Weekend Discrimination!

I would like to file a Weekend Discrimination suit please!!

For all of my many, many, years of working (I started way too young and therefore have been working way too long) I have never been on a normal work week. By normal I mean the days that “they” (whoever they are) have set as the standard. Seriously, why do “they” get to decide anyway? My days off have been in the beginning of the week , the middle of the week, close to the end of the week but never on the “weekend”.

Everything is based on the “weekend”. The weather people (for the few times they are accurate) gear the report for the weekend. “The weather is looking good for Wednesday, but wait to you see what is coming up for the weekend”. “The weekend is going to be great so get outside and enjoy yourself.” “A nor-easter is headed our way for the beginning of the week into the middle of the week, but it all looks clear for the weekend.” EXCUSE ME, THAT IS MY WEEKEND AND IT DOES NOT LOOK CLEAR!!

The Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, yes they do it too. The papers on Thursday come with a “plan your weekend”, “fun things to do on the weekend” section, excuse me I already had my weekend, you missed it, and I had nothing to do...thanks!! Do not get me started on the Sunday paper. I don’t have time to read all that paper on Sunday I have to wait until Tuesday.

New movies come out on a Friday, just in time for the “weekend”. It does not imply good things to go to the movies on a Tuesday, in the middle of the afternoon, by yourself. The retail sales start on the weekend so by the time I get to the store the sale items are sold out, thanks again. Date nights are Friday and Saturday (No, I am not dating but that is not the point) it is just not cool to go out for drinks on a Tuesday. People think you have a problem.

I call foul, I call unfair, I call just not right!

It is time to change the way we think about the weekend. I speak for the millions of people that have crap days off and will never see a piece of the promised land. It is time for a change. Enough is enough!!

Signed,

Hump Day Hopefuls!!