- Beantown, 17th Zooly
The Beantown Information Technology, Software & Printing Industries Employees’ Co-operative Education Society (BITS & PIECES) has demanded that the government switch over to an 8-day week, to enable their members get one more day every week to finish their work.
According to the Chief Pokesman of the Society, Mr. P.K. Baath Kar, this 8-day week would consist of one day each of the traditional seven-day week and one extra Sunday.
In the Society’s working model, the two Sundays would sandwich the weekdays between them, i.e., there would be one Sunday at the beginning of the week and one at the end. This would make it easier to distinguish them rather than if they came together.
Mr. Kar indicated (by using elaborate hand signs) that this rather inventive idea was the brainchild of one of the Society’s older members, Mr. Sundara Ravi Vaaram, who had toiled for more than thirteen single-Sunday weeks before hitting upon the 8-day week. He presented a blank paper (kora kagaz) on the idea to the Society’s Working Committee which, true to the Society’s guiding principles, first tore the idea to bits and pieces, then deliberated on it for three weeks and also tried a dry run before declaring its approval.
The Society’s members went in a procession to the office of the Chief Controller of Holidays and Sundays and presented a copy (symbolically cut into seven bits and three pieces) of the blank paper to him.
~ ©️ Shiva Kumar, 17.July.2011
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