Excuses to Take Monday Off

Monday is the cheapest day to lose and everybody knows it, which is exactly why it needs a slightly better sentence than the other four. Nothing lands on a Monday. The Monday calendar is a status meeting, a meeting about the status meeting, and a planning session in which people describe the week they intend to have. Removing yourself from all three costs the business one written update. The honest framing works best here. 'We're driving back Sunday night and I know precisely what I'd be like on Monday morning' is more persuasive than any invented appointment, because it is a claim about the quality of your work rather than your availability. So is 'I've got eleven days of leave left and a policy that won't let me carry them', which quietly makes your leave balance somebody else's planning problem, where it belongs. Book it early, move the weekly to Tuesday yourself rather than making someone else do it, and pick up the on-call handover first thing when you're back. Below are ten excuses to take Monday off, plus twenty more in the generator for the long-weekend season.