It's a leap year - cue ridiculous articles asking what you are going to do with this 'free' day.
BBC right on cue (albeit with a little help by quoting Steve Taylor, the author of Making Time: Why Time Seems to Pass at Different Speeds and How to Control It).
'...employers may be getting an extra unpaid day out of us. "But then in a sense," he adds, "they own us already. We give half our waking hours to them, voluntarily, and our time is our lives - we're literally giving ourselves away."...'
Does anyone else realise what leap-years are for? Emplyers are not getting an extra day out of us. I may write into the Institute of Directors claiming lazy employees are shirking off 1/4 off a day's work for normal years. I assume that leap-years are an employer led consiparcy and we'll be seeing plenty more leap-years fairly soon (2012 anyone?), those bastards will do anything to get an extra day out of me.
Also are we literally giving ourselves away? If we assume that what he is saying makes sense (and it is a big if) then do we lose all free will at work? Are we entering into some sort of servitude? Is work not a trade off so we can afford to do other things? Do I not voluntarily do this? Who does not in this country? If Mr Taylor knows of anyone who is doing this then please phone the proper authorities.
Friday, 29 February 2008
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