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Five days of your life traded for two days to recover from trading your life.
means The block of days, usually five, set aside for paid work before the weekend arrives.
from A plain compound of 'work' and 'week,' stitched together once industrial and office schedules made it necessary to distinguish the days you labored from the days you didn't — the word itself is a 19th/20th-century workhorse, born not from myth but from timesheets and calendars.
- origin
- standardized by Ford in 1926, not kindness
- math problem
- five sevenths of existence, rounding error called weekend
- global oddity
- some countries run four days, same output
- etymology joke
- week comes from wice, meaning change, fittingly