'Fuck it attitude' to everything work-related since hitting 50...

[YankeeDoodleWhat]

That's it. I can't say this in real life but since hitting 50 I just don't seem to care about work-related 'stuff'.

I do my job and am in a very senior role but I've lost all attachment to it. I'm more shocked than anyone as I used to love work and everything surrounding it. Now, I'm annoyed if I have to work an evening or weekend.

Not sure why I've posted, just a rant as I can't say this out loud in the real world 🙂

If anyone's been here and come through, please let me know how. I can't afford to retire or do fewer hours.

At one "Now tell us something we don't know about you" training course introduction I said I'd been Princess Anne's bridesmaid.

Theretirement pension is a Paupers income. It needs to double to be LIVEABLE

Just a warning .

I used to care so much I got ill and totally burnt out. When my mental and physical health recovered enough to go back to work - two years later!!! - I couldn’t give a toss. Didn’t want responsibility, status, high salary. I just wanted to do a job I don’t go home thinking about. Love my life now.

 😂 @SomersetTart

SomerserTart that is genius.
I will bare that in mind for the next pointless meeting I have to attend.
I don’t want to bring my whole self to work.
The company really don’t care.
They only want certain people to bring certain traits to work.
I think I’ll compile a list of ‘facts’ people don’t know about me, so I’m prepared.
Totally made up ones of course.

Do you think wfh or hybrid working because of the pandemic hitting us exactly on peri or menopause has impacted it?
i had my last period 7/3/20 and then lockdown
obvs my hormones started to crash then decline as lockdown persisted and then my work have never gone back
i just can’t be arsed. No one can hear my calls or seee folding laundry or dusting or plucking my chin in between calls.
i dunno. I miss the banter, the movement, the routine. Makes me make way less effort

Well were you? 😂 It could be true, we don’t know that.

Ffs I read the thread skipping the middle to post my words of wisdom 🤣
fuvking hormones
all the youngsters wiping the floor with me (sales) as they want the money for allll the things and I’ve got them or can’t be arsed to use them …

Tell them you were in junior Wimbledon. That was the go to for one of my colleagues.

😂Oh I wish!

Princess Anne's only bridesmaid was Princess Margaret's daughter.

My lovely mum's name was Brenda and she was a school dinner lady.

I think I would prefer your mum Brenda to royalty anyway.

A colleague 50+ told everyone that she showers with her dh every night at nine o’clock on the dot. 😂 She quit not long after.

Our boss never made us do that team building exercise again.

@tiptoetipfinger Thank you, I wouldn't have swapped my mum for anyone, she was perfect.

Hats off to your showering colleague, Now there was a woman who'd had enough of work. Brilliant.

Same as me! ♥️

My tribe!🥰

My whole and authentic self is a right cunt and better left at home and you have the sanitised version.

I was asked at staff drinks, being the old boiler, what advice I would give to new colleagues. I said “Don’t have a drink and drugs fuelled threesome with colleagues. It can make Monday morning a bit awkward in the cold, harsh light of day.” It was a bit of a tumbleweed moment.

Also I really want to answer the interview question “What interests you about this job and what would you bring to it?” with “Well it might as well be this job as any other. And you can see what I would bring to it from my CV.”

I was asked to come up with a getting to know each other better activity. I suggested we each submit an anonymous list of crimes we had committed but had got away with/never been caught. The task was then to match the crimes with the correct person. They went with something else 😂

a) money
b) sandwiches and an apple. Maybe a banana and a packet of crisps. Depends how I'm feeling really.

What!? That was actually a great one! 😄

Anything ice breakery in my work tends to be on teams as we’re doing a round robin introducing ourselves, so I ignore it and just give my name. Bah humbug

What I’ve learnt is that I can just politely say no to things and no one picks me up on it. I’m cultivating a grumpy old woman persona nicely. Last one was ‘are you going to the away day’. ‘No’. Also recently, ‘can we give you a member of staff to manage please, for no more pay ‘ - ‘No’.

I swear to god I'm going to have to club one of my younger colleagues over the head with a blunt instrument. The number of times I've explained the same (simple) thing to him twice in the same day. It's taking all of my will power not to say to him 'how about you listen to me the fucking first time?'

And then there are the constant 'are you busy?' teams messages. No, I'm sat here just waiting for you to ask me another fucking stupid question. Aaaaargghh

Love this.

I know! Philistines, the lot of them.