# Would You Rather Be Off On Mondays Or Fridays? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 14, 2011, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-be-off-on-mondays-or-fridays/588976 "2011-07-14T04:57:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-be-off-on-mondays-or-fridays/588976/21 "2011-07-14T13:48:20Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > EDIT: I wonder, are you an introvert, and your coworker an extravert? I am an introvert. My coworker is probably also an introvert, but he’s much more extroverted than I. He’s from Russia- I told him Mondays suck, and he said, “What is suck?” Mondays! ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-be-off-on-mondays-or-fridays/588976/22 "2011-07-14T13:51:12Z")
I’m already off on Monday (I work Tuesday - Saturday). It’s nice to have a weekday to get shit done while everyone else is at work. Plus on holidays I get to take Tuesday off too! ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-be-off-on-mondays-or-fridays/588976/23 "2011-07-14T13:55:31Z")
Mondays. Fridays are casual days, so I’d miss all those. StG ---
**Author:** ![Yaxche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8dc957/32.png) [@Yaxche](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yaxche)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-be-off-on-mondays-or-fridays/588976/24 "2011-07-14T14:48:30Z")
Mondays, for the reason you laid out… I lose half my Sunday to dread of the new work week, hopefully Monday off would give me that day back. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-be-off-on-mondays-or-fridays/588976/25 "2011-07-14T15:21:51Z")
I voted Fridays. When you get Monday off you still have the work week looming in front of you. With Fridays off you go to work as usual during the week and then _poof_ you’re done early! Love it. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-be-off-on-mondays-or-fridays/588976/26 "2011-07-14T15:31:43Z")
With a 4 day work week, your Sunday night dread is moved to Monday. It doesn’t go away. I vote to have Fridays off, instead. There’re more social goings-on toward the end of the week. Who goes out drinking on a Sunday? Nobody, that’s who. And if you want to go on vacation a day early, you take off on Friday. ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-be-off-on-mondays-or-fridays/588976/27 "2011-07-14T15:31:46Z")
Having Mondays off can be a little more helpful than Fridays if you have to get stuff done. In my current area, trying to get stuff done on a Friday is a pain in the butt because a lot of folks will leave early for the weekend, regardless of business. Even if they’re grumpy/tired on Monday, they tend to be present for the whole day, giving me an opportunity to actually do my “weekdays only” business. The worst person to do business with is my current dentist-- he only works Wednesdays and Thursdays during the week, so I’m considering my options for switching once I find out about the available dentists on the new medical/dental plan. ---
**Author:** ![Ludy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Ludy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludy)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-be-off-on-mondays-or-fridays/588976/28 "2011-07-14T15:33:24Z")
I voted Fridays off. Really it doesn’t matter much but sometimes on my days off I like to go out for dinner and if a restaurant is going to be closed, it will be on a Monday. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-be-off-on-mondays-or-fridays/588976/29 "2011-07-14T15:46:11Z")
Assuming this pertained to me, I’d go with Fridays because lots of Mondays are holidays already. ---
**Author:** ![markdash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@markdash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markdash)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-be-off-on-mondays-or-fridays/588976/30 "2011-07-14T17:57:14Z")
Seeing as how I’m taking off every other Monday for the next 2 months, I vote Monday. It eases you into the week having Monday off. You can do “weekend things” on Saturday and Sunday, and use the Monday off for relaxing and doing some errands, then go to work on Tuesday. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-be-off-on-mondays-or-fridays/588976/31 "2011-07-14T18:30:03Z")
The university I work for does flex time every summer, and you get to work your full 35 hours in 4 days and have a 3-day weekend every week. I prefer Fridays, because I tend to use Friday to get errands done, laundry, stuff like that, which frees up both Saturday and Sunday to play with husband and friends. I find that when I have Mondays off I tend to use it as an extension of Sunday and laze around. I am more productive if I do Fridays. ---
**Author:** ![Kalypso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/df705f/32.png) [@Kalypso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalypso)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-be-off-on-mondays-or-fridays/588976/32 "2011-07-14T18:55:30Z")
I voted for Fridays because a lot of my friends have parties and other social gatherings on Friday nights. Most of them live an hour and a half drive away, so if I want to go I have to get off work, take my kid to Grandma’s, get ready, and rush off to the party, all after working 8 or 9 hours, so I’m all tired and it’s not much fun. I’d rather have Friday off so I can get there leisurely. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-be-off-on-mondays-or-fridays/588976/33 "2011-07-14T19:02:49Z")
Mondays for the same reasons as the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Chopper9760](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@Chopper9760](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chopper9760)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-be-off-on-mondays-or-fridays/588976/34 "2011-07-14T20:01:49Z")
I work 4-10’s and have Fridays off 90% the time anyway. I like having Friday off but I don’t see an advantage to either day. 4-10’s are awesome but they do suck on holidays - I don’t get paid days so I sometimes end up with a 4-day weekend (okay) followed by a 2-day weekend (hellish ball of suckitude). Can you think of some business closed on Monday but open on Friday or vice versa? That’s the only possible tipping point I can think of. Friday is only a qasi-day off. I go to school and run all my errands on Fridays, I’m still in a getting-things-done groove. I’m not sure if I could begin the week with the same verve, I’d probably end up loafing Mondays away. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-be-off-on-mondays-or-fridays/588976/35 "2011-07-14T20:06:09Z")
Fridays because by that point of the week I’m somewhat useless anyway. If I have to be at the office I at least want to be productive. ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-be-off-on-mondays-or-fridays/588976/36 "2011-07-14T20:11:53Z")
There’s plenty of blues happening on Monday, and that’s good enough for me to take off. No one has the blues on Friday. ---
**Author:** ![black\_rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-be-off-on-mondays-or-fridays/588976/37 "2011-07-14T20:24:14Z")
Gimme Fridays. There’s usually something cool going on Friday nights that I’m frequently too tired to attend if I work that day. Hell, there’s usually something going on Thursday nights that I’d like to do, but currently don’t thanks to work on Friday. Plus, as others have mentioned, there’s the four day weekend factor for Monday holidays. ---
**Author:** ![TheBoltEater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@TheBoltEater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheBoltEater)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-be-off-on-mondays-or-fridays/588976/38 "2011-07-14T22:15:56Z")
I typically only work 4 days a week, and I’ve had both Mondays and Fridays off, and personally, I totally prefer Mondays. Being off Friday is nice, but it just seems like I spend the day waiting around for other people to get off work so we can go out. But when I have Mondays off, I know that it’s just “me time” - everyone else is working today and I’m on a mini-vacation. And Sundays are way better when you aren’t thinking about work the next day. And the whole work week is way better, cause when you show up for the first day of the work week, it’s already Tuesday! I’d much rather miss having “A Case Of The Mondays” than miss “Casual Friday”. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-be-off-on-mondays-or-fridays/588976/39 "2011-07-15T00:55:21Z")
I voted for having Friday off. Mondays are probably always going to be tainted with a whiff of unpleasantness because they’re associated with being the first day of the school week or the first day of an average working week. Heck, I kind of felt that way at my last job, when I was on a Thursday-to-Monday schedule. I figure that since I’m kind of programmed to not particularly enjoy Mondays, I might as well be at work. ---
**Author:** ![YaraMateo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/58f4c7/32.png) [@YaraMateo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaraMateo)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-be-off-on-mondays-or-fridays/588976/40 "2011-07-15T00:58:58Z")
Mondays have a bad rap. A lot of people (like professors) who had Mondays off, told them would change if they could on account of too many holidays falling on Monday and getting screwed out of them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-be-off-on-mondays-or-fridays/588976.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-rather-be-off-on-mondays-or-fridays/588976.md?page=3)