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

[lightlypoached]

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 ?

Ok. I'm running a job seeking course for newly qualified social workers - they're so sweet, and grateful!

Full of cold and didn’t sleep, travelled 30 mins to work for an in-person meeting that then got rescheduled to my non working day.

Ate a Danish pastry to make up for it.

Now in bed making notes for a paper I need to write and have approx 11 days to do it in, as well as a 5 day pw workload that I do across 4 days (0.8 FTE).

Coupled with a very junior team who have significant physical and mental health issues, a boss who doesn’t want to be here & a wider team who are going through a massive change curve.

Its definitely easier to be with my 2 year old who is having big emotions

Awful day from start to finish. A series of complete fuck ups. Ugh.

@bloodywhitecat so much admiration for you.

Work was ok but Ive done something to my back and Im in agony. Luckily I have managed to get a medical appt so hopefully tomorrow will bring some relief.

Hope the rest of the week is better for everyone

My day has been shit, quite literally shit, I work in early years! 💩
Its not been a fun day.

tomorrow is another day!

The big boss has demanded everyone be in the office regardless of what they are doing.
Apparently, it is necessary for me to review video footage there and I cannot do it at home.
I'm fairly new, but I can see lots of ego at play with fawning from the team. Meh. I normally like going into the office, but it is getting on my tits to hear someone who is paid about x3 as much as me say, "well, you know me and technology..." several times during a briefing while everyone else laughs.

Had a good day. Just knackered and ready for bed 🛌 😴

Have had a rubbish day on top of a rubbish week last week and because of news today it’s going to be rubbish going forward. I’m coming up with a get out plan, or a move to a different dept. Hate the corporate world so much.

Honestly it's been truly shite. DD (15) has anxiety and ASD and things were really bad with her today to the point once her older sister was home from work I took a walk and sat in the freezing cold by myself for 15 minutes just to unwind.

DH is struggling at work, at a previous job he had a situation where someone attacked him and he had to deal with a customer the other day which caused him to have horrible flashbacks to the attack. He ended up being off with depression/stress for a long time after that incident and I'm worried it's going to happen again at this new job.

Most of my days are similar to this now though, although today was an especially bad one. DD struggles so much that I don't often get much sleep, I'm having nightmares almost every single night and it seems to be the rare night I sleep well is the night she comes through and wakes me up because she's struggling. It's all just getting to me because I don't get a break from it. She didn't go to school today, but even when she does go I get constant texts from her about how she's not coping or I'll get a phone call from the school to ask if she can come home. I just don't have a life any more as I have to always be sitting waiting for something to happen. I've had to give up all my hobbies to make sure DD isn't alone at any point because I can't be sure she wouldn't hurt herself. It's happened before.

I'm spending time with friends tomorrow and I'm dreading it in a way, just because I don't think I'll be able to give my friends the attention I should. They've got so much going on in their lives and mine is just in limbo.

Work was an uphill battle. We are massively behind, in a three man team, and a colleague has decided that as she’s been promoted, she no longer has to do any work other than spend eight hours on the phone to her boyfriend or her teenage kids, if not doing that then she’s either in a break or getting coffee. So the backlog is being dealt with by two of us and now we are being shouted at by senior management for not working hard enough.
To cap it off, colleague wanted to know why I didn’t want to spend an hour talking and sharing my private life with her. My eyebrows shot off my head, and were last seen zooming through the roof on their way to mars.

I've had a good day, one of our long standing clients paid a chunky invoice finally today, been due since November - which offsets the chunky VAT bill that's has to be paid tomorrow. Thank you invoicing god 😂

All hail the invoicing God 👏

I was too tired to write last night. Yesterday was worst day in 13 years. Imagine working in a supermarket, having to work on 2 tills on different floors and having to receive deliveries too. I don't work in a supermarket I work in the public sector. I walked over 5 miles around the building in 9 hours for the minimum wage. Still day off today - still in bed!

@lucysmam

How are you? I haven't seen you pist since??

I tried AS, but it's so pants these days!?

xx

POST!!!

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Started a new part-time job in January and up until last nights shift had thought things were going well… its a job where a skill is needed and i‘m partially qualified ‚on the job‘ training is offered as part of the role. So last night i had ample ‚practice‘ time which i had been so looking forward too but i just couldn’t get my head into it properly and just feel i missed a golden opportunity. It will be a while till i get that kind of chance again and i was hoping to impress the new boss/team and not look like an incompetent idiot. ☹️ So happy its weekend!