Any else's weekend ruined by the Sunday scaries

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I don't know why but I always spend Sundays worrying about work and it is ruining my time off :(. I won't say what I do, as it is potentially outing but it does come with a lot of responsibility.
I do have generalised anxiety too xx

My weekend is ruined by planning and marking.
I don’t get time for Sunday scaries.

Yep, I am feeling the Sunday evening blues tonight, my job isn't really that bad either. I thinks it's just the relentlessness of it all that's getting to me,, I holding out for some A/L at the end if October .

When I woke up this morning, my first thought was how badly I don't want to go to work tomorrow. So yes, work is most definitely ruining my Sunday. I don't always feel this way but at present I'm working with a client that I can't stand. He's a patronising micro-manager (in an area where I know a LOT more than him). I developed the strategy as well as executed most of the work and have had rave reviews from his boss and his boss's boss yet he feels the need to talk to me like I'm a 5 year old not to be trusted. We disagree constantly. I honestly don't know how I can get through a day more of him without telling him where to shove it.

Yes, have had this since I got a promotion a couple of years ago. I’m the manager and as a nurse, things often happen over the weekend I have to deal with on my return.

I’ve had enough and I’m going back down a band for a better work life balance. One of the pleasures of shift work is you don’t always work Monday!

This is very outing but I’ve been off following a bereavement for several weeks and although I went back mid week last week, tomorrow is my first Monday for a while and I can feel the tension again. Hate it!

Yes! Work is so full on and it feels like there is always outstanding stuff to do. I feel more anxious than ever as I've an assignment due in this week for a part time post graduate course and I've got our estate agent here tomorrow to do video tour and photos for our house as it's going up for sale.

I think I may be at my capacity for coping......

I barely ever ever get this but I've got it today. The school I work at is expecting an Inspection and it's made SLT go bananas, and even my usually utterly reasonable HoD is getting us to do this and that which all adds up. I've got reports due on Monday morning first thing (great choice of deadline, thanks for that SLT). I've got so so much to do and my baby won't let me sleep at night. For the first time, I wish I'd taken a longer maternity leave. Dreading going in tomorrow. Can't face logging on and writing dozens of reports tonight once the kids are in bed. Just, fuckit, aargh

Yes, it’s been worse than ever recently, too. I need to find a way to cope with it because it’s gone from coming on later in the day to being the first thought I have when I wake up on a Sunday. Any tips would be welcome!

Yes, absolutely feel like that. Ive recently taken on more responsibility for not a lot more money and not letting it affect home life is very difficult.
I spoke with my manager and I’m considering going down to part time. When you have kids and a home to run, I think full-time is just not feasible.

Generally a weekend off is enough for me so I tend to look forward to Monday, but then I enjoy my job which I suppose helps.

Yes, so much so I'm considering handing in my notice tomorrow. I manage 13 people, every single day is a relentless round of drama. I know already that at least one of them will call in sick.

At the moment, yes.

I am head of a core subject in secondary. We are now in the Ofsted window so every Monday, we are on pins in case the call comes 😔

We are prepared and no reason to think it won't go well but oh my, the stress of waiting to see if the call comes is awful.
If it doesn't, in some ways, it's a relief but in others, it isn't as it just starts again the week after.

I didn't sleep at all well the last 2 Sundays 😔

I used to be like this. It used to ruin my annual leave as I used to worry so much about returning to work. You have my sympathy, it's horrible

I work from home on Mondays which has made a huge difference, some weeks I'm in every other day but I don't care as long as I don't get that Sunday feeling. Just feels less intense not having to rush about as much before work and being able to be comfortable at home! If I'm in Tuesday i don't get the Monday night scaries as settled into work for the week by then. Lucky to have the chance I know!

Yes I am. I switched jobs after maternity leave and the job I went to, which on paper should have been perfect, has been hell from the start. The organisation is toxic and my manager has been gaslighting me for the last six months. Initially I started job hunting keeping passively, being selective about what I applied for but have not been shortlisted for anything. Now I feel so desperate to get out I'm considering applying for just about anything just to get out. I cannot switch off from it and the stress is making me ill.

That’s why I don’t work Monday’s.

Normally but not today because I've worked all weekend too :')

I’ve just had a week off. Checked my emails. There’s nothing awful to go back to; everything has been dealt with and I have a few things to do. But I just don’t fancy it. It’ll be fine once I start but dreading it right now!!

Me! my Sunday scaries ramp up from Saturday afternoon. The job I have (lots of responsibility) vs the job I applied (a basic admin role) for are vastly different.

I would love to quit tomorrow but worried I’d be unemployed for ages while looking. The market seems worryingly quiet at the moment

My stomach is in bits on a Monday morning. I rarely sleep and I’m just an absolute mess.

My manager is a sneaky git who lies a lot so I don’t have a lot of support 😭

I sometimes feel like my weekend hasn't been enough to actually wind down but tonight is much worse than usual due to an incident last week with a colleague (I have a thread about it) - I am truly dreading tomorrow and tying myself in knots thinking of ways to avoid going in and rehearsing conversations in my head. It's been hanging over me all weekend.

wondering if we work for the same place!

Nope I went to work so have tomorrow off 😊

I'm sorry to hear so many of you feel the same :(. I just dont know how to stop doing it ! Once Mondays out of the way, I do feel better, usually. I dread Sundays now. Today I have been out all day just to keep my mind active. X

I used to but went part time and got Monday off and it stopped.

It doesn't transfer to Monday

I still cannot watch antiques roadshow or countryfile

I'm doing overtime time tomorrow and don't feel it either

It's horrible - it is anxiety.

Yes, I think I’ve had Sunday scaries for last 3 months.
I just want to particularly run off ahead of going on yet another horrible line.
I mean week just past I passed probation in a ‘temporary’ job wtaf. What a thing to be proud off! NOT

In my younger day of course I’d tell myself just hunt down another job but the ageism world we’re now in seems ruthless.

living minute by minute.

Very much hoping for ai to kick in.

Not since I became self employed