4 day week!

I read with great interest this morning about the ways various people, states and govts are using to combat rising oil prices in the world.

The state of Utah in the US has issued an order that all state govt agencies will only work 4-day weeks. This is to allow saving on electricity and employee's gasoline expenses. Employees will now work 10 hr days and get Fridays off. This trial is for a year and if successful will be implemented fully. Other states in the US are closely monitoring this event to see if it is feasible.

I started to wonder if it will work in M'sia. After 5 minutes thot, I concluded, NO WAY! Why? These are my reasons(the funny side of it) :

a)The govt employees(GE) will now treat Thursdays as Fridays and work 3 and a half days only.

b)The GE's will now decide to all go shopping on Fridays and make the jams even worse, just like if there is a public holiday in S'gor and all Selangoreans will throng the shopping centres in KL.

c)The GE's will now have another reason to be inefficient on Mondays. Phrases like, "Aiyo dah rest 3 hari, susah nak start kerja baliklah. susah nak start enjin" will be commonly heard. As opposed to before, "Cuti sabtu, ahad tak cukuplah. Baru nak rilek, dah kena start kerja! Boring lah"

Haha....Anyone care to add?