Cool Day at Work

Memorial Day Weekend is upon us 'yall. And in the working world we know there are alot of ways to truely take advantage of this federal holiday. Number one way is to either take Friday (today) or the upcoming Tuesday off. Or both! This is advantageous because it can be shown that vacation, time off, and leisure in general does NOT experience decreasing marginal returns before 9.3 days. In fact, the behaviour of the returns to days off is best modeled with a quadratic and maximum at the aforementioned 9.3 days. Days off experience strong increasing marginal returns before this point. It must be noted, however, that this result is often muted by what could be called the impending workweek effect. Maybe you have experienced this if your friends have, at the pinnacle of your Friday night fun (whether that be a rousing game of fifa, or a smashing good time walking to Yogurtland) said something to the affect of "Only 48 hours 'till the work week begins anew!" So please take this impending workweek effect into account when analyzing such things.

Another strategy to take advantage of long weekend is to increase the weekend length while not using up those precious (or not so much in my case!) paid time off days. This is simply leaving work early on Friday (today). In my office this is usually the case as we close a tad earlier on days directly preceding holidays. The quittin time today was initially 3PM. Then promptly as I arrived an email was circulated indicating quittin time was 2:30. Within an hour I was invited my a manger to take part in a "late lunch" circa 1PM at a local pub. In effect, that will be the end of the day. Whether it is the de facto quittin time or actual fact, is to be seen. I will take the lead of those who make more than I (yes those people do exist!).