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In the Forgotten Realms, what is a normal work week like, time-wise? Put another way, how does a 9-5, Mon-Friday work week on Earth transition to the Faerunian calendar?
— Jonah Schettler (@gilgamesh_v9) October 15, 2018
Probably the great master @TheEdVerse has the answer
— Zoltar SageAdvice, but creepy (@SageAdviceDnD) October 15, 2018
Tendays in the Realms, not weeks. No official "off days" but temple and local civic festivals (which ARE days off for all) are many, and it's understood workers need time off, so almost all businesses are staffed in shifts to make this possible. (Some guilds require this.) Most..
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 15, 2018
…workers in cities (as opposed to farms) get a half-day off every third day. Most apprentices have this written into the terms of their apprenticeships. (It's a social norm, not a "goodie" won by hard bargaining.)
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 15, 2018
Thanks for the reply!
I ask because I’m homebrewing some rules about operating a tavern in the new Waterdeep adventure. As a food service employee, I’m just wondering what the on/off day ratio looks like.
Because a tenday has 3 more days, is it as simple as 1 more off day? In the Deep, it's a "workers market" in hospitality/entertainment because no one guild controls that sector. Most taverns are owned by a live-in family, who are therefore "always there" (some family members, at least). Most have paid, non-family-member employees who work a…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 16, 2018
2)…half-day shift (12 bells = 12 hours), but those shifts are staggered around the clock for taverns that are open more than 12 hours in a day (=almost all of them). A typical employee would have "four days on and one day off," and if in poor health or elderly and hurting, …
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 16, 2018
3)…this usually changes to "four days on and two days off," then "three days on and two days off," and if personal condition is worse but the employee is still valued (and "trusted" is BIG in Waterdeep), working arrangements become individual deals beypmd three-and-two. ALL…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 16, 2018
…employees can dicker with employers (i.e. it's an expected thing) to work more days "on" in a row, in order to get more days off in a row (i.e. to make a trip, visit family or nurse a family member, for weddings, etc.).
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 16, 2018