Back to work tomorrow!

[Aquarius1234]

Why do I dread that 1st day back after Xmas / New Year.
Difficult to sleep. The walking in the door, turning the computer on, seeing 100 emails all being urgent..
Knowing I won't be able to catch up.
Being older..

I can't bear the thought of it. I'm returning after 2weeks in north America..

YABU

Why?

YANBU
I dread it too, Wednesday for me

YABU.

The people who are dreading going back to work tomorrow (3rd Jan) are mostly those in 09:00-16:30 council jobs who get 33 days annual leave and out of the office by 16:30.

Some people over here work on the Christmas and New Year bank holidays.

Move to Scotland, you get an extra day here...the dread is still real though!

Same here OP though wouldn't say it's dread but currently can't sleep as know what's waiting for me when I log on tomorrow. I've gradually come to realise that taking leave causes almost as much stress as it alleviates work wise!

Not sure if that's good or bad.. prolongs the inevitable. Bit like those you take a few more extra days off.
I feel its worse the longer your away.

Indeed, anymore than 10 days and I can't cope.

I'm putting off sleep because that will help 🤔

You could get one of those jobs if it's preferable to your current job.

Bit being tired is never good. Yet a habit I can't seem to break.

Eh? It’s also the people who work 100 hours a week in corporate law or investment banking. It’s also those who work on minimum wage and unpaid overtime even though it’s illegal in NGOs or charities to help people. It’s also huge swathes of the healthcare, policing, military and education sectors. But, you’re right, everyone should shut up because you work shifts 🙄

@TrickorTreacle stupid pointless post - trot on

This is why I deliberately took AL for the beginning of Jan! Back on the 12th. Minor win against my horrible, slacker colleague this year who insists on taking the period between Christmas and NY off so I have to work. The services who generate our work were mostly closed in that period so it was very quiet for me but there’ll be a nice big backlog for her to deal with for the rest of this week (mwah ha ha).

My work has been closed and reopens tomorrow - but I have the day already booked off as annual leave. Something has always gone wrong- it's a shitshow of a day and I have done it for 32 years. So I'm on leave and will go back on Wednesday! - I'm no-one important by the way and there are a lot of other people paid way more than me to sort it out.

I'm also in the unable.to sleep with back to work dread boat. The dread has been slowly creeping in for the past few days and now I feel really fed up. @

I’m feeling the same way and so is DD. It took ages to get her to bed tonight after two weeks of lie ins her body clock is all off track. My one saving grace is that tomorrow is a WFH day so I’m trying to see the positives. And only six weeks till half term. Not that I’m counting or anything. My sincere thanks to anyone who worked over Christmas. I appreciate you. 🌺

I feel your pain. Even taking a random half day can be a total mare, death by email. I wish we'd use Teams more effectively....nope, I'll just stick it in an email, cc the world in or reply all (they will be first against the wall, BTW).

😣

I'm starting a brand new job tomorrow, so feeling excited rather than dread...looking forward to the challenge of getting me up at 5.30am then the DCs up at 6.30am, instead of the 8.30ams and then some we've all got a little bit too used to over the past 2 weeks 😬😳😬

Why?

that was the exact word I thought when I read this typical whiny post.

are you British, OP?

@Spck - stupid pointless post - trot on too :-)

Of course.

Dreading it too. Binge watching Netflix instead of sleeping.