To ask if you don’t work Monday…

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Do you still get the Sunday blues just on another day, or does having Monday as a NWD cure this? I have a midweek day off and currently stuck between the pros and cons of a Monday vs Friday off.

I love having Monday off. No Sunday night blues but by Monday evening I'm back into the swing of the week (kids at school etc) so no Monday night blues either.

I used to not work Mondays when DC were little and I didn’t get Sunday/Monday blues, it was nice.
The negatives were some small businesses close on a Monday, and you miss the “start of the week” planning type stuff at work

Mondays off is the best! As you say it's the bank holiday time off in lieu which is the best thing especially if you're trying to cover school holidays as you have far more flexible leave that people who take a different day. I like to say that Monday off gives you the gift of Sunday, you've got Monday to get cleared up from the weekend and sorted for the week so you don't need to be doing that in Sunday and can have a proper full day. If I can help it I will never work another Monday in my life!

My non working day used to be Monday, hated it, it was just a delayed Sunday and felt like I ‘should’ be at work along with the rest of the working world, it just felt wrong not being at work on Monday for me.

Only posted half my comment. 🙄

bonus hours from ‘missed’ bank holidays.

My work seem to have an incredibly complicated way of dealing with bank holidays for part time or compressed hours workers where they add the hours on to your holiday allowance and take them off again. Or something.

I used to have Mondays off and like PP says, they just sort of became the new Sundays with the associated feelings. I have Fridays off now, which I definitely prefer - it now feels like a proper day off, rather than just waiting around on a Monday to go back to work.

I do WFH on Mondays which helps ease me back in...

I swapped my nwd to Monday recently and best decision ever, previously I had to be off all the bank holiday Monday as the office was closed but I only got pro rata bank holiday allowance so I had to use my annual leave for bank holidays leaving me with very few flexible annual leave days. Now I get the same bank holiday allowance to use flexible onto top of my annual leave days so much better. Also as someone mentioned school inset days are usually on a Monday and I was stuck for childcare, also my previousNWD was a Friday and the amount of days kids were out early , half day etc really meant I got very few Fridays to myself at all whereas now on Friday they go to afterschools so if they are out early then afterschools get them early too .

I used to have Fridays off and felt the Sunday blues. Now I have Mondays off I no longer get any form of back to work blues! Don't know why! But I do miss the bank holidays as I don't get paid for those! Love Mondays off!!!

I have Mondays off and I never get the blues.

Then again, I really love my job so I'm not sure if I'd get them even if I didn't.

I often wfh on Mondays so I don't get the Sunday blues as much anymore.

I know people who do the bulk of their work Tues-Thurs and then have a very chilled Friday to Monday at home.

I love it when I get a Monday off and can spend the day pottering at home. Starting work a day after most people with a tidy house and feeling decompressed from not having to be nice around people - perfect.

I don't go to work as in paid employment on Mondays, but I do a ton of other work that I don't get paid for - just stripped bed & put second load of laundry on, cleaned the bathroom, about to start on the living room, then the kitchen (I really need to give the fridge a deep clean) then there's the summer bedding plants that have gone over to be taken out & replaced with winter bedding that we bought yesterday.

DH did a load of ironing earlier & is washing our cars & cleaning the insides, one of us will cut the grass later.

I can't wait to get to work tomorrow for a rest LOL!

I used to have fri’s off I now have every other Monday .

hands down Mondays suits me better!

fri used to be a bit frantic preparing for the weekend!!!

Monday is much more chilled! Enjoy doing house work etc but generally less to do post weekends so get more time to do nice things!!

Also bank holidays are a bonus when it falls on the right week for me which it has this year every time!! 😅

Sunday nights much more pleasant when not working Monday and I am generally able to get organised on the Monday off so Monday night is ok too!!

You should end up better off as you get your bank hol entitlement which even when done pro rata should end up in "credit" for how many other bank hols end up falling in your work pattern.

I don't work Mondays and this is a big plus point for me

I think having a longer weekend eases the going back to work blues.
And it's easier if going away to have a non working day tagged onto weekend rather than separated.
Plus there's the advantage of a bank holiday leave credit to use at other times.
I've never had a mid week day off so can't compare it but I know some people prefer it as it splits the week up and they get a midweek decompress

I don’t get Monday blues because the week has started, kids been in school etc which feels different to the Sunday night with the impending doom feeling. For me it wasn’t not liking work, it was the whole work, school routine, start of the week after down time at the weekend. Not a problem now because it feels like the week has a staggered start.

I work shifts but when I’m working a Monday day shift I’m mega pissed off in the Sunday I hate working Mondays I hate the traffic, the moods of people and the general workload that just cos it’s Monday seems like loads. But when I’m off Monday, even if I’m working Sunday (12 hours) it may as well be a Saturday for how happy I am :))

Work for local council and I'm lucky that I get both Monday & Friday off . For bank holidays I get further time off pro rata to my hours worked ( win win ! )
I don't really get any day blues ( maybe Thursdays ) as I work 8 - 8 that day to help make up my hours .

I used to get the Weds night blues because I was in a different department on Thursdays which I hated. I worked shifts, but Thursday was the only day I was on shift every week.

Actually it was much worse than "the blues" and I often didn't sleep due to anxiety on Wednesdays.

I work a compressed week and have Monday off and don't feel the dread of going back to work like I used to on Sunday. I think maybe because my partner is working that day it sort of minimises it somehow. I sort of feel prepared and relaxed knowing the working week has started and I'm still off.

Bank Holidays don't feel special anymore but that's the only downside. I get the hours back to use when I like though.

This. I work Mondays now but it was exactly how I felt- plus organised for the week as well

I have both Monday and Friday off in my current job. Only ever get the Monday night blues when it’s a bank holiday and everyone else is also home on the Monday!
Have previously had other combinations of days of when working part time and Monday is the best day off. We get the bank holidays pro-rated onto our holiday entitlement to take as we please.

I don’t get Sunday blues because I’m retired. That said I do sometimes miss that heady Friday feeling. But not as much as I don’t miss Sunday blues or the Monday morning feeling. Monday mornings are great.

No I don’t get Monday night blues. After a 3-day weekend I’m refreshed and ready to dive into my 4-day week. There’s a sense of anticipation though as my team are all on Monday, so I’m keen to get up to speed. I used to get Sunday blues quite bad.