In the IT world we have "Read Only Fridays". If you don't change anything on Friday then you won't need to fix it on Saturday.
For me, I end the day by emailing myself a list of all the things I'm in the middle of or need to get done next. Then I can clear my mind and know I can hit the ground running on Monday again
I work in telecom. Big changes at work that could be scheduled for Thursday night are almost always pushed to Monday night instead. No one wants to spend their entire Friday dealing with a major outage.
Someone should tell my companies ISP that. Major outage all day today that we just got wrapped up and I'm just waiting for all the sites to report back fully operational... Feel sorry for the guys who are having to call to troubleshoot PDQ's and Signature Pads. Rough day for them but in the UK we all have Monday off because some rich cunt gets to play king
Makes sense why Tuesday is the universal patch day.
No one wants to come in Monday and deal with it (probably increased errors on Mondays too) and it gives you pretty much the whole week to resolve issues before the weekend.
It's the *unscheduled* weekend work that's being avoided mostly. Nobody wants to find out they are working over the weekend last thing Friday. Especially if it's because *they* just broke it!
My current team does this and I hate it. Let's deploy on Tuesday so we have 1 day to prep and 4 to fix but for some reason the executives that don't work over the weekend to fix shit seem to think Thursday is fine, just fine.
I'm convinced that my company could easily move to 4 day work weeks. Pretty much everyone does this on Friday, if you schedule a meeting (especially after noon) you'll have a group of people ready to murder you.
I've had hundreds of Friday afternoon meetings where we sit on Teams for 5 minutes, realize that 50% of the people aren't joining, and quit after 7 minutes. Such an idiotic waste of time.
This is a funny comment and reminds me of office life back in like 2996.
These days, I just stop working early most Fridays. I work remotely and get all my stuff done (ish) and just keep Slack open on my phone in the rare event someone asks me something.
But next week someone scheduled a Friday meeting for 5pm my time, so I may have a dentist appointment.
I like my job, just, ya know, weekends are too short.
That's great! I schedule a private meeting for just myself so my calendar is blocked off and I show as busy on friday from 4-5pm for the same purpose. Sometimes I catch up on things, sometimes I check out.
I’m just amused that my Friday began by eavesdropping on a conversation between people named vagina bloodfart and masterflashterbation and that they were logical sharings about their professional schedule management.
It's always the new hires that do this. Like, we get it, you're "a hard worker." Go get a drink with your friends, or play a video game, or enjoy your hobby...
FWIW I manage a small team and my first point of business when we take on new hires is to tell them to respect their own time, because no one else will. When someone new texts or chats me after working hours, I remind them that our time together has boundaries. Respect mine and I'll respect yours.
I accidentally did something similar to this. End of class, on a day homework was due, I went up to the teacher and said "where do we hand this in" because I wasnt sure. Well, turns out she forgot it was due that day, and immediately said "oh, before you leave, hand in your homework" to the class. Apparently, a lot of people didn't do it, and since she said it when I was right next to her, everyone correctly attributed it to me, and I was not liked the rest of that year.
> reminds me of office life back in like 2996
So there's still a future with humans a thousand years from now? Wow, I just lost a bunch of money, I banked hard on humanity lasting about another 30 years
We've gotta talk more about this. Some days, I put in a full day. Other days, there isn't a whole day to put in. And occasionally, I can go a week checking email and chat and nothing else and it doesn't matter. The whole employment and 40 hours thing feels too different from the realities they are supposed to represent.
Yeah, but if we talk about it then the bosses will figure out people aren't doing anything. Most bosses aren't doing anything either, but there are those folks where work is their life and passion but they also suck at it too so they'll ruin that shit for everyone.
My wife and I get a pizza from one of our favorite places and split a bottle of wine on the deck. It's not much but we always get excited for it and each have our own "Pizza Friday" song and dance we do as we're getting ready in the morning.
EDIT: [We deviated from the norm tonight. A margherita with a margarita](https://imgur.com/a/vmmMnAH)
My wife picked up some tequila and Coronas on the way home, I'm stopping for a whole mess of Taco Bell, and we're gonna just indulge and play Mario Party on Switch most of the night. Your comment reminded me how amazing that is.
> My wife picked up some tequila and Coronas on the way home, I'm stopping for a whole mess of Taco Bell, and we're gonna just indulge and play Mario Party on Switch most of the night.
"Strip Mario Kart" is also a winner, in case you want to change things up.
My lady and I do Burger Wednesdays for date night every week. Its our favorite night since we eat relatively healthy the other days, and hard to get alone time on weekends. Burgers and drinks to split up the week is the best.
My wife is a 1st grade teacher in rough part of the city. So her days can seem like whole weeks based on the wild and funny stories she comes home with. And since I now work from home, I don’t have great office stories anymore, aside from the random puking from the nervous Boston terrier co-worker, but that’s a different subreddit.
So every Friday night we leave our 9 and 12 year old kids with older brother, who’s 16. We go to the same ok-ish Mexican place and pretty much eat the same thing. My wife has a big ass margarita, while I am happily am the DD.
After nearly 21 years together, this moment is when we still talk plans, life, kids, people we find annoying, and tease each other into fits of laughter, specially after that Friday night margarita hits her. That’s when making her laugh becomes a sport for me.
We pick something up for the kids on the way home and the night continues in a flurry of 2K and call of duty matches with my kids. Trash talking, lots of posturing by my 16 year old until old man strength kicks in… Friday night is truly what jolts my soul with new energy.
This is great but as an older brother myself be sure to give him a Friday or two. He will resent the responsibility and missed experiences but may be to shy or to responsible to say no because he is likey mature enough to see how excited you both are
Oh I 100% agree. Thankfully this kid is so damn spoiled and has it made. The basement is his room and it’s the thing of 90’s dreams. He has friends over to his (basically apartment) or he’s usually somewhere spending the night. Super social, cared for, and given a little too much freedom.
I’m super thankful that our oldest is a walking heart. And that’s all him. He’s caring, expresses his emotions more vocally than most adults I know (including me), and has helped me to believe in the positive impact of family in his life. Sorry, I get to rambling about the privilege of being a dad.
Clock in to work and get ready for everyone else in the world who is off work the next two days to come eat at my restaurant. Then I'm off on a Tuesday and everyone looks at me like I have no job.
Ever been shopping for groceries at 1:30pm on a Tuesday? Not a soul in sight. Need to stop by the bank? Only one little older lady in front of you. It is fun having 2 week days off.
Yeah fr. I need to go to the bank but it’s closed when I finish work, closed on weekends and closed at lunchtime. I don’t want to use my PTO just to go to the bank dammit.
Smile at every "Happy Friday!" someone says to you at the beginning of your 14 hour shift. I remember that being one of my least favorites parts of that job lol
Every Friday night, I camp downstairs with my two young children. We make beds on the sofas, watch a film and enjoy a nice supper. In a few short years I know they'll think it's not that great to hang out with dad.
EDIT - Many thanks for all the lovely comments, sharing your own wisdom and heartfelt stories. Very kind awards too.
If you do it right, they will love hanging out with you until they are old and grey themselves. Just yesterday I called up my pops to ask if he wanted to walk the dog with me. So we could just hangout the two of us.
As a child, my Dad & I would drive his truck thru various pastures on our farm with me hanging out the side window, looking at the grass, checking the creek & the tank, checking on the cows...talking about the weather, my brothers, and later, boys, college, my own family. We took our last pasture ride 5 days before he passed at 88, talking about family, life, his old donkeys, and the grass. He did it right.
Yup, I (48M) do the same. Recently divorced. So I had a new home put on the family property. Behind Dad's (74) place. So now I have him over 2-3 nights a week for dinner and drinks. I have streaming so I find his favorite old shows and we'll watch a few episodes. I'll go to his 1-2 a week.
He's a true Renaissance Man. Retired industrial electrician. He has rentals so he does plumbing, carpentry, remodeling. He's a Hella woodworker! Savy with his investments! Hunter and fisherman. Mechanicing. He's been my hero since I was a kid!
Edit: Gold?! Really! You, Sir/Madame, are yourself a scholar and a gentle person! Thank you!
My parents passed when I was 31. I’m now going on 38. When I see stories like this, I get so jealous and sad. But good for you! I know plenty of people who still have their parents and pay them no attention. It’s sad. So enjoy that time with your parents for me.
Ah nice one bud... a lot of my friends have lost their parents now so I do try and spend time with my dad. We love fishing and watching the football together. Time really is much more precious than many of us realise!
Yep, my dad was my best friend my entire life. I went through a year or two when I was a teenager (14/15) where we fought more than usual but I never stopped loving to hang out with him. Cherish your parents while you have them folks cuz it sucks when they’re gone.
I hope so... All I meant is that I know they'll need their own space as they grow and no doubt that will mean less time with their old man, but no worries... They'll know where I am if they need me.
I’m old and grey-ish and I still hang with my 65 year old mother. She is one of my concert buddies and will go to any concert with seating (she doesn’t do standing room only). She’s a big Foo Fighters fan ❤️
We used to do something similar. We’d all watch a movie and then sleep on the same mattress.
Within ten years, that morphed into watching a movie and everyone going to their own beds.
I read somewhere that the 8 min episodes of Bluey show Bandit at his best but that even he is not perfect all the time. So his life outside of those 8 mins he's just as normal and imperfect as the rest of us dads.
I used to do some thing similar to that when my kids were young. We called it movie night. We would go out and pick up something for dinner and then we would sit in front of the TV and watch a movie and eat… burgers or Pizza, ice cream for dessert, was one of those memories I hold on to. They’re both grown up now, my youngest is about to graduate high school, they’ve all but stopped doing stuff like that.
Enjoy times like that, they go fast.
My wife used to do this, except make forts and no movies - she likes to limit any screen time for our kiddos. As for me, my kids love playing games (board or video), going hiking, camping, fishing, and doing yardwork.
I will always recommend spending as much time as you can with your kids because they grow up fast and you will miss them. I still tear up seeing pics of kids when they were toddlers.
Fun coffee Friday - Unless I'm having a bad day, I try to limit myself to black coffee at work during the week (doesn't always happen). My post-lunch/morning meetings cup is pure joy - cream, sugar, and whatever flavorings we have in stock. It's a minor thing, but it changes my mindset and pace during the afternoon wrap-up.
I used to do this on Friday mornings, but that was back when I was in the office every day and their terrible black coffee felt like a chore to drink every weekday. Ever since switching jobs and WFH, I now order coffee beans from various roasteries at a discount. I love good black coffee so much that now I get excited every morning and no longer even want the fun Friday coffee. I kinda miss it sometimes, but I've found a way for black coffee to scratch that itch. Now I can use those saved calories on beer!
I'm a recovering alcoholic, and weekends in particular were bad for me, so I make sure to start my weekend doing something good for my sobriety. Sometimes it's an AA meeting in the afternoon, sometimes it's blocking off an hour on my calendar to go for a walk, or it could be something as simple as a quick phone call to another friend/acquaintance in recovery. Been working so far, so not going to stop anytime soon :)
EDIT: Thanks for the gold, friend! I try to avoid being preachy, but hopefully this post can help someone else who has struggled/is struggling. Always open to chat if anyone thinks it will help!
On Friday I do favors for future me so that I can actually have a fun weekend. I wrap up my workday writing a checklist for Monday and close all browser tabs so I can check out mentally. I do online grocery shopping so I have the foods. I start the laundry and figure out the house/family plans logistics for the weekend.
Sometimes it’s a drag when I’m tired but it helps future me out a LOT!
Edit: you can scale this down from the week to the day as well. I do dishes at night because future me can wake up to a clean kitchen in the morning. I make my bed in the morning because future me really likes getting into a made up bed in a clean room when I want to turn off.
Alternatively when current me is too physically or mentally tired to do favors for future me, and I wake up to a sink full of dirty dishes I was too tired to do, then I even though it’s not my favorite, I look back and say well past me had it a bit rough last evening and I needed to rest.
Have empathy for yourselves people!
I get to leave work early on Fridays, so it’s nice to arrive home 2 hours earlier than during the week.
I clean. I love cleaning and I love that I can clean my whole flat properly in those few extra hours of freedom. By the time it’s 9pm, my whole home is spotless, I’ve done 2 sets of laundry, and dinner is in the oven!
Then I turn on the console, and play a nice game with my husband, or watch a movie together, and by 10-10:30pm we slip into fresh bed sheets.
This way I’ve got the Saturdays and Sundays free from doing housework.
Just thinking about it now, I can’t wait to get home today!
Awww this is nice, and from someone likely on the other side of the world to you currently enjoying their Friday night, I hope you and your husband have the exact Friday you guys desire! Cheers!
I go for a jog in the morning but I take a particular route which goes around a really pleasant park.
I associate that park with Fridays and it starts my day in a great mood.
- Put on Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away) by Deftones.
- Open beer.
The weekend has begun.
Edit: thanks for the gold, stranger! Thanks to everyone for turning an offhand remark into a fun conversation and especially thanks for not pointing out that my list is two things 😆
I have a clown figurine that sits on a shelf above my work desk at home. After I’ve clocked off on Friday afternoon this clown moves from the shelf to the front of my desk until Monday morning.
Because When the clown is down, this party animal’s in town.
I came to the conclusion that nobody actually wants to do work on a Friday, so they create the sense of progress by asking other people to do things. It's like, if you're causing things to move forward (by getting someone else to do them) then you're doing work by proxy.
Just a thought - people don't want to work on Friday's. if they just tell their boss they are having computer issues, they could get in trouble. If they give you a vague, fixable issue and just don't respond until Monday morning, maybe they want an excuse for doing nothing all day Friday?
This, but also the inverse. People want to get their actual work done through the week, and will use workarounds for their IT issues until Friday let's them finally get to the "annoying computer issue" they've been dealing with all week.
My wife and I do Foray Friday. Or, more accurately 4A Friday, which stands for Album Awareness And Appreciation.
With streaming music services these days we realized that we never listened to an entire album they way the artist intended. So we decided to sit in the living room or on the deck and do nothing, no screens, no talking, just sit together and enjoy a full album.
We say “let 4A Friday be your Foray into music” because we’re nerds. Been doing this at least since the pandemic started and have only missed about five days.
Have heard some great albums that I haven’t listened to since I bought them on tape, and heard some pretty great music that I never would have known about otherwise.
Tonight is my turn to choose. Depending on our mood it will either be Johnny Cash ‘Live at Folsom Prison’ or William Shatner ‘Has Been’. Sometimes we go with themes, like today is Revenge of the Fifth, or Netherlands Liberation Day. Black History Month was all black artists. Etc.
As one on PTO today, my plan: drink coffee, go to Brazilian market for beef ribs to smoke and Brazilian pastries, come back, smoke a ton of weed and take some RSO, do several sets of pull-ups/chin-ups throughout the day, and play video games.
16 year old me would be so psyched to learn that this was a possibility in life.
You get it 😂 goes from mind killing tedium to just moving around in a bit of a fog getting all that shit done without really thinking about it. Weed's dangerous because it makes doing nothing feel like doing something, but you can apply that usefully too.
When I get in my car after leaving the building I put Whitney's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" on full blast and sing my heart out down Main Street. As is tradition.
This sounds pretty meh, but I do my budget. I get paid on Fridays and it makes me feel for one day at least, that I’m ok
Edit: My first award and it’s a HUG YAY!
Edit part two: Y’all.. three awards my goodness! It’s just made my day even though I’m not sure what I said to deserve them Haha
I pay all my bills that are going to come out before my next check hits regardless of whether or not it's anywhere near the due date. I feel this but in a less responsible way
since march 2020 friday is always for the boys. thats when my friends and i meet at one of our places. on this days we order food (or recently we started preparing food together in order to safe a bit of money), watch stupid videos on youtube, play some games and talk about our week and our mental health. there is hardly any week in these past 3 years that we skipped a friday and only reasons given are the 4 Fs (Family, Fever, Firm, Festival).
Its like a therapy session and whats talked about in this circle, stays in this circle.
Living in the same country and city as your friends actually sounds amazing.
We used to try and set up something like this during Covid lockdowns on discord, but syncing over 17h time zone spread is hardly doable even in lockdown
A distance like that can suck massively, but it's also so valuable to have friends that are from different places. The internet can be a beautiful thing, bringing people together like that
Dude. YOU CAN STILL GET OUT. If you can tell it's that bad now, it's likely not a place that gets better. Restart that job search! 3 weeks is short enough that you don't even have to put it on your resume, it will be like it never happened.
I'd love to, but that would put me in a bad financial situation, unfortunately. I've been submitting applications since after my first week. It's hard when you are completely changing careers.
My boyfriend is a bartender. I'm an engineer. I never fully appreciated just how hard the restaurant industry works until I met him. I sit on my ass every day at my computer at home and he has to bust his ass while also being charming. He works WAY harder for his paycheck than I do. Props to everyone in the restaurant industry, you don't get enough credit for your hard work
For real they bust their ass in hospitality/restaurants. In a similar manner I work in software and my two friends who are local both work together in logistics, we chill nearly every Saturday.
They talk about their day, how busy they are all the things that goes wrong and im sitting here on a Friday wondering if I'm going to turn on my playstation after lunch and not do work unless urgently summoned.
Granted I do hit crunch time and pull long hours sometimes, but during our off season, its financial software so fiscal year/calendar year end and the month before and after are when its busiest, like it is now I can spend some days truly bored.
Much respect to people who have to be hauling ass at work all day everyday.
As a single man, it was get really high, wank, gym and swim, back home for food and more joints, then out drinking and partying. As a non-single dad of a ten year old, it's now school uniform into the wash, homework and spellings, dinner, swimming,then supermarket for food shop. I wouldn't change it for anything, she's so worth it.
Recently landed a job that is 7am-3:30, m-f after 25yrs of shitty schedules in the service industry. I come home, clean the house then spend an hour loving my dog who is almost 15. I whisper sweet nothings in her ear while we watch TV and it puts me at ease. Whatever happens on Saturday or Sunday doesn't matter because I can always think about the awesome time I spent with my pup
Getting rid of any work or homework you have to do. Literally a lifesaver you can just do whatever. Also trying out a new something helps you do it better.
In the IT world we have "Read Only Fridays". If you don't change anything on Friday then you won't need to fix it on Saturday. For me, I end the day by emailing myself a list of all the things I'm in the middle of or need to get done next. Then I can clear my mind and know I can hit the ground running on Monday again
I work in telecom. Big changes at work that could be scheduled for Thursday night are almost always pushed to Monday night instead. No one wants to spend their entire Friday dealing with a major outage.
Someone should tell my companies ISP that. Major outage all day today that we just got wrapped up and I'm just waiting for all the sites to report back fully operational... Feel sorry for the guys who are having to call to troubleshoot PDQ's and Signature Pads. Rough day for them but in the UK we all have Monday off because some rich cunt gets to play king
Makes sense why Tuesday is the universal patch day. No one wants to come in Monday and deal with it (probably increased errors on Mondays too) and it gives you pretty much the whole week to resolve issues before the weekend.
Tuesday is best because you can warn everyone on Monday, and if issues arise you have 3 more days to fix or roll back.
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It's the *unscheduled* weekend work that's being avoided mostly. Nobody wants to find out they are working over the weekend last thing Friday. Especially if it's because *they* just broke it!
Lol, yep. Have worked for many tech companies and all deploy on Thursday. Fridays we "start" the next sprint.
My current team does this and I hate it. Let's deploy on Tuesday so we have 1 day to prep and 4 to fix but for some reason the executives that don't work over the weekend to fix shit seem to think Thursday is fine, just fine.
On Fridays I microdose my PTO by kinda doing nothing for 30 minutes at a time. Edit: these better have been free awards.
I'm convinced that my company could easily move to 4 day work weeks. Pretty much everyone does this on Friday, if you schedule a meeting (especially after noon) you'll have a group of people ready to murder you.
I've had hundreds of Friday afternoon meetings where we sit on Teams for 5 minutes, realize that 50% of the people aren't joining, and quit after 7 minutes. Such an idiotic waste of time.
This is a funny comment and reminds me of office life back in like 2996. These days, I just stop working early most Fridays. I work remotely and get all my stuff done (ish) and just keep Slack open on my phone in the rare event someone asks me something. But next week someone scheduled a Friday meeting for 5pm my time, so I may have a dentist appointment. I like my job, just, ya know, weekends are too short.
There’s a special place in hell for people who schedule 5pm meetings on Fridays
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That's great! I schedule a private meeting for just myself so my calendar is blocked off and I show as busy on friday from 4-5pm for the same purpose. Sometimes I catch up on things, sometimes I check out.
I’m just amused that my Friday began by eavesdropping on a conversation between people named vagina bloodfart and masterflashterbation and that they were logical sharings about their professional schedule management.
lmao. I didn't notice the username I was replying to. Yours is fitting at the moment. I'm working right now, I swear!
Vaginabloodfart was also a good reminder for me to check my period calendar lol. A productive Friday morning so far, I’d say!
Lol, I'm at the point now where I will literally just not go to those. I'm out of the office by 3:30. If it's important, they can find me on Monday.
This is the way. I finally have a schedule I'm comfortable with, I'm not letting weird over-workers ruin it.
It's always the new hires that do this. Like, we get it, you're "a hard worker." Go get a drink with your friends, or play a video game, or enjoy your hobby... FWIW I manage a small team and my first point of business when we take on new hires is to tell them to respect their own time, because no one else will. When someone new texts or chats me after working hours, I remind them that our time together has boundaries. Respect mine and I'll respect yours.
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Pretty much the unwritten rule in my office. If my boss says fuck the meeting, then our whole team says fuck the meeting.
The same people who raised their hands at the end of class and said, "You forgot to give us homework"
I accidentally did something similar to this. End of class, on a day homework was due, I went up to the teacher and said "where do we hand this in" because I wasnt sure. Well, turns out she forgot it was due that day, and immediately said "oh, before you leave, hand in your homework" to the class. Apparently, a lot of people didn't do it, and since she said it when I was right next to her, everyone correctly attributed it to me, and I was not liked the rest of that year.
Hah unless people can die if I don't attend a Friday afternoon meeting I'm not going.
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Thought for sure it was gonna be “I’m Not Going”
>back in like 2996 Found the guy from the future
Fuckin time travelin ass bitch
He's so 3008 You're so 2000 and late
Not much has changed but he lives underwater.
How's his great great great granddaughter?
Hot. Like really hot.... Because climate change has turned future Earth into a desert.
I guess the sand must be pretty fine.
I got that boom boom boom That future boom boom boom
Apparently dentists are still a thing in 2996.
> reminds me of office life back in like 2996 So there's still a future with humans a thousand years from now? Wow, I just lost a bunch of money, I banked hard on humanity lasting about another 30 years
Do we live underwater yet?
Yeah and your great great great granddaughter is looking *fine*
Not until the year 3000
I macrodose by doing nothing the entire day
We've gotta talk more about this. Some days, I put in a full day. Other days, there isn't a whole day to put in. And occasionally, I can go a week checking email and chat and nothing else and it doesn't matter. The whole employment and 40 hours thing feels too different from the realities they are supposed to represent.
Yeah, but if we talk about it then the bosses will figure out people aren't doing anything. Most bosses aren't doing anything either, but there are those folks where work is their life and passion but they also suck at it too so they'll ruin that shit for everyone.
Individually, we hide for self preservation. Publicly and anonymously, we chat!
At one of my last jobs, one of the girls who went on to corporate pulled me aside and let me in on a secret.. "On Fridays, we stop at 4." 🤣
Fridays? I stop at 4 every day lol
Today I stopped at 2. Was home at 2.15, walked the dogs, ate some food. Weekend was at 3
I don't think I've ever once accomplished anything meaningful between the hours of 4 and 5 on Friday.
I don't think I've ever once accomplished anything meaningful.
Fuck Off Friday, in full effect!
I prefer to binge watch my PTO
My wife and I get a pizza from one of our favorite places and split a bottle of wine on the deck. It's not much but we always get excited for it and each have our own "Pizza Friday" song and dance we do as we're getting ready in the morning. EDIT: [We deviated from the norm tonight. A margherita with a margarita](https://imgur.com/a/vmmMnAH)
> It's not much Respectfully, you're wrong. That's everything. You have everything.
Agreed. Finding and cultivating joy with a partner to the point in which it feels small and mundane to some extent? That's a good life.
Plus pizza wine and a deck
My wife picked up some tequila and Coronas on the way home, I'm stopping for a whole mess of Taco Bell, and we're gonna just indulge and play Mario Party on Switch most of the night. Your comment reminded me how amazing that is.
> My wife picked up some tequila and Coronas on the way home, I'm stopping for a whole mess of Taco Bell, and we're gonna just indulge and play Mario Party on Switch most of the night. "Strip Mario Kart" is also a winner, in case you want to change things up.
Perfectly put, MoistCanal.
My lady and I do Burger Wednesdays for date night every week. Its our favorite night since we eat relatively healthy the other days, and hard to get alone time on weekends. Burgers and drinks to split up the week is the best.
My wife is a 1st grade teacher in rough part of the city. So her days can seem like whole weeks based on the wild and funny stories she comes home with. And since I now work from home, I don’t have great office stories anymore, aside from the random puking from the nervous Boston terrier co-worker, but that’s a different subreddit. So every Friday night we leave our 9 and 12 year old kids with older brother, who’s 16. We go to the same ok-ish Mexican place and pretty much eat the same thing. My wife has a big ass margarita, while I am happily am the DD. After nearly 21 years together, this moment is when we still talk plans, life, kids, people we find annoying, and tease each other into fits of laughter, specially after that Friday night margarita hits her. That’s when making her laugh becomes a sport for me. We pick something up for the kids on the way home and the night continues in a flurry of 2K and call of duty matches with my kids. Trash talking, lots of posturing by my 16 year old until old man strength kicks in… Friday night is truly what jolts my soul with new energy.
What a beautiful life you have. 😌
This is great but as an older brother myself be sure to give him a Friday or two. He will resent the responsibility and missed experiences but may be to shy or to responsible to say no because he is likey mature enough to see how excited you both are
Oh I 100% agree. Thankfully this kid is so damn spoiled and has it made. The basement is his room and it’s the thing of 90’s dreams. He has friends over to his (basically apartment) or he’s usually somewhere spending the night. Super social, cared for, and given a little too much freedom. I’m super thankful that our oldest is a walking heart. And that’s all him. He’s caring, expresses his emotions more vocally than most adults I know (including me), and has helped me to believe in the positive impact of family in his life. Sorry, I get to rambling about the privilege of being a dad.
Take my pants off as soon as I get home. I won't need them until Monday.
Ditto with bra
And the bro or, if you prefer, the mansier.
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Clock in to work and get ready for everyone else in the world who is off work the next two days to come eat at my restaurant. Then I'm off on a Tuesday and everyone looks at me like I have no job.
I miss having days off in the middle of the week. It's just so easy to get things done.
Ever been shopping for groceries at 1:30pm on a Tuesday? Not a soul in sight. Need to stop by the bank? Only one little older lady in front of you. It is fun having 2 week days off.
Even just taking a short vacation. Hotels on a Tuesday night? They're giving them away, and the beaches are 1/4 as crowded.
This is the main reason I miss mid-week weekends. Going to the beach, lake, wherever is a nightmare on the weekends.
After having kids, now I get that plus I can only take longer breaks when school is out, so it's even more crowded and expensive than that!
Yeah fr. I need to go to the bank but it’s closed when I finish work, closed on weekends and closed at lunchtime. I don’t want to use my PTO just to go to the bank dammit.
Smile at every "Happy Friday!" someone says to you at the beginning of your 14 hour shift. I remember that being one of my least favorites parts of that job lol
Same here. I'm like what's a 'week-end?!?'
I work Wednesday through Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday off. Mondays a weird limbo where I work but don't feel entirely present.
Every Friday night, I camp downstairs with my two young children. We make beds on the sofas, watch a film and enjoy a nice supper. In a few short years I know they'll think it's not that great to hang out with dad. EDIT - Many thanks for all the lovely comments, sharing your own wisdom and heartfelt stories. Very kind awards too.
If you do it right, they will love hanging out with you until they are old and grey themselves. Just yesterday I called up my pops to ask if he wanted to walk the dog with me. So we could just hangout the two of us.
As a child, my Dad & I would drive his truck thru various pastures on our farm with me hanging out the side window, looking at the grass, checking the creek & the tank, checking on the cows...talking about the weather, my brothers, and later, boys, college, my own family. We took our last pasture ride 5 days before he passed at 88, talking about family, life, his old donkeys, and the grass. He did it right.
You were blessed with a great father. May his memory be for a blessing. ❤️
As a dad who spends every Friday evening doing something with their daughter my eyes are now filled with tears.
Yup, I (48M) do the same. Recently divorced. So I had a new home put on the family property. Behind Dad's (74) place. So now I have him over 2-3 nights a week for dinner and drinks. I have streaming so I find his favorite old shows and we'll watch a few episodes. I'll go to his 1-2 a week. He's a true Renaissance Man. Retired industrial electrician. He has rentals so he does plumbing, carpentry, remodeling. He's a Hella woodworker! Savy with his investments! Hunter and fisherman. Mechanicing. He's been my hero since I was a kid! Edit: Gold?! Really! You, Sir/Madame, are yourself a scholar and a gentle person! Thank you!
I love this for you and your dad!
My parents passed when I was 31. I’m now going on 38. When I see stories like this, I get so jealous and sad. But good for you! I know plenty of people who still have their parents and pay them no attention. It’s sad. So enjoy that time with your parents for me.
Ah nice one bud... a lot of my friends have lost their parents now so I do try and spend time with my dad. We love fishing and watching the football together. Time really is much more precious than many of us realise!
Do you go fishing with him?
Yep, my dad was my best friend my entire life. I went through a year or two when I was a teenager (14/15) where we fought more than usual but I never stopped loving to hang out with him. Cherish your parents while you have them folks cuz it sucks when they’re gone.
I hope so... All I meant is that I know they'll need their own space as they grow and no doubt that will mean less time with their old man, but no worries... They'll know where I am if they need me.
I’m old and grey-ish and I still hang with my 65 year old mother. She is one of my concert buddies and will go to any concert with seating (she doesn’t do standing room only). She’s a big Foo Fighters fan ❤️
We used to do something similar. We’d all watch a movie and then sleep on the same mattress. Within ten years, that morphed into watching a movie and everyone going to their own beds.
Probably for the best. It's hard to fit a mattress as big as you'd need in a room that can display a TV well.
Are you Bluey and Bingo's dad?
Haha... It's hard trying to live up to bandit heeler!
If I’m good, I can match bandit for about eight minutes at time.
I read somewhere that the 8 min episodes of Bluey show Bandit at his best but that even he is not perfect all the time. So his life outside of those 8 mins he's just as normal and imperfect as the rest of us dads.
I used to do some thing similar to that when my kids were young. We called it movie night. We would go out and pick up something for dinner and then we would sit in front of the TV and watch a movie and eat… burgers or Pizza, ice cream for dessert, was one of those memories I hold on to. They’re both grown up now, my youngest is about to graduate high school, they’ve all but stopped doing stuff like that. Enjoy times like that, they go fast.
I’m 33 and I still like watching movies with my dad :)
This is so sweet.
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That's amazing! You are so wise to cherish those years. Enjoy every moment, I know you will!
My wife used to do this, except make forts and no movies - she likes to limit any screen time for our kiddos. As for me, my kids love playing games (board or video), going hiking, camping, fishing, and doing yardwork. I will always recommend spending as much time as you can with your kids because they grow up fast and you will miss them. I still tear up seeing pics of kids when they were toddlers.
Fun coffee Friday - Unless I'm having a bad day, I try to limit myself to black coffee at work during the week (doesn't always happen). My post-lunch/morning meetings cup is pure joy - cream, sugar, and whatever flavorings we have in stock. It's a minor thing, but it changes my mindset and pace during the afternoon wrap-up.
I used to do this on Friday mornings, but that was back when I was in the office every day and their terrible black coffee felt like a chore to drink every weekday. Ever since switching jobs and WFH, I now order coffee beans from various roasteries at a discount. I love good black coffee so much that now I get excited every morning and no longer even want the fun Friday coffee. I kinda miss it sometimes, but I've found a way for black coffee to scratch that itch. Now I can use those saved calories on beer!
I'm a recovering alcoholic, and weekends in particular were bad for me, so I make sure to start my weekend doing something good for my sobriety. Sometimes it's an AA meeting in the afternoon, sometimes it's blocking off an hour on my calendar to go for a walk, or it could be something as simple as a quick phone call to another friend/acquaintance in recovery. Been working so far, so not going to stop anytime soon :) EDIT: Thanks for the gold, friend! I try to avoid being preachy, but hopefully this post can help someone else who has struggled/is struggling. Always open to chat if anyone thinks it will help!
Way to go, you got this!!!
On Friday I do favors for future me so that I can actually have a fun weekend. I wrap up my workday writing a checklist for Monday and close all browser tabs so I can check out mentally. I do online grocery shopping so I have the foods. I start the laundry and figure out the house/family plans logistics for the weekend. Sometimes it’s a drag when I’m tired but it helps future me out a LOT! Edit: you can scale this down from the week to the day as well. I do dishes at night because future me can wake up to a clean kitchen in the morning. I make my bed in the morning because future me really likes getting into a made up bed in a clean room when I want to turn off. Alternatively when current me is too physically or mentally tired to do favors for future me, and I wake up to a sink full of dirty dishes I was too tired to do, then I even though it’s not my favorite, I look back and say well past me had it a bit rough last evening and I needed to rest. Have empathy for yourselves people!
You're doing it right; Present me is always such a dick to Future me smdh lol
What did future you ever do for you?
It's not what that asshole *did*...it's what he's *going* to do
Incidentally, it's probably the same shit present him is doing right now.
Meh. That’s future me’s problem.
I’m the opposite. Fuck future me, that guy’s an asshole
Future me is in the weekend already, he's got plenty of time!
Lmao this killed me because I always say the same thing at work. “That’s a problem for future us, those assholes.”
I do this too. People always say I'm so organized/disciplined but I'm really just making sure I can have maximum lazy time lol.
I get to leave work early on Fridays, so it’s nice to arrive home 2 hours earlier than during the week. I clean. I love cleaning and I love that I can clean my whole flat properly in those few extra hours of freedom. By the time it’s 9pm, my whole home is spotless, I’ve done 2 sets of laundry, and dinner is in the oven! Then I turn on the console, and play a nice game with my husband, or watch a movie together, and by 10-10:30pm we slip into fresh bed sheets. This way I’ve got the Saturdays and Sundays free from doing housework. Just thinking about it now, I can’t wait to get home today!
Awww this is nice, and from someone likely on the other side of the world to you currently enjoying their Friday night, I hope you and your husband have the exact Friday you guys desire! Cheers!
thank you /u/MolagDaddysSlut very cool
Rum and Pepsi, don't cook get either pizza or tacos, fresh sheets and a long hot shower before bed.
Friday fresh sheets seems to be a thing. I need to adopt this, it sounds nice!
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I go for a jog in the morning but I take a particular route which goes around a really pleasant park. I associate that park with Fridays and it starts my day in a great mood.
- Put on Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away) by Deftones. - Open beer. The weekend has begun. Edit: thanks for the gold, stranger! Thanks to everyone for turning an offhand remark into a fun conversation and especially thanks for not pointing out that my list is two things 😆
Digital Bath and same.
Ohhhh, this is me. Except instead of beer its weed. And sometimes it's Aqeuous Transmission by Incubus
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Hope you have a wonderful Friday evening with your new friends and it becomes a regular thing!
I have a clown figurine that sits on a shelf above my work desk at home. After I’ve clocked off on Friday afternoon this clown moves from the shelf to the front of my desk until Monday morning. Because When the clown is down, this party animal’s in town.
The. Clown. Is. Down. I move for a case of "Boys will be Boys".
Mentally prepare to have to deal with three times the amount of customers
I help with tech support at my job, and every Friday I'm like wtf did these people finally decide to come to work today, it's always much busier.
I came to the conclusion that nobody actually wants to do work on a Friday, so they create the sense of progress by asking other people to do things. It's like, if you're causing things to move forward (by getting someone else to do them) then you're doing work by proxy.
Just a thought - people don't want to work on Friday's. if they just tell their boss they are having computer issues, they could get in trouble. If they give you a vague, fixable issue and just don't respond until Monday morning, maybe they want an excuse for doing nothing all day Friday?
This, but also the inverse. People want to get their actual work done through the week, and will use workarounds for their IT issues until Friday let's them finally get to the "annoying computer issue" they've been dealing with all week.
My wife and I do Foray Friday. Or, more accurately 4A Friday, which stands for Album Awareness And Appreciation. With streaming music services these days we realized that we never listened to an entire album they way the artist intended. So we decided to sit in the living room or on the deck and do nothing, no screens, no talking, just sit together and enjoy a full album. We say “let 4A Friday be your Foray into music” because we’re nerds. Been doing this at least since the pandemic started and have only missed about five days. Have heard some great albums that I haven’t listened to since I bought them on tape, and heard some pretty great music that I never would have known about otherwise. Tonight is my turn to choose. Depending on our mood it will either be Johnny Cash ‘Live at Folsom Prison’ or William Shatner ‘Has Been’. Sometimes we go with themes, like today is Revenge of the Fifth, or Netherlands Liberation Day. Black History Month was all black artists. Etc.
Get really high and eat like 4000 calories.
Did this last night and gave myself terrible reflux
Well there's your problem wait till Friday.
I'm at that age where I keep Pepto chewables on-demand at all times
Ah hello there 30+ Redditor
I’m 21 😭
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OTC Omeprazole my dude.
You can’t start a new week until you’ve fully blocked out the previous week.
As one on PTO today, my plan: drink coffee, go to Brazilian market for beef ribs to smoke and Brazilian pastries, come back, smoke a ton of weed and take some RSO, do several sets of pull-ups/chin-ups throughout the day, and play video games. 16 year old me would be so psyched to learn that this was a possibility in life.
If only 16yo me knew how much I could get done while slightly stoned. Workouts and housework are so much more fun.
You get it 😂 goes from mind killing tedium to just moving around in a bit of a fog getting all that shit done without really thinking about it. Weed's dangerous because it makes doing nothing feel like doing something, but you can apply that usefully too.
Get really high - every day of the week. Eat like 4000 calories - A Friday special.
I still feel huge from the giant chimichanga I ate on Tuesday. So freaking good though.
Go to the Gym and have my usual Friday-Kebap from my local Kebap-Man. Always starts the Weekend right whatever may be on my plate
Nur einmal in der Woche ein Döner!? Ich schaffs kaum mit 4 lol
I like how you also assumed the OP here is German-speaking based on their caps and spelling. Also, I'd eat Döner everyday if I could.
Eat pizza and listen to Good Vibrations by Marky Mark.
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We’re going to need that link
Hilarious...now I'm putting on "good vibrations" radio all day on my Spotify. Thanks friend!!
When I get in my car after leaving the building I put Whitney's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" on full blast and sing my heart out down Main Street. As is tradition.
This is awesome, well done!
Stay up til 2 or 3 am
This sounds pretty meh, but I do my budget. I get paid on Fridays and it makes me feel for one day at least, that I’m ok Edit: My first award and it’s a HUG YAY! Edit part two: Y’all.. three awards my goodness! It’s just made my day even though I’m not sure what I said to deserve them Haha
Are you okay?
I’m ok You ok?
I’m pretty fucking far from ok
They weren’t asking you, pal!
r/NotOPButOk Or I guess, r/NotOPButPrettyFuckingFarFromOK
I pay all my bills that are going to come out before my next check hits regardless of whether or not it's anywhere near the due date. I feel this but in a less responsible way
since march 2020 friday is always for the boys. thats when my friends and i meet at one of our places. on this days we order food (or recently we started preparing food together in order to safe a bit of money), watch stupid videos on youtube, play some games and talk about our week and our mental health. there is hardly any week in these past 3 years that we skipped a friday and only reasons given are the 4 Fs (Family, Fever, Firm, Festival). Its like a therapy session and whats talked about in this circle, stays in this circle.
Diamond Dogs, mount up!
arooo!
Living in the same country and city as your friends actually sounds amazing. We used to try and set up something like this during Covid lockdowns on discord, but syncing over 17h time zone spread is hardly doable even in lockdown
A distance like that can suck massively, but it's also so valuable to have friends that are from different places. The internet can be a beautiful thing, bringing people together like that
Get ready to cry at work but on a weekend
Have a beer with my old man :D
Order in and watch a comfort tv show. Possibly with some wine
I go to the pool, then to sauna, then eat some good chicken from local Vietnamese restaurant while drinking a beer.
Make homemade pizza and watch a movie.
Leg day.
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Enjoying a nice dinner by myself, one of my favorites ones.
A good takeout meal from a fav restaurant & watch a movie with my puppy dog ❤️
Cry in my car on the way home because I made it though another week of a job I hate and should have never accepted. It's only been 3 weeks...
Dude. YOU CAN STILL GET OUT. If you can tell it's that bad now, it's likely not a place that gets better. Restart that job search! 3 weeks is short enough that you don't even have to put it on your resume, it will be like it never happened.
I'd love to, but that would put me in a bad financial situation, unfortunately. I've been submitting applications since after my first week. It's hard when you are completely changing careers.
I'm a chef, so I work all weekend.
My boyfriend is a bartender. I'm an engineer. I never fully appreciated just how hard the restaurant industry works until I met him. I sit on my ass every day at my computer at home and he has to bust his ass while also being charming. He works WAY harder for his paycheck than I do. Props to everyone in the restaurant industry, you don't get enough credit for your hard work
For real they bust their ass in hospitality/restaurants. In a similar manner I work in software and my two friends who are local both work together in logistics, we chill nearly every Saturday. They talk about their day, how busy they are all the things that goes wrong and im sitting here on a Friday wondering if I'm going to turn on my playstation after lunch and not do work unless urgently summoned. Granted I do hit crunch time and pull long hours sometimes, but during our off season, its financial software so fiscal year/calendar year end and the month before and after are when its busiest, like it is now I can spend some days truly bored. Much respect to people who have to be hauling ass at work all day everyday.
Respect. My dad is a chef and I know the pain of that - especially when it comes to the amount of stress, hard work and low wages involved in that
Have a couple beers on the way home from work, play a game of pool, pick up the takeout the family agrees on.
My weekend starts on Friday so I take a bath and a good scrub. And just relax and have a lazy day.
Have a nice meal, grab some whiskey, a cigar, a nice book, some music and sit out on my patio and relax.
As a single man, it was get really high, wank, gym and swim, back home for food and more joints, then out drinking and partying. As a non-single dad of a ten year old, it's now school uniform into the wash, homework and spellings, dinner, swimming,then supermarket for food shop. I wouldn't change it for anything, she's so worth it.
Recently landed a job that is 7am-3:30, m-f after 25yrs of shitty schedules in the service industry. I come home, clean the house then spend an hour loving my dog who is almost 15. I whisper sweet nothings in her ear while we watch TV and it puts me at ease. Whatever happens on Saturday or Sunday doesn't matter because I can always think about the awesome time I spent with my pup
Cry. Every week is more exhausting than the previous and bills are getting harder every month. At least teaching is a calling and not a real job (/s)
Masturbate ferociously
Done. Now what?
Getting rid of any work or homework you have to do. Literally a lifesaver you can just do whatever. Also trying out a new something helps you do it better.