You'll have had yours tiers....

[WaxOnFeckOff]

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@WaxOnFeckOff

My ex boss described my hugs as like hugging an ironing board. 😂😂

A boss who likes to hug though? I’m pretty sure that’s not allowed regardless of any virus🤣

A boss who likes to hug though? I’m pretty sure that’s not allowed regardless of any virus🤣

Christmas and when I was leaving! This was in the 1980s/early 90s. I was just a young thing. I even went to his house for a dinner party with his wife and family - probably had a hug then too.

We had a meeting once with the woman who started up the plain english society, she was very huggy and boss did say to me to try not to be an ironing board!

My next boss was a lovely bloke who did have a habit of putting his hands on your shoulders when you were sitting at the PC and he was standing behind watching (computers were pretty new in thos edays and we had one for our room of 5 folk kept on a seperate desk that you went over to use!). I think it was innocent though as he was in general a touchy feely guy, and he did the same with with my male colleagues.

I don't hug work people nowadays - even before lock down.

@WaxOnFeckOff

My ex boss described my hugs as like hugging an ironing board. 😂😂

I'm trying to work out what on earth they guy actually meant?

I once had a boss describe me as a "reptile who needed external heat" yes I'm always freezing.

However I'm happy to join in a group hug. I'm scunnered by teir 4 and throw in a 2 week isolation before it. I'm scunnered. Froze in a park yesterday to meet a friend.

I'm trying to work out what on earth they guy actually meant?

Just very stiff I presumed. My DS2 hugs back but DS1 is like me and it's hard to hug as he just stands there, arms by his sides and doesn't give.

I'm leaving my job this month (long story, hated it), so one plus of lockdown was not having to see the arseholes and avoiding the xmas lunch/dinner/party (whatever they planned).

Spending £40 odd quid on thin cold turkey slices with watery gravy, some weird fancy soup you've never heard of before, and shitty dry dessert and company you don't like, just so you are seen to be a 'team player'.

This year's party was going to be virtual. With virtual karaoke (cringe) and desk yoga (double cringe) so every cloud and all that.

@WaxOnFeckOff weird when you think back to how we used to work. Your post got me thinking to lots of huggers i worked with, including a hand kissing, older gentleman I worked for in the 90s.🤦‍♀️ Or the big hugger in our team, who would give Monday morning hugs because she’d missed us at the weekend. Those were the days🤪
I was never a big hugger or a kiss greeting person, so if there’s a silver lining to come out of all of this it will hopefully be the end of the cheek to cheek kiss greetings.
Just painful.

@Iwillneverbesatisfied desk yoga and virtual karaoke, cringe🤦‍♀️
here’s to new starts for you 🥂

Yep bytheloch but I do like an occasional hand shake. I'm quite tall and standing up to give someone a hand shake can be useful to deal with people who have attitude. Not that I ever take advantage of that.... 😂😂

Here to wave at you lot hugging 😂 (outside of family I only properly hug my best friend) but sending much support to you all.
Groovee

A second friend has just been diagnosed with breast cancer; what a bloody year.

Onward & upward (& wax let us know if you want to run for political office )

Also social desk yoga? WTF!!

Desk yoga just sounds like an excuse for all the bendy bastards to show off

I had to visit a Paris based office of a firm I worked for - everyone in the office kisses each other hello and goodbye at the end of the day, was an excruciating 3 days! I'm guessing covid has been problematic in that respect!

God I used to work for a French company; endless kissing, long lunches, the most well turned out women I have ever seen & the whole thing ground to a halt for the whole of August
They were lovely to work for but I did not fit in AT ALL

Is it Tuesday then we'll hear if we're out of tier 4?

The worst thing would be all shops open but gyms etc shut

It's new year i bloody hated, all the older men trying to get a neerday kiss..boak...

@WaxOnFeckOff

I don't even go to the pub very much, most often just for a meal and a drink. I'm sick of thinking about what to eat, sick of buying food, sick of putting it away, sick of cooking and sick of eating (DH clears up so that bit is fine!).

Also sick of my job, sick of working, sick of housework, sick of inside, sick of outside.

Think I've reached tier infinity of this.

This with fucking bells on

Yip announcement Tuesday taking effect from Friday. I will be most surprised if we drop into a straightforward T3.

Yeah probably 3.5 nit picking bloody hell

Level 3 “plus” for some SNP spin?

My wee ones at work regularly need a hug now I come to think about it. So I do get hugs from them.

Grapevine rumours are that Edinburgh is set to go down to Tier 2 . Let's see if it happens, if it does I might book a night away in the Scottish Borders just because I can and after Christmas suspect we'll all be in Tier 4 for being so dreadfully naughty and seeing people.

Rookie that would be good news for the Edinburgh people. Can T2 have inside visits?

Even tier one can't have inside visits can it? gibbons I don't know how you stuck it out!

No inside visits @Bikingbear but restaurants open until 8pm and allowed to serve alcohol. It would be a much needed boost for our beleaguered restaurants for the last few weeks before Christmas.

No tier 2 is still outside only! I’m currently in a tier 2 but there’s a threat of going to tier 3 soon.

I’m still convinced come January we will all be in tier 4, as there was too much moving over Christmas. I’m hoping I’m wrong though.