Working 9 to 5 ..... What a Way To Make a Livin'

I really cannot fathom why most people have to work 5 days a week 48 weeks a year. How can each job fill the same amount of time? Why has this become the accepted norm? WHO came up with this ridiculous working plan anyway? ... *David googles* ... aha! -

According to wikipedia it was the Earl of Inbred, who thought of the idea whilst playing bridge at a house party in Kent in the nineteenth century. It seems he lost badly to a pair of untitled men and petulantly enquired as to why these men were free to be playing bridge on a Friday in any case. He declared, ominously, that,” something ought to be done about it!" One of the chaps who the Earl was losing to, a self-loathing grammar school scholarship-winning coal-miner's son named Mr (later Sir) Reginald Sadist, who was, at that time, employed as a page1 at Whitehall, thought the idea to be an excellent one. He subsequently suggested it to Lord Mundane2, Minister for Employment and Doing Something About It who brought it up in the next Cabinet meeting and it passed both houses in the next sitting of Parliament. Well there you go then.


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1.More specifically Page 12 of the Financial Times in the Members’ Lounge at Parliament House .

2.Those in the legal profession may be interested to know that Lord Mundane was related by marriage to Baron Billable-Hours, the pioneering lawyer and Managing Partner of the world’s first multi-national legal firm, Boredom, Misery, Boredom, and Sellout. (Now known as Boredom, Misery and Boredom, or more simply BMB after Charlie Sellout did just that and spent the last thirty years of his life wearing only sandals and linen shorts while imbibing gin and tonics aboard his yacht in the Caribbean. Coincidentally, Baron Billable-Hours also spent the last moments of his life in less formal attire having been stripped to his briefs before being beaten to death with a 'rather pressing brief that just had to be sent out by 7 pm at the latest’. His murder was never solved and the press made much of the fact he was murdered outside a Young Lawyers Convention in the popular seaside resort of Revenge by-the-Sea.