In a study published today it was confirmed that more people take a 'sicky' and bunk-off work on a Monday than any other day.
I was contemplating this fact in light of the huge traffic jam I was stuck in this morning, as indeed I am on most Mondays.
It seems therefore that the traffic is worst on a Monday (experientially) by a long way as SO many people are heading to work, while work is at its' quietest (statistically) with the highest percentage absent.
Statistics eh .....
63% of them having no direct correlation with observed phenomena (and 86.2% of them are made up on the spot). But the odds are that you don't believe me anyway :-)
This post however is a good chance to salute all you Youth workers and Ministers who arrive at Monday having worked a VERY full weekend indeed. I wish you coffee and a bit of space!
Ian, thanks for your blog entry. I know this is a bit tangential but your words of wisdom reminded me of an article by Tony Jeffs and Mark K. Smith published in Youth and Policy in about 1999 - the problem of 'youth' for youth work. You can read it here: http://www.infed.org/archives/youth.htm
I'm not surprised there's a traffic jam in this photo - half the cars don't have drivers, or even steering wheels!
John, trust you to notice that little detail!! The thing is *ahem* that the traffic was so BAD that my diversion took me onto mainland Europe before I could loop back through Norway, ferry to Scotland and down. The photo is somewhere in France hence the steering wheel displacement.