You oughta be congratulated!

  • Duenan@aussie.zone
    18·
    9 months ago

    Someone from work sent me am email last night.

    I looked at it but decided not to respond to the request which they needed by 9am today.

    I come in early to work so I can have a coffee and relax while I do things on my phone or read things online, not to work so from now I’m going to pull the breakfast card on people if they bother me.

    Anyway when I came back in from outside at 9am that person sent me an email came up to me as I’m taking my coat and stuff off and asked if I had gotten to their request and I played ignorant and said I hadn’t looked at my emails.

    I’m finding people have reallly no respect for work boundaries and private personal time.

    It’s the 4th time in 3 weeks this has happened.

    • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
      11·
      9 months ago

      Good approach. I generally don’t reply to anything that comes in after 4 pm. I might read it and prepare a reply, but not sending it till the following morning.

      The overlap between work-private life has become a bit blurred since Covid and WFH becoming normalised. I’m clawing back my own time more and more cause I’ve become guilty of working longer hours.

      Also, the absolute audacity of that person!!

      • bull⚡@aussie.zoneEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        This reminded me I needed to set Quiet time for mobile Teams and mobile Outlook on the new phone. Having work on my phone lets me be more free with my day where I can leave my PC/apartment and still keep on top of things, but everything goes night night between 6pm and 8am and all day Saturday & Sunday.

      • Duenan@aussie.zone
        2·
        9 months ago

        Sometimes it is and sometimes it isn’t.

        I’ve turned off all notifications from my work emails so none of them pop up on screen or notifications because people have a bad habit of sending emails way after works or very early morning like at 5am - 6am waking me up.

    • just_kitten@aussie.zone
      6·
      9 months ago

      Good on you for pushing back. Where I come from that kind of request is typical and educators especially are somehow required to be perpetually available. It’s abhorrent and it only takes a few to have loose boundaries before it becomes a norm

      • Duenan@aussie.zone
        3·
        9 months ago

        I actually got a little bit annoyed last night so I had some time to think about how I’d go about it. I really wanted to show that I don’t look at my emails outside of work hours, especially weekends and that I actually have others things to do when I arrive in the morning that take priority. IE. my coffee and socialising.

        They’re also knew that I get into work early since we arrive roughly at around the same time so I don’t know if they were trying to take advantage of me like that but I’d be damned if I was going to do any work before 8am.

    • Thornburywitch@aussie.zoneEnglish
      5·
      9 months ago

      My brother recently had an issue with a co-worker who would send an email at 4 am, then follow up at 6 am with a phone call asking why my brother was being so lazy and using very abusive language. On weekends. Issue was referred to Fair Work and after much drama was resolved by the sacking of the co-worker for being unprofessional (well that’s what it amounted to). Keep records of this shit if you feel inclined. Took my brother about 7 months to amass enough evidence of the co-worker’s abusive work habits to convince Fair work. The co-worker was doing it to others too. Not the public service - a non-govt service provider. Co-worker had to pay triple time per hour for the weekend calls/work as a fine to each person he was doing this to, and double time for calls during the week but out of normal business hours as specified in the work contracts. Added up to a nice large sum over the 7 months. I understand the abuser had to sell his house to pay all the fines.

  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
    14·
    9 months ago

    Felt like I was gonna spew on the train. Got up and stood by the door to get some fresh air and do some deep breathing. Realise I’m all twisted up inside. “No worries, I can deal with that”. do some more focused breathing and reach out for that core self. Connect to the inner me, sync up. Aaaaand “fuck”, immediately realise I’ve been running on autopilot for a while and the defences are running hot and my brains agitated af. So now I gotta spend a day or 2 trying to calm all that down. Still, focus on the positive: I was able to do all that myself.

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
    11·
    9 months ago

    I have a job interview in a few hours and I’m still lolling around in bed pretending it’s not happening… zero engagement with life. Ugh. I better try and freshen up at least

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
    9·
    9 months ago

    Interview was had, I’m not sure I’m the greatest candidate or that I’m so keen on the role tbh - more customer interfacing than I expected. But we’ll see. Think I might inquire about casual roles with some private firms too today

    e: universe is responding, just saw an ad come up for a perfectly good part time position, god I don’t want to go for a full time rols

  • Catfish@aussie.zone
    8·
    9 months ago

    WTF?! In a few weeks I will have been at this workplace for 25 years. They now want certified proof I’m not illegal. Some of this compliance stuff is bonkers…

  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
    8·
    9 months ago

    Got a presentation that’s turned into ‘due today, do today’. I’ll just have to lock in and get it done. It was nice the hot weather got pushed from the weekend to the middle of this week.

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
    8·
    9 months ago

    Mostly pain free now, just so very tired still. Still hurts a bit to walk.

    Reading testimonials from sciatica sufferers I am surprised most are really young.

    maybe all the old people have already had spine operations. 🥺

  • Mittens_meow@aussie.zone
    8·
    9 months ago

    Power still out. Cat is sleeping in, still in bed. I’ve tried to hide the lack of sleep eye bags with make up. Not sure how to hide the “sleepy brain not working” tho…… today gonna be shitty.

        • Duenan@aussie.zone
          5·
          9 months ago

          If it’s still out by tomorrow I would look into the government assistance package that you ma be entitled to for having no power for 1 week.

          "The Victorian and Australian Governments will make available a Prolonged Power Outage Payment to households and small businesses without power for 7 days as a result of last Tuesday’s storms.

          A payment of $1,920 per week will be extended to all eligible households (residential customers) that remain without power as of 12:01am Tuesday 20 February 2024.

          Households who may be eligible will be proactively notified by their distribution business. Funding will be allocated through a payment application process, by which residential customers will be invited to apply for the payment. The payment will be administered by distribution businesses and will help families buy much-needed basic items and find alternative accommodation to get through this difficult period.

          For small businesses (those with a Victorian payroll less than $10 million a year) who are affected, payments of $2,927 per week will be made.

          Payments for households and businesses will be available for up to 3 weeks.

          Distribution businesses will proactively message impacted customers, and publish information on their website on eligibility criteria, as well as information on how these payments will be applied."

          Source: https://www.energy.vic.gov.au/safety/power-outages

  • bananafungus@aussie.zone
    7·
    9 months ago

    Anxiety today got me feeling like I’m being hunted by God himself while I write my silly little emails at work.

    Thursday needs to come and go already, so I can move onto whatever’s next.

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
    7·
    9 months ago

    I don’t know how I did such a nice job on my very first charcoal pencil whenever that happened… Beginners luck maybe. This time it’s a bit more fiddly plus my mind wandered, causing the charcoal core of one to snap and me to shave a chunk out of the core of another. Changing to a new sharp hobby blade helped but I think it’s a matter of experience, better tools, and not doing this stuff when distracted.

    I’m completely avoiding my responsibilities. But I’ve not been doing art either from pressure or feeling terrible, and figured rather than toss and turn or force myself into the big stuff I would do small chunks of prep work. Get things ready for when I’m feeling ready, so to speak.

    6 still need to be smoothed and I shaved one thinner to try and fix the missing chunk. I left three untouched for when I have a proper blade for the purpose. But once I smooth those out that’s a bunch ready to go whenever I have the urge to pick them up.

    Melbcat is ordering me to bed so that can wait. She says ‘vcf jn’

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zoneOP
    7·
    9 months ago

    I learnt how to mirror things from my phone to the tv using Smart view. 😎 yep I’m moving up in this world. There’s still buttons I need to learn though.