Thursday 5 April 2012

Easter Egg-citment!

So Easter is here, a lot of people seem to think that the working year is one long holiday, and I say 'naa...' well that was until today when I thought about it abit...
You see we have Christmas at the beginning or the end of the year, depending where you start.... but let's start there... we have a mad business rush to get things done by mid December so that we can have time off, then about 3 weeks of office parties, relaxation, home early requests, and lack of productivity.
We then have January and February, a time of cold depression, some work gets done, but to be fair it's not enthusiastic, it's laboured, and it's covered in Flue and Cold!!
First warm day in March and we're looking out of the window wanting to be in the sun...
April, Easter...schools are off, it's a 4 day week end officially, but as I've just seen, companies are letting people take the week off before and most after...so yet another 2 weeks of reduced productivity.
May...Bank Holidays...we've got a weird one or two this year, but that's a knock on...we have run ups to deadlines before "The Friday" that everything has to be done by.... 2 weeks reduced productivity there...
June, Queen's Birthday...For F Sake...!
July...ahhh a month without a holiday....er.. Nope, Schools are off and parents book their holiday entitlement....
August, (see July)...and we have a bank holiday...Jesus wept...!
September....Finally a month we can get some work done...Europe's on board with it, so's the US, September...that's the month we'll do some work...
October we'll get some done there, and even November.... but not long, Christmas is round the corner and it all starts again....
So the way I see it, we work in the UK, EU and US 12 weeks in the year productivly and 12 weeks of the year we're "Finishing off!" in prospect for another Holiday...any wonder this so called 'Developed Western World' is looking pretty shocking compared to a Country that has 7 public holidays over only 11 days of the year...China....
'We' have a work ethos failure and it needs to be addressed... I'm not sure how...and what we can do about it. I'm aware this is a bit tongue-in-cheek...but it makes life very awkward in the business sector when the person, project, or product is being held up by another bloomin' HOLIDAY!!! 

Enjoy Easter...you deserve it...

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