Post #2064311
2026-02-01 06:32 UTC
This has practical, tangible, political effects.
It is /not a coincidence/ that we got the weekend from a US northeast labor movement where even goyim were gaining fluency in Yiddish.
Nor is this a resolved issue -- I have a friend who, as we speak, is being (practically deniably but subjectively likely) pushed out of their job directly in response to being shomer-shabbos cutting into their hours.
I have personally (-- I didn't mention the "a scattering of 'it is religiously impossible for me to write or use electricity today' days" above --), not through advocating but simply through being present and having no other solution,
single-handedly exanded the policy on taking days off at a previous job.
(And to be clear, that was a failure on my part -- they moved it as little as possible and to apply to as few other cases as possible. I knew even less about standing up as a worker than the little I do now.)
COMMIT TO SOMETHING.
POSITION YOURSELF TOWARDS BEING THE SAND IN THEIR GEARS.
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@gaditb@icosahedron.website 2026-02-01 06:49
There isn't Only One Way towards winning a 4-day workweek with as-needed negotiation of which day is off. But if it were an organized part of society, a fixed religious practice regularly occuring in an 8 or 9 day week would absolutely be one such path. But secular concerns aside, there's also just. the aesthetic frustration I have here. Like, why are the months (okay "seasons" says the Wikipedia page but if they have a specified and enumerated count of days, that's a month imo) contiguous? Why isn't anyone exploring what the experiential effects of the next day starting at tea-time? (especially placing it in the middle of productive time. Feels, I dunno, interesting.)