Am I the only one who hates when unemployed people moan that weekend is over

[Sunflowerhappy]

It's just annoying and frustrating.
I work full time and my weekend goes in a flash. Monday mornings are a mad dash between getting ready and doing breakfast club drop off. Finish work and then another mad dash to the school then dds clubs, cooking and tidy up then the bedtime routine it's hard...
Then you get the unemployed who sit and moan about the weekend been over, moaning about the school run or moaning they have so much to do and I think we'll at least you can drop kids off at school at normal time, put on your slouchies to drop off so takes minimal effort, come back and get a cuppa before you do housework etc.

If I get a day off during the week I do the above and it's bloody bliss.
I know I should just ignore and let them get on with it and I know it's none of my business but it's still frustrating all the same.

Yes well I do wonder how in the frantic rush of a Monday morning, fighting her way through the casually-dressed folk to scrape into work for 9am, the OP found time to post at all.

Probably some unemployed bloke in bed with nothing better to do.

I don’t think the OP has posted this morning have they?

The thing is, you get used to the new norm.

I always worked outside the home. Now I work from home and don't have to be at my desk at any particular hour of the day. I was in seventh heaven for a year or so, but now I start to feel a bit flat about Monday coming which is nuts. I keep it to myself usually as I know it does sound a bit entitled to people who have a hideous commute and a boring job with awful coworkers. I've had years of that myself, of course, but how quickly we can forget

Come round to my house and look after 3 children under 4 for a week OP. You’d be begging for the ‘unemployment’ to end and the weekend to come early within an hour.

I remember when I wasn’t working, doing school drop off and knowing I was going back to the breakfast dishes and laundry and house renovations . I much prefer my Monday’s now - dropping off at 8.30, getting in my car putting on the radio to drive to a job I really like.

Letting this stand @MNHQ?

Perhaps you need to change the slogan at the top to "by parents for only working parents because SAHM ones are scum" with some of the anti-SAHM vitriol you let stand on here.

I'm at home because I've got a child who has a huge number of medical and therapy appointments at the moment and surgery to be scheduled soon as well. I fucking hate the weekdays, hate doing the school run (and being judged by bitches like you) - but sorry, I'm not dressing up in a suit and high heels just to make you feel a bit better about your life which is obviously so pitiful you need to get off on randomly trying to wind other people up on the internet if indeed you're actually at a stage of moving out of your parents' basement yet

Stop moaning. You should be thankful you can work.

I'm just saying they have a lot more time than someone who works full time yet they are always the ones complaining about school runs, shopping and cleaning to people who are about to do a long shift then have to do those things after their shift.

Because those are the things that take up their time mostly, so they are naturally going to talk about them? Pretty standard really - unless you think they daren't ever complain about anything at all. How dare they find these tasks monotonous and want a bitch every now and again. FML OP, your updates show you aren't even reading the points being made to you (not sure why I am bothering), you just keep repeating the same vitriolic nonsense.

If someone's husband can afford to support them so they SAH, sorry that that makes you jealous. Sorry that you hate your job or life or whatever. As a PP said, would you rather these women bleated to your face all day about how wonderful it is that they are going to go for coffee or have a nap and all day is the weekend? You'd be back here writing another nasty post about bragging SAHM.

Also, your post is stupid. Like lack of intelligence stupid. Here's why:
It's obvious to a blind wombat that the week will be less fun than the weekend (yes, even for those pesky SAHMs!) BECAUSE THEIR HUSBANDS AND FRIENDS ARE AT WORK SO IT IS LONELIER. Or, maybe, BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO WAKE UP AND DO SCHOOL RUNS ETC. Very obvious answers that are so clear I am not sure why you needed to ask in the first place.

Perhaps you need to change the slogan at the top to "by parents for only working parents because SAHM ones are scum" with some of the anti-SAHM vitriol you let stand on here.

This.

Whatever happened to “not in the spirit”?

The week is bloody tedious, lonely, and just incredibly isolating (the only help we get from the state is child benefit incidentally - which we'd still qualify for if I worked full time on a typical salary for the career I was trained in). At the weekend DH is around, there's company, there's conversation on a level above "who would be a better rescuer - PJ Masks or Paw Patrol" and "put your hand up if you like beans... put your hand up if you like beans on toast..." and there's more stuff going on to break things up.

Like I say - I'm desperate to get back to work but until we get things on an even keel with one of my kids' medical and therapy appointments - it's never going to be viable. No employer is going to allow me blocks of an afternoon a week off when we hit the top of the lists for the next batch of speech or occupational therapy, or the dropped-on-at-last-minute hospital clinic appointments (where the appointment always comes with less than a week's notice and then gets changed the following day in another letter). DH's employer is very understanding and as flexible as they can be (his boss has a child with more complex medical needs than ours has by far) - but there's only so far he can stretch that flexibility while remaining fair to his colleagues and employer... so that whole appointment organiser and taxi service role is mine.

But yep I'd rather it was Saturday than a day I'm rushing to get one child to school breakfast club when it opens and then the other through the most congested parts of the city to a therapy appointment at the far side of the city for 9am. Getting two kids to a dance class for like 11am is a much more leisurely morning for anyone.

Women are other women's own worst enemy sometimes.

Your title is offensive. To SAHMs and to unemployed people.

I always think about Wills and Kate, and how easy their lives are, even with a new baby, and yet people were feeling sorry for her for posing for a few pics.

I agree I'm fed up with the anti- SAHM feeling on MN. I recently left my job because between stresses at work (working as a TA with pupils with behavioural problem) and demands at home, it was just not worth it for £9 an hour. I feel better and I'm sleeping better but I'm back to all the little digs from working mothers. I know I'm doing the right thing for myself but I wish people would just mind their own business. I wouldn't dare say anything about some of the choices my working friends make.

I also agree with this. And when they complain about it raining but they have to go and do the school run. I used to work part time though and that was probably more difficult because I worked 9-1 every day and did childcare and cooking and other housework in the afternoons so I didn't stop all day. People used to say to me 'you're so lucky you get every afternoon off'! So I try not to judge what other people are doing. But yes I agree with you and also when they complain about the school holidays! I'd love to get all the school holidays off with my dd.

OP don't judge n moan. Not everyone who is unemployed is not having fun and games or even relaxation on weekdays. They may be dealing with think you don't even know about and probably like the weekend just as much as you do because they have mayb less responsibilities and fewer chores to do.

I’ve had a similar situation Grimsqueaker. And well said for saying what you have.
What is wrong with these narrow minded people who think they can look down their noses at the casual dressed, and assume they are dossers? I went from full time very senior employment, to SAH with a child who had medical needs, while volunteering at every thing I possibly could. Just to keep my interests broad and because I genuinely care, and wanted to help where I could. Most days were busier and more jammed than a day at the office...yet I still had comments from a couple of the self proclaimed ‘working’ mums, that were rude, snide and downright ignorant of my situation. Nasty people, with zero empathy or understanding, and there are plenty of them on here too. In a way I feel sorry for them, as they wouldn’t be so judgmental and bitter, if they felt good about themselves.

I agree I'm fed up with the anti- SAHM feeling on MN

Me too- even worse when it is disguised as faux concern- "think of your career/protect your finances/ be a good role model/ keep your husband happy or he will run off with younger model"
Blah blah blah.

I ditched my career when I had kids with my partner ( yes we are happily unmarried)
Life is full of risks and takes strange twists.

My life has never been happier.

I am really saddened by this thread.

To those of us who are SAHP then I think it’s unnecessary to justify or explain your status to someone who clearly will never respect you. And as for the unemployed not through choice then you really ought to be tarred and feathered for lamenting the end of a weekend with people you love who might be a part of your life.

Fuck
Right
Off

If the op can find me a job that will pay for my 5, 3 & 1 year old to go into childcare whilst I'm still actually earning something that would be great.....actually, I'd rather not. I love being a sahm and having that time with my kids, goady fucker that I am.

Well said Eatmycheese

OP, not everyone, who is unemployed, sits on their arse all day watching daytime telly, after the school runs.

If you're going to judge the unemployed/SAHM's etc, you'd better be perfect for the rest of your life.

Or - shock horror- some of us might actually choose to stay at home with kids.
So when OH gets home from work we a calm, happy and relaxed all laundry and housework done.
Weekends are for relaxing.

And when they complain about it raining What a stupid comment. As it all parents who don't work think exactly the same.

I didn't know I had to be happy about getting soaked on the school run coz I don't work, I'll remember that next time.