Other What's ruining your life right now?

Hope you feel better soon. Still get the odd spasm in my back from an old Bike accident when I was younger. Strength training has helped massively but still hurts like a right ****

Today I am having fun with asking details questions and getting responses that are seemingly from people not paying attention...

me: I note we have not seen the foretasted x spend occur today. Could you update on the amount and when it is likely to be spent as I have heard rumors of deferral.
them: Yes, we have deferred the spend with agreement from y
me: Er, WHAT AMOUNT HAVE YOU DEFERRED AND TO WHEN?!?!?!
also me:

 

Started work bright and early (from home) this morning and...

MIGRAINE STRIKES

Well, actually I got the visual disturbances beforehand so managed to lie down for a couple of hours. I didn't manage to stop it in time, but at least it's just a dull throb rather than a full on 'Shall I take a drill to my own head?' scenario.

Annoying as although I'm now back up and running, I have a pretty important bit of work I want to get done today being delayed. No gardening either today as a result .

Right, better get to it, rather than typing on here

 

Or is a 0-hour contract.

 

An update from the shop floor.
After Saturdays total lunacy, Sunday onwards has been a breath of fresh air, But today was just eerie, Less than 40 customers allowed inside. More staff than customers for a change, And this is how it will be for the foreseeable, We're also set to have MORE staff join us as John Lewis is now closed, Staff from the Southampton store will now go to work in local Waitrose stores, I heard roughly 10 Waitrose stores to be gaining extra staff soon from 1 JL. The good news is, Shelves are getting fuller again.
1 story from today, Was a customer who ignored the 'Stay at Home' warnings from Boris, she came in and demanded her 86p refund, Didn't buy anything and promptly left afterwards.... Yep, It happens.

Stay safe, Stay at home unless it's critical and you've ran out of loo roll already

Sam

 

Come on, you're making that up...

I would've stared at her in disbelief until she realised I wasn't going to help her.

 

I really wish i wasn't.

Sam

 

Still this

 

Feel for you dude, back pain is awful.

 

I'd like to say, don't worry you get used to it (hit by a car 26 years ago, constant pain from it), but you don't, it's like tooth pain, it just wears you down. I have managed to learn how to crack and reset the parts that give me trouble (SI joint on the right hand side locks up and causes everything else to compensate and be twisted), but the pain still stays.

 

Did a PE workout with the kids yesterday morning after an 8-year break from any meaningful exercise. The kids didn't really take it seriously but for some reason I did, now I have so much muscle pain in my glutes and legs that I can barely get myself in and out of a chair.

Amusing, embarrassing and humbling.

 

Seriously, having free time in March is usually sh!te, because it's normally cold and pissing down.

Suddenly nobody can got out and the sun is splitting the trees!

 

Odd that there was no 'at home' solution to your job, that didn't require you to be seated... Unlucky & GL, respectively.

 

It took until less than two weeks ago for Deutsche Bahn to agree to a general approval of work from home for their employees. You could do it before, but just one or two days a week and with the approval of your direct report. Living in 1980's work environment ain't fun, I tell ya.

I mean, I get that people who actually work with or on trains can't do home office. But I'm doing bloody project/programme management for IT/organisational/process projects.

 

Decided to start an electronics kit I'd been saving, but one of the baggies of resistors has gone walkies.

 

Splitting headache, police bringing new powers to fine people not following lockdown guidance.

£30 If not deemed essential travel, I drive my partner to work (as a key worker) and I'm also deemed a key worker so will be travelling myself. Keep reading these horror stories of people getting fined despite having proof.

In the next week or more I'll be driving the roads almost everyday sometimes more than twice with no proof on my return journey dropping her to work why I'm out...

Bring on the fines...

 

No I've not yet read anything about this either, I'd appreciate a link if anyone has one.

I expect that the way in which you interact with the police could have quite a large bearing on their response to you.