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It's Another Monday

How We Survive The Monday Blues

By Jason Ray Morton Published 3 years ago 4 min read
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Mondays-We All Hate Them

Like Garfield, we all hate Mondays. It's the official end of that glorious two days of freedom and our escape from the grind of the world. The morning commute, waking up two hours earlier than the last two days, the inevitable rush of work, and meetings. God, the meetings. They start before we've had a chance to really get our brains going. They drag on at times, sometimes until lunch. Then bosses wonder why we didn't get anything else done on Monday.

Mondays can make a grown man cry

If this has ever been you then don't feel alone. Many a person has found themselves in tears on Monday. The Sunday football party that drug on for hours longer than planned will leave you downright tired come Monday morning. When you're heading to work on Monday, you are motoring down the road intentionally heading toward the worst of the four-letter words. Not everybody loves their job. Not everybody knows the reality that "if you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life."

Staff Meetings Should Never Be On Monday!

For the many that are struggling to get their days started on Monday, the dreaded Monday staff meeting is the worst. Why I ask, do the bosses like to do this to us? We all have our crosses to bear, I guess. However, eight o'clock on a Monday is no time to expect people to be thinking, much less thinking at an optimal level. So if you're brain doesn't get into second gear until after lunch you are in a club of tens of millions.

I've sat through staff meetings that are like the seventh circle of hell. The leaders from each department meeting with the facility manager in order to communicate. They are the worst meetings. There are too many different things going on in most organizations to hold everybody's interest for an hour or two. So, you wait your turn, anxiously worrying about your own responsibilities at work, and have to listen to the famed suck-up of the group doddle on about football, two-year-old news, his opinions on politics, and how he agrees with everything the big boss says no matter how absurd some of it is.

By the end of the meeting, you might even feel like your days been completely wasted, your attention moved on halfway through the gathering as a work meeting turns into a debate about the Governor's failed policies or the local high school football team. I remember the old peanuts comic strips and the sound of the teacher.

"Wah, wah, wah, wah, and wah."

Bosses

The morning staff meeting, called by the bosses, should be something the bosses show up bright and early for. As we wait with anxious trepidation to hear the newest and latest complaints or gripes by the bosses, we all wonder to ourselves, "Why me?" The answer is simple, you're not the boss.

Many staff meetings I've gone to in my professional career included a lot of waiting and listening to the rest of the gang bicker among themselves. It was not uncharacteristic for the boss to be the last one there. It was even more characteristic for the boss to come in and have tons to say, keeping you from work, or in the case of third shift people, from sleep, for hours longer than planned. The one thing that I took from staff meetings was that coming ready was a smart move. Otherwise, you were sure to get dinged with some complaint about something over the weekend that you didn't know. So, the question became, how to distract the boss enough you could catch up on the week or weekend events.

Who doesn't feel better with a donut on Monday?

Donuts, the perfect distraction from the Monday staff meeting blues, can slow down the chatter enough for you to flip through reports, complaints, and messages from your subordinates. I've never been to a staff meeting with donuts that leadership members didn't ask, "Who brought donuts?" It's an automatic mood enhancer and will buy you a little peace and quiet while you play a quick catch-up.

This Too Shall Pass

Whatever you do, keep calm. This too shall pass. Mondays come and Mondays go. The start of the week is that day we all cringe over because work schedules aren't normal, our hours suck, we don't get enough time with our families and the job no longer brings us joy.

While you sit at your desk, typing your way into carpel tunnel, remember you need that wrist to work as well in your free time as you do at work. Stop, every so often, and take a break. Go hit the breakroom with one of your co-workers. Have coffee with a subordinate, and applaud them for their hard work, or step out into the business and check on your area. It'll break up the monotony of the day and keep you moving. If worse comes to worst, a good coffee maker for the office will keep that fresh morning aroma wafting through your workspace and provide you with the caffeine to boost you through your day.

Before you know it, it'll be Friday, and the countdown will begin again. Is it Friday yet?

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About the Creator

Jason Ray Morton

I have always enjoyed writing and exploring new ideas, new beliefs, and the dreams that rattle around inside my head. I have enjoyed the current state of science, human progress, fantasy and existence and write about them when I can.

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