Am I the only person in the world who likes Mondays?
By Jason Slater in Reader
Posted in General on December 3, 2007 at 4:53 pm
Am I the only person in the world who likes Mondays?
Most people I talk to can’t wait until Friday - personally I can’t wait until Monday. Does that really sound so strange? People often look at me in horror when I tell them about my love of Mondays. But. there is something fresh about Mondays, something new and something optimistic. On Mondays I draw a line under all those outstanding jobs and set my schedule for the week ahead. Key data backups occur over the weekend and are checked on Mondays and I often visit our off-site storage facility with the weekly IT archive box. My user base also seems a lot quieter on Mondays, maybe something they did at the weekend?
On Mondays I find time to check the budgets, do the paperwork and scan upcoming schedules for maintenance renewals and even get some time to check some of those email newsletters that seem to come through the email system with an ever increasing ferocity. Catching up with technical Blogs also happens regularly on Mondays and software development also comes a lot easier earlier in the week (on Monday afternoons in particular) and I am often at my best coding away in Cobol or C# (or whatever else I happening to be working on – at the moment it’s Java with MIDP). I also get a lot less support calls on Monday than any other day of the week.
By Friday however I have a snowy mountain of requests on my desk, a phone full of voice mails and a full email box; I can often be found early on a Sunday morning either at home remotely logged in or (more often than not) at work sorting through outstanding requests and prioritising new requests – did I say that I was a one man IT band with a userbase of almost 200? I wonder what the biggest ratio of support people to users is?
So, my questions are:
- What is is about Fridays that everyone likes?
- And am I the only one who likes Mondays?
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Loading ...Comment by Sharon Jackson - December 4, 2007 on 7:41 pm
I like Fridays coz I know I don’t have to get up on the Saturday. I’m still awake around 7am with the kids but I can laze in bed surfing/gaming/watching TV a couple of extra hours. No rushing.
Mondays I like because after a weekend of tending to the kids I can pack them off to school and have some (adult?) conversation with my fellow college students.
However, I like all days of the week at the moment because they all start with a Thorntons chocolate from my advent calendar (he he)
Comment by Jason Slater - December 5, 2007 on 11:49 am
Thats a good point about the advent calendar Sharon - mind you my kids beat me to it every time!
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