AIBU to be annoyed by SIL posting about every work shift?

It would be good if you could mute one person in a WhatsApp group.

Meh. No one is forcing you to read the messages.

I post on my family Whatsapp group more than the others because I live alone and I get lonely sometimes with only my cats for company. I just want to engage with them and share the things I do with them. They often don't respond because they're busy living in couples or families and it makes me a bit sad :(

I get ya...I have 2 connections that 1 works 2 or 3 days, the other is currently not working and has their days FREEEE of anything...

Yet they post how tired they are. I'm like, dude...I do 40 hrs, then have like 8-10rs running kids about for hobbies, plus housework, looking after a massive garden, all the laundry, trying to cook dinner AND trying to like...not let my chronic health conditions kill me. OH, whilst now also trying to stop my OH having a full blown mental break down (its hard being a male in your 40s working 37 hrs a week)

Perhaps you could respond with “join the club: just the two shifts is it? All right for some lol!”

Honestly, maybe it's just her and MIL's sense of humour. I could see Mum and me joking like this, but I doubt my SIL would get it. We're very different people, and she doesn't have our history or the same inside jokes.

Mute the family chat

^ This, if you can take the comeback from the comeback.
Otherwise maybe mute her.

Urgh this is the sort of thing that would drive me mad! It's the obliviousness to how the world works for many people. I'd probably spend ages mentally crafting a response but then not send it in the interests of family harmony.

Exactly. She/he has the opposite of the Midas touch. Managing to turn every situation into something unpleasant.

Is she single, does she live alone?

If so maybe she's just a bit lonely and misses the mundane daily little interactions with family. It's a bit tedious but I'd just ignore it and let MIL do all the chat. If it's DPs family group chat just turn notifications off and check it when you can be bothered.

Yeah this is the kind of petty unimportant shit that grates away at your soul over time.

I'm with you, it would drive me mad twice a week every week.

You and your husband definitely need to do the same, every shift, for at least a fortnight. Really hammily. Until she fucking stops.

Honestly it's too hot for this kind of nonsense right now ;-)

This.
Good grief, you can just scroll by whilst rolling your eyes if you like.
Everyone's different, and use social media type apps differently - whilst others never post anything and instead lurk and bitch about others, some see it as "social" media (clue's kind of in the name, really) and post updates /conversation starters with friends and family. Kind of a way of virtual get togethers or chat to keep in touch.
Baffles me why people like the OP don't just mute the chat, or unfriend or whatever in circumstances like this.
I love seeing what others are up to, for example.
When it comes to chat groups getting obsessive, I'd just mute them or turn notifications off so they're not incessantly pinging, and just dip into it every now and again.

I’d give her the benefit of the doubt OP. It’s annoying, but you don’t have to respond or even let it get to you. Some people don’t realise that they’re communicating this way and it’s just a normal thing to come out with to them. She’s probably not doing it on purpose

Well done for this, I am very proud of you 👏

Or maybe comment on one of her posts, 'Oh that 8 hour working week must hit so hard! Poor you.'

Definitely this!

Photo of you arriving home on Friday at 6.30pm, bedraggled. Pointing at the clock, 'Boo hoo, poor me! Home after another 40 hour week. Someone save me!'

But true...

I would not be able to hold back personally but I hate 'poor me' people. I would possibly retort 'enjoy your shift sil, guess when you only work part time the novelty of posting about it does not wear off too easy'. Actually no i would post every single day 'morning all have a great day, off to my full time job for the day'. Minimum effort people get up my nose.

Look in the bloody mirror!

I would put “look on the bright side, it’s only 2 shifts per week. We have to go in every day”

Mute the channel. Take control. It's what my partner and I do when the family chat annoys us - and it can get very annoying! Think, uploading of nieces and nephews' school reports, and some of those are LONG. Also, pics of dance/piano/karate classes, which is fine if it were only 1 or 2 pics... But not 20.

Or the OP could just mute notifications or be grown up and ignore it and just vex to her DH.

This is all so childish.

I hear you!

I have a sibling who works 3 days a week as a GP, spouse never has worked.
Me and dh work 5 days a week, and other sibling similar.

How often have I heard from dm how GP sibling works so hard, needs to rest, so difficult for them and the pay isn't that good...
Or from sibling themselves about how hard up they are, how can they afford, could there ever be a family who struggle so much to pay into their savings...
I bite my tongue to suggest that there aren't many jobs that can support a family comfortably on one person working 3 days a week.