Why does month end close ruin every weekend?
Accounting work regularly pushes past 12-hour days into consecutive weekends and late nights to hit tight GL close and budget presentation deadlines. This crushes personal time and damages weekends with constant exhaustion right when numbers and reports are due.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1accepting the grueling overtime schedule as a normal part of the industry grind
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“8am to 8pm yesterday and today. Only 3 more days 🫠”source ↗
“The numbers are provisional, but the damage to your weekend is fully realized.”source ↗
“The only weekend adjustments should be to your brunch reservation time.”source ↗
“got raped this week. GL close business day minus 2 which coincided with our budget presentations to executive.”source ↗
“*quarter-end again”source ↗
“Ew, the weekend?! Keep it within "regular business hours" please, lol.”source ↗
Where this came up
People with this problem also raised
- 4Why is month-end close so rushed with a skeleton crew?
- 2Floqast running slow and freezing during month-end close
- 16How to survive year-round mandatory overtime in public accounting
- 3Taking customer orders right at closing time
- 4Why do books never balance late at night?
- 31Why are teachers expected to be available 24/7?