A joke - or sounds very familiar?

[artimrj]

One day the workers at a factory are called together and told by the management that the factory was going to full automation. Everyone would be retrained to maintain the automated manufacturing equipment; no one would be fired and there would be no reduction in pay or benefits. But workers would only have to come to work on Tuesdays to do the maintenance; the rest of the week would be their own time to do as they wish.

And from the back of the room came an anguished shout, "What! Every Tuesday?"

[Ericmopar]

Both.

[ErikGorbiHamilton]

The beginning reminds me of the book "We the Living".

[GSkid]

The guy at the back of the room sounds like a union man!