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dfmagi
Acolyte
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 Posted - 16 Jan 2015 : 21:52:40
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Hello, I am running the realms and i have a interesting question. The week is 10 days, but no one works 10 days straight, therefore what is the "weekends" on your world. In true history the average peasant only worked 3-4 days per week, or the lords would have a riot on their hands. So in a 10 day week, what is the "off" days? how do you have it?
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dfmagi
Acolyte
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Posted - 18 Jan 2015 : 05:56:42
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Delwa
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Posted - 18 Jan 2015 : 13:27:41
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| I vaguely remember reading something (it might have been in the So Saith Ed scrolls) that people just take off what days they feel works best for them, but that working a straight tenday isn't uncommon, given the amount of work isn't anything like we work today. The 40 hour work week is a relatively new invention in our world, anyway, as you pointed out. I'm away from books at the moment, so that's all I can scratch up until work is over. |
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Baltas
Senior Scribe
Poland
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Posted - 19 Jan 2015 : 08:30:45
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| I would guess the people in Faerun could work and study for either work 4 days, have a 1 day free, then work 3 days more, and have 2 more days free from work. Alternately, they would work for 7 days straight, and then rest 3 days, but 7 day work week would be exausting. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 19 Jan 2015 : 15:34:38
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Originally posted by Baltas
I would guess the people in Faerun could work and study for either work 4 days, have a 1 day free, then work 3 days more, and have 2 more days free from work. Alternately, they would work for 7 days straight, and then rest 3 days, but 7 day work week would be exausting.
Or go 4 days on, 1 day off, then repeat. |
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Kentinal
Great Reader
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Posted - 19 Jan 2015 : 17:40:40
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| Well it appear China used to have a 10 day week, government officials ordered to rest every 5th day. Or for a time it was every 10 days. |
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
USA
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Posted - 19 Jan 2015 : 20:40:17
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| I'll put it this way.... depends on the person more than likely. Farmers for instance probably still have to feed the livestock, pick the eggs up, milk the cows, draw up water, etc.... every day of the week. They may have shorter workdays though, as the human body can only take so much strenuous labor. |
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Kalbaern
Acolyte
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Posted - 04 Feb 2015 : 21:08:55
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The 3.5e FRCS has the following on page 86 in regards to this topic.
Work and Rest
Common folk, artisans, merchants, and even the nobility routinely work tenday after tenday until a religious holiday, local festival, or one of the annual holidays rolls around to give them a day off. Some parts of the Heartlands have gradually accepted the idea that people who do not want to work everyday, and whose duties and responsibilities allow it, can take the tenth day of the week off. There is no standard name for this nonholiday day of rest. In the Dalelands, for reasons no one knows, they call it the "elf day". In Cormyr they call it "dragon rest", saying, "Even a dragon needs to rest".
In any given town, hamlet, or city, some folk choose to work through the tenday. But the day of rest has become common enough that nearly associates the tenth day with some form of avoiding one's duty. Raising both open palms, showing all of one's fingers, and waving them back and forth has become visual slang for "just taking it easy, not doing anything much". |
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Help - Days of the Week v Work week
