The Work Thread

Friday is going to be strawberry floating amazing with a 4pm finish. I'll be in the pub by 4.20.

Blaze it

I do 8 to 4 with a half hour lunch.

I can be home by 4:15 every day if I want to be.

Wrathy wrote:I do 8 to 4 with a half hour lunch.

I can be home by 4:15 every day if I want to be.

I made a big mistake a few weeks ago, like breaking a server bad. It's stressing me out so much. I would've thought I'd be in trouble by now but I'm not, but I feel so strawberry floating guilty.

I got careless and strawberry floated up. I don't want to blame stress, but I was seriously struggling that day and I don't know how I could possibly apologise for making the mistake. strawberry float

Ad7 wrote:Friday is going to be strawberry floating amazing with a 4pm finish. I'll be in the pub by 4.20.

Leaving party?

Hyperion wrote:

Ad7 wrote:Friday is going to be strawberry floating amazing with a 4pm finish. I'll be in the pub by 4.20.

Leaving party?

And staydead, don't worry about it. Everyone strawberry float up big time once in a while and it's normal to dwell on it. Thing is, nobody gives a strawberry float but you and you'll eventually forget about it.

"Best" thing I ever did is nuke the HDMI socket on a 5 grand or so projector rendering it useless, by ramming a ladder backwards into it. I was cool with the AV guy so he just sent it in for warranty repair.

Also 30 sec commute ftw. I am now based underground.

This is a real job, I swear.

I’m self employed and have been for just over 10 years now, it has its benefits but the downside is that I always feel like I’m at work because you can’t ever truely switch off from it,

Qikz wrote:I made a big mistake a few weeks ago, like breaking a server bad. It's stressing me out so much. I would've thought I'd be in trouble by now but I'm not, but I feel so strawberry floating guilty.

I got careless and strawberry floated up. I don't want to blame stress, but I was seriously struggling that day and I don't know how I could possibly apologise for making the mistake. strawberry float

If you need to apologise to your boss, say something like: "I'm genuinely sorry I messed that up. I made a mistake because I [tried to go too fast], and going through this has really underlined that it's always better to [take my time]. I take full responsibility and it won't happen again." Square brackets can be replaced with whatever your genuine reason was.

Then forget about it and move on. A mistake at work, even a big or embarrassing one, isn't worth weeks of stressing out.

If you haven't been 'in trouble' by now then I suspect it's not even as big a deal as you think it is.

RichardUK wrote:I’m self employed and have been for just over 10 years now, it has its benefits but the downside is that I always feel like I’m at work because you can’t ever truely switch off from it,

o/

My girlfriend was telling me I shouldn't be thinking/talking about work. On a Sunday. In the pub.

That and I work from a literal batcave.

I don't go outside much.

Karl, I wish I could say that about my last "real" job. I was repeatedly chastised for going too slowly because I cared about quality and the standards have dived since I left with respect to the things I used to do.

Meh, they don't know what they need or want.

I just followed up a project like 2 weeks late (not that I really have a timescale for how late a response is) but most my clients simply don't care because the quality will never be anything less than great. To be fair I did just move house which means upheaving my entire workshop and setting everything up again, the key thing is to keep people aware of goings on, so your (good) advice still applies.

Never feel guilty about work. It's just work. Most people know whether they're good or bad at a job, and if they "get away" with it, that's fine. Most people are overworked and under-resourced. I've never really experienced a case of worry making my work better. It's either made my work worse or harder than it needs to be (with nobody noticing or caring about the extra effort, or compensating you for it), or more likely made me ill, which made my ability to do other work bad. So strawberry float worrying, it serves no purpose other than to make you sick. Some people (mostly managers) say adrenaline (maybe normal amounts of adrenaline), worry and ultimately fear is what drives an individual to work harder. What a load of bullshit. Acknowledging success and personal growth is what makes you work harder (if making work literally "hard" is a good thing), because it feels a damn sight better than worrying about day to day gooseberry fool. Focus on your strengths, and goals to improve along the path, and things gets better.

I make that sound easier than it is, but I have to be flippant about these things because I suffer from anxiety a lot, and have to work very hard/carefully to channel it positively into constructive stuff, like being creative or just tidying stuff up, for example.

Haaaate my job. My boss hates my ass and has been trying to bully me out for months. She won yesterday, I requested HQ to be transferred out to a different branch yesterday. Still waiting for a reply but if I don't get one then I'll quit.

Your boss is a banana split. strawberry float them.

I hope that helps

I've dealt with a shitty boss. I went to a few people within the same organisation. One of them told me it's part of the job dealing with wankers. Another told me, plainly, what a banana split (his exact words), after I was left shaking and sweating literally destroying property following a batshit directive against my or any common sense person's that my mind just could not comprehend as my hands carried out these actions, it was that dumb (and everyone complained about it afterward). Another person I respected a lot and basically head of technically crew said, this is probably bullying, start writing it down and go to HR. I didn't do that, which was a mistake. I mean, I probably would have been ground out eventually anyway (and was, by my colleague, who joined the team after I did, and had like 6 other jobs on the same campus).

I ended up being laid off automatically by the payroll department (I was never fired) over a year later but thank strawberry float for that. I later got an apology from HR and a chance to give my feedback on how awful my boss was (good result for what started off as a therapy letter recommended by a mental health practitioner as I was still angry about some of the gooseberry fool that went on a long time after which wrecked my health and self esteem).

My original team mate (just two of us), I later found out basically told the guy to strawberry float off and not speak to him in such a manner. He never came in again, but remained on the rota anyway. Had a far better job at a world class institution up the road in London, just not as many hours as he would like (like pretty much every job in the arts sector except some digital/marketing/production roles, or ones where you get strawberry floated over).

These people ruin lives, ebbing away at them bit by bit to feed themselves and their own ego. Normally earning 3-5x what you do. Glad I don't have to deal with them anymore.

Yeah, my first boss was a bully. I exploded at him after a lot of months in the job. His boss reprimanded the strawberry float out of him and he left me alone after that.

Not exactly the smartest thing I have done. I specifically remember going outside and kicking the gooseberry fool out of trolley after the exchange (I worked in a shop). Another manager saw me going totally apeshit. I'm lucky I didn't lose my job.

Squinty wrote: I specifically remember going outside and kicking the gooseberry fool out of trolley after the exchange (I worked in a shop). Another manager saw me going totally apeshit. I'm lucky I didn't lose my job.

Did you get your pound back though?

Ad7 wrote:

Squinty wrote: I specifically remember going outside and kicking the gooseberry fool out of trolley after the exchange (I worked in a shop). Another manager saw me going totally apeshit. I'm lucky I didn't lose my job.

Did you get your pound back though?

It was tethered to the rest of them. So no money and I was quite embarrassed whenever that manager seen me do that. I refused to go to work as well the next day. They had to phone me to sort it out.

As I say, I wasn't the smartest 18 year old.

One episode where I was yelled at alone in a corner where I couldn't reasonably be held responsible for something caused by a total random (some customer or staff unrelated to the department), after they asked, "are you feeling depressed". I was just like, "yes". You just had a massive go at me and refused to let me speak, for strawberry floats sake.

This dick was aware of the problems I was facing with my health, my disability, the massive and expensive commute, the highly physically draining nature of the work that used to be carried out by at least 3 permanent staff. I just left it at that.

In the future, I'd like to know who you're replacing or what the department currently looks like in terms of staffing or any downsizing. Do yourself a favour and never do these jobs.

Back home, already eaten my tea and it's still 15 mins before I'd even be back home normally




The moment when you're taking your induction courses and you get to the section pretty much saying don't be a banana split online

It's cool you won't be their long enough for them to get through the whole disciplinary process.

Errkal wrote:It's cool you won't be their long enough for them to get through the whole disciplinary process.

So close