I was once fired on a Monday morning, I would have preferred the prior Friday. I would think they knew before I left on Friday that this was going to happen Monday. For me it would have given me more time to deal with the consequences of not having a job and would have changed my plans and spending for that weekend. This was in the mid 80's so I would have been able to look in the Sunday paper for a potential new job.

We recently had some departments here let some people go and they did it on a Friday morning. Luckily I'm still here but I know I would have preferred it this way.