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15 Aug 2025, 12:30 pm

To me the week starts on Monday, and Sunday is the last day of the week. I've never viewed it as the first day of the week. So it's annoying when the working week begins on a Sunday and you do alternate weekends, because to me one week consists of working 6 days and the next week consists of 4, even though to management it's 5 days equally on both weeks.


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15 Aug 2025, 1:31 pm

Tamaya wrote:
To me the week starts on Monday, and Sunday is the last day of the week. I've never viewed it as the first day of the week. So it's annoying when the working week begins on a Sunday and you do alternate weekends, because to me one week consists of working 6 days and the next week consists of 4, even though to management it's 5 days equally on both weeks.


I've always classed Sunday as the first day of the week but my daughter classes it as Monday

It can cause confusion in our house

I think Sunday is the Christian way and Monday is the pagan way

Someone told me that on this forum so you can blame Wikipedia if I'm wrong


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15 Aug 2025, 1:49 pm

I don't know the history or religion of it lol, all I know is I've only ever seen the first day of the week as Monday and often wish workplaces would start the week off on a Monday rather than a Sunday lol. It's just easier that way.


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15 Aug 2025, 2:19 pm

I used to work on an 8 day rolling rotation: 4 on and 4 off

I never knew what day it was and to put the cherry on top; it was the night shift

I've never been right since and that was 25 years ago


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15 Aug 2025, 2:59 pm

Monday is the first day of the week for me.

I have always thought of it as that and it is the standard in the UK, as per ISO 8601.

https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/days/first-day-of-the-week.html

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Setting the Standard: ISO 8601

In 1988, the change from Sunday to Monday was made official—with the international standard ISO 8601.

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO), founded in 1946 in Switzerland, has issued several standards concerning time and dates. Perhaps the most prominent one is ISO 8601: First published in 1988 and continuously updated, it defines Monday as the first day of the week.

Virtually all European countries follow this standard and have adopted Monday as their start of the week. Many countries worldwide that have changed or updated their calendars more recently also follow the international standard.


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15 Aug 2025, 3:03 pm

Funny that innit


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15 Aug 2025, 3:08 pm

It's just always been Sunday for me


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15 Aug 2025, 4:01 pm

Sometimes I think I'm posting too many things. It is annoying to me. It's like when I would finally start talking about something in class and wouldn't shut up. I was annoying. :| :)


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15 Aug 2025, 4:28 pm

Yeah I get a bit self conscious sometimes as well


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15 Aug 2025, 6:09 pm

Me too. I worry that people think I talk about myself too much. But I find giving advice difficult, and prefer to share experiences instead and relate or empathise. When I post something more pragmatic or factual I end up wording it wrong and offending people, so it's just best to stick with ''yeah I understand how you feel...'' and ''yeah, I had a similar experience...''


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15 Aug 2025, 8:22 pm

Did the creators of the Simpsons get the character Nelson from John Bender in the Breakfast Club?


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16 Aug 2025, 5:30 am

It's time I bought myself a new George Foreman, lean green, fat reducing grilling machine

They don't make things to last these days


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16 Aug 2025, 5:41 am

Tamaya wrote:
Me too. I worry that people think I talk about myself too much. But I find giving advice difficult, and prefer to share experiences instead and relate or empathise. When I post something more pragmatic or factual I end up wording it wrong and offending people, so it's just best to stick with ''yeah I understand how you feel...'' and ''yeah, I had a similar experience...''


You not doing anything wrong

I think I might talk about myself more than is probably normal but I'm not always aware of it

All I know is, I all of a sudden the lights come on and I realise, I'm not the only person in the room


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16 Aug 2025, 5:54 am

babybird wrote:
It's time I bought myself a new George Foreman, lean green, fat reducing grilling machine

They don't make things to last these days


Isn't the slogan for a George Foreman the:

"lean, green mean, fat reducing, grilling machine?

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16 Aug 2025, 5:58 am

Yeah it was a toss up


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