I’m not saying I hate you, what I’m saying is that you are literally the Monday of my life.” I call that “transference”. I am transferring my dislike for you to Monday’s, lest you be offended. So let’s talk about Mondays. After a relaxing or even fun-filled weekend, the dreaded Monday comes around, with it’s mundane routine or sometimes unpleasant surprises, so folks would rather skip it altogether and call out sick. So which day of the week is most often used as a sick day? There seems to be some disagreement on this. One study, a few years back, claimed it was Wednesdays. No reason given, so we have to speculate that working more than two days in a row is just too stressful for some people or they hate their job so much, they want to break up the week as much as possible. The other more recent study made more sense to me. Mondays were the most often missed work day of the week (Monday holidays were not counted as missed days). The reasons vary from too much partying over the weekend to just not wanting the weekend to end. Calling out sick on Mondays can be more risky than Wednesdays. Bosses tend to be suspicious and think that Monday call outs for illness are more likely to be fake than Wednesday call outs. Surprisingly, Fridays are not a big “play hooky” day. For me, it just makes more sense to call out sick on Friday. Then you have three full days to recover from your fake illness and return to work perfectly healthy on Monday. Why raise suspicion?
