. Until the other side does the same thing. :rolleyes:
From an “hours worked” standpoint, four tens is not the same as five eights. When I first started with my company, they had a policy of four 10-hour workdays per week with an hour lunch each day. Now, according to our contract, our salaries were based on a 35-hour work week. However, we were actually working 36 hours*.
It was certainly not a big deal at all, and ditching that fifth day’s two-hour commute more than made up for it, but you can’t say that the two are the same, hourswise.
*Well, to be honest, we were only working eight or nine hours a week, but that’s a different matter.
Well, by that logic, Boehner would still be wrong, since this policy would have employees working more, not less.
In any case, if you wanted to be pedantic you could always institute a 1 hour and 15 minute lunch.
First, anyone who beleives this…
…is high.
Second, I think Pelosi’s idea would keep the buildings open for five days. Also, the savings are questionable. When someone is at work, their cars are idle for the time they are there. It is unknown: 1) how many miles is the average commute and 2) how many miles does someone drive on their day off.
I thought the point of Boehner’s idea was to draw attention to the fact that the government makes more off a gallon of gas in taxes than the oil companies. And that has been covered before in many threads.
I guess it depends on your occupation. When I was working construction, it’d take us about an hour and a half to get coffee, collect our tools, gather our materials, and drive up the mountain to our job sites. At the end of the day, it’d take about an hour to clean up and turn in our tools. That’s 2.5 hours a day of prep/cleanup, that must happen every day. (10 - 2.5) * 4 = 30 productive hours, while (8 - 2.5) * 5 = 27.5 productive hours. Substitute collecting tools and gathering materials for reading the newspaper and checking email, and I think the point still holds in an office environment as well. For the record, I currently work 9/80s, for the best of both worlds.
From the second cite in the OP:
“Rep. Hoyer has finally given the American people a glimpse of the Majority’s long-promised energy plan: drive smaller cars, wait for the wind, and let bureaucrats work less,” Boehner said in a written statement. “At a time when Democrats continue to block a vote on the House GOP’s ‘all of the above’ plan to lower gas prices…to propose a shorter work week for Washington bureaucrats is an insult to American workers and their families struggling with high gas prices.”
Emphasis added. If Boehner is not implying that 4 x 10 is less work than 5 x 8, it isn’t clear from the article.
Fed workers get their Annual Leave an Sick leave in hours, not days.
In addition, we only get 8 hours of Holiday Leave on holidays; we have to either take an hour of vacation, or work an extra hour on the Friday we come in.
ETA: Fridays are usually 8 hour days; 9hr/day * 8 days = 72 hours, plus 8 hours makes 80.
So, “up or down votes” are a big deal and should ALWAYS be allowed. Right?
-Joe
I wasn’t the one that called it theater, sparky. What the Republicans are doing in trying to get the bill out of committee is perfectly good politics too.
Now the grandstanding in an empty House of Representatives - now, that’s theater.
Nor did I, dimwit. It was the OP. All I’ve done is respond.
Then your comment to me makes no sense instead of only a little sense, and I shall assume it was simply the result of random neuron firings in your typing fingers. In general, with you, a safe assumption anyway.
Look at DWC’s location and I think things will start to make a little more sense.
You betcha. Any person who doesn’t drink the Dem-Aide is to be scorned. Fuck and off.
We start with an OP that was half bullshit, and the poster has refused to either admit that he was full of it or back up his claim. He states that what Rep Boehner, et al, are doing is political theater, and when Spkr Pelosi’s BS is held up for comparison, Frank gets his panties in a wad.
Christ-I can see where both sides have room for improvement, but not you folks. If it’s GOP, it teh eevilll11!1111!!!1