As someone who've worked saturday mornings for nearly 3 years (in Vietnam) I will say this: saturday is OFF. A 1 day or a 1½ day week-end is not a week-end and

As someone who've worked saturday mornings for nearly 3 years (in Vietnam) I will say this: saturday is OFF. A 1 day or a 1½ day week-end is not a week-end and I was a nervous mess after 3 years of that. To top that the saturday mornings were 95% useless because seriously what can you possibly accomplish in such a short time in a noisy open-space when your mind is thinking about how you'll try to relax during the short time allowed? As for organizing something, I think programmers are grown-up enough to take care of themselves and decide what they want to do with their day off. You don't have to babysit them.