Has almost everyone at your work become borderline intolerably mad and difficult recently

[CurdinHenry]

Is society crumbling?

Or just mine?

No change here! But maybe it’s to do with what your job is and the increasing pressures on the people there. What do you / your company do?

No, my colleagues are great as a rule though not perfect. I’m going off the rails a bit since my mum died though.

It’s a general rule that you have to be intolerably mad and difficult to not only get a job at my workplace but to be good at it, those who aren’t can’t cope in the industry.

I don’t think people have been any worse than usual, perhaps just a little more psychotic.

They have at mine, but working for adult social care under a Reform council has definitely presented some challenges for us all.

April and May were mad at my office. Today was the best day we’ve had since the end of March and I hope we’ve turned a corner but I’m not holding my breath. Everyone is overwhelmed and overloaded, calling in sick just to get a break, low morale.

No but I think I'm getting less tolerant of people the longer I'm there 😆

Not in my department, but the downstream users of our product (group company) are fucking barking. Out of control, technically incompetent, hair-on-fire children

That felt good to write down

My colleagues are basically the same. The people we serve on the other hand are complete lunatics.
Things have changed so much the last years.

Yes, hence I'm awake at am stressed about it. Although that will go completely unnoticed by the SLT who will plough on with various changes whilst we lose good staff.

My bosses have turned into exploitative, vindictive cunts in the past couple of years. They have always been hard driving but there used to be support and empathy with it. it now feels like working during the height of Stalin’s terror. You are constantly one minor fuckup away from being (metaphorically) taken out and shot. I work 17 hour days sometimes just so no one can accuse me of dropping a ball. Its horrific.

No, but I'm one of the few permanent employees at a consultants-only law firm. Small core team and the consultants have to be professional to keep their work coming in.

There's not a great feeling in my primary school at the moment and lots are leaving.

I’d love to hear more. This is the reality now for many in Reform areas now.

Yes it’s the hot weather and the impact of half term on the non-parents (some colleagues without children take leave anyway to work on commercial courses/spend time with nieces/nephews etc). Some people don’t have a steady social circle outside work and are actively unpleasant when stressed.

Ditto

Yes, but we're currently going through a (horribly badly managed) 'rightsizing' to make 20% of us redundant, so it's not that surprising that people aren't at their best.

When absolutely everybody that I knew became unbearably annoying over a period of about three months I realised it was time to start HRT……they seem to have improved a lot since then.

It’s ok at ours although money is tight whereas they are used to it having more so some of the enjoyment has gone. I’ve only been there 6 months and am used to tightening my belt so not fussed.

The people are lovely though and management are great.

Are you working in The Pitt? 😂

Completely crackers. The top brass have been turning on each other like cobras while the rest of us sit in the bleachers and wonder which onlooker is going to be next to be sprayed with poison and carried screaming from the building.

Wouldn’t mind working at The Pitt - Dr Robinovitch is my husband x

Same. We’ve also just had a restructure due to numbers and morale has never been lower. Children are barely being taught and the needs of our most vulnerable are unmet. It’s an absolute bin fire at the moment.

My colleagues are fine. We're NHS and we tend to carry each other or we'd collapse.
But the work is insanity. If people just looked after themselves a bit things would calm down but the destruction caused by people drinking and smoking in my particular department is insane.
I dont think most people understand the real damage smoking causes. You can chop them up bit by bit until there is nothing left of their body yet they are still smoking 40 a day.

Guy I'll call Filch - not his name or nickname just coz he mutters to himself like caretaker in Harry potter - is late 30s ish. Since February he's suddenly becoming like an old man. Bangs his keyboard at certain work stations, jams USBs in so hard a couple have broke, hunches over a newspaper in the break room, gives dirty looks if someone makes light-hearted comments and has snarled a couple of times at people.
Nothing HR worthy just ... I dunno ... like a zone of despair around him as one of the engineers put it.

Hope he lightens up.
The red bull can person is also back now:
Ladies or men's toilet - empty red bull can.
Cleaning cupboard - empty red bull can.
The places on the carpark tarmac - empty red bull can, one with four fag butts in hole.
Flower pot in reception area - half full red bull can with flies buzzing round.
🙄
We think it's a game as it's unlikely to be one person, but it's annoying.

Yep, another public sector worker with colleagues (and myself probably!) who are genuinely losing the plot. I witnessed one colleague hitting himself on the head with a plastic bottle the other day and not on an ironic way…