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I have just stolen a moment in my office so that I can escape the reverberations of the second significant crisis in two days.
I can't believe this! The work always has its pressure points, but even simple tasks right now are emerging with explosive potential.
If anyone comes looking for me, I'll be under my desk in the foetal position, covering my ears.
ARGHHHHHH!
You been showing folk round the office again?
Some days you're the pigeon, other days you're the statue.
All part of life's rich tapestry innit.
You been showing folk round the office again?
forgot the " " there, tom 😉
If anyone comes looking for me, I’ll be under my desk in the foetal position, covering my ears.
ARGHHHHHH!
Sounds like a normal day to me!
Within the past month, I have broken my left wrist, re-damaged my left achilles, and strained my right big toe.
Don't worry, its because you still care. You'll get over it and life will be a lot easier. I broke through that a few years ago and now I just crack on without a care in the world, doing what I can as well as I can and the outcome will be what it will be. You can only do what you can do and influence what you can influence. Sometimes it's enough, sometimes it's not.
<h1 class="post-title">Ever have a week where each day something unexpected goes boom?</h1>
Yes, but my job is repairing electrical networks.
Balloons?? I won't have them in the house. Terrifying things.
We are in the middle of a shutdown and if I've averaged one a year since I left school this is my 29th its also one of the if not the worst ive been on. Everything is last minute and blind panic all due to the fact that management wouldnt listen to people that have been here for 20+ years (I've been here 8) now they are back peddling like mad.
thank god im going home tomorrow!
Lots of highs and lows in my place - ideally it's two steps forward, one back, but sometimes it feels like it's the other way around.
Sometimes, well, a lot of times it gets to me.
Bossmate is very good at accepting stuff that I can't leave alone, for example - on Friday I got a parking ticket, which really pissed me off - a few mins over the what we paid for, the app wouldn't let us extend due to technical issues, we were late because I crashed my bike and got lost, I'm in between trips to the GP and Hospital to try to fix the injury that came with it - and here comes Bollocky Mr. Parking Eye - "the signs cleaaaaarly state, blah blah blah" another job that would have been dealt with perfectly by a man in an uniform 20 years ago, reduced to a evil mix of hardware and software that 'sees' an injured person returning to his Van 17 mins late in pain and 'thinks' - bosh, cop this £100 'fine'. (£60 if you cough up in 2 weeks, ****ers) - I want to fight it, I'm readying screen shots of error codes, pictures of broken toes and my best swear words and of course, me being me, massively disproportionally worrying about the financial impact of this massive fine on my family.
But Bossmate, is more philosophical about it, not it's not 'right' or moral, it is in fact a total piss take - but they're arseholes, if you ever manage to talk to a human are they going to say "shit mate, that looks sore, it you what, you paid for 6 hours, you only took 6hrs and 17mins and it's obvious you didn't plan to - lets forget about it" no, they're going to give you the same "the sign cleeeeearly states that blah blah blah" and 6 months and a million letters, time wasted and stress later you'll be in court fighting over a £2k 'fine'.
So I paid the £60, I hope they ****ing choke on it.
Ever have a week where each day something unexpected goes boom?
This would be a very bad week for the bomb disposal chaps.