Because in my experience, Friday's are not always that great....

Working in HR for as long as I have, I've noticed that Fridays are often far from the often mooted concept of nipping off to the pub early because it's Friday.  There's no sneaking off early, putting your feet up or browsing through LinkedIn, just because its Friday.   It is more likely that we will spend the day dealing with whatever can of worms our working week has opened up for us.  And I've encountered a fair few over the years.

My least favourite was being called in to deal with the guy who identified as a Jedi, but in reality was behaving more like a Sith.  After a discussion with his now very wary boss, about his lack of 5-day per week performance he took umbrage and attached him.  Very amusing in the re-telling many years later, but not half as funny when you're on the receiving end of a sharp tap round the ear with a plastic toy (ask any parent!).  Of course, dealing with the instant dismissal paperwork for a numpty who couldn't handle his temper was not my favourite way to end the week.

My most favourite was the calculating the pay increase for 8 Filipino carers who were being transferred into the business I worked for.  They'd been underpaid for a number of years on the basis that they weren't English, didn't speak good English, didn't know the law - and simply because the organisation they had transferred from thought they could get away with it.  My last message that day was from their manager thanking me for dealing with it so quickly and informing me that they had all booked time off to go home for a couple of weeks (but not all at the same time).

Somewhere in between there was the cleaner who kept unplugging the vending machine to do her hoovering, the pensions contributions reports that excluded the Exec team, the pay review spreadsheet that showed that some staff had had their pay rounded up and some had it rounded down, the payroll manager in hospitality who decided to repeat last month instead of running a new month, the admin assistant who left and took all the passwords with them and

I'd love to hear about your can of worms Fridays - it's good to share.