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I've had a rubbish day at work. How was yours?

41 replies

lightlypoached · 06/03/2023 17:55

My day started off well with yoga ahead of my first meeting.

Then logged on and a key system wasn't working so I looked like an incompetent idiot in front of colleagues. In fact I was an incompetent idiot. I burbled and bumbled instead of taking it in my stride.

And there's a weird atmosphere here and it's making me grumpy and paranoid.

I'm all stressy and horrible now.

How was your day ?

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grafittiartist · 06/03/2023 18:06

Yep. Mondays are always tricky.
Off for a run to shake it all off.
Hope you have something nice planned this evening to help!

lucysmam · 06/03/2023 18:09

Work was fine. However, I had to rush to the loo to be sick when I got in 😢 Now feeling very sorry for myself & waiting for the kids to shower so I can go to bed.

Its2amimustbelonely · 06/03/2023 18:13

Not great. A day of full on copywriting on a subject I'm not 100% familiar with. Then made the mistake of going on LinkedIn and feel like everyone else is better at their jobs than me! Grrr. I hate self doubt.

JustFrustrated · 06/03/2023 18:54

I did an 8 hour round trip, for a 45 minutes meeting that will result in the grand total of fuck all

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lightlypoached · 06/03/2023 19:50

Well hello ladies.

Sorry that you've all had sup-par days.

@lucysmam hope it's a one-time barf and nothing too horrible.

@JustFrustrated that's nuts. Done a few of those in my time.

@Its2amimustbelonely welcome to the self-doubt club. I'm in my 50s and still suffer from it. Madness!

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Nottodaysausage · 06/03/2023 19:56

Weird atmosphere in my work too 😑 a weird clique has formed of 4 women, including management, and they're acting like school yard bullies. One of the women I was quite friendly with, but now she barely speaks to me.
I'm trying to ignore and just get on with my work, but it is giving me horrid memories of being 14 and self conscious

DoesItMakeYouFeelBetter · 06/03/2023 19:58

I’ve got a relatively new job and I’m starting to get the feeling that I’m not well liked. Today was unpleasant because of it.

PinkTonic · 06/03/2023 19:58

I had a terrible day, following weeks and weeks of terrible days. It lasted 10.5 hours which is typical now I have a new boss. I also did about six hours each on Saturday and Sunday. I’m considering my options.

bigroundbrush · 06/03/2023 20:00

Rubbish. Blaming the full moon.

bloodywhitecat · 06/03/2023 20:03

As a foster carer my 'work' is 24/7 (especially as my little one has complex health needs and disabilities). Today has been a good day, I have had a couple of weeks now where I haven't had to get up a dozen times through the night to settle the small person, they are now sleeping 11 hours pretty much so I am now just up through the night to administer medications then can go back to sleep until about 4.30am when the day often starts. Today has been a pain free day for the small one and it has been full of smiles and giggles.

CanIusethisnameplease · 06/03/2023 20:07

Ok , but today was my half day , and a college brought in a cheese cake so there were some plus sides .

Three full days to go now .

Feeling grumpy about personal thing's not work related that’s making me a bit foul .

on the up side , I went to clean the dirty bathroom yesterday, but got distracted and decided to scrub the ceiling and paint it. My daughter came home , huffed and puffed that it wasn’t clean for her bath , and cleaned the whole bathroom!!! ( it will need a quick going over when she’s not looking but it’s 80% great )

im announcing today my biggest parenting accomplishment lol

Twinedpeaks · 06/03/2023 20:16

I had a lovely day with my whole team which was rare. Lord of laughter and good work done!

FruHagen · 06/03/2023 20:20

I had a weird flashback to bitchy school girls when I was presenting in my Teams meeting today and noticed two younger female colleagues trying their best to stifle laughter... and obviously typing messages to each other at the same time.

Perhaps they were laughing at something else but it completely put me off and I couldn't finish what I was saying.

Strange behavior. Not normally how any of my colleagues act.

RJnomore1 · 06/03/2023 20:21

Meh. It wasn’t bad but it wasn’t great. Meetings with finance and legal. Nothing exciting happening and very few people around for a chat.

gettingolderandgrumpier · 06/03/2023 20:32

Rubbish day too , colleague told me off for something petty and I dismissed it as feeling peed off anyway which didn’t go down well .
And it went downhill from there very irritated about a few things at work and I’m considering is it a bad day or time to do something .
I feel like eating chocolate and drinking wine but have neither in and I’m trying to loose a bit of weight so may just go to bed and hopefully tomorrow will be better.

user764329056 · 06/03/2023 20:37

Awful day, think am being managed out of the company, has knocked me for six and I want to run away and hide from the world

Lulu1919 · 06/03/2023 20:39

Pretty rubbish

getafringenotbotox · 06/03/2023 20:49

It was shit. Had an awful meeting on a teams call and I can't resolve any of it.

No one will take ownership of anything due to resource issues on other teams.

I have no authority to actually get anyone to take ownership yet I am the customer facing one who is taking all the shit.

It will probably be landed I. Me when it fails yet I have no control over any of it.

I am upset about letting the customer down and frustrated with it all.

It's been completely wank.

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lightlypoached · 06/03/2023 20:53

bloodywhitecat · 06/03/2023 20:03

As a foster carer my 'work' is 24/7 (especially as my little one has complex health needs and disabilities). Today has been a good day, I have had a couple of weeks now where I haven't had to get up a dozen times through the night to settle the small person, they are now sleeping 11 hours pretty much so I am now just up through the night to administer medications then can go back to sleep until about 4.30am when the day often starts. Today has been a pain free day for the small one and it has been full of smiles and giggles.

Awww that's lovely

I admire you so much Flowers

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lightlypoached · 06/03/2023 21:00

Commiserations to everyone having a shit day. I hate Teams calls. So forced and irritating.

Luckily we have lovely people in the company I'm in but it still has the same irritations and pressures. Working with bitches and bastards is just so grim.

Maybe tomorrow will be better!

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BloodyThursday · 06/03/2023 21:12

I'm struggling with work quite a lot. We have stats. Think similar to how many complaints dealt with although not complaints. One member of staff grabs all the work so the rest of us have not much else to do them her stats shine. Boss doesn't care. I'm sick of it and it makes for a long day with nothing to do.

Now I've found out they've been taking too much annual leave hours and I'm owed some back. Looks like they are going to fight giving me them back. Again boss won't care. She will blame it on my flexi work agreement and try to remove it saying it's not working out. In reality it's the shitty logistics system them have.

adviceatthislatestage · 06/03/2023 21:16

Also a shit day.

Am in local government (benefits) and are knee deep in annual billing and usual end of year stuff.

We're having to implement a new central government scheme that was introduced last week, with very little guidance and despite LAs telling CG how this was absolutely the wrong time to bring this in. There's been no consultation with us and it's all a bit rushed.

Number of applications are much higher than anticipated but we've only been given a limited number of user access.

Worked late and then had to see DM who is in denial with her recent dementia diagnosis.

Came home to watch new box set with DH, but he's on phone to someone excited about potential new car he may get. So TV paused while I wait.

Hey ho- As Scarlett o'Hara said, Tomorrow is another day Smile

Newstartonwards · 06/03/2023 21:21

Reasonably good until someone was aggressive with me at the end of the day.

Tonkerbea · 06/03/2023 21:33

Shit day too, and my daughter had a bad day too, everything feels stressy and tense ☹️

maddiemookins16mum · 06/03/2023 21:36

Good day for me, I’m giving it an 8. Customers were lovely, I was productive and I had a major complaint resolved too. My team were in good spirits. Plus I even managed to speak to a really helpful lady at HMRC for one of my more ‘challenging’ customers so he’s happy too. Best of all, one of my team had her 20 week scan and hearing and seeing her increasing excitement for this much longed for baby is joyous.