Sunday Scaries
Noun Phrase · Slang & Abbreviations
Definitions
The anxious feeling that arrives before the workweek or an upcoming operational burden. In engineering slang, Sunday scaries often get intensified by fragile systems and unpleasant Monday deploy rituals.
In plain English: Anxiety that shows up before work or an expected stressful week.
Example: "The primary on-call admitted the Sunday scaries were getting worse, which was a useful signal that the rotation itself needed redesign."