💼 'Bare Minimum Mondays' Is The New Millennial Work Trend

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda jam Nation. Since COVID, we'd have lots
of different ways of working. We've had the great resignation
where people thought, stuff this, I'm not going to do
this anymore. Where does my personal happiness come in. We've
had quite quitting. We've had people who are now experimenting
quite successfully with working less days a week but being
just as product Friday. Well, this is another version of

(00:21):
off Friday. This is an official thing called quite called
minimum Monday.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Minimum Monday.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Yeah, and there's a woman who's spearheading this movement. Guess
what her job is, Brendan. She's a self employed content creator.
Of course she is correct, that's a word.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Job is that?

Speaker 1 (00:37):
I don't know. But she has said that after spending
Sundays mapping over her week as to what lay ahead,
she'd get stressed and she decided, you know what, I'm
just going to do the big tasks on Monday, excuse me,
and let the rest of it take care of itself.
And if I get through Monday, the rest of the
work week works for me. Well.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
The old saying is you never buy a car that's
made on a Monday or a Friday, because that's when
they're they're not going to do the greatest work. You know,
the guy that's putting the abs breaks in on a
Monday has got to hang over and he's not into it,
so he's going, oh, I couldn't be bother doing that properly.
So if you get a Wednesday car, you know you're
going to get a good car.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
But if you walk through our offices downstairs, I mean
the people who are on air, that's quite different. But
there's no one here Mondays, there's no one here Fridays,
all working from home. We wouldn't have a clue whether
they're doing their minimum Mondays or their f off Fridays.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
We didn't even know the irony that you're working from home.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
I am working from home, but I'm actually working. How
freakish that I've got to open my mouth and talk
and think more or less.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
But you look at it. The kids these days, they're
living a charm life. I'm start doing this job. I
used to have to work fifty hours a day to
get to where I am. Fifty hours a day, I
would work fifty hours a day.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
But we're saying we don't want to do that anymore.
And that's fair enough to we're much more across the
work life balance.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Well, I'm not say to me, I'm working hard.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
But it used to be that whatever job you're assigned,
you just did it. And if you're expected to do
long hours, you just did it. And people are saying,
you know what, I'm not going to do that anymore.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
But you look at jim Y Wright. Look at him,
he's got minimum Monday and Tuesday.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Ryan, come on.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Tuesday, I would say, be tardy Tuesday. Tuesday showed up
late today