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POETS day is a term used by workers in the United Kingdom and Australia to refer jocularly to Friday as the last day of the work week. The word "POETS" is an acronym for "Piss off early, tomorrow's Saturday": hence Friday becomes "Poets day". It is tradition to begin the POETS day at 3:30 p.m. Variations on this are "Punch out early, tomorrow's Saturday" (referring to a manual punch time clock), "Push off early, tomorrow's Saturday" and "Push off early, tomorrow's Sunday" (based on the old 6-day work week).
The Waterloo Engineering Society at the University of Waterloo, has an on-campus pub named POETS. The official expansion of the name is "Piss on everything, tomorrow's Saturday". The University of Calgary's Schulich School of Engineering also has a weekly meeting/party with the same expansion of POETS.
See also
References
- Booker, Jarrod (28 July 2010). "Australians drink to 'Poets Day'". The New Zealand Herald. The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
- "Student Spaces – Waterloo Engineering Society". 22 December 2017. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
- "POETS – Movies, 'OTs & More". The Iron Warrior. 20 January 2010. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
External links
- Website promoting Poet's Day at the Library of Congress Web Archives (archived 2002-09-15)
- BBC h2g2 entry
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