It's TGIW/TGIS!

Signs that you have been working in any fab for too long:

a. You use "TGIF" on a Wednesday/Saturday.
b. While celebrating your non-Friday TGIF you walk outside the fab with your booties or gloves still on.
c. While most of your friends cheer 3-day weekends, you have the luxury of enjoying them year round.
d. You start to believe that outside air is dirty beyond normal levels.
I've become victim of (a) and (c), starting to think about (d) with all the smog in the Phoenix Metro area . Thankfully I haven't experienced (b) yet, although I hear someone in F12 or F22 actually did that once.

"Everything is big in Texas" is the famous line, but I would like to say that "Everything is big in the US" fits better. This is the reason why a large majority of the world spends so many hours in traffic, commuting and traveling. We travel long distances to get to work, shop, find recreation and everything else. Now there's talk about telecommuting becoming part of everday work, and sure it will be once our pockets start bleeding more to get from A to B. I thought I could have an ongoing L^3: Living Lean Lifestyle series of posts. So for this one I chose signs that you could be having Fab Fever. How is this Lean? Well it's not Lean yet, but rather an idea of what's going to happen when gas prices hit $8+.

I was wondering what other places could use a 4-10 schedule, work 4 days 10 hours each...

(1) You should start training the kids to wake up earlier, cause it won't be long before school follows a 4-10 in order to save on transportation and energy costs.
(2) Shopping malls closed on Mon-Tue? Perhaps, as e-commerce picks up, there won't be any need to keep them open the beginning of the week.
(3) Mail may start to be delivered in bulk, once a week, packaged and pre-sorted locally.
(...) What other activities can you think could benefit from a 4-10?

Today is the exception. TGITuesday! =)