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I think we should all start singing "Monday, Monday" by the Mamas and the Papas!
I have come to the office and played "I Don't Like Mondays" by the Boomtown Rats. I think it makes my coworkers nervous, particularly since my name is similar to the RL shooter about whom the song is written. Heh heh heh...
I get that "Happy Friday" from the security guard every week when I come into the office, and I figure it's just something to say besides "good morning." It doesn't bother me, though I do think people who celebrate the last work day of the week may be in the wrong job. I suppose many have no alternative, but while I enjoy my weekends I actually look forward to Monday morning and going back to face the challenges of the week.
Maybe you guys need better hobbies. Or you're lucky enough to have fun jobs... Most of us don't
This has to be my biggest workplace pet peeve. Every time I hear it I want to punch the person in the face. There are employees (mostly women) who go around with a smile every Friday morning and repeat this vacuous transmission until every single person in the office has heard it. How many Friday mornings are you going to commit this boring ritual until you realize that you've been doing it every Friday morning for the last thirty years? Is your professional life really so empty that you have to remind yourself of the end of the latest round of work? Nothing says paycheck class like the need to have a reoccurring celebration of the end of the work week.
Wow. A lot of women who say "happy Friday" commented in this thread. I agree that it's idiotic and annoying. And yes, it's no different than "TGIF". "TGIF" is also idiotic and annoying.
I used to work a terrible job in a casino. It was open seven days a week and few people worked the normal Monday to Friday. Everybody had a different schedule, say, Wednesday to Monday or Friday to Tuesday or whatever. Every single day you'd hear some dullard (usually a woman) cheerily declare, "TODAY'S MY FRIDAY!" when the calendar day would be, for instance, Tuesday. It was to indicate that she had the next two day off. But who really cares? Not me, certainly. Just do your job and go home when appropriate. I don't care what your schedule is or how much beer you're planning on drinking on a Wednesday afternoon.
Geeze, someone saying "Happy Friday" or "today's my Friday" is the thing that bothers me the least when it comes to my job. I thought I had an uptight personality because I get irritated when people have sit at these chairs located behind my desk and have loud conversations. I guess i'm not that bad!
There are a lot of vacuous things my coworkers say that bug me. The obligatory fake "good morning" robotically uttered by every single person who enters the office drives me nuts. Of course on Monday it is always followed by a fake "how was your weekend?". Uh, too short and like every other weekend?
Rep points to everyone who referenced Office Space, and ChiGuy2.5 for the funny cartoon. LOL
OP, I'm guessing you don't have much fun over the weekend! Regardless of your "pay class!" LOL
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