RE: [bolger] re: 36 hour days

I also would be interested in the response you get when you introduce these
ideas to your company. Neither Stone and Webster nor Polaroid were
intrigued. May explain why both companies are/were in bankrupcy.

-----Original Message-----
From:wmrpage@...[mailto:wmrpage@...]
Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 2:58 AM
To:bolger@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [bolger] re: 36 hour days

In a message dated 5/3/02 1:46:59 PM Central Daylight Time,
nickerb@...writes:

> While many of us have been told to work smarter not harder, perhaps these
> suggestions might help us all work longer, not smarter or harder.
>
> Remember "Tempus fidgets."
>

Brilliant Ideas !!!! I promise to bring this suggestion up with a straight
face at the next company meeting I'm unable to avoid. Fortunately for me, if

unfortunately for my company, my employers (so far) think me too useful to
fire and too weird to pay any attention to. If Tom Peters or McKinsey or
some
other management consultant were doling this dope out, I have no doubt that
management would buy into the concept at great expense and superficial
execution. If you haven't done so already, you should take out a patent on
these ideas and start mopping up the boat building dough on the lecture
circuit.

Ciao for Niao,
Bill in MN

P.S. Would it be O.K. to forward your post into the non-Bolger e-mail
universe? This just seems too clever not to share, but once out in the www.,

Lord only knows where it will end up.

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I have thought of a patent, but I am an altruistic soul at heart and would
love to have my ideas more widely disseminated in the perhaps vain hope that
they may contribute to the aid and comfort of humankind at large. However,
please append to your distribution proper attrribution since in addition to
being altruistic I am quite vain and want my name attached to such wondrous
ideas.

[Nickerson, Bruce ]
-----Original Message-----
From:wmrpage@...[mailto:wmrpage@...]
Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 2:58 AM
To:bolger@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [bolger] re: 36 hour days

In a message dated 5/3/02 1:46:59 PM Central Daylight Time,
nickerb@...writes:

> While many of us have been told to work smarter not harder, perhaps these
> suggestions might help us all work longer, not smarter or harder.
>
> Remember "Tempus fidgets."
>

In a message dated 5/3/02 1:46:59 PM Central Daylight Time,
nickerb@...writes:

> While many of us have been told to work smarter not harder, perhaps these
> suggestions might help us all work longer, not smarter or harder.
>
> Remember "Tempus fidgets."
>

> I looked carefully and never
> saw farm animals wearing wristwatches.

By tradition, the rooster is the timekeeper, and he uses a solar day.

Farmers complain. It is the natural result of having so much that is
so important to them be absolutely out of their control. Like the
weather. A friend from farm country was telling me that when farmers
get together they always complain about the weather. I asked what
they talked about when the weather was good. "Next week's weather,"
he said, "which is sure to be bad."

Fishermen too, I suppose. Even those in Bolger boats.

Peter

I like the way you think! :>)

james

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nickerson, Bruce " <nickerb@...>
To: <bolger@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 12:44 PM
Subject: [bolger] re: 36 hour days

> I have proposed a number of time and space saving procedures none of which
> has been accepted by the companies for which I have worked. Perhaps
people
> here might be a bit more broad minded and willing to think outside the
box.
>

I expect that another difficulty would be those religions that base their
week and regular weekly religious observances and practices on a seven day
week. With those extra days floating around, the "seventh day" would be
difficult to define.

Also some wise guy is sure to observe that somehow this occasional insertion
of a few days will play havoc with celestial navigation. Perhaps the same
observation might be made about the 40 minute hour as well.

My favorite was while I was in Indiana listening to farmers complain about
daylight savings time. They said the hens won't lay, the cows won't give
milk, etc, because of the change in the time. I looked carefully and never
saw farm animals wearing wristwatches. However, the farmers did have a
legitimate concern. With the way daylight savings time worked, the fields
stayed too wet with morning dew to work until later in the day, and
necessary trips to town were therefore difficult to schedule while banks,
etc, were open. Not enough time for that in the morning, or evening.

-----Original Message-----
From: pvanderwaart [mailto:pvanderw@...]
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 3:17 PM
To:bolger@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [bolger] Re: 36 hour days

The idea that I liked best was a calendar of 13 months of 28 days.
Every year would have a extra day, and every fourth year, 2 extra
days. The extra days would fall between weeks, i.e. after a Saturday
and before a Sunday.

The really nice part is that the days of the week would fall on the
same number day each month. Sundays would be the 1st, 8th, 15th,
etc. After a while, everyone would know automaticaly that, for
example, the 12th was a Thursday.

The infuriating thing about human nature is that whatever other
objections may apply, this idea would never be accepted because the
general population wouldn't accept not being able to figure out when
their birthdays fall. To say nothing of troubles about July 4.

PHV

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The idea that I liked best was a calendar of 13 months of 28 days.
Every year would have a extra day, and every fourth year, 2 extra
days. The extra days would fall between weeks, i.e. after a Saturday
and before a Sunday.

The really nice part is that the days of the week would fall on the
same number day each month. Sundays would be the 1st, 8th, 15th,
etc. After a while, everyone would know automaticaly that, for
example, the 12th was a Thursday.

The infuriating thing about human nature is that whatever other
objections may apply, this idea would never be accepted because the
general population wouldn't accept not being able to figure out when
their birthdays fall. To say nothing of troubles about July 4.

PHV

I have proposed a number of time and space saving procedures none of which
has been accepted by the companies for which I have worked. Perhaps people
here might be a bit more broad minded and willing to think outside the box.

A 40 minute hour would give us a 36 hour day. Each 8 hour work day would
then be 12 hours long, but since it would still be only 480 minutes long,
just like the previous 8 hour work day, over time would not have to be paid.
This would give us 24 hours away from work, 12 hours to sleep (plenty to
refresh even the tiredest worker) and leave 12 hour for boat work.

In my experience, many people so exert themselves on the weekend that they
report back to work tired on Monday and do not get up to full potential
until Tuesdays. At first I thought eliminating Mondays would be helpful,
but soon realized that a better solution would be to eliminate the first day
back to work after the weekend, thus accommodating those whose weeks do not
begin on Mondays.

Another suggestion not taken seriously by my managers is to start daylight
savings time an hour earlier each day.

At one large complex, I asked a fellow worker at the end of the day as we
left our towering building "How many people work here?" He replied "About
50%." I then proposed that the company give us all 6 month vacations, since
we only worked half the time we were there any way. If vacations ere
staggered properly, this would have freed up about half the office space in
the building. Our company could then make money by renting out the excess
office space to other companies.

While many of us have been told to work smarter not harder, perhaps these
suggestions might help us all work longer, not smarter or harder.

Remember "Tempus fidgets."

-----Original Message-----
From: dnjost [mailto:djost@...]
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 2:04 PM
To:bolger@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [bolger] Re: Micro Booms

Peter,
Thanks for the information. I wondered if you had any problems
with it. It should be strong enough that way since the load is in
shear as you said. The thought of making a hole up there did not
make a lot of sense to me. The wood is thin enough as it is.

I am getting close to done on her, but need to invent a 36 hour
day. I picked up the trailer today. I obviously scrapped the idea
of welding one. It just didn't make sense to build a boat this great
and then not be able to go where I want with it. Stepping the mast
is a breeze. :-)

David Jost

--- In bolger@y..., "ellengaestboatbuildingcom" <ellengaest@b...>
wrote:

> Hi David,
> Used a s/s eye strap,screwed into the truck and a small(3/8")
> swivel block for halyard.Plenty strong since loads are in shear.
> You're almost done!!!
> Peter L.
>
>
>
>
>
> --- In bolger@y..., "dnjost" <djost@m...> wrote:
> >
> > Did you fasten the main halyard pulley at the top of the mast

with

> a
> > rope through the mast as per Bolger, or did you use a different
> > method?
> >
> > David Jost
> >
> > "also working very, very, hard."
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > --- In bolger@y..., "dnjost" <djost@m...> wrote:
> > > > I made booms with pegs. I don't know why. >
> > > >

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