If you WFH, what's your Friday afternoon like?

Must be exhausting all that tapping away on keyboards in between hanging the washing out and having a cheeky nap. 😂

Sometimes I get work scheduled for after 6pm on a Friday, which is a necessary pain, but if it's quiet I try to fit in some learning time. I work in IT so even at 60 there is always new stuff to learn.

It does sound a bit whimsical to say a couple of long days, then a couple more sorting it, and a day of timeout is actually quite nice and balanced.

It sounds like that to you because you've no understanding or experience of the roles being talked about. Hence the 'real world' comment.

Friday is the busiest day in my job role.

I consider it a success if I manage to get logged off on time.

Tuesday is our easy day lol

Oh no, I'm sure they wouldn't notice if you just laid back and ignored them? Same as me, I'll just kick back and not teach my students as I'm having a quiet day off. Honestly speaking, sone people have no idea of the real world do they? All they know is sitting behind a keyboard and get sooooo tired after a few meetings 😆

@MartyFunkhouser why not the admin?

Exactly and no not everyone can just can different jobs. Honestly it seems all MNs have office jobs and wfh and any inconvenience is to be fainted at. Xx

You can waste just as much time in an office as at home, the location is irrelevant. If the work is done and deadlines are met is the important thing; not how busy someone is or isn't pretending to be.

It's our busiest time of the week as customers try and get stuff sorted last minute. Managed to log off on time today, but usually end up working an extra half hour or so most weeks.

Would you be happy for nurses, teavhees, fire, police etc to write off Friday afternoon? 🤔 Oh admin can't have the same privilege, why not? What an awful comment.

I guess, as usual, this post is for wfh/office workers?

Does anyone on MN do other jobs apart from office work?

I changed jobs a couple of years ago and have more flexibility, but still have to be in the workplace so no wfh. Previously 23 years as a teacher, no we didn't have the Friday ease off, in fact it was worse as students switched off more then.

Commute to work, setup, then teach all day with behaviour management, after school meetings, parents' evenings, take a trolley load of books home to mark in 3 different coloured pens while cooking dinner, seeing to own family, then back to it after their bedtime. So i guess 12 hour days and more, weekends also, plus every day is exhausting dealing with class after class, duties, lunch detentions and meeting so having a wee and eating are a bonus!

Oh yes the holidays do make it worthwhile, that's because term time is so intensive, we do also work, plan and run activities then, whilst looking after our own kids.

When your DP is an emergency service worker, so out as well, extra calls to work, life isn't easy so basically NO, in the real world, we can't just tap on a keyboard to pretend we're working. It does sound a bit whimsical to say a couple of long days, then a couple more sorting it, and a day of timeout is actually quite nice and balanced. Xx

This.

and why tapping the trackpad? I’ve turned off my green light on teams and email so no one can tell if I’m online or not. Sod that I’m
not 5.

I asked this earlier too. Maybe they start later on a Monday or something or get another afternoon off during the week.

Edited to add I’m hoping this is the case because if not it’s a really shitty way to treat employees. DH and I have a company and if we found out any of our managers were allowing certain staff to have a half day on a Friday off and not others we’d be having a very serious conversation with them.

You should apply for flexible working
i did, and now do my hours mon - thurs. Enjoy Fridays off. I was working way over anyway so I decided it needed to stop! My weeks were like yours. But now I get paid for less days and have an extra day off :)

I work in a restaurant, very full on, some days barely get 10 minutes to ram dinner down my throat during a 10 hour shift.

Dh works from home. Today, he stopped working at 3, we took our son to the park after school, and went to buy dinner. However, he's worked (hours) late 3 times this week, as he often does, worked early if calls are needed to be done in different time zones and barely gets time to eat lunch most days. He might have knocked off early today, but can guarantee he's done way more than his contracted hours.

This week is awful. I've worked 60 hours. Things are dreadful, I'm exhausted. Today was no different. 5pm finish today though so I'll take that!

I think this thread shows how flexible working works well. I wfh, sometimes logon early on a Monday morning, and as Mondays are busy, I stay logged on an hour later. It’s swings and roundabouts. When in an office environment there is no flexibility, but wfh, if you’ve worked extra hours on the Monday, you can take time back on another day just by popping to the supermarket or gym, or catch up on a tv program, do a bit of gardening. It’s a new way of working, and is a great work/life balance.

This. Lots of people don’t understand the concept of a salaried role and give and take.

This.love Fridays, minimal meetings as so many are off. Great for getting your head down and concentrating uninterrupted

This. I work in comms in a large national organisation and if there was a crisis/urgent issue I would be expected to be online, doing whatever needed to be done, whether it was in working hours or not. No-one cares if I am pretending to look busy at 3pm on a Friday.

That's not my experience. I don't know anyone that works from their office more than once a week other than through choice, and my employer has just put another of our offices up for sale.
They offer me flexibility and I offer it back because we are grown ups that can manage our workloads without having our bosses helicoptering over us.

I don't work in a shop. And I think I'd probably get the sack if I was found asleep in the storeroom because I'd had a hard week at work.

Would they really? Are you the only person in the shop?

Yeah but the ‘what about manual workers’ fanatics don’t want to hear about the late evenings or busy days, they just hear that people go to the gym at lunchtime or finishing early on a Friday (thanks to flexible working for most people). They are so convinced that they work harder than everyone else.

Then why do you care what other people do?