How wonderful to see all you office keyboard bashers, paper shufflers and pinstripe percys finally getting back to 'work'. We've been rudderless without you. Leaderless and bereft. Gord knows how we've managed to struggle by these past five weeks and get all the work done. Despite the fact that I started working again at 07:00 on boxing Day morning, it is well known that us poor is suffering our condition through our own fault, because of our bone idleness, indolence and unwillingness to work. I often remind myself of that when I go out at 06:30 in the mornings and all the other vehicles on the road are either 10+ years old or work vans. Meanwhile the bedroom curtains of the McMansions are firmly closed and the personalised number plate 4x4 monster trucks are still parked up on the gravel drive. Still, I bet they're mustard once they get going like. That's why it's important that they gets their proper rest.
for someone that at least in part chooses those circumstances you dont half bitch about it you need to update your standard of trolling
You had it easy. I had to work night shift from Christmas Eve through to Christmas morning. Me and my reindeer were effing knackered by the end.
I'd have loved to have been able to work Xmas day and boxing day. Instead I had to spend time with boring relatives and their kids, partaking in desperately dull polite conversation, listening to **** music and watching **** kids tv. And driving 100 miles for that pleasure. Just glad the annual ****show is over and life can get back to normal. Happy New Year
Most people at some time in their life work long hours in ****** jobs for little pay. It helps someone understand the value of hard work and money and is a natural progression to "easier" higher paying jobs later in life. I've done the 5am starts, the 3 hour commutes the 18 hour shifts for next to no appreciation. In both cases I was made redundant and the businesses fell apart after I left. In one case the muppet brought in to replace me made a mistake that cost the company more than my annual salary on the first day and he was at that job for 3 months before they found out his process was wrong and he wasn't following the guidelines I'd painstaking put together stupidly thinking he was only in to cover my first holiday period in 3 years. I'm now in a role that is a solid 9-5, half of my previous salary, hate it but it's a 15 min commute, I can switch off at the end of the day and it pays the bills. I consider it semi retirement. It's my choice. Anyone on here that posts with intelligence can get a decent job and climb the career ladder if they want to, it just takes some graft and motivation.
I don't have a leg to stand on.* I've been paid to hit a fluffy yellow ball around for all of my adult life. I don't even have to get wet now,thanks to the dome. I'm very fortunate and appreciate most of the population loath their jobs. * Which does make tennis tricky without a wheelchair!
Wife back to work, daughter back to school. And I'm sat with a hot coffee surrounded by silence with one last day off to spend alone before resuming work tomorrow.
My only error was telling the wife, so she has left a few things to do but I've kept that to a minimum. I fully plan on having a long post lunch snooze in play by mid afternoon.
Nope got my marching orders (3 months notice so gardening leave, they stopped short of escorting me out of the building). when I went back at the end of the period to sign the compromise agreement, They wanted me to sit down with the chap and go through his last 3 months work. I did that after the paperwork was signed. Discovered the issue immediately, informed them and left. The company since skirted with bankruptcy (I knew it was coming so took the money and ran rather than decided to take a legal case up agaisnt them). In the couple of years after I left, 2 directors got the boot and are suing the remaining one and the chairman is currently in prison for fraud. The company has now been taken over. I was well out of that coke fuelled madhouse.
Not really as I didn't/don't partake so didn't really fit in. I was the only one in his right mind to be able to produce sensible figures. The money was good (compared to what I earned before and since) whilst it lasted. I'm glad I have experience working in that environment, it's the reason I was able to purchase a house, and the severance pay set up a modest pension, but I wouldn't go back to it now, the stress was unbelievable.
He’s not wrong though. Lot’s of people toil to do stuff at unsocial hours that we take for granted (unless it’s not there and then we are cross) and rather than applaud their endeavour we tell them to pull their socks up, get some ambition and find ways to slash their pay, pensions and benefits.
It is a mild list. I was expecting a whole lot worse so I have got away with it but yes, it was an idiot move.
The dreaded Honey-Do list. I think it must be genetically activated by the XX chromosome pairing, because every man I know who has a day off sees one of these magically appear somewhere in the house. Nothing like taking a day off only to spend it doing household chores!
