Comments about ‘How do you deal with the Sunday blues?’

Having seen this problem with my own family and children its very evident why they all face such work related fears on Sunday's. Most workers are made to feel obligated to be indentured to there jobs, even on weekends. Most likely everyone has a permanent link via their cell phones to the whims of the boss even during days off.

The Right to Work laws are laws to insure and give Utah business and corporations rights to oppress and threaten its workers. Most large companies and employers in Utah use threats and fear to motivate its workers, especially the american citizens. The American citizens know and fear the fact that any employer at any time can threaten a persons job security and his lively hood with out cause. That means no job security or rights.

With this kind of threat hanging over the heads of all working american citizens it has created and undertow of dissatisfied and insecure workforce in Utah. Labor is a thereat to business and corporations rights to profit and the workers are made to be aware of that fact and only have a job as long as they obey corporate 'worker oppression'.

I get the Sunday night blues every week. Knowing that I am not in control (meaning I don't get to decided what to do with my time i.e. golf, family, etc.) of my life for 40 hours the following week is quite depressing. Life is to be enjoyed by good friends and family, but in order to do that, you have to work to provide the means for the good times. It's a vicious cycle.

Change jobs. I did... after 13 years of working for a great company in a terrible position (for me). Many thrived on the job I was doing. It just wasn't in my DNA. It wasn't my companies fault. It wasn't the job itself. It was just me, a round peg in a square hole.

They paid me well, and I succeeded. But managing international business, my work week began Sunday at 8 pm, and ended 8 pm Friday when the west coast closed. My work day started at 5 or 6 am, and ended after 5 pm. Most holidays were working days, seeing how many of the countries did not work the same holiday schedule as we do. It was challenging. It was fun. My family saw the world. It was just too many hours.

There are too many possibilities out there to settle on something your not fit for. Those possibilities though rarely come knocking on your door looking for you.

I've had to learn to leave work at work. When I get a work related call on Sunday, I tell the person on the other end that I'll handle it Monday.
Little things like leaving my cell phone in the car when I go work out helps me to forget about the stress of work and all the constant demands. The ability to see that everything didn't collapse during my hour break has helped me to leave my work alone during the weekend. As I've learned to do this, I've become a much better Dad, Husband, and (surprise, surprise) employee!

I'm so glad to see that I am not alone in experiencing Sunday anxiety. I think a lot of it stems from the fact that most people work for someone else. They have no personal investment in the work they do, other than the fact that it provides them with a pay check. If you think about it, it's really similar to slavery. I would have prefered the old days when people grew up in some sort of trade, taught to them by their fathers, and continued on as a family business. Having a boss seems like such an unnatural thing. Why do we subject ourselves to it?

Also, most of us work in jobs where rather than seeing a finished product of our own making, we push paper as one link in a chain that ultimately just results in more money for someone else we don't even know. Karl Marx was so right about the disconnect between laborers and the products of their labor in capitalism. It really does take away your humanity. I am gradually taking the steps to get out of this predicament, and one day I will absolutely be working for myself.

In the bad economy, employers are even more likely to make employees feel obligated to be indentured to there jobs. If you don't like the conditions that you work under, then employers are more than willing to find someone who will put up with those conditions. Some might argue this is fair, but this threat lowers working standards. Besides, workers don't always know how excessive an employer's expectations may be when hired and end up getting more than they bargained for. As a result, the bad economy is creating a form of corporate abuse towards workers that is difficult to quantify or measure. One result is employee dissatisfaction manifest in the "Sunday blues." My hope is that employers would treat employees fairly and not use the economy as a threat against their workers. For example, if you pay an "exempt" salary, and then commonly work the employee excessively past 8 hour days (e.g, 10 hour days) w/o any form of equivalent gratitude, then something is wrong.

Good treatment of employees is all well and good, but I would argue that the whole concept of selling one's labor and working for someone else results in the encroachment of one's humanity to one degree or another, regardless of how well one is treated. A slave who is treated like family is still a slave.

If you are Engrossed in Good Works, or you are engrossed in Each other or your family and your mind is other wise taken up.

Then you should not have this fear.

If you have a job like the lady described then you need to change jobs. You as an educated human do not have to do that.

Enjoy each other and your family. I know it can be awful hard staying awake in Church but try hard. Stay out of the hallways and above all quit griping.

My biggest worry and concern on Monday is that the Abortion Clinics will reopen and the unborn childern will continue to die.

If Momday is Not going to be Tet 1968 then I don't sweat it much.

Just handle it like the guy in the Country Song told the Reporter. "this ain't nothing."

In America the only way you can be a Slave is if you make yourself one.

Work on somthing like Making Obama a 1 Term President.

This would be a good time to work on your BYU Online Degree.

Spend more time Kissing, Hugging and doing things with you spouse or best friend.

Figure out the day that your child will be born if concived that day and then go to it.

If you can't then on Monday start and Adoption that takes about 9 months. If your older people then Adopt an Older Child. You can change a life or evan save a life. And God will smile and bless you. Plus you will be a Hero.

Doing that will so take your mind off Monday.

2cents, sense of entitlement, much? Earn your keep, and instead of feeling threatened, you'll field offers. Being in demand is a wonderful parachute.