What’s The Most Stressful Day Of Your Work Week?

typically Monday's but not exclusively. My major deadline each month is the 20th as that is when most of my tax returns are due. I get my reports the second business day of the month, but really need to be done a couple of days earlier.

Runnin-Ute

@xrmb: Heh. Two you won't get is better than the five you won't get in Colorado.

dry-roasted-peanuts

Sunday for me, I work retail and it is the worst customers... then I've got school the next day. Just awful.

Dustin Foster

It Saturday, because then I've to apply for two jobs (I wont get anyway) to keep my UE benefits rolling in...

xrmb

Friday, because that's the day they'll fire you in order to cut back on overhead.

dry-roasted-peanuts

I have long known Tuesday to be the true day of misery. I welcome all who agree to the Tuesday Haters Club at www.tuesdayhater.com. Today, we are scientifically vindicated. Rejoice.

k3of4

It was always Wednesdays when I worked in corporate offices. Now that I work out of my home office full-time (except for the days when I have client consultations in coffee shops or their offices or when I camp out in a coworking space), I don't seem to have trouble with the mid-week anymore. Funny thing, that. :)

Trauma surgery: from Thursday Afternoon untill Sunday morning (this includes the tipical 630am bicycle rider struck by a car on suday)

LabanAristodemus

The answer to this is so subjective and based entirely on one's ability to respond in "peaceful and serene" ways to any and all events. The tips and tricks for doing so are everywhere. In a sense, no one day is anymore stressful than another because the whole day follows the state of the mind. Happy mind; happy day. No this isn't positive thinking or New Age philosophy; it's reality. One tip: Never, never compose an e-mail on a Monday or a Friday concerning any work related issue. Let it go; chances are you won't even have to compose one.

rainbowsky

Gotta back up the Tuesday haters. Tuesday is definitely the most worthless day of the week.

This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

Zach Carriger

If it ends in "day", that is the one that stresses me out

Russ

Generally Fridays and Saturdays. I work in the hospitality industry, and those are the days when I deal with large groups; the groups mostly consist of parents who think it's perfectly okay to drink hard liqueur in the lobby while their children run around unsupervised disturbing everyone else in the hotel. Those are also the days that people seem to suddenly realize that they need a room for the weekend, so they keep calling asking for rooms (and are angry when we don't have any left).

Yes I just had an especially stressful weekend, but that is how it normally is.

at least this week it was tuesday, i was having a deadline to give 2 big project, it was a 100K/years deal that i couldn't loose ;-)

was up all night coding and got it in times :-)

now i will be able to sleep!!

Yvon Boulianne

@Phoshi: Thursday tends to be "death by meeting day" -- spend late hours attempting to get some real work done.

crenquis

Monday for sure, and sometimes Friday - it seems that in IT most people tend to catch up on things they haven't finished before the weekend and IT gets slammed with last minute requests.

wiedzmin

I agree. Sunday around dusk, I have this feeling of dread fall over me, as I come to terms with my joyfull life coming to an end and the soul crushing work week waiting for me in the morning.

LeeGalopamonster

Honestly, thursdays are the worst for me. Coverage is short in the afternoons and things can get tight.

@whiteflea: I teach H.S. as well (economics this year), and I'd say Monday AND Friday.

Monday sucks because they still have their "minds" on the weekend & don't want to be at school, and Friday because they have their minds on the weekend & don't want to be at school

My dos centavos...

CountSmackula

mine's Thursday, mostly because of the weekly meetings that happen that day. most are pointless, but some people just like to hear themselves talk.

@VailBlaesus: For sure. I'm an EMT and I would have to say Friday and Saturday are the worst. Lots of drunkards doing stupid stuff.

UpshawApplesauce

So basically people don't actually work on monday?

Mondays and Tuesdays are the worst. I do reporting for a inbound tech support call center, Monday 1pm is deadline for reports for my management, and follow this with Tuesday being the day where my management talks about the reports with their management and the client's management.

Tuesday is bad already because I go into work @ 6:30am and don't get home until 9:00pm (I have night time college courses after work)

Majandra

Actually, Friday is.. I work for a web design/development agency, and every week, without fail (and especially before holidays), we get clients calling & emailing wanting stuff done to their sites before the weekend. It always ends up being a mad rush to fit everything in. Seems they always forget about their websites until the last minute...

saffyre9

Anyday where I have to work the 12h night shift is my worst day. Boring and, most of the time, because it's Friday, and I have classes at 8am that day, I'm usually a Zombie from 1am onwards :S. Oh, and because my bosses installed a motion detector linked to the security system. I have to move every 10 min :S

I mediate divorcees' conflicts, so my stressful period starts at noon on Monday and ends at noon on Saturday (assuming I don't get emergency calls from the office on Saturday night or Sunday). Usually, holidays=double stress.

TxRx

@Andrew Latham: Totally agree. And since I am three hours ahead of my East Coast clients, their Friday COB is about the time I get to wolf down "lunch."

Ockham

@pb5000: that was supposed to say "something for {insert request here} but not thinking I used < so it omitted it. Darn no edit option.

@Angrysmoker: Thursday's for me are the day that the sale people turn in their projections usually only to realize that they haven't had a very productive week. So what do they do when they realize they need some activity and they need it fast? They go hassle the marketing guy (ME) for anything and everything they could use to help sell.

I'm frequently asked on a Thursday if I have something for and a lot of the time I had just sent something to that nature out earlier in the week, I respond yeah, check your email from me on Tuesday. They stand there for a few minutes refusing to leave my office and then just say, "well can you send it again?" DRIVES ME INSANE.

For me, about halfway through Sunday, realizing I'm a dead man walking facing the prospect of Mondays.

Everyday, especially lately. But I imagine I would be quite a bit more stressed if I had no job, with a mortgage and car payment.

trunk8

Wednesday-- the one day I can't stay late when I need to. The workday allegedly ends at 4:00, and the bosses like to change their minds about stuff between 2:30 and 4:30, and demand instant reactions. Any other day, I can deal with that. Wednesdays I have to be on the road at 4:30. They know this. They still send "urgent" emails with significant changes right around then.

HarlanSelene

For the sake of science, don't you think mentioning that Tuesdays are the most stressful according to research might have influenced people's answers

VanniMilda

I generally hate Tuesdays. I dunno if they're any more or less stressful than any other day. Wednesdays usually aren't great either.

MichaelBrazell

@brodiemac: I tend to get flooded with ID-10-T errors on Monday. People love to break their things over the weekend, plus all the off-hours server updates that go haywire.

Seriously, though, Mondays are the worst. This is mainly because I sleep in until the late late hour of 7:30am on Saturday and Sunday, but Monday through Friday I'm up at 5. It's hard to transition to that on Monday. Also, students are still crazy from the weekend. Tuesday would be horrible, but it's a block day which means I get an hour-and-a-half break in the middle. Wednesday would be horrible, but the kids don't come in until 9am, so it's not that bad. Also, on Wednesdays I do the same thing I did on Tuesday, so no prep work. Thursday and Friday are great because you can taste the weekend. So, yeah...Monday sucks.

whiteflea

I'm a high school history teacher...

Need I say more?

whiteflea

Tuesday, after I figure out the bad news from Monday.

BrianB

@Phoshi: Thursday has my vote. It's my long day.

Angrysmoker

I have to say Monday since I am the only Admin here at that time.... You can't let work pile up around here, almost everything needs to be completed SAME DAY.

BayardEndeis

Stressful days.... Hummmm what days do you cube farmers go out get licked up, stupid and need a medic to pull you back from the light. Those are my stressful days.

Where's the option for "today"?

Stress..... Friday and Saturday night after the bars close. When all you cubical farmers get toasted, stupid and need a medic.

VailBlaesus

Fridays are by far the worst day of the week for me.

@Alexander: i'd agree except for different reason. wednesday after lunch, i've already dealt with 2 days worth of bull, still got 2 more days worth of bull to go, and i'm still not done with todays bull, fridays are easy, feels like the last of school before summer lets out every friday cause less than half the office shows up cause they work from home and i hardly ever dont get my work done that was needed to be done

neihrick

@brodiemac: Amen.

@iamellis: Same here and I am in IT (evil laugh)

Signed a BOFH

tagno25

@brodiemac:

+1000

Amen, brother

robertrock

I don't have stressful days. I have stressful weeks.

Usually the last week of the month. I have projects due and everyone else has projects due, but their computers don't work (and usually have not worked all month, but hey wait until the last minute when it is an "EMERGENCY!").

So my project goes on the back burner while I fix their problem. That is the biggest problem with being a Network Analyst AND doing desktop support.

OSUpwnsUM

Monday mornings are hell for me because no one calls IT if their computer goes down on Friday. They just use it as an excuse to go home early, so Monday mornings I get bombarded with help desk tickets.

Kandy477

Friday, if it's going to break, Friday 3:00pm and the fix takes hours.

Friday. Always Friday, without fail. I'm a small web agency... everyone wants their projects done before the weekend hits. Monday is a cake walk in comparison, and Tues-Thurs are my days i spend on larger projects. But Mondays and Fridays are always the worst.

Andrew Latham

There was no option for "The days that I actually come into work" lol Seriously though - Tuesday, only because that's when people "really" come into work around here in VA. Traffic especially sucks on these days.

SuperTuna

I see that array of cubicles in the photo and other than the fact the observation / control tower is missing, I would say that's the call center for MOHELA.

Man, that's crazy.

As far as stressful days are concerned, Thursdays are the worst - but only every other Thursday when I'm off that Friday due to a reduction in hours.

Sam Wille

i work on a 2 week development cycle that starts on mondays, so every other friday is insane as my coworkers are scrambling to check in clean code.

ephdel

I work in radio, and I'm on the air from 11 to 1. So if anyone tries to bug me at 11:45, I just point to the Control Room, and walk away.

NathanIrwin

@iamellis: *uttered in dark, gravely voice*

GO. AWAY.

Definitely Wednesday afternoon - that's when everyone shows up at my desk with, "Oh my god - we dropped the ball on this and it needs to be done before the end of the week!"

I wonder how many people voted for Tuesday just because today is Tuesday and they have had a rough day...

@Alexander: That's exactly what I say... except on Thursday.

ku1185

@Alexander: Pretty much sounds like my work. Although it tends to change from week to week, depending on when the management pulls their so-called "schedule" out of their backside.

QADude

Fridays, only because I dread coming in Monday morning and everything being broken.. Otherwise I love my job.

Zurry

Tuesday. It's monday's bitchy younger brother.

Theo Syslack

It's Thursday for me, right around 4pm. That's the time I know whether I can finish my work by then end of the day Friday, or else I'll have to suffer through working the weekend. Not worth the 3 days of procrastination it took me to get to the point on Thursday.

spoondoggydog

Friday morning, because I have to get all projects approved for Monday launches. If there is a change or mistake, I have to scramble to get people on it.

All of this must be done before open thread time, which is zen.

SamburgerHandwich

Thanks to my neurotic type-a manager, my stress starts about noon every Monday.

Sunday. The day before the work week.

bgeek

Actually it depends on what deadline we've (and by "we" I mean the entire company besides me) missed and are again late on. It was Friday last week. I had to stay till 8:30 pm waiting for changes to a PDF that was supposed to be ready to burn to cds at 4:30 pm the same day.

Aaron Vail

wednesday. middle of the week, and i've got no plans in the evening. having something to look forward to in the evening (like improv comedy) gets me through the longer days.

Tomorrow. Tomorrow always stresses me out.

T-man

I say Thursday because I realize there is actually something I need to get done this week and I need to hurry if I want any chance at leaving early on Friday.

slingshotmike

@Alexander: So true.

I don't really get stressed at work. I'd say the busiest day would be Tuesday, mainly because we have staff meetings and staff lunch on Mondays, and then the rest of the day is spent mainly just browsing ideas and catching up on stuff. Tuesday is when I buckle down and get to work.

jesuswhammy

Bollocks! I see PEBKAC and ID-10-T errors every day of the week!

brodiemac

@iamellis: You're the fabled ice cream tester at Ben and Jerry's?

I say wednesday. Right in the middle of "haven't done jack this week" and "better get something done this week".

Thursday. I'm not yet ready to friday, but the week is almost over. Almost, it starts to drag, it'll never end.

I can honestly say I don't think I've ever had a stressful day at work

iamellis

I honestly can't vote, because Sunday is a work day for me and it is by far the worst.

Ran Beckley

Sometimes I think the Thursday before a three day weekend is the worst, if you have a lot of things you have to finish before the end of a shortened week.

Everything is due on Wednesday for me. If it isn't, either it's a test or it's due so early on Thursday that I have no choice but to do it Wednesday. Guess what today is? T_T

Definitely Wednesday - team meeting day, enough said

nsxstorm

My stress doesn't really start until I'm off work and at home. Hmmmm.

Satanicat

My stress doesn't really start until I'm off work and at home. Hmmmm.

Satanicat

Any day that ends in "y".

elsifer

Tuesday is my hard3est day but that is the first day of my week. All the problems and the stupidest little things make their way to my desk and take hours to go through.
Just hell.

hardtoremember

Software builds on Tuesday afternoons mean that there is pressure to fix and test all the defects found over the weekend by 2:00pm on Tuesday. We build on Friday too, but there we have a few more days and can actually add new features.

BreadBoy

hey thursday is Friday-eve! cool as.

BishopBlaze

hey thursday is Friday-eve! cool as.

BishopBlaze

@tagno25:

thats a shame, as often thats an indicator that your living too much within your comfort zone.

Altho too much stress is a killer, a small amount has shown to be (a) very productive (hence you can revise all night just before an exam but not weeks before) and (b) an indicator that you're pushing yourself, not just in work, but in all your life.

The trick is not to have no stress, but to recognise it quickly, and address the causes.

BishopBlaze

@tagno25:

thats a shame, as often thats an indicator that your living too much within your comfort zone.

Altho too much stress is a killer, a small amount has shown to be (a) very productive (hence you can revise all night just before an exam but not weeks before) and (b) an indicator that you're pushing yourself, not just in work, but in all your life.

The trick is not to have no stress, but to recognise it quickly, and address the causes.

BishopBlaze

Tuesday! for me!

sreejuz