The Work Thread 2 - Get back to work!

Work can only get worse from here. I was on 35+ tickets all of the last 2 weeks and at the end of today I have... 6. 2 of them are the same issue. This is a strawberry floating dream.

Ooh I love it when a Friday works out like that. Not going to have that myself for a little while as things are getting hectic over here now.

Just stalked LinkedIn of CEO I have interview with at 12. We went to the same Uni :cool:

Know what my first question will be: "you ever get shitfaced on pound a pint in Caddies?"

My 3pm Friday teams meeting has just been cancelled.

If this is WFH on a Friday in the sun then bring it on!

Joer wrote:I feel like i've spending my days applying for jobs and watching Catfish in the background.

I much preferred furlough when there was a job to go back to at the end of it.

In terms of the job search, i've had a couple of promising calls from recruiters so far. One for a team leader role for 35k + bonus, but it's a 40 minute drive and will drain my petrol, and one for a step back into a Business Development role for 24k + a likely 6k bonus, which is about a 10 minute drive from home.

I think i'd rather the extra money even if it is a ballache with the commute compared to the second option, but either way i'm still checking every day for new jobs in case they turn into nothing so hopefully something comes off sooner rather than later.

Had both of those interviews now and realised that I would much rather be offered the team leader role after talking to both companies. Been told I should find out on both early next week how i've got on but I felt like both interviews went well which is a positive start.

Filling in an performance review of your team leader. :simper:

"What three words would you use to describe this leader?"

That the one who doesn't know who you are?

Memento Mori wrote:Filling in an performance review of your team leader. "What three words would you use to describe this leader?"

Can you condense this in to 3 words?

No the one who doesn't know who I am is my team leader's boss. The TL is a good guy. I hate these performance review things though.

Back in the office full time from today

My last performance review was 'potty mouth but dedicated' I'm trying, after years in mental health and prison work it's a bit hard to let go of the f-bombs. Sweet as pie to the old folks mind.

I've not had a performance review of working at my place for 5 years. My manager has mentioned about doing one for the last 2 years, but he's so uninterested and disorganised with 'admin' type tasks that don't directly make money he just never gets around to it.

Caught up with a few friends over the weekend and one of them remarked how I was the only person they'd spoken to who enjoyed working from home.

I also caught the end of a Sunday Morning Live debate (yesterday morning, obviously) where the majority seemed to be suggesting that everyone needs to get back to work and that working from home is no good.

Are we (GRcade) in the minority here? Even people in my team at work, when the subject comes up, a lot of them are actually getting quite desperate to go back.

I'm going in as a one-off on Wednesday and the thought of having to pay to travel on a train and actually lose hours I could be doing work instead, meaning I'll fall behind, and the general inconvenience of it all is really quite annoying!

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:Caught up with a few friends over the weekend and one of them remarked how I was the only person they'd spoken to who enjoyed working from home.

I also caught the end of a Sunday Morning Live debate (yesterday morning, obviously) where the majority seemed to be suggesting that everyone needs to get back to work and that working from home is no good.

Are we (GRcade) in the minority here? Even people in my team at work, when the subject comes up, a lot of them are actually getting quite desperate to go back.

I'm going in as a one-off on Wednesday and the thought of having to pay to travel on a train and actually lose hours I could be doing work instead, meaning I'll fall behind, and the general inconvenience of it all is really quite annoying!

Everyone I know and have interacted with both online and offline even people living in Japan who were made to work from home seem to prefer it. It seems to be the daily mail readers of this country have a hardon for getting back to the office because it's all the media are telling them. The people who are desperate to get back to working especially in London are either really misguided or have a really, really shitty setup at home.

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:Caught up with a few friends over the weekend and one of them remarked how I was the only person they'd spoken to who enjoyed working from home.

I also caught the end of a Sunday Morning Live debate (yesterday morning, obviously) where the majority seemed to be suggesting that everyone needs to get back to work and that working from home is no good.

Are we (GRcade) in the minority here? Even people in my team at work, when the subject comes up, a lot of them are actually getting quite desperate to go back.

I'm going in as a one-off on Wednesday and the thought of having to pay to travel on a train and actually lose hours I could be doing work instead, meaning I'll fall behind, and the general inconvenience of it all is really quite annoying!

I don't think we're in the minority, but I think everybody has a different situation and preference that will affect their opinion. As we've been doing this for so long now, I think those that don't like it are getting more vocal.

I think a lot of places in the longterm will move to a 3 days in/2 days WFH kinda format.

Qikz wrote: It seems to be the daily mail readers of this country have a hardon for getting back to the office because it's all the media are telling them. The people who are desperate to get back to working especially in London are either really misguided or have a really, really shitty setup at home.

DM readers might be a group that want to get back, people with crappy home set ups might also want to get back, but there are plenty of people not in those categories who feel the same.

I like the social aspects of work and I like working face to face with people. I like keeping work separate from home. I like leaving the house. Fortunately my new job is one that can't be done from home and I'm looking forward to starting it.

Our office is due to go back in from September at 20% capacity, with everyone coming in one day a week on a rota. The rest of my team seems really eager to go back, because it'd be "nice to see everyone again" (we literally won't as per the rota, but ok) and they're all apparently sick of working from home.

No idea how this will play out now that Trafford is back in lockdown, but I'm hoping they'll postpone it. With everyone talking about how keen they are to go back, my superiors included, I don't feel like I can voice my opposition.

Not sure if I mentioned it but I was volunteered to complete a survey for my company regarding my thoughts about working from home. I know the company are looking at the responses to understand whether they can introduce it for a percentage of the workforce, where appropriate, so I went to town on it.

I spent the best part of an hour underlining the positive aspects, how it should be managed, how it should be the employee's choice if they want to take it up, how the policy should be written should they introduce it, how working agreements should be signed by the employee and their manager on behalf of the company etc to avoid "miscommunications" etc.

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I was in work last week and to be honest it was no different than working from home when it comes to interacting with other people. The RAF people keep to themselves, the controllers stay in the control room and never pop into the office. strawberry floating pointless exercise if you ask me and actually makes me cross thinking about it. Will be sharing my immediate office space with someone else when I go back in this week, so I suppose I'll at least have someone to talk to. The people I work with though, not convinced they are following the social distancing rules properly...

On the whole though I am glad to get out of the house. I just don't enjoy my hobbies as much anymore as I'd normally do them in the place I've been working. Same for my girlfriend too. Spends all the time in the living room during the day and then we are meant to enjoy our evening together in there? Nah, doesn't work.

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:Caught up with a few friends over the weekend and one of them remarked how I was the only person they'd spoken to who enjoyed working from home.

I also caught the end of a Sunday Morning Live debate (yesterday morning, obviously) where the majority seemed to be suggesting that everyone needs to get back to work and that working from home is no good.

This has come up before about management being paranoid of not having their 'eye on things', and that people will slack off if not under constant panoptic surveillance, that every employee is out to undermine them (also possibly justifying their own role which consists purely of doing that).

I wonder if it's a reaction to the almost flagellatory pride of suffering an awful commute, working long hours in the office etc, that it somehow makes what you're doing more valid and worthy of praise.

More cynically, I suspect some are extraordinarily dull people who have no personal hobbies or few conversation topics apart from work.

The Work Thread 2 - Get back to work!

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