I also work Tuesday to Saturday, and for (Monday)holidays I get Tuesday as my (holiday) day off. Friday would blow because I would still have to go in on Saturday. I’d much rather have three consecutive days than one middle weekday off.
I said it doesn’t matter, but now that I think of it, I prefer Monday. People at my work start leaving a little earlier on Fridays anyway, and I agree that a long weekend followed by a short week is almost like a double holiday.
I voted for Friday. That way I can head out after work on Thursday and grab a good camping spot for the weekend.
I’m in the “I’ll Take Friday” camp. That gives me a chance to take the trash to the dump, load up the water toys with fuel, replenish all my fuel for the weekend, and get a couple of cases of beer in the fridge for the weekend.
I even sometimes get around to doing yard work on Friday, I just wouldn’t bother on Monday.
In my job, which chiefly involves answering the phone, Mondays are a lot busier than Fridays, as a rule. They are therefore much the better day to take as holiday. All other arguments in favour of Friday (and a few do make some sense) are outweighed by this, plus you get all the previously mentioned benefits of Monday off.
I prefer Mondays. Friday already has a deserted feel to it, one that’s giving the air to being off already, so why not save your day in place to make shorter work the following week?
I work part time, but Friday & Sat are the busiest days of the week for me. & I’m over having to go like a lunatic.
Friday for me.
I’ll just mention that many golf courses in my area treat Fridays-through-Sundays as weekend days and Mondays-through-Thursdays as weekdays. That means if you have Mondays off you get to play golf cheaper.
Then again, many of the barbers in my area are closed on Mondays, so if you have Mondays off you may get a little scraggy.
Of course, I’m retired so I have every day off.
As an inveterate idler and something of a connaisseur of the long weekend, I spend many a moment at work calculating how many of them I can squeeze out of my vacation entitlement.
Monday might seem like the obvious choice because, hey, Friday’s practically a holiday already, right? Everybody’s more laid back, people clock off early, etc. But I find that taking Friday off actually makes for the more satisfying, longer-feeling long weekend. If you instead take the Monday off, it just ends up feeling like a double Sunday. You still get that Sunday feeling on Sunday, and then you get it even worse on the Monday.
Whereas, if you take Friday off, the Friday feeling is simply amplified and moved back one day. There is no real downside.
I realise this sounds pretty irrational and is probably largely due to conditioning, but that’s how it works for me.
I’ve taken single vacation days here and there to give me a long weekend. I much preferred Fridays. On Mondays, I guess just seeing everyone working, and the fact that it really was a Monday, was depressing.
But holidays on Monday don’t bother me.
Monday holidays screw up my entire week. It takes me until at least Thursday afternoon to figure out what day it is…
I picked Mondays as better, because more people tend to take Fridays, making traffic worse on Thursday night and Sunday night for those going out of town.
However, if it’s a Monday that EVERYONE has off, like Memorial Day or this year, the 4th of July, then there is no traffic offset and otherwise there is nothing intrinsically better about Monday than Friday.
I like Fridays off. It gives you the long weekend, and as others have said, if this is on a payday all that much better. I have a friend with direct deposit that (he says) hits his bank at midnight on Thursday, so he usually waits until after midnight to pay his bar tab. (I know, don’t get me started.) Point is, we can hang out later on Thursday and still have all weekend to party with the rest of the get-along gang.
Football season not withstanding. Except for the fluke Thursday games on NFL network, I like to stay up late on Sundays to watch the last game of the night. This is usually preceded by drinking like a fish all day from the first kickoff. So if I can take Monday off, I don’t have to show up to work hung over.
That all said, Wednesday is a good case too. Two short work periods of the man stickin’ it to you before you get a reprieve from the grindstone.
I definitely prefer Fridays off. Fridays are generally slow at our office, and tend to drag. I would much rather start my weekend earlier.
Having Monday off means that my internal week calendar is off all week long, so I have the constant confusion of “what day is it again?”
Aside from that, Fridays off just feel better to me somehow.
Friday! Most people usually have to work on Monday, so even if you can stay up late on Sunday, most of my friends wouldn’t be around.
I, personally, would love to have Fridays off. I love having a short week with the anticipation as opposed to having a long weekend and very little anticipation for the short week.
However, my husband is a chef. So if we’re going to get days off together, it’s gotta be a Monday off because there’s no way my hubs is getting a Friday off.
Monday, because it is usually easier to get the Tuesday after a 3 day weekend off than a Friday before a 3 day weekend.
There are fewer miserable days at work than a Tuesday after a Sat/Sun/Mon 3 day weekend.
I prefer Monday off. It feels more like a bonus day off when it’s tacked on to the end of the weekend.
There have been a few companies with a 12-hour Saturday and Sunday shift (24 hours work, 36 hours pay) and you get Monday to Friday off. Basically, I’ve spent my entire working career angling for one of those jobs.
As to the OP, gimme Monday off. Friday at work usually has a nice vibe. And lots of people disappear early or come back from lunch in a good mood. Some Friday afternoons I actually enjoy work. Gimme the Monday off.
Doesn’t matter but if I had a choice (and a job!) I’d take Wednesdays off. It’s the perfect day of the week to get things done, then I can enjoy the two day slide into a two day weekend.