I'm the Laziest Man On Earth. But When My Boss Offered to Slash My Hours It Taught Me a Lot About the Work Ethic [Scot Region]

Daily MailOctober 09, 2009

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ABOUT a year ago, my boss made me the most astonishingly generous offer I've ever had. If I liked, he said, I could work only one day a week instead of the usual four days of 11 hours each. Same money, an awful lot less work.

I said I liked very much indeed. In fact, this was everything I'd ever dreamed of.

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I'm the Laziest Man On Earth. But When My Boss Offered to Slash My Hours It Taught Me a Lot About the Work Ethic [Scot Region]

I should have paid more attention to that ancient wisdom: be careful what you wish for.

Now, as my wife will testify, I'm the laziest man on Earth, My idea of perfect contentment is to sit at the kitchen table in my pyjamas on a Saturday morning, a pile of unopened letters by my side, staring vacantly through the French windows at the unmown lawn, wondering vaguely if I'll e...

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