Ed Greenwood @TheEdVerse
Oct 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…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 20, 2021
Jonah @gilgamesh_v9
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…businesses are staffed in shifts to make this possible. (Some guilds require this.) Most [etc.] 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.— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 20, 2021
Indrasil @Indrasil1
..can dicker with employers (it’s an expected thing) to work more days “on” in a row in order to get more days off in a row (to make a trip, visit family or nurse a family member, for weddings, etc.). i am running a campaign in FR and in Xanathar’s one of the downtimes says you need X amount of workweeks to gain a language/prof in a tool. What…is the work week for an instructor?
Would an teacher be teaching all…— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 20, 2021
ten days of a tenday? Or would they have some days off? Or is that more of a case by case basis and the DM should just give an estimate? 1)
In the 1490s DR, a typical Waterdhavian worker in a high-stress front-of-house position (a maid or server) with a stellar employer might get a half-day “completely” off every third day—but it would be understood that this…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 20, 2021
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…would be cancelled/postponed for crises (someone displaced so an extra household is unexpectedly housed under your roof), unexpected important guests, or big events. If this happens, the custom (and for guild members, it’s… 3)
…a formal, enforced rule, with “won’t work for” blackballs for deliberate rulebreakers) is to later (but always “within the season,” meaning same half of the year) give a full day off in lieu. So if you give up two half-days in…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 20, 2021
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…a row for a festival or the like, you’ll get two full days off later, not necessarily together and usually not at the same time as co-workers (times off are ”staggered” so SOMEONE is on duty).
Instructors are USUALLY, in Waterdeep… 5)
…at this time, except when employed on staff by the very wealthy or nobility (like a real-world “governess”), working for themselves. So they can fill every moment if they need/want the pay, or give themselves time off.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 20, 2021
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Again, there will be crises (mustering for a trading expedition, so suddenly a lot of folks need to learn a smattering of a particular unfamiliar-to-them language) that will upset the norm, but a usual situation for a… 7)
…working-for-themselves instructor (craft or tutoring) is a quarter-day off every fourth day, or a half-day off every fifth day.
Kitchen staff and stable hands and other “lowly” workers get a lot less time off; they’re usually…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 20, 2021
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…on duty every day, nine out of ten, with a tenth day off to visit family, attend formal services at a temple, or just laze or sleep. However, it’s expected that such workers will get meal breaks and “ale breaks” throughout… 9)
…their workday, meaning that if an employer or client find them lounging in a back alley with a mug of something, they’ll be neither angry nor surprised; such time is accepted.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 20, 2021