My workplace offers an optional schedule of one day off every two weeks. I thought that sounded great, even though the hours have to add up to the same amount

My workplace offers an optional schedule of one day off every two weeks. I thought that sounded great, even though the hours have to add up to the same amount as if working all ten days. But it turns out that they are rigidly inflexible in that you are not allowed to choose a minimum variance schedule. You have to "bank" extra hours on the first week and "spend" them on the other. And that means you have excessively long days on the first.