So they’re talking about cutting a day at my work. It’s going to be either Mondays or Fridays. There’s only two of us that work in my office. I want to be off on Mondays, and he wants to be off on Fridays.
I hate Mondays. I spend the second half of Sundays depressed that the weekend is almost over I have to go to work the next day. I like to stay up late on Sunday nights, too. Plus everyone knows, Mondays suck! Oh man, I hate working on Mondays- you’re already pissed that it’s only Monday and that you have the whole week to go until you get a day off, an on top of that, everything breaks down on Mondays, it seems. Credit card machine, scanner/printer, internet- I’ve had everything possible break down on me on a Monday, so skipping Mondays stops that right there, no?
Working on Fridays is no big deal. You’re practically happy to be working, because you know that once that clock strikes, you are off for the next 2 days, woo! Fridays are a breeze. I could work a Friday standing on my head.
I wish I could say that the outcome of this poll would determine the day off, but it’s not up to either one of us, it’s up to my boss. But my boss listens to me and trusts me more than she does him, which I guess says something good about me, considering that he is way way more up on the totem pole that I am. So I will be pulling for Mondays.
Who’s with me? Isn’t Monday the better day to be off?
I voted Monday for every single one of the reasons you mentioned in your original post… Fridays (at least in my world) are already “halfway-screw-off” days, as it is. Why waste a vacation/PTO day on that?
I voted Monday. That is to say, if I had weekends off and had to add a day off to one end of the weekend, it would be Monday. As it is now, I have every Tuesday and Wednesday off, and every other weekend off. It’s my dream schedule, and I’ll work it until I retire, if at all possible. I love having week days off.
My current company gives us either a half-day every week, or a full day every other week. Everyone who went with the half-day option uses this to take Friday afternoons off…except me. I’m off on Monday mornings. Since I define “day off” as “day I can sleep as late as I want, thus enabling me to stay up 'til all hours the night before”, this makes every weekend a three-day weekend. Then, on Fridays, when nobody’s there after 12, I can get shit done.
I’ve never figured out just what these people have to be doing between 1:00 and 5:00 PM that makes this option so attractive, but hey, works for me.
Monday. Long weekend and then the added bonus of a shorter week. With Friday off, you already had the short work week and then when you’re back on Monday it’s all over.
Well, I think the concerns in the OP are a wash. Tuesday will just feel like Monday, or Thursday will feel like Friday.
No, the reason I want Monday off is that I like the idea of doing something on the weekend with my friends, and then having an extra day off before going back to work. Vacations may be fun, but they are not stress free.
EDIT: I wonder, are you an introvert, and your coworker an extravert?
Mondays for sure. It always seems to me that the serious crap hit the fan on Fridays and the fire drill to deal with it first thing Monday morning. Especially when there is a substantial outside sales force. For them, stuff could hit on the weekends with clients demanding a solution ASAP. Especially when your support resources are East Coast and you’re on the West.
Starting work on Tuesday feels like you’re hitting the boards running.
Yeah, Wednesday. Whenever you turn up to work you are off tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.
I worked 3 days a week for a few years. I worked Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Every day at work was Friday because I was off tomorrow. It was better for the business too - most part time workers do 3 days in a row, you ask for something on Wednesday afternoon and you aren’t getting it until next week.
Monday. I work Monday through Saturday a lot so being off on Friday really wouldn’t do much for me. If I get Mondays off, I’d at least feel like I had a whole weekend even if I did work on Saturday that week.
Plus my phone at work gets blown up on Mondays, usually with unnecessary calls.
Mondays also have an advantage in that a lot of places like golf courses, etc, have lower “weekday” rates that only run Monday through Thursday. The downside is that if a lot of your coworkers, clients, etc, are in on Monday you might find yourself missing important meetings or needing to call in on your day off.
I actually already take a lot of Mondays off in the summer. No one else wants them, and I can be at home relaxing while everyone else is working. And I haven’t seen things closed, particularly - not around here.
I once worked four days a week and had the option of Mondays or Fridays off, and got paid for not working every bank holiday, about 7 of which were on Mondays and one on a Friday. Taking Mondays off instead of Fridays would have effectively done me out of five days’ pay.
It also helped me babysitting-wise; I got on very well with my colleagues and they often went out to drink after work on a Friday, and I could occasionally get overnight babysitting on a Friday night. Sundays, everyone would have been trying to get an early night for work and overnight babysitting wouldn’t have worked, with my daughter having school the next day.
I think Friday. I do have every other off and it seems to work well. The problem with Mondays is that there are too many meetings that cover the week’s work on Monday. Not that I enjoy them but you’re going to be struggling to fully understand what’s important and catch up if you’re out that day.
This. Of course if I had a 4 day week all the time it wouldn’t matter, but since I don’t I’d rather have two things to look forward to than get both of them at the same time.
Honestly, I don’t care. Whatever day I’d have to go back to work is “Monday”, likewise whichever is before the weekend is “Friday”. The actual day is far less important than the activity.
