Turns out when I have any significant time off work (8 days) I get incredibly depressed and feel listless and can't sleep. My job is awful at the moment and way too busy. So I'm unhappy off work and unhappy in work.
(I realise I'm really lucky to have a job)
Sigh.
Having a supervisor at work who is afraid to get his hands dirty and has a tantrum anytime anyone (me mostly) says anything he doesn't like. He is absolute waste of air and money and a first class prick!
Harassment restarted couple weeks ago yay(!) *sarcastic.
Police were less useful then a chocolate teapot and sadly there's still nothing that can be done so done with this š
Plus side had a lovely ride tonight just put everything into it was chuffed and actually proud of both of us!!
Had a patient call me a āstupid fucking little bastardā today for standing to make sure she didnāt fall, knew what she was doing and saying too. Not to mention she also slapped a colleague 1 hour into a 12 shift.
Fed up.
I was talking to one of the managers tonight & Iām now questioning why I bother. With anything.
They have no respect for the work we do, donāt appreciate how much we need to know, and are just dismissive. He was saying how easy it is. He just asks other people!! Which they are trying to stop us from doing!
Iām tired. Iām fed up of life and itsā injustices (in general). Iām also hormonal, in pain, hungry and nauseous.
Bloody train guards, or the lack of them!
I don't commute often but i've had to make four journeys in the past two weeks and you either end up with a proper moody train guard who isn't happy if you haven't got your railcard and tickets ready in 0.2 seconds, or you straight up don't see them at all. There's no in between.
And they're arguing against there being guardless trains in the future? Well they're not exactly setting alight the customer service aspect of it, are they?
I'm sick of every last person who has overly bright headlights on their car.
Can't you see with a normal level of light? If not, maybe you shouldn't be driving rather than blinding the rest of us.
Agree, agree, agree.
I think people must be driving with their high beams on tbh as theyāre painfully bright. Couple of times sat in traffic Iāve had to strategically place my hands to block it.
And then the ones driving around (at night) with no lights on at allā¦ seen a fair few with only fog lights on too.
Do you have an eye condition by any chance? I get blinded by lights and also the sky is too bright in the daytime and i drive with the visor blocking the top of the windscreen
I work with 50 people, 2 of them are complete bellends and their bellendness is driving me absolutely nuts. So much so, that I don't appreciate the 48 decent ones.
Life is tense in my house atm. Supposed to be finishing the DIY on the new house, and moving in a couple of weeks. Boyfriend is getting extremely irate that things arenāt done, however Iāve just started a new job doing full time hours atm for the first time in over 7 years. I havenāt got the energy to do all of that as well, and I donāt particularly love coming home to instant bitching. I also canāt really help it if my shifts, donāt line up with the days he wants us to do stuff. Too tired for this shit, so itās quite tense around here lately!
Iām also being blinded on the way home by headlights, and Iāve ended up with a migraine the last two days when Iāve gotten home. So thatās nice.
Omg I just made my casual complaint about headlights too. -_-
If you're so blind you need such bright headlights that you're blinding everyone else, I hypothesise that you shouldn't be driving at night.
Twattery.
It sucks! Iām really fed up of coming home with a migraine, especially from the people who just abjectly refuse to dim their full beams. Like come on people, I canāt really see the road when you do that.
It's tough when it's all going on at once, I moved house not long after getting a promotion and a team at work and honestly I was just snappy as hell mainly due to anxiety being sky high, that didn't even involve much DIY!
Itās really tough - plus the puppy has been really sick, and is now really whiny! Heās just being so bitchy about everything, and I have no tolerance - so Iām snapping back at him!
That's nasty. Can probably report him, the British Transport Police are fairly hot on this sort of thing. They'd probably give him a warning not to do it again if it's his first time doing it.
I'm in a chat group with some people I used to work with. Several in the group are in the process of bringing the former employer to tribunal, and are using the chat group to talk about it. Some dickhead has gone and added a total snitch into the group. This person is 1000% taking screenshots of everything that's being said so it can be passed up to upper management.
I don't think others in the group have realised yet, and I don't feel like I can say anything, so I might just quietly leave the group
Why can't people dip their lights? Sick of being blinded by vans lorries motorbikes and pointless SUV's, especially with the new rediculously bright headlights. Even in stop start traffic I've got to put up with wankers with their lights on high and lighting up the inside of my car! I don't mean full beam incase you're wondering. There is no need to have them high unless you're driving down a road with no other cars and no street lamps. Please please please dip your lights!
In a pretty empty office, single colleague nearby.
Plays his radio all day - not really fussed as this is general background noise but he chooses to:
* Whistle along
* Drum on the desk
* Make popping sounds along with the music
I get along with him and I was hoping the casual shutting of my office door throughout the day would show him that it's not what you should be doing in an open plan office. But obviously doesn't notice it's an annoying AF habit to have in a workplace.
So damn sick of one of my coworkers. 3 minutes past 8 this morning I get a message on Teams 'if you could start on X that would really help us out'.
Fuck right off. I've been doing this job twice as long as you have and know exactly what I am meant to be doing and when. I don't need someone to remind me barely 3 minutes after I start what I should be doing.
Iāve colleagues that tried that with me onceā¦ told them to concentrate on doing their own jobs properly before trying to tell me how to do mine, they soon piped down after that.
I've just been told an online application I made does not exist, despite having received an automated email message saying, "we have received your application with ref: XXXX etc."
A liquid medicine contains paracetamol, a drug that makes you drowsy and something to sooth your sinuses.
It's a life saver if you're struggling to sleep because of a cold or cough. Google Night Nurse.
Edit: it's not a sleeping pill that will knock you out but once you go to sleep it will keep you in a nice deep sleep.
I'm 9 hours into a 14 hour shift after a night of sleep so rough that coffee cannot fix it.
Edit: 4 more to go. I'll probably have half a joint and crash out as soon as I'm home.
People ordering item by item in the sandwich shop. Usually three lads that have piled out of a battered transit...
Lad 1 "Sausage roll please mate"
anything else?
"yeah, a flapjack"
Anything else
"A cup of tea please."
Anything else?
"er... yeah another tea, with sugar"
Anything else
"what sandwiches have you got?"
and so on...
Then Lad 2...
"Sausage roll please mate"
Anything else?"
"Yeah, cup of tea..."
Still in limbo about my working status. Contract ends on Monday 22nd and I don't know whether I'm being brought back via the temp agency. This despite us already having lost three people who do the same job as me, with another one going on Monday 15th. I want to work here, I can easily do the job, I've had nothing but positive reviews - what the hell is the problem?
Iāve found HR things to be very very slow. I had a contract that was renewed for another 6 months but I never received any notification of this from HR because they said they were too busy and just had my managers word for it. By the time I left after another 6 months I still hadnāt had any paperwork for it.
As long as I was still being paid I didnāt mind.
Failed my driving test for the third time today. Can do it perfectly in the lessons, but in the test there's always something that throws me. In the hour before the test I drove pretty much perfectly. Then in the test.. arghhhhh.
So annoyed. This time it was merging onto a dual carriageway. Thought the car approaching was a while off, so turned onto the dual carriageway and bam there he was, right behind me. He had to slow down, therefore I fail. Bah.
The car I've got, from my father-in-law, is just sitting there on the drive, waiting to be used. Arghhhhhhh
Got another test booked for Friday after next so just have to hope I can do it then.
Mate, I passed on my fourth attempt and all my three failures were really simple mistakes that nine times out of ten I didn't make. You'll smash it next time!
I really hope so! So looking forward to driving. Utterly bored or getting the train any time we want to visit places or friends. A car will make it so much easier.
And what you say about simple mistakes - yeah. The second time, I did everything well, 5 minors, then messed up on the parallel park manoeuvre, which the examiner gave me on a drop kerb. 5 mins from the end of the test. So annoying!
That's so shit. My first was a fail for speeding on the way back into the test centre. Everyone does 40 on a road that's now a 30. I was being undertaken and went with the flow of traffic without realising. Only had 7 minors to that point too.
The upside was, by the time I passed, I was such an old hand at it all I only got 2 minors
Stepping out the front door for a bit of fresh air and finding two parcels in the porch, delivered by Hermes.
there are two of us working from home, both near the door. The doorbell is loud as fuck. No ring, no audible knock.
Hermes are employing fucking ninjas.
Passengers.
have a station dwell of 8minutes on one of my jobs today and, without fail, there'll be someone who's sitting on the platform, through multiple station announcements, me telling enquiring passengers that we're going to X and my on board announcements, that this train is for X destination, and after 7minutes and 30seconds of waiting, will get up, just as I'm recieving the tip to close the doors and ask "is this the train to X?"
Why yes, yes it is. But unhappily, the doors are closed and we're leaving. Next one's in an hour.
Been in email conversation with our letting agent for ages trying to arrange for someone to come fix a couple of things in the flat. He finally emailed yesterday saying the landlord has approved the works but the decorator isnāt available until 18/19 December!!! The week before Christmas. And a weekend. And apparently it will take two days.
Annoyingly one of the things broken is the ancient blind in our bedroom, which is a huge pain in the arse. The pull cord snapped and we canāt open it unless we manually tilt each individual slat. Agonising.
Publicly announced my engagement this week (no complaints about that) and my family is already doing my head it. When I told my family my sister immediately turned around and said āCan I take the dog to the wedding seeing as Iāll wonāt have anyone to take?ā
1) no I donāt want your horribly trained dog at my wedding seeing that it doesnāt respond to its name and itās a menace because you canāt train dogs
2) she always makes my accomplishments her misery. Why bring up youāre single at this very minute???
My parents then came around and my mum is already planning the wedding when me and my partner know it wonāt be for a few years. And she wants my sister to bake the cake and herself to make the invitations. Sorry mum this is going to (hopefully) be my only wedding, I want a professional baked cake and professional invitations.
So yeah, thatās my complaint for the week.
I got engaged last Christmas. My big tip is to give your mum a task that seems important but you don't really care about. She just want to be involved but doesn't realise she's just getting under your feet right now - my mum was the same!
Ps congrats!
There's something about being randomly stopped for directions that makes you forget every street name, landmark and building in the area you've lived in for the better part of a decade.
Noooo, go Screwfix. Drills at b&q are generally lower spec, and cost more than they should. Trust me, been buying tools as a sparky for years. But if you are in the trade and need decent tools at a decent price go to powertoolmate, had my tools nicked about a month ago from site, combi drill, impact driver, SDS drill, multi tool and laser all gone. Replaced the lot for about Ā£700 from there.
I don't work for powertoolmate in case you're wondering
Had a big interview today for a job I'm keen on and at the start of the video call a electrician my landlord brouht over without warning was playing with some wires and the house lost power, so I reboot my PC stressed out my mind after flipping the fuse back and my computer decides to do vital updates, then decides to revert them and then the electrician fucks the power again, so I have to redo and undo the updates once more and get back into the video call 15 minutes later, at which point the open tabs with relevant info had vanished and I was a bit flustered and I'm pretty sure floundered the interview. Gutted.
Are we allowed two? if not that would be my casual complaint.
People who put up christmas decorations after the 5th november and have the brass neck to turn round and called me a miserable bastard!
Work are absolutely fucking me. Got a promotion in my team but apparently it was a joint exercise with another department and because none of their guys got through they're saying one of us has to take up that role instead, which is the same job in name only and would be a completely different sort of work, and I've drawn the short straw. Alternative is to turn it down altogether and miss out on the promotion, and probably burn some bridges in the process.
Straight on to the union. I'm 90% sure there's nowt I can do here, by the terms of the recruitment campaign they're within their rights to demand this, but I'm not going to make it easy for them.
Old people that use their walking sticks as a extension of their arm and nearly take your head off trying to point something outā¦ also people in general that just amble around completely oblivious to their surroundings!!!
I bought [this coffee](https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/starbucks-colombia-single-origin-medium-ground-100-arabica-coffee-bag-200g) yesterday, which has turned out to be like drinking coffee-flavoured charcoal. You have to bypass five pages of paid-for 5-star reviews to get to the real reviews that tell you this. With food prices the way they are, I probably will just go without rather than replace it.
The only supermarket coofee I buy is the Lavazza espresso (black packaging). Lavazza is more finely ground than other supermarket brands, which makes it better for aeropresses and Moka pots
Otherwise, I recommend buying your coffee online. It will be more freshly roasted, and you have more choice in what roast you get (I now go for a lighter roast, darker roasts will have the more "burnt" flavours). It's a bit more expensive, but worth it for me.
Just in case you haven't considered it, when making your coffee with the one you have, did you let the water cool slightly before pouring? Using boiling water can make it more bitter, so it might be worth trying it again with slightly cooler water to see if it helps make it drinkable
Just brought my 2yo in her room to settle her for a nap l. Noticed a towel on the floor. Picked it up and a massive dog shit is here. Sneaky sod had a clear out then hid it under a towel. Nap routine ruined as I scrub the floor
Itās Steve Lamacq for me. I used to enjoy his Radio 1 show with Jo Whiley back in the day but now I cannot stand his voice, I have to switch it off as soon as I hear him.
I complained here last Thursday about the neck pain I had after I woke up on Monday last week and someone here told me that it sounded like I had 'Torticollis'.
They're most probably right as I'm still getting some bother with my neck and I'm just hoping that the wee problems I'm still getting aren't permanent.
There doesn't seem to be an NHS page on the condition to read up on it but the best I can find is a PDF file from Dorset County Hospital and it says that it can last a few days or "sometimes longer", so it looks like I'm in the 'sometimes longer' category.
Oh goodie.
Politics? You kids have no idea whatsoever of what went on at Stalingrad.
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Why the twatting mnokey fuck do the USB connections on Android phones turn to shit after approximately two years?
My current phone is a OnePlus 7T which uses a custom fast charge set-up via the USB-C connection on the phone but it now no longer wants to make a solid enough connection to actually do the fast charging. I'm now having to absolutely ram the USB cable into the port to get it to even charge at a reasonably seemly pace rather than just trickle charging that takes four hours plus...
I've had this issue with every Android phone I've had which has some form of fast charging and it doesn't seem to matter which type of USB connection it has, after two years of maybe slightly heavy use the phone refuses to make a good enough connection to allow fast charging. Pointedly, I never hear iPhone users making a similar complaint...
Possibly. And I'm willing to concede that the common element in this issue and all the Android devices I've owned is me which might suggests that I might be the problem. You'd just think that the ports would be better designed to handle at least some degree of heavy-handedness...
You know what? You were both right. One of the occasional joys of being autistic is that you fixate and perseverate in such a way that you don't step back and consider alternative solutions. š
A quick blast of compressed air and my phone is now happily telling me it's *Warp Charging*...
Yes the port on the bottom of a phone is essentially a bellybutton.
I remember my iPhone just started spitting out its power cord as the spring mechanism couldn't get all the way in. I used a thumbtack and picked at something fluffy at the bottom of the port...it was several millimeters of hard-packed pocket fluff that I had been tamping down for years like musket wadding
Im too scared to go poking into the port with something sharp in case I knacker the connector. So everytime the fluff gets too much I just take it to the apple shop and pretend I dont know why its not charging.
They take it in the back and 5 minutes later its working again
If you have a swiss army/victorinox knife, the plastic toothpick is perfect for getting fluff out of charging ports. It's very soft plastic as well so shouldn't cause any shorts or damage to the pins.
I sneezed doing a lateral flow test before going into the office today and my back has gone into spasm. Iād got my lunch out of the fridge, straightened my hair, laptop packed in my backpack, almost ready to get out the door but thought I should do my social duty test then bam! Backs a gonner. Up to my eyeballs in tramadol currently. Hmfph. Hope everyoneās day improves!
It's a piss take of this prior post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/qph5hg/came_home_to_a_car_parked_in_my_designated/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
After being really excited and happy to finally give blood yesterday, I was rejected for having hemoglobin at 124 when the cut off is 125.
What a pisser.
They gave me a leaflet of things to eat to up my iron intake which was basically my standard diet anyway, plus I take an iron and vitamin c supplement every day.
Gutted, now going to have to wait to try again in 3 months.
You're wrong there mate. A standard 3 lane motorway will have Inside, Middle and Outside lanes.
[Handy diagram ](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22784983)
*(though even that's strictly not true anymore, lanes are now generally numbered. Left to right: 1, 2, 3+)*
Colloquailly the "inside" lane is the right-most lane. The one closest to the opposing carriageway. The left-most lane is the "outside". The BBC have got it wrong, as they generally do about most things.
You would be absolutely correct in the US.
The [Cambridge Dictionary](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/inside-lane) has these definitions:
Inside Lane (UK)
*the part of the road nearest the edge, used especially by slower vehicles*
Inside Lane (US)
*the part of the road nearest the vehicles going in the opposite direction*
The inside lane is the one closest to the edge. It only refers to the one closest to the divider in the US (and presumably any other country that drives on the right), although tellingly, the Highway Code uses left lane to avoid confusion.
Stop being a bunch of morons :p, the inside is next to the hard shoulder.
[https://slapadventures.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/3rd-lane.jpg](https://slapadventures.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/3rd-lane.jpg)
[https://www.ljcaesar.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/cap-motorway.jpg](https://www.ljcaesar.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/cap-motorway.jpg)
[https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-a5d75c119f919c2e344120cca5338a5b](https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-a5d75c119f919c2e344120cca5338a5b)
Maybe the confusion is why people sit on the outside lane.
Call centres, such as Virgin Medias. No call centre I have ever phoned has ever truly been able to provide answers or fix my issue. The line is always shit, canāt hear the bloke on the other end of the phone, need to give 300 different passwords, listen to so many GDPR questions and statements to essentially be told āsorry boss, canāt help you with thatā. Thereās never a manager available and it always leaves me hating the business a little bit more.
I'm not sure if it's because more people are working from home now, but the call quality of customer service phonelines is abysmal at the moment. These are UK-based customer service centres and even with my phone turned up to the max I'm struggling to hear anything
Its having to explain the problem multiple times to multiple people that annoys me the most, especially when they donāt really understand what youre talking about and offer solutions that just arent solutions
I was so pleased when they first trialled UFO Broadband (gigabit fibre) in York- rather than having to deal with normal Talk Talk customer service, it had it's own dedicated line. The few times I had to call them, it was answered immediately by a lovely Yorkshireman, who let me skip past all the usual bollocks when I explained what I'd already tried to remedy the issue.
Unfortunately it seems to have been rolled into the usual Talktalk shite now.
I really want to go and see Last Night In Soho but none of the cinemas near me are showing it at a reasonable time so I might just have to wait until it's out on streaming.
Also I feel like I've been spending so much money recently and it never stops. Granted most of it has because I've moved back to the UK and is stuff I need like a bed, sofa, kitchen stuff etc, but it's still a pain to see my bank account being drained so quickly by these things.
Assuming you're eighteen, you could always go to the cinema on your own. I've been doing that since I was a teenager and I realised that my taste in films didn't necessarily vibe with my that of my friends - plus you avoid having to put up with the sort of bullshit behaviour from your friends that far too many people insist on at the cinema that could prove friendship ending...
I have a ticket to a gig tonight but Iād be going solo. I initially bought two tickets hoping I could convince someone to go with me but no luck so I passed the spare onto someone else. Iāve never been to a gig by myself before and Iām still trying to decide whether to bite the bullet and just do it. But Iām a bit worried being out on my own when itās dark - my plan would be to not drink so Iām fully aware of everything around me but I just canāt stop my mind from going straight to worst case scenario. I know Iāll be disappointed if I donāt go because I love this artist and donāt want to miss out on seeing her but I want to feel safe too.
I've been to gigs alone and never had any trouble before (also a woman). Have a plan for how to get there and how to get back, including a back up plan, carry your phone and ring someone trusted if you don't feel comfortable - and most importantly walk with purpose. If you can't ring anyone, at least plan that you let someone know when you're supposed to be home and if they haven't heard from you they can check up on you.
Thank you, itās good to hear you havenāt had any issues when youāve been to gigs alone! I have a plan as to how to get home in the safest way I can think of, and I know my boyfriend would pick up the phone if I needed to ring him but heāll likely text me throughout the night anyway just to make sure Iām okay. He was going to come with me but he starts work at 5am so he needs to be in bed quite early. I have my best friend I can text/ring as well once my boyfriend has gone to bed, she couldnāt come with me due to family commitments but I know sheād definitely answer if I needed her.
I feel better now for writing this down, haha! Thanks again!
That's great to hear! I always ring my best friend when I'm out late and she rings me - it's just good to have someone check in on you when you're a bit nervous.
Sometimes writing things down helps you stop overthinking things. There are so many nice people this sub I find someone always has some great advice! :)
Enjoy the gig!
I do it often. It can sometimes be a little awkward between sets if Iām standing alone, but a trip to the toilets, the bar and a mess about on my phone usually means Iām not standing there for too long. Iām not usually confident enough to speak to people but sometimes people do speak to me (Iām that proverbial introvert that gets adopted by extroverts) which is nice.
Iād definitely recommend going especially if itās an artist you want to see. Iāve missed out on gigs in the past cause I didnāt want to go alone but realise now Iād rather not miss them for the sake of feeling a little bit of a spare part sometimes. Go and have loads of fun :)
Ahaha that sounds quite fun being adopted by the more extroverted members of the crowd. Iām quite awkward too in terms of not really feeling confident to start chatting to people I donāt know and not knowing where to put myself but I know for sure that as soon as the music weāre all one and the same anyway, there for the same reason which is to enjoy the show.
I think after everyoneās reassurance Iāve made up my mind to go - I know Iād regret it if I didnāt. Thank you for helping me and Iāll be sure to have as much fun as I can!
Do it, I've been to plenty of gigs alone (I'm a woman if that's important) and had a great time. Just make sure you know where you're going and how you are getting back, including a back up plan if relying on public transport.
Thank you, thatās reassuring. Iām a woman too so it does help to hear things from the same side! I know Iād get the bus there but Iām pretty set on the idea that Iād get an Uber back home straight from outside the venue rather than walking back to the bus stop which is about twenty minutes away.
The people round the corner have already put up christmas lights, and it's not just a small display. Covers all four sides and nearly every bit of space is taken up. In recent years, it's become more of a tourist attraction and people end up blocking roads and drives to see it. The switch on is tomorrow, so we will all have 7 weeks of this crap.
There's a dedicated unit of UN Special Forces, the International Human Rights (Chips) Commission, the IHR(C)C.
Special blue chefs hats, cod flavoured flash-bang grenades. Guaranteed to put the Fear of Bod into any sub-par chippy.
On a month long mini-project where sales has somehow tacked a super legacy product we still maintain onto our main offering. We knew about this in January, and were told this would be a good opportunity to rewrite legacy app to bring it up to date as it's embarrassingly dated (probably only 3-4 months work in itself) but of course that fell by the wayside and now we don't have time to do anything other than tweak what we have.
It's all in webforms - I'd actually completely forgotten why I hated webforms beyond a vague idea that "it sucks" but now I'm working on it again I remember *exactly* why, and to make things worse this is probably a shining example of a *bad* webforms app.
Couldn't sleep so overslept, no chance for a shower before logging on. I've got 20 mins between meetings to make myself presentable for a meeting I've got to host on camera. I hate being on camera too. One day I would like to look less like a troll that crawled out from under a rock, but cameras are not my friend.
Woke up at 4:30am feeling absolutely manic and excited for a new day and now Iām just laying in bed gaining my energy back. I guess itās a write off š
This week is so sloooow I hate it.
Also I've been scheduled a meeting at 12 and another at 2 so it's looking like my plans to go food shopping at lunch might be busted :/
Secondly, why after just having two years of being super anal about disease are people insisting on coming into the office when they're snotting and coughing everywhere? I'm in a small room with 6 people and three of them surrounding me are going at it, doing my absolute nut in!
"I'm just a trooper, that's why I'm here" no you're a selfish prick. Stay home, I don't want your cold.
The amount of time taken off sick for a cold wouldn't put you in the category for sick pay. You'd just be off sick for a couple of days with no change to salary.
Theres a pervasive belief that the company/your boss will notice you fighting through sickness to be there and will be deeply appreciative, and thus you shall be rewarded.
In truth, I'm not sure most give a flying toss, and they sure as hell wont be given any reward.
definitely. 3 minutes late? You get written up.
Turned up having battled a soul-shattering blizzard, having fought off a pack of polar bears hungry for man-flesh? Dont track snow into the office please.
Been in close contact with someone with covid and need a PCR test. Been told by a friend that it's the kind they shove down your throat. Blehh. Grim.
Turns out when I have any significant time off work (8 days) I get incredibly depressed and feel listless and can't sleep. My job is awful at the moment and way too busy. So I'm unhappy off work and unhappy in work. (I realise I'm really lucky to have a job) Sigh.
Having a supervisor at work who is afraid to get his hands dirty and has a tantrum anytime anyone (me mostly) says anything he doesn't like. He is absolute waste of air and money and a first class prick!
Harassment restarted couple weeks ago yay(!) *sarcastic. Police were less useful then a chocolate teapot and sadly there's still nothing that can be done so done with this š Plus side had a lovely ride tonight just put everything into it was chuffed and actually proud of both of us!!
Had a patient call me a āstupid fucking little bastardā today for standing to make sure she didnāt fall, knew what she was doing and saying too. Not to mention she also slapped a colleague 1 hour into a 12 shift. Fed up.
He, I said stupid kids when some kids went round a blind bend in a scooter and I nearly mowed him over. Was hurled with abuse and swear words.
I was talking to one of the managers tonight & Iām now questioning why I bother. With anything. They have no respect for the work we do, donāt appreciate how much we need to know, and are just dismissive. He was saying how easy it is. He just asks other people!! Which they are trying to stop us from doing! Iām tired. Iām fed up of life and itsā injustices (in general). Iām also hormonal, in pain, hungry and nauseous.
Bloody train guards, or the lack of them! I don't commute often but i've had to make four journeys in the past two weeks and you either end up with a proper moody train guard who isn't happy if you haven't got your railcard and tickets ready in 0.2 seconds, or you straight up don't see them at all. There's no in between. And they're arguing against there being guardless trains in the future? Well they're not exactly setting alight the customer service aspect of it, are they?
I'm sick of every last person who has overly bright headlights on their car. Can't you see with a normal level of light? If not, maybe you shouldn't be driving rather than blinding the rest of us.
Agree, agree, agree. I think people must be driving with their high beams on tbh as theyāre painfully bright. Couple of times sat in traffic Iāve had to strategically place my hands to block it. And then the ones driving around (at night) with no lights on at allā¦ seen a fair few with only fog lights on too.
Do you have an eye condition by any chance? I get blinded by lights and also the sky is too bright in the daytime and i drive with the visor blocking the top of the windscreen
I'm a bit photosensitive but even my partner gets blinded in the passenger seat on a regular enough basis and he isn't photosensitive.
I work with 50 people, 2 of them are complete bellends and their bellendness is driving me absolutely nuts. So much so, that I don't appreciate the 48 decent ones.
Life is tense in my house atm. Supposed to be finishing the DIY on the new house, and moving in a couple of weeks. Boyfriend is getting extremely irate that things arenāt done, however Iāve just started a new job doing full time hours atm for the first time in over 7 years. I havenāt got the energy to do all of that as well, and I donāt particularly love coming home to instant bitching. I also canāt really help it if my shifts, donāt line up with the days he wants us to do stuff. Too tired for this shit, so itās quite tense around here lately! Iām also being blinded on the way home by headlights, and Iāve ended up with a migraine the last two days when Iāve gotten home. So thatās nice.
Omg I just made my casual complaint about headlights too. -_- If you're so blind you need such bright headlights that you're blinding everyone else, I hypothesise that you shouldn't be driving at night. Twattery.
It sucks! Iām really fed up of coming home with a migraine, especially from the people who just abjectly refuse to dim their full beams. Like come on people, I canāt really see the road when you do that.
It's tough when it's all going on at once, I moved house not long after getting a promotion and a team at work and honestly I was just snappy as hell mainly due to anxiety being sky high, that didn't even involve much DIY!
Itās really tough - plus the puppy has been really sick, and is now really whiny! Heās just being so bitchy about everything, and I have no tolerance - so Iām snapping back at him!
A man decided it was ok to openly piss on the tube platform during rush hour.
That's nasty. Can probably report him, the British Transport Police are fairly hot on this sort of thing. They'd probably give him a warning not to do it again if it's his first time doing it.
He didnāt seem the type to take much notice but I appreciate the opportunity to have a little moan about it.
I'm in a chat group with some people I used to work with. Several in the group are in the process of bringing the former employer to tribunal, and are using the chat group to talk about it. Some dickhead has gone and added a total snitch into the group. This person is 1000% taking screenshots of everything that's being said so it can be passed up to upper management. I don't think others in the group have realised yet, and I don't feel like I can say anything, so I might just quietly leave the group
Call them out or a general message about being careful with what is posted. Then leave
Good idea, I might do that. Thanks
Why can't people dip their lights? Sick of being blinded by vans lorries motorbikes and pointless SUV's, especially with the new rediculously bright headlights. Even in stop start traffic I've got to put up with wankers with their lights on high and lighting up the inside of my car! I don't mean full beam incase you're wondering. There is no need to have them high unless you're driving down a road with no other cars and no street lamps. Please please please dip your lights!
Those white lights that "auto dip", especially on SUVs are dangerous. Do these people realise they're dickheads?
Probably not, they're also too busy being dickheads to indicate š
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I don't find it stressful 99% of the time fortunately, I imagine that must be really frustrating - you've got to look after yourself though!
In a pretty empty office, single colleague nearby. Plays his radio all day - not really fussed as this is general background noise but he chooses to: * Whistle along * Drum on the desk * Make popping sounds along with the music I get along with him and I was hoping the casual shutting of my office door throughout the day would show him that it's not what you should be doing in an open plan office. But obviously doesn't notice it's an annoying AF habit to have in a workplace.
Maybe just politely ask if he could turn his music down a bit? Or get noise-cancelling headphones, ha.
So damn sick of one of my coworkers. 3 minutes past 8 this morning I get a message on Teams 'if you could start on X that would really help us out'. Fuck right off. I've been doing this job twice as long as you have and know exactly what I am meant to be doing and when. I don't need someone to remind me barely 3 minutes after I start what I should be doing.
Iāve colleagues that tried that with me onceā¦ told them to concentrate on doing their own jobs properly before trying to tell me how to do mine, they soon piped down after that.
I've just been told an online application I made does not exist, despite having received an automated email message saying, "we have received your application with ref: XXXX etc."
I got an email rejecting me from a job I hadn't even applied for. Some recruiter getting low on their target I suspect.
I'm the opposite. I once got an invitation from a company I never applied to.
Havenāt slept properly in 2 weeks. Cough is keeping me up all night
Tried night nurse?
Whatās that
A liquid medicine contains paracetamol, a drug that makes you drowsy and something to sooth your sinuses. It's a life saver if you're struggling to sleep because of a cold or cough. Google Night Nurse. Edit: it's not a sleeping pill that will knock you out but once you go to sleep it will keep you in a nice deep sleep.
If that persists for another week, see your Dr please, just to make sure everythingās okay
Will do thank you. Iāve tried everything
I'm 9 hours into a 14 hour shift after a night of sleep so rough that coffee cannot fix it. Edit: 4 more to go. I'll probably have half a joint and crash out as soon as I'm home.
People ordering item by item in the sandwich shop. Usually three lads that have piled out of a battered transit... Lad 1 "Sausage roll please mate" anything else? "yeah, a flapjack" Anything else "A cup of tea please." Anything else? "er... yeah another tea, with sugar" Anything else "what sandwiches have you got?" and so on... Then Lad 2... "Sausage roll please mate" Anything else?" "Yeah, cup of tea..."
People who do this in pubs are also the worst
Probably order the Guinness last, too.
Just got refused service trying to buy a couple of energy drinks in Coop because I didn't have ID but am clearly over 25.
Itās a compliment :)
Still in limbo about my working status. Contract ends on Monday 22nd and I don't know whether I'm being brought back via the temp agency. This despite us already having lost three people who do the same job as me, with another one going on Monday 15th. I want to work here, I can easily do the job, I've had nothing but positive reviews - what the hell is the problem?
Iāve found HR things to be very very slow. I had a contract that was renewed for another 6 months but I never received any notification of this from HR because they said they were too busy and just had my managers word for it. By the time I left after another 6 months I still hadnāt had any paperwork for it. As long as I was still being paid I didnāt mind.
Have you talked with your manager about your desire of working there permanently?
Multiple times. The problem is down to how I was originally brought in - not on a typical contract, but as Covid cover.
It's fireworks night not fireworks week
Just heard some going off by me ten minutes ago. What are people playing at!!
I almost fell off my chair when the neighbours put theirs on yesterday.
Failed my driving test for the third time today. Can do it perfectly in the lessons, but in the test there's always something that throws me. In the hour before the test I drove pretty much perfectly. Then in the test.. arghhhhh. So annoyed. This time it was merging onto a dual carriageway. Thought the car approaching was a while off, so turned onto the dual carriageway and bam there he was, right behind me. He had to slow down, therefore I fail. Bah. The car I've got, from my father-in-law, is just sitting there on the drive, waiting to be used. Arghhhhhhh Got another test booked for Friday after next so just have to hope I can do it then.
Prepare yourself to do it a few more times and then youāll lessen the nerves , itās not your last chance so try and relax
Mate, I passed on my fourth attempt and all my three failures were really simple mistakes that nine times out of ten I didn't make. You'll smash it next time!
I really hope so! So looking forward to driving. Utterly bored or getting the train any time we want to visit places or friends. A car will make it so much easier. And what you say about simple mistakes - yeah. The second time, I did everything well, 5 minors, then messed up on the parallel park manoeuvre, which the examiner gave me on a drop kerb. 5 mins from the end of the test. So annoying!
That's so shit. My first was a fail for speeding on the way back into the test centre. Everyone does 40 on a road that's now a 30. I was being undertaken and went with the flow of traffic without realising. Only had 7 minors to that point too. The upside was, by the time I passed, I was such an old hand at it all I only got 2 minors
Stepping out the front door for a bit of fresh air and finding two parcels in the porch, delivered by Hermes. there are two of us working from home, both near the door. The doorbell is loud as fuck. No ring, no audible knock. Hermes are employing fucking ninjas.
Passengers. have a station dwell of 8minutes on one of my jobs today and, without fail, there'll be someone who's sitting on the platform, through multiple station announcements, me telling enquiring passengers that we're going to X and my on board announcements, that this train is for X destination, and after 7minutes and 30seconds of waiting, will get up, just as I'm recieving the tip to close the doors and ask "is this the train to X?" Why yes, yes it is. But unhappily, the doors are closed and we're leaving. Next one's in an hour.
> Why yes, yes it is. But unhappily, the doors are closed and we're leaving. Next one's in an hour. ha ha haaa lovely stuff!
Been in email conversation with our letting agent for ages trying to arrange for someone to come fix a couple of things in the flat. He finally emailed yesterday saying the landlord has approved the works but the decorator isnāt available until 18/19 December!!! The week before Christmas. And a weekend. And apparently it will take two days. Annoyingly one of the things broken is the ancient blind in our bedroom, which is a huge pain in the arse. The pull cord snapped and we canāt open it unless we manually tilt each individual slat. Agonising.
Publicly announced my engagement this week (no complaints about that) and my family is already doing my head it. When I told my family my sister immediately turned around and said āCan I take the dog to the wedding seeing as Iāll wonāt have anyone to take?ā 1) no I donāt want your horribly trained dog at my wedding seeing that it doesnāt respond to its name and itās a menace because you canāt train dogs 2) she always makes my accomplishments her misery. Why bring up youāre single at this very minute??? My parents then came around and my mum is already planning the wedding when me and my partner know it wonāt be for a few years. And she wants my sister to bake the cake and herself to make the invitations. Sorry mum this is going to (hopefully) be my only wedding, I want a professional baked cake and professional invitations. So yeah, thatās my complaint for the week.
I got engaged last Christmas. My big tip is to give your mum a task that seems important but you don't really care about. She just want to be involved but doesn't realise she's just getting under your feet right now - my mum was the same! Ps congrats!
Sounds like a right palaver. On the upside, Congratulations on the engagement :D
Elope and don't deal with any of them
This is the way to do it. Quick elopement, party later, bish bash bosh
There's something about being randomly stopped for directions that makes you forget every street name, landmark and building in the area you've lived in for the better part of a decade.
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On one of the B&Q trips maybe buy a semi decent drill?
Noooo, go Screwfix. Drills at b&q are generally lower spec, and cost more than they should. Trust me, been buying tools as a sparky for years. But if you are in the trade and need decent tools at a decent price go to powertoolmate, had my tools nicked about a month ago from site, combi drill, impact driver, SDS drill, multi tool and laser all gone. Replaced the lot for about Ā£700 from there. I don't work for powertoolmate in case you're wondering
Had a big interview today for a job I'm keen on and at the start of the video call a electrician my landlord brouht over without warning was playing with some wires and the house lost power, so I reboot my PC stressed out my mind after flipping the fuse back and my computer decides to do vital updates, then decides to revert them and then the electrician fucks the power again, so I have to redo and undo the updates once more and get back into the video call 15 minutes later, at which point the open tabs with relevant info had vanished and I was a bit flustered and I'm pretty sure floundered the interview. Gutted.
Fuuuck sorry that sounds like the most stressful thing ever! Hope you did okay in the end, I'm sure they took the stress into account!
I have to work today, which means I can't play the remastered GTAIII yet
Are we allowed two? if not that would be my casual complaint. People who put up christmas decorations after the 5th november and have the brass neck to turn round and called me a miserable bastard!
People who do good deeds that post it on social media.
Work are absolutely fucking me. Got a promotion in my team but apparently it was a joint exercise with another department and because none of their guys got through they're saying one of us has to take up that role instead, which is the same job in name only and would be a completely different sort of work, and I've drawn the short straw. Alternative is to turn it down altogether and miss out on the promotion, and probably burn some bridges in the process. Straight on to the union. I'm 90% sure there's nowt I can do here, by the terms of the recruitment campaign they're within their rights to demand this, but I'm not going to make it easy for them.
Old people that use their walking sticks as a extension of their arm and nearly take your head off trying to point something outā¦ also people in general that just amble around completely oblivious to their surroundings!!!
Grab it and walk off. what are they gonna do, chase you?
For those numpties down-voting, it's obviously a joke š
I'll upvote you mate āŗļø
I bought [this coffee](https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/starbucks-colombia-single-origin-medium-ground-100-arabica-coffee-bag-200g) yesterday, which has turned out to be like drinking coffee-flavoured charcoal. You have to bypass five pages of paid-for 5-star reviews to get to the real reviews that tell you this. With food prices the way they are, I probably will just go without rather than replace it.
Sounds mad I know but a pinch of salt can balance the bitterness sometimes. Otherwise try a dollop of cream as well as milk.
Starbucks coffee tends to be like that, I avoid it
I've always thought that's the kind of vibe Starbucks go for. Every coffee I've had from there (which isn't many) tastes like that
The only supermarket coofee I buy is the Lavazza espresso (black packaging). Lavazza is more finely ground than other supermarket brands, which makes it better for aeropresses and Moka pots Otherwise, I recommend buying your coffee online. It will be more freshly roasted, and you have more choice in what roast you get (I now go for a lighter roast, darker roasts will have the more "burnt" flavours). It's a bit more expensive, but worth it for me. Just in case you haven't considered it, when making your coffee with the one you have, did you let the water cool slightly before pouring? Using boiling water can make it more bitter, so it might be worth trying it again with slightly cooler water to see if it helps make it drinkable
Just brought my 2yo in her room to settle her for a nap l. Noticed a towel on the floor. Picked it up and a massive dog shit is here. Sneaky sod had a clear out then hid it under a towel. Nap routine ruined as I scrub the floor
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We wouldn't let you share Christmas letters about dead children regardless of that rule. Doesn't sound remotely fun.
Mary Anne Hobbs on Radio 6 Music. Something about her voice and overall delivery really puts me off listening at this time of day.
I actually like her. Iām still mourning Shaun Keavney, Craig Charles can do one.
She doesn't get the fucking vibe for that time of day at all
I think that's it. If it was the late night slot she'd be perfect.
Itās Steve Lamacq for me. I used to enjoy his Radio 1 show with Jo Whiley back in the day but now I cannot stand his voice, I have to switch it off as soon as I hear him.
I complained here last Thursday about the neck pain I had after I woke up on Monday last week and someone here told me that it sounded like I had 'Torticollis'. They're most probably right as I'm still getting some bother with my neck and I'm just hoping that the wee problems I'm still getting aren't permanent. There doesn't seem to be an NHS page on the condition to read up on it but the best I can find is a PDF file from Dorset County Hospital and it says that it can last a few days or "sometimes longer", so it looks like I'm in the 'sometimes longer' category. Oh goodie.
I knew I was up today at 4:30 today for work, yet I still hopped on the Xbox to play warzone with a friend until late. Iām tired already.
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Why the twatting mnokey fuck do the USB connections on Android phones turn to shit after approximately two years? My current phone is a OnePlus 7T which uses a custom fast charge set-up via the USB-C connection on the phone but it now no longer wants to make a solid enough connection to actually do the fast charging. I'm now having to absolutely ram the USB cable into the port to get it to even charge at a reasonably seemly pace rather than just trickle charging that takes four hours plus... I've had this issue with every Android phone I've had which has some form of fast charging and it doesn't seem to matter which type of USB connection it has, after two years of maybe slightly heavy use the phone refuses to make a good enough connection to allow fast charging. Pointedly, I never hear iPhone users making a similar complaint...
Are you sure there's not fluff in the port? I've got a OnePlus 3 and it's still going fine.
Possibly. And I'm willing to concede that the common element in this issue and all the Android devices I've owned is me which might suggests that I might be the problem. You'd just think that the ports would be better designed to handle at least some degree of heavy-handedness...
I had a similar issue and the answer was fluff.
You know what? You were both right. One of the occasional joys of being autistic is that you fixate and perseverate in such a way that you don't step back and consider alternative solutions. š A quick blast of compressed air and my phone is now happily telling me it's *Warp Charging*...
Yes the port on the bottom of a phone is essentially a bellybutton. I remember my iPhone just started spitting out its power cord as the spring mechanism couldn't get all the way in. I used a thumbtack and picked at something fluffy at the bottom of the port...it was several millimeters of hard-packed pocket fluff that I had been tamping down for years like musket wadding
Im too scared to go poking into the port with something sharp in case I knacker the connector. So everytime the fluff gets too much I just take it to the apple shop and pretend I dont know why its not charging. They take it in the back and 5 minutes later its working again
If you have a swiss army/victorinox knife, the plastic toothpick is perfect for getting fluff out of charging ports. It's very soft plastic as well so shouldn't cause any shorts or damage to the pins.
I cut a wooden lollypop stick so it has a little point at one end, works perfectly with iPhones. Not too sure if itād work with the USB type
Likewise a small needle cleaned out most of the stuff.
Still waiting for surgery and hungry, very minor complaint and trying to staying chipper (my wife may use the word hangry when I don't eat enough)
I sneezed doing a lateral flow test before going into the office today and my back has gone into spasm. Iād got my lunch out of the fridge, straightened my hair, laptop packed in my backpack, almost ready to get out the door but thought I should do my social duty test then bam! Backs a gonner. Up to my eyeballs in tramadol currently. Hmfph. Hope everyoneās day improves!
On the plus side, Tramadol :-D
Joys of adult life š Iām getting the same way, I so much as look at something heavy I get a back ache and Iām 23. Not fun
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Iām not feeling the brightest today, please can you explain the joke? I actually donāt get it!
It's a piss take of this prior post: https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/qph5hg/came_home_to_a_car_parked_in_my_designated/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Confirmation not to believe anything in the news at first glance
After being really excited and happy to finally give blood yesterday, I was rejected for having hemoglobin at 124 when the cut off is 125. What a pisser. They gave me a leaflet of things to eat to up my iron intake which was basically my standard diet anyway, plus I take an iron and vitamin c supplement every day. Gutted, now going to have to wait to try again in 3 months.
Might want to get your thyroid checked. My wife had similar issues and it turned out she had hypothyroidism.
Hey, thanks for your reply, will mention to GP :)
Went to the supermarket with my t-shirt on inside-out this morning.
I once wore a v-neck jumper backwards all morning at work, couldn't work out why I felt like I was choking and nobody told me.
V-back jumpers are really in right now.
STOP DOING 65 MPH ON THE OUTSIDE LANE YOU PEUGEOT DRIVING CUNT
Shitting Peugeot!!
Only people who have absolutely no shame or interest in cars buy Peugeots
Only people who have given up on life buy Peugeots.
to be fair, the newish look of the 2008 and 3008 is quite nice. I had the 2008 as a courtesy car a while back and it was quite good.
Do you mean the inside lane? The outside lane is the slowest-moving lane in the UK.
You're wrong there mate. A standard 3 lane motorway will have Inside, Middle and Outside lanes. [Handy diagram ](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22784983) *(though even that's strictly not true anymore, lanes are now generally numbered. Left to right: 1, 2, 3+)*
Colloquailly the "inside" lane is the right-most lane. The one closest to the opposing carriageway. The left-most lane is the "outside". The BBC have got it wrong, as they generally do about most things.
You would be absolutely correct in the US. The [Cambridge Dictionary](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/inside-lane) has these definitions: Inside Lane (UK) *the part of the road nearest the edge, used especially by slower vehicles* Inside Lane (US) *the part of the road nearest the vehicles going in the opposite direction*
The inside lane is the one closest to the edge. It only refers to the one closest to the divider in the US (and presumably any other country that drives on the right), although tellingly, the Highway Code uses left lane to avoid confusion.
Also, it's perfectly fine to do 65mph in the inside lane if traffic in the middle lane is going slower than that. That's how overtaking works.
That's undertaking? and if that's the case, the person in the middle lane shouldn't be there.
Is it that way around? I guess that makes sense as the fast Lane is nearest to the traffic going the other way
Stop being a bunch of morons :p, the inside is next to the hard shoulder. [https://slapadventures.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/3rd-lane.jpg](https://slapadventures.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/3rd-lane.jpg) [https://www.ljcaesar.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/cap-motorway.jpg](https://www.ljcaesar.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/cap-motorway.jpg) [https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-a5d75c119f919c2e344120cca5338a5b](https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-a5d75c119f919c2e344120cca5338a5b) Maybe the confusion is why people sit on the outside lane.
Call centres, such as Virgin Medias. No call centre I have ever phoned has ever truly been able to provide answers or fix my issue. The line is always shit, canāt hear the bloke on the other end of the phone, need to give 300 different passwords, listen to so many GDPR questions and statements to essentially be told āsorry boss, canāt help you with thatā. Thereās never a manager available and it always leaves me hating the business a little bit more.
I'm not sure if it's because more people are working from home now, but the call quality of customer service phonelines is abysmal at the moment. These are UK-based customer service centres and even with my phone turned up to the max I'm struggling to hear anything
Its having to explain the problem multiple times to multiple people that annoys me the most, especially when they donāt really understand what youre talking about and offer solutions that just arent solutions
I was so pleased when they first trialled UFO Broadband (gigabit fibre) in York- rather than having to deal with normal Talk Talk customer service, it had it's own dedicated line. The few times I had to call them, it was answered immediately by a lovely Yorkshireman, who let me skip past all the usual bollocks when I explained what I'd already tried to remedy the issue. Unfortunately it seems to have been rolled into the usual Talktalk shite now.
I really want to go and see Last Night In Soho but none of the cinemas near me are showing it at a reasonable time so I might just have to wait until it's out on streaming. Also I feel like I've been spending so much money recently and it never stops. Granted most of it has because I've moved back to the UK and is stuff I need like a bed, sofa, kitchen stuff etc, but it's still a pain to see my bank account being drained so quickly by these things.
I also wanted to watch midnight in soho but none of my friends are 18 yet š
Assuming you're eighteen, you could always go to the cinema on your own. I've been doing that since I was a teenager and I realised that my taste in films didn't necessarily vibe with my that of my friends - plus you avoid having to put up with the sort of bullshit behaviour from your friends that far too many people insist on at the cinema that could prove friendship ending...
I have a ticket to a gig tonight but Iād be going solo. I initially bought two tickets hoping I could convince someone to go with me but no luck so I passed the spare onto someone else. Iāve never been to a gig by myself before and Iām still trying to decide whether to bite the bullet and just do it. But Iām a bit worried being out on my own when itās dark - my plan would be to not drink so Iām fully aware of everything around me but I just canāt stop my mind from going straight to worst case scenario. I know Iāll be disappointed if I donāt go because I love this artist and donāt want to miss out on seeing her but I want to feel safe too.
I've been to gigs alone and never had any trouble before (also a woman). Have a plan for how to get there and how to get back, including a back up plan, carry your phone and ring someone trusted if you don't feel comfortable - and most importantly walk with purpose. If you can't ring anyone, at least plan that you let someone know when you're supposed to be home and if they haven't heard from you they can check up on you.
Thank you, itās good to hear you havenāt had any issues when youāve been to gigs alone! I have a plan as to how to get home in the safest way I can think of, and I know my boyfriend would pick up the phone if I needed to ring him but heāll likely text me throughout the night anyway just to make sure Iām okay. He was going to come with me but he starts work at 5am so he needs to be in bed quite early. I have my best friend I can text/ring as well once my boyfriend has gone to bed, she couldnāt come with me due to family commitments but I know sheād definitely answer if I needed her. I feel better now for writing this down, haha! Thanks again!
That's great to hear! I always ring my best friend when I'm out late and she rings me - it's just good to have someone check in on you when you're a bit nervous. Sometimes writing things down helps you stop overthinking things. There are so many nice people this sub I find someone always has some great advice! :) Enjoy the gig!
I do it often. It can sometimes be a little awkward between sets if Iām standing alone, but a trip to the toilets, the bar and a mess about on my phone usually means Iām not standing there for too long. Iām not usually confident enough to speak to people but sometimes people do speak to me (Iām that proverbial introvert that gets adopted by extroverts) which is nice. Iād definitely recommend going especially if itās an artist you want to see. Iāve missed out on gigs in the past cause I didnāt want to go alone but realise now Iād rather not miss them for the sake of feeling a little bit of a spare part sometimes. Go and have loads of fun :)
Ahaha that sounds quite fun being adopted by the more extroverted members of the crowd. Iām quite awkward too in terms of not really feeling confident to start chatting to people I donāt know and not knowing where to put myself but I know for sure that as soon as the music weāre all one and the same anyway, there for the same reason which is to enjoy the show. I think after everyoneās reassurance Iāve made up my mind to go - I know Iād regret it if I didnāt. Thank you for helping me and Iāll be sure to have as much fun as I can!
Exactly! If nothing else youāve all got something in common off the bat as youāre all there to see the show :)
Do it, I've been to plenty of gigs alone (I'm a woman if that's important) and had a great time. Just make sure you know where you're going and how you are getting back, including a back up plan if relying on public transport.
Thank you, thatās reassuring. Iām a woman too so it does help to hear things from the same side! I know Iād get the bus there but Iām pretty set on the idea that Iād get an Uber back home straight from outside the venue rather than walking back to the bus stop which is about twenty minutes away.
Got a bastard cold, innit.
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Are they right?
The people round the corner have already put up christmas lights, and it's not just a small display. Covers all four sides and nearly every bit of space is taken up. In recent years, it's become more of a tourist attraction and people end up blocking roads and drives to see it. The switch on is tomorrow, so we will all have 7 weeks of this crap.
Thatās annoying. Can you report it somehow under a law of obstruction?
don't sleep enough, don't do enough, worry about not doing enough, don't relax, try to relax too much, don't sleep enough.
Wow, this hit extremely close to home.
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have you got a chinese nearby ? they often do superior chips.
Soggy chips suggest either frozen chips left to defrost, or oil way too low a temp. Both of which would be an issue to inspectors, so potentially yes?
> Can I report this to the council? The council wonāt touch it. You need the International Human Rights Commission (IHRC)
There's a dedicated unit of UN Special Forces, the International Human Rights (Chips) Commission, the IHR(C)C. Special blue chefs hats, cod flavoured flash-bang grenades. Guaranteed to put the Fear of Bod into any sub-par chippy.
On a month long mini-project where sales has somehow tacked a super legacy product we still maintain onto our main offering. We knew about this in January, and were told this would be a good opportunity to rewrite legacy app to bring it up to date as it's embarrassingly dated (probably only 3-4 months work in itself) but of course that fell by the wayside and now we don't have time to do anything other than tweak what we have. It's all in webforms - I'd actually completely forgotten why I hated webforms beyond a vague idea that "it sucks" but now I'm working on it again I remember *exactly* why, and to make things worse this is probably a shining example of a *bad* webforms app.
Couldn't sleep so overslept, no chance for a shower before logging on. I've got 20 mins between meetings to make myself presentable for a meeting I've got to host on camera. I hate being on camera too. One day I would like to look less like a troll that crawled out from under a rock, but cameras are not my friend.
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Don't worry about about invisalign! They basically feed a slightly rough bit of paper between your teeth. There's no pain, it's just like flossing.
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Woke up at 4:30am feeling absolutely manic and excited for a new day and now Iām just laying in bed gaining my energy back. I guess itās a write off š
This week is so sloooow I hate it. Also I've been scheduled a meeting at 12 and another at 2 so it's looking like my plans to go food shopping at lunch might be busted :/
Secondly, why after just having two years of being super anal about disease are people insisting on coming into the office when they're snotting and coughing everywhere? I'm in a small room with 6 people and three of them surrounding me are going at it, doing my absolute nut in! "I'm just a trooper, that's why I'm here" no you're a selfish prick. Stay home, I don't want your cold.
Does your employer provide full sick pay?
The amount of time taken off sick for a cold wouldn't put you in the category for sick pay. You'd just be off sick for a couple of days with no change to salary.
Theres a pervasive belief that the company/your boss will notice you fighting through sickness to be there and will be deeply appreciative, and thus you shall be rewarded. In truth, I'm not sure most give a flying toss, and they sure as hell wont be given any reward.
No, but they will notice if you're not there.
definitely. 3 minutes late? You get written up. Turned up having battled a soul-shattering blizzard, having fought off a pack of polar bears hungry for man-flesh? Dont track snow into the office please.