26 Oct 2016

When your week is filled with obligations, the only time you’re really left with to work is the weekend. Here’s a few reason why weekend work bites the big one and sucks to no end.

1. Life resumes without you

Sure, it’s no secret that the universe is an unforgiving place and your existence means next to nothing in the grand scheme of things, but it just hurts more on the weekends. Your friends and family proceed with fun and exciting plans while you’re stuck at a café serving “muggaccinos” (barf.) to mean yoga mums who have boycotted gluten for health reasons but give Botox the OK.

2. A massive chunk of your time is taken up

Aside from the actual shift, work has the audacity to invade more of your time. You get home tired, unable to do anything else. And when you do have the energy, you have to think about if your plans align with getting up the next morning to do it all again.

3. No one else seems to understand or care

Say you do muster up the courage and energy to go out and soak up that nightlife. You look at the time and it’s getting late. You tell your friends that you’re thinking about calling it for the night. Sometimes they’ll get it, other times you’ll get called a lil bitch, and they’ll do everything in their power to keep you out. These types of friends are impervious to reason and exist only to be turnt, a dangerous combo for the weekend worker who desperately needs sleep.

4. A sacred time is tainted

Remember the days where you used to look forward to the weekends, and Friday arvos were essentially just a hype up session leading up to the joys of morning cartoons, cereal, and romps in the park? Yeah, no. The sacred holy days of Saturday Disney are no longer. The Sabbath has been spoiled. It’s like watching your favourite restaurant burn down, week after week, as you tie that coffee stained apron on.

5. Sleep ins are a thing of the past

Need I say more?

by Garry Lu