It's Friday. That's a good thing.

This is a snippet from an actual conversation I had last Friday.
ME:"How Ya Doing?"
THEM:"It's Friday. That's a good thing!"
It started me thinking. I'll bet that conversation plays out thousands of times in hundreds of languages every Friday all over the world. It's so pervasive and unconscious it rivals Musak.
It creates a tone, a background buzz of weariness. Does work need to be this way? Or are we just continuing to sing a song that people were already singing when we arrived on this planet? And what if we sang a new song?