I am so glad yesterday was my day in the office and not today – the weather looks awful out there.
Got woken up at 1:50 by the wind. Spent an hour trying to get back to sleep and couldn’t so got up. Been messing on the net- planning next years planting in the veg garden. Just got my second coffee. Am knacked.
I talked before about how I started a role in a higher band on 1st July and my manager submitted a HR request to increase my pay.
A second pay day is going to roll around and they *still* haven’t actioned it. The ticket hasn’t updated in weeks and none of my emails to HR have been answered.
I’m relatively new to the workforce but wondering at what point I speak to my union rep because I’m running out of ways to escalate it. I’ve got a deposit from inheritance but need payslips through at the higher rate before I look into mortgages
Thoroughly pissed off with it because it’s making me feel more trapped in my shitty living situation than before
Edit just got to work and the automated email has told me a new payslip is available. Yet another payslip of my old wage. Ticket hasn’t been updated in 27 days. I understand HR are probably just as stretched as my team is but I’m fed up of pay being fucked with
Visiting my favourite ice cream shop on the coast, buying my usual variety and thinking to myself “they’ve definitely changed the recipe”. What was once a luscious, creamy treat is now grainy textured and artificial tasting. Highly disappointing.
Someone needs to explain economics to these young people! So many 20 somethings attempting to earn 100k on Taskrabbit and similar sites by charging £80ph and only two reviews so actually earning under 10k while the more established tradies with hundreds of reviews are charging £45because that is the going market rate. With overtime they are prolly getting 60-70k. Less is more as they say!
My back hurts, and it’s because I’ve put some weight on and not done enough exercise. I’m completely at fault, obviously.
The weather is rubbish, again, and I’m a bit behind with my washing. Could do with a few sunny days to catch up, this bad weather makes me think of the cold, rainy days that are looming once the summer is over
Well, after a month of telling me they definitely can and definitely will install internet access at my new flat, having engineers booked but not showing and having countless infuriating calls with them, Virgin finally decided they can’t and cancelled my account. Of course, they did this 3 days before my most recent installation date and didn’t bother telling me until I called them to ask why yet again they’d not been. Fucking utterly useless set of cunts the lot of em. So I’ve gone with someone else, they’ve arranged for their engineer and openreach to come next Thursday. See what happens I guess.
Until then though, no internet other than hotspot off my work phone. Wasn’t paying yet another 50 quid for the 5G router I had. Someone helpfully recommended 3 on here last week as they do one cheap, but unfortunately their 5G doesn’t cover where I live. Next cheapest was EE but they want 50 quid for the month plus 40 up front.
I lost my job yesterday. Last time I was made redundant it took me four months to find a job. I’m worried. I was shaking when I left. I don’t know how I held it together after that. I went home, fired up the laptop and started applying. Wish me luck.
When you go away to relax, see everyone else relax and enjoy themselves you really have to ask why we put ourselves through so much stress when we get back.
I’ve had a great time away – get back and realise just how miserable people can be.
Pretty sad if you ask me 🤔
Being made redundant and got dumped two weeks ago by text.
I am seriously ready to just go live in a cave and rot.
Why does every office have one person who constantly complains about drama, but is always the one causing said drama.
Manager told me this week I didn’t dress appropriately for work and need to wear the (optional) company uniform. In the same conversation acknowledged he didn’t wear the correct uniform either and his manager had picked up on him for it, but he wasn’t going to change.
For context I’m a woman working a desk job in an engineering company and wear skirts. I now must wear company issued trousers.
Fuck him.
Was really hoping to have a lie in this morning as the last few days have been rough, but no, a delivery guy for next door was banging on the door and ringing the bell at 7, and once I got to the door and opened it, he said ‘oh yeah wrong house’. If I was awake enough I’d have contemplated throwing something at him.
Also I’ve come to the conclusion that if my dad were ever to start cleaning up after himself I should buy a lottery ticket.
Currently in Cape Verde and it’s my last full day. Grrrr.
Bought a new computer mouse since the one that I’ve been using for literally the last 20 years is slowly on its way out (registering a single click as multiple ones, and lately it will just randomly stop working outright even though the LED stays on), but after taking it out of the box, I’ve found that it’s one of those that is moulded to your right hand.
I mouse with my left.
Got to do lots of outside stuff this morning and it’s really fricking windy.
Two things this week!
Google have ruined Google Pay (at least for me). It now requires authentication at point of use. However, it asks for auth after the payment request. So now to use it its:
– Scan phone on till
– Phone asks for authentication, till errors out
– Authenticate, phone says try again. Till in error state
– Wait until the till resets to try again, or the staff member cancels the transaction and starts again.
Its just much quicker and easier to use contactless card, which feels like a big step back.
Second thing is Royal Mail delivered a parcel, photo was not my front door. No slip left. Contacted the company who said “can you go hunting around your neighbourhood please?” Its not my job to deliver, if they can’t leave it by my door, at least tell me where it’s gone!
New-fangled plastic caps on things like milk and juice are requiring both puzzle ability and strong dexterous fingers these days, and when you finally get them open, liquid goes everywhere. Feck knows how the old and arthritic cope with them.
I am moderately peeved to discover that tescos cooked chicken breast (a staple in my lunchtime salads or butties) is from bloody *Thailand* and that the ingredient list is about 10 items long. Time to start buying and cooking them myself.
Waiting on a delivery from DPD. It’s a replacement work laptop.
IT screwed up the first time. Now DPD emailed me to say they won’t wait for a signature, they’ll just leave it at the door and go.
So I had to stay home with my toddler and very thin walls. It’s raining outside, and my door overlooks an open carpark. We’ve had packages stolen before.
Don’t trust DPD either. They’ve turned up without knocking then tell me they tried and no-one was home.
Didn’t sleep all night because of an allergic reaction to some cream which made my hole burn.. I’ll let you guess which hole
Signed off for another two and a bit weeks.
I really need the time as I’m still in a lot of pain and struggling with my stomach.
I’m just fed up of being ill and in pain and also I’m feeling very lonely. Of all the people who said they were going to visit me while I’ve been recovering only one did (my dad, once while I was in hospital). I’m not a massively social person in general – you won’t find me going out every night of the week or anything – but I’ve been off work for four weeks and home for three and it’s just lonely.
My nine month old washing machine has decided to start leaving black oil streaks all over the clothes. Hisense keep asking for videos and evidence, which I have supplied, and take three or four days to reply to emails only to ask for the same information again. I just want clean pants, is that too much to ask?
The weather nakes me want to curl up on the couch with a blanket and a book. Instead I have to work at my least favourite location today. I like the staff and I understand they need help before the bank holiday but I just fucking hate the work.
But not to worry, I shall spend a lot of time there in the next three weeks as someone is going on holiday and I am the person who can cover most efficiently for her.
We’re currently on holiday and were planning to go to the seaside today… the weather had other ideas.
Everyone at work is off. Someone incompetent allowed our already short staffed team to go on holiday in the same week and there’s now 2 of us holding the fort. Only 2 more days to get through.
First one at the station, last one on the train.
I’m so fed up with these bloody water companies polluting our water systems. I feel at a total loss at what to do, it’s all been done and said and our politicians are simply just allowing it. Fuck them.
That is all, good to say it out loud (albeit on Reddit in text).
work is hellish with re-doing another studios work on a very tight deadline, trying to get everything shipped when it’s already delayed by 3+ weeks. but that’s just normal for this place. glad the weather has cooled down some because being around hot bain maries and dryers in the heat is not fun.
I’m Im an engineer and I work in a large gym that has a spa pool.
Got to work this morning, and there was no hot water. The plumber had come in last night and changed the water meter, but has not reset the emergency stop button to the gas solenoid. The boilers had been off all night and the water in our hot water storage tanks were cold. No hot water to our showers and our spa pool was closed.
Got the boilers running again, but 30 minutes later they stopped again. The pressurisation unit was too full. Luckily managed to drain it down and get everything fired back up again.
Not bad for an apprentice when your manager is off though.
Tonsillitis! Argh! Summer has been wearing thin on me and I’ve been craving a couple of bad days for some coziness. Careful what you wish for, cos I’ll be working from home in bed 😂
I’m trying to arrange a piss up for my partners birthday in 2 months. His brother is going to be away, one friend has responded but is likely going to cancel the day of and the others have read but are ignoring the message.
Don’t know why I bother to be honest, I’m only setting myself up for being pissed off because every time I’ve tried to arrange something it was either cancelled because of covid, they forgot/ignored it or they accepted but were skint the day of and cancelled.
Going to give myself half an hour to be upset then ask if my brother wants to come get pissed with us instead. And if not, we’ll just go get pissed ourselves.
Curry’s repairman attended a few weeks ago to fix our washer. I disconnected it and pulled it out a bit as a matter of courtesy. He repaired it and put it back and said it’s fixed and ready to go.
My wife put the washer on, and the kitchen flooded because the waste pipe wasn’t connected. When I got the text asking to rate the service, I gave it a 6/10 and stated I’m happy with the repair but unhappy it wasn’t connected up properly which flooded the kitchen
The washer broke for another reason and they sent the same guy out who made it clear to my wife that he wasn’t happy we scored him a 6/10 and told her “I’ll just leave it in the middle of the kitchen next time so your husband can put it back so I can’t get the blame”
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I am so glad yesterday was my day in the office and not today – the weather looks awful out there.
Got woken up at 1:50 by the wind. Spent an hour trying to get back to sleep and couldn’t so got up. Been messing on the net- planning next years planting in the veg garden. Just got my second coffee. Am knacked.
I talked before about how I started a role in a higher band on 1st July and my manager submitted a HR request to increase my pay.
A second pay day is going to roll around and they *still* haven’t actioned it. The ticket hasn’t updated in weeks and none of my emails to HR have been answered.
I’m relatively new to the workforce but wondering at what point I speak to my union rep because I’m running out of ways to escalate it. I’ve got a deposit from inheritance but need payslips through at the higher rate before I look into mortgages
Thoroughly pissed off with it because it’s making me feel more trapped in my shitty living situation than before
Edit just got to work and the automated email has told me a new payslip is available. Yet another payslip of my old wage. Ticket hasn’t been updated in 27 days. I understand HR are probably just as stretched as my team is but I’m fed up of pay being fucked with
Visiting my favourite ice cream shop on the coast, buying my usual variety and thinking to myself “they’ve definitely changed the recipe”. What was once a luscious, creamy treat is now grainy textured and artificial tasting. Highly disappointing.
Someone needs to explain economics to these young people! So many 20 somethings attempting to earn 100k on Taskrabbit and similar sites by charging £80ph and only two reviews so actually earning under 10k while the more established tradies with hundreds of reviews are charging £45because that is the going market rate. With overtime they are prolly getting 60-70k. Less is more as they say!
My back hurts, and it’s because I’ve put some weight on and not done enough exercise. I’m completely at fault, obviously.
The weather is rubbish, again, and I’m a bit behind with my washing. Could do with a few sunny days to catch up, this bad weather makes me think of the cold, rainy days that are looming once the summer is over
Well, after a month of telling me they definitely can and definitely will install internet access at my new flat, having engineers booked but not showing and having countless infuriating calls with them, Virgin finally decided they can’t and cancelled my account. Of course, they did this 3 days before my most recent installation date and didn’t bother telling me until I called them to ask why yet again they’d not been. Fucking utterly useless set of cunts the lot of em. So I’ve gone with someone else, they’ve arranged for their engineer and openreach to come next Thursday. See what happens I guess.
Until then though, no internet other than hotspot off my work phone. Wasn’t paying yet another 50 quid for the 5G router I had. Someone helpfully recommended 3 on here last week as they do one cheap, but unfortunately their 5G doesn’t cover where I live. Next cheapest was EE but they want 50 quid for the month plus 40 up front.
I lost my job yesterday. Last time I was made redundant it took me four months to find a job. I’m worried. I was shaking when I left. I don’t know how I held it together after that. I went home, fired up the laptop and started applying. Wish me luck.
When you go away to relax, see everyone else relax and enjoy themselves you really have to ask why we put ourselves through so much stress when we get back.
I’ve had a great time away – get back and realise just how miserable people can be.
Pretty sad if you ask me 🤔
Being made redundant and got dumped two weeks ago by text.
I am seriously ready to just go live in a cave and rot.
Why does every office have one person who constantly complains about drama, but is always the one causing said drama.
Manager told me this week I didn’t dress appropriately for work and need to wear the (optional) company uniform. In the same conversation acknowledged he didn’t wear the correct uniform either and his manager had picked up on him for it, but he wasn’t going to change.
For context I’m a woman working a desk job in an engineering company and wear skirts. I now must wear company issued trousers.
Fuck him.
Was really hoping to have a lie in this morning as the last few days have been rough, but no, a delivery guy for next door was banging on the door and ringing the bell at 7, and once I got to the door and opened it, he said ‘oh yeah wrong house’. If I was awake enough I’d have contemplated throwing something at him.
Also I’ve come to the conclusion that if my dad were ever to start cleaning up after himself I should buy a lottery ticket.
Currently in Cape Verde and it’s my last full day. Grrrr.
Bought a new computer mouse since the one that I’ve been using for literally the last 20 years is slowly on its way out (registering a single click as multiple ones, and lately it will just randomly stop working outright even though the LED stays on), but after taking it out of the box, I’ve found that it’s one of those that is moulded to your right hand.
I mouse with my left.
Got to do lots of outside stuff this morning and it’s really fricking windy.
Two things this week!
Google have ruined Google Pay (at least for me). It now requires authentication at point of use. However, it asks for auth after the payment request. So now to use it its:
– Scan phone on till
– Phone asks for authentication, till errors out
– Authenticate, phone says try again. Till in error state
– Wait until the till resets to try again, or the staff member cancels the transaction and starts again.
Its just much quicker and easier to use contactless card, which feels like a big step back.
Second thing is Royal Mail delivered a parcel, photo was not my front door. No slip left. Contacted the company who said “can you go hunting around your neighbourhood please?” Its not my job to deliver, if they can’t leave it by my door, at least tell me where it’s gone!
New-fangled plastic caps on things like milk and juice are requiring both puzzle ability and strong dexterous fingers these days, and when you finally get them open, liquid goes everywhere. Feck knows how the old and arthritic cope with them.
I am moderately peeved to discover that tescos cooked chicken breast (a staple in my lunchtime salads or butties) is from bloody *Thailand* and that the ingredient list is about 10 items long. Time to start buying and cooking them myself.
Waiting on a delivery from DPD. It’s a replacement work laptop.
IT screwed up the first time. Now DPD emailed me to say they won’t wait for a signature, they’ll just leave it at the door and go.
So I had to stay home with my toddler and very thin walls. It’s raining outside, and my door overlooks an open carpark. We’ve had packages stolen before.
Don’t trust DPD either. They’ve turned up without knocking then tell me they tried and no-one was home.
Didn’t sleep all night because of an allergic reaction to some cream which made my hole burn.. I’ll let you guess which hole
Signed off for another two and a bit weeks.
I really need the time as I’m still in a lot of pain and struggling with my stomach.
I’m just fed up of being ill and in pain and also I’m feeling very lonely. Of all the people who said they were going to visit me while I’ve been recovering only one did (my dad, once while I was in hospital). I’m not a massively social person in general – you won’t find me going out every night of the week or anything – but I’ve been off work for four weeks and home for three and it’s just lonely.
My nine month old washing machine has decided to start leaving black oil streaks all over the clothes. Hisense keep asking for videos and evidence, which I have supplied, and take three or four days to reply to emails only to ask for the same information again. I just want clean pants, is that too much to ask?
The weather nakes me want to curl up on the couch with a blanket and a book. Instead I have to work at my least favourite location today. I like the staff and I understand they need help before the bank holiday but I just fucking hate the work.
But not to worry, I shall spend a lot of time there in the next three weeks as someone is going on holiday and I am the person who can cover most efficiently for her.
We’re currently on holiday and were planning to go to the seaside today… the weather had other ideas.
Everyone at work is off. Someone incompetent allowed our already short staffed team to go on holiday in the same week and there’s now 2 of us holding the fort. Only 2 more days to get through.
First one at the station, last one on the train.
I’m so fed up with these bloody water companies polluting our water systems. I feel at a total loss at what to do, it’s all been done and said and our politicians are simply just allowing it. Fuck them.
That is all, good to say it out loud (albeit on Reddit in text).
work is hellish with re-doing another studios work on a very tight deadline, trying to get everything shipped when it’s already delayed by 3+ weeks. but that’s just normal for this place.
glad the weather has cooled down some because being around hot bain maries and dryers in the heat is not fun.
I’m Im an engineer and I work in a large gym that has a spa pool.
Got to work this morning, and there was no hot water. The plumber had come in last night and changed the water meter, but has not reset the emergency stop button to the gas solenoid. The boilers had been off all night and the water in our hot water storage tanks were cold. No hot water to our showers and our spa pool was closed.
Got the boilers running again, but 30 minutes later they stopped again. The pressurisation unit was too full. Luckily managed to drain it down and get everything fired back up again.
Not bad for an apprentice when your manager is off though.
Tonsillitis! Argh!
Summer has been wearing thin on me and I’ve been craving a couple of bad days for some coziness. Careful what you wish for, cos I’ll be working from home in bed 😂
I’m trying to arrange a piss up for my partners birthday in 2 months. His brother is going to be away, one friend has responded but is likely going to cancel the day of and the others have read but are ignoring the message.
Don’t know why I bother to be honest, I’m only setting myself up for being pissed off because every time I’ve tried to arrange something it was either cancelled because of covid, they forgot/ignored it or they accepted but were skint the day of and cancelled.
Going to give myself half an hour to be upset then ask if my brother wants to come get pissed with us instead. And if not, we’ll just go get pissed ourselves.
Curry’s repairman attended a few weeks ago to fix our washer. I disconnected it and pulled it out a bit as a matter of courtesy. He repaired it and put it back and said it’s fixed and ready to go.
My wife put the washer on, and the kitchen flooded because the waste pipe wasn’t connected. When I got the text asking to rate the service, I gave it a 6/10 and stated I’m happy with the repair but unhappy it wasn’t connected up properly which flooded the kitchen
The washer broke for another reason and they sent the same guy out who made it clear to my wife that he wasn’t happy we scored him a 6/10 and told her “I’ll just leave it in the middle of the kitchen next time so your husband can put it back so I can’t get the blame”
Do you reckon I should put a complaint in?