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NASA "Quiet Fridays"?
Posted on 10/4/25 at 12:51 am
Posted on 10/4/25 at 12:51 am
Learned today that NASA (JSC) has what they call "quiet Fridays" every other Friday. Apparently, meetings scheduled on these Friday are frowned upon.
Have never encountered this before. Is this some new trend? Or just NASA finding another way to be lazy?
To be fair, my O&G company office was pretty empty come Fridays around noon.
Have never encountered this before. Is this some new trend? Or just NASA finding another way to be lazy?
To be fair, my O&G company office was pretty empty come Fridays around noon.
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Posted on 10/4/25 at 5:18 am to AlwysATgr
Several companies do it. My company tried it a while back and it was just an excuse for everyone to say their meeting was urgent and throw it on your calendar anyway.
Posted on 10/4/25 at 6:09 am to AlwysATgr
Yea, pretty common practice especially with how many dumb meetings are schedules during the week. We do it every Friday though, it doesn’t mean meetings aren’t scheduled, but I if I have to schedule one and it’s only 2 or 3 people I will let them know that’s the only time I see available prior to scheduling. Most of the time I get a response saying one or two of their other meetings is dumb and they can skip it, and then no meeting on Friday.
Posted on 10/4/25 at 6:33 am to AlwysATgr
I'm of the opinion that Jim from the office was right when they had no manager. "turns out, everyone just shows up and does their job" or some such thing. What are yall even talking about in these meetings?
Posted on 10/4/25 at 6:40 am to AlwysATgr
They could work a 9/80 schedule. This makes Friday’s pretty worthless because half the people aren’t there.
Posted on 10/4/25 at 7:56 am to AlwysATgr
It was implemented because part of the JSC workforce run 4/10s every other week. I'm sure it is abused by some but also provides time to get shite done without meeting interruptions.
Posted on 10/4/25 at 7:59 am to AlwysATgr
People who schedule meetings after noon on a Friday should be flogged
Posted on 10/4/25 at 8:01 am to AlwysATgr
NASA's "Quiet Fridays" began under Werner Von Braun.
He believe that constant unnecessary meetings were the tools of the communist and the Jew to stifle productivity, and kept these "Quiet Fridays" for unbridled efficiency and creativity, uninterrupted by pointless bureaucratic nonsense,
Of course, the original intent has shifted nowadays and the background forgotten, but it all traces back
He believe that constant unnecessary meetings were the tools of the communist and the Jew to stifle productivity, and kept these "Quiet Fridays" for unbridled efficiency and creativity, uninterrupted by pointless bureaucratic nonsense,
Of course, the original intent has shifted nowadays and the background forgotten, but it all traces back
Posted on 10/4/25 at 8:12 am to AlwysATgr
I work for a very large hospital system and we have these. It's quite nice.
Posted on 10/4/25 at 8:14 am to andwesway
Same for my company. However it’s really only effective after lunch. Office is empty by 1:00 on Fridays. Nice perk.
Posted on 10/4/25 at 8:21 am to AlwysATgr
NASA has had those since I worked there. Started at JSC in 1997. Finished my tour with NASA in 2021 thanks to Joe and Art. Now I'm working better things supporting the DoD. DoD has quiet Fridays as well since lots of folks have an Alternate Work Schedule (AWS) taking off every other Friday.
Posted on 10/4/25 at 8:49 am to AlwysATgr
Pretty common practice
Posted on 10/4/25 at 8:54 am to AlwysATgr
15 yrs ago my company had a no meetings, trials, or process changes on Fridays simply because they led to frickups
Posted on 10/4/25 at 8:59 am to AlwysATgr
quote:id argue much more gets accomplished during three-martini lunches on fridays than useless 3:30pm Teams calls
To be fair, my O&G company office was pretty empty come Fridays around noon.
Posted on 10/4/25 at 9:01 am to AlwysATgr
Posted on 10/4/25 at 9:02 am to AlwysATgr
This has been a thing forever. Sorry it offends
Posted on 10/4/25 at 9:19 am to AlwysATgr
I don’t schedule meetings on Friday, ever, unless it is an extremely urgent “we need to meet in 10 min” thing and that happens to me maybe once a year.
Then again, I evaluate on output, not on input.
Then again, I evaluate on output, not on input.
Posted on 10/4/25 at 9:27 am to AlwysATgr
Black woman movie bad, NASA bad.
Posted on 10/4/25 at 10:26 am to AlwysATgr
quote:
NASA "Quiet Fridays"?
NASA has had what many of us call, "Quiet Decades" since the early 70s.
Posted on 10/4/25 at 12:43 pm to AlwysATgr
Does not mean that they are being lazy, and it probably means the opposite.
My company does something like this, to deter departments from having to many meetings. To many meetings can restrict productivity sometimes.
My company does something like this, to deter departments from having to many meetings. To many meetings can restrict productivity sometimes.
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