TGIT! Thank God, it's Thursday! That's what we say to each other every Thursday at work.
While most companies require their employees to report five days a week, ours requires us only to do so three days a week - that's Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Tuesday and Friday are spent in the library and at home, respectively. Hence, in our own little office, weekend unofficially begins on Friday.
This is not to say, however, that we just laze about on Fridays. On the contrary, Friday is sometimes my heaviest day of the week, because aside from doing weekly reports, I am at times given a PL (patent leader) task in which I have to make search instructions on a particular Study, and then send these instructions to our team of foreign language researchers. Making search instructions is easy when the topic is related to chemistry, biochemistry, medicine, or molecular biology, because I've been exposed to these fields before. However, when the topic is computer or communication technology, that's when I really have to sit down and carefully read the study patent. Thus, my Fridays can be just as stressful as my other days. The only difference, however, is that I and my officemates work from the comfort of our homes and are thus spared the monstrous Friday traffic jam.
So, while the rest of the Metro scrambles to go to work and again scrambles to get home from work as soon as possible, we are happily researching away in our homes, sometimes with a plateful of our comfort food beside us. Ours is a unique work schedule, and never a day goes by when I'm not grateful for it.
TGIT indeed.
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| Celebrating the last office day of the week with milk tea. Photo from DPV3's phone. |
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| Serenitea. I love these seats! :) |
