TGIF is as TGIF Does

~ John W. Howell
Thank God It's Friday
Thank God It’s Friday (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Friday is a sweet day and even though I am chained to this key board, I look with envy to all the millions of workers who:

Get up before dawn

Get to commute on average two hours a day along with a couple of million of their closest friends

Get to reach a workplace filled with challenging and rewarding work

Get to take direction from kindly and intelligent managers

Get to hob knob with the cream of the crop of co-workers who all pull their weight

Get to fill out endless forms to request needed business supplies

Get to invent ways to get the job done with no supplies

Get to interface with interesting and sympatric customers

Get to eat lunch at their desk trying not to spill mayo on the Fisk report

Get to feel the pride of having produced great output for the day

Get to feel the accomplishment of surviving with no increase in pay for years

Get to work until well after sundown at the last-minute request of a grateful manager

Get to join the millions of friend on the commute home

Get to arrive home in time to pack on 2000 or so calories before bed on an already stressed body

Get to toss and turn all night in anticipation of a total repeat the next day

So here is to Friday and a wish for a happy weekend for all of you who have Friday as the end of the week. (if that same manager has not asked you to put in a few hours on Saturday)

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Published by John W. Howell

I have been working in business for over forty years and now have the time to work in special areas of interest. My passion has always been to create compelling stories of fiction. I have authored six novels and am working on my Seventh. The first novel is still in manuscript form and being utilized as a door stop in the laundry room. The second is a contemporary fiction novel of 89,000 words and is complete and I am currently seeking a publisher. I also write poetry but have not had the guts to share any with anyone. The one time I read a piece to a person their only comment was, “it doesn’t rhyme.” I will continue to write and hopefully my blog, Fiction Favorites at www.johnwhowell.com will provide some entertainment and an interesting thought or two. I live in the Austin area with my wife Molly and an assortment of loving pets.

18 thoughts on “TGIF is as TGIF Does”

  1. You make that life sound like so much fun. Thank goodness I never felt drawn to the corporate world. My career (once I start doing it again on completion of my studies) means I’m technically on duty 24/7. but I can work from the comfort of my own home.

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        1. I have a set of Tommy Bahama ties that I wore all the time. I had a boss look at me before an officer meeting and ask, “is that tie appropriate?” It was a lobster. After the meeting the Chief Marketing officer admired the tie asked me where I got it. The boss was very pissed off.

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  4. Ha. I wanted to complain about this post (I mean, really, the person I envy is you). But I’m lucky. I actually do work with great, dedicated people, and I generally like the work I do (public health statistics). And my bosses are more concerned about public health than they are about politics. It’s a good place to be for the remaining few years of my “tied-to-the-grindstone.” That said, I won’t miss it when I do leave. I won’t look back. And I definitely won’t miss the commute 😉

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  5. Being semi-retire I put myself down for hours when I feel the urge to work a few. It is a good feeling…this retirement thing. I have time to write and do other things, but I do miss the social aspects of having an 8-12.

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  6. Ugh. My favorite was driving around with millions of my closest friends twice a day. Even better when we got to skate across the icy roads together playing our own little version of bumper cars. And we got to double the time spent in our cars. Yay!

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