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Other What Makes Your Life, Meh?

Discussion in 'General' started by Mr_Mistoffelees, 10 Aug 2023.

  1. d_stilgar

    d_stilgar Old School Modder

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    I had a court date for custody with my ex because we couldn't get on the same page about a couple things. My ex has a free lawyer through work (unlimited hours for everything not related to family law. 100hrs lifetime for family law), so she's not been super motivated to settle and is happy to just waste time and (my) money on dragging the divorce out.

    I was able to reach out yesterday via email, ask her what she really wants, negotiate a few points, and come to an agreement. Unless she changes her mind, we have a custody stipulation and will both sign it instead of going to court.

    This doesn't make my life awesome, but it certainly makes it less bad, so I'm counting it as a big win.
     
  2. GaryP

    GaryP RIP Tel

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    That shed is now gonna be called 'The Bunker' for all of its days. It's your own fault.
     
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  3. DeadP1xels

    DeadP1xels Social distancing since 92

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    My partner recently moved to a new role in care. She’s been working in care for nearly ten years now, and despite the incredibly poor pay and ongoing staffing shortages, she remains determined to continue because she loves it.

    So far, she’s enjoyed the new role. However, there have been a few "incidents" she’s mentioned recently where she or others have been spoken to or treated in a way that really doesn’t sit well with me. She’s always been quite nonchalant about how she’s treated like that's how things are managed, this isn’t the first time I’ve heard about those in care being on the receiving end of unfair treatment for no good reason. Had those things taken place in my workplace/management chain it simply wouldn't have been tolerated. If not me personally, then someone above me would come down like a ton of bricks.

    I just find it incredibly frustrating to see her upset because she genuinely cares for her residents but I do see a time she walks away for her own wellbeing. While I understand that issues like pay and staffing are difficult to resolve quickly, team culture and mutual respect are well within a manager’s control here and sometimes it sounds as if that role is abused or not taken as seriously as it should.

    Would love to go bang some heads together.
     
  4. IanW

    IanW Grumpy Old Git

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    Yesterday, I got a surprise "Renew your password" email from IT (We usually get daily ones for 2 weeks before it needs doing).
    IT said to "not worry about it", so I didn't.
    Today, I got a "change your password NOW!" when I logged in, so attempted to do so.
    Any new password I try falls foul of their new secret password requirements, even up to 128-character randomly generated ones!
    So, I'm now locked out of all work-related comms and drive shares on my work PC, meaning I can't even contact IT for help.
    I doubt I'll even be able to log into my PC if I have to restart it today.
    Still, same pay-rate.
     
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  5. Andersen

    Andersen I'm fine. I'M FINE! *torches a dandelion*

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    Hospital messed up...

    [​IMG]

    Someone brainfarted big time and used CC instead of BCC. Oops. Plonked a polite email back advising staff of the kinda big mistake there, I didn't need my email address leaked or having addresses of others leaked to me
     
  6. IanW

    IanW Grumpy Old Git

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    Hope you mentioned the nice fat GDPR violation there. Gotta put the fear of lawyers into people who do that.
     
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  7. Canon

    Canon Reformed

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    A red weather warning, supposedly the strongest winds since 1998, shops closing for the day, emergency protocols, warnings to have devices charged to make emergency contact. What will most likely happen? A typical February day in many parts of the world that have less means of dealing with it. It really irks me the amount of bluster put out with these named storms these days, should we be concerned about the drastic changes in weather? Absolutely we should. Don't go OTT though, last year alone there were 3 weather warnings that turned out to be some of the nicest days of the year!
     
  8. Mr_Mistoffelees

    Mr_Mistoffelees The Bit-Tech Cat. New Improved Version.

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    Red weather warnings aren't issued for fun...
     
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  9. Canon

    Canon Reformed

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    No that's true and I wouldn't ever suggest anyone ignore advice given, just seems in the last year or so here there's been a rise in the warnings issued and an equal amount of downgrades the evening before. I'd be just as worried that people might stop heeding the advice.
     
  10. Mr_Mistoffelees

    Mr_Mistoffelees The Bit-Tech Cat. New Improved Version.

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    UK weather is inherently difficult to predict, just because of where we are on this planet. Sometimes it turns out better, sometimes worse. Remember October 1987?
     
  11. DeadP1xels

    DeadP1xels Social distancing since 92

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    An HMRC letter arrived, which the Mrs opened (I’m fine with that, I asked her to do so), but she rang me with the vaguest details while on the school run.

    She says, “It just said like £12k loads of times on it and owing something about tax or whatever...” So naturally, I start to panic. I remember putting down a figure around £12k, which covered eBay fees and postage labels, and I figure they probably want more clarity on what that expense actually was. But I wanted to be sure, so I asked her to send me a picture of the letter as soon as she got home. In the meantime I start printing off the breakdown for that £12k from an eBay report so I can get it in the post and clarify every penny should they need it.

    Anyway, time passes, and still no picture. I end up ringing HMRC to get to the bottom of it without knowing full details, asking her again to send me a picture of the letter so I can figure it out. Halfway through my conversation with the (very helpful) tax officer, she finally sends me a message with the picture.

    It’s my tax code. £12,570 personal allowance. That’s what she’s been reading this whole time. My 25/26 tax codes!!

    The good news: I don’t owe them £12k. :clap:
    The bad news: I now know what I do owe in tax (it’s on the steeper side of my prediction, I might add), plus my first balancing payment for the upcoming tax year (a first for me). Which ultimately means I need to pay twice what I'd put aside come the 31st of Jan. Oh, bother. :sad: I'm sure I'll feel better about it come the 24/25 self assessment.
     
  12. adidan

    adidan Guesswork is still work

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    God dammit that government warning on my phone about the winds nearly gave me a heart attack
     
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  13. IanW

    IanW Grumpy Old Git

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    Ah, yes.
    The night Sevenoaks became Oneoak, and Michael Fish almost got fired.
     
  14. Almightyrastus

    Almightyrastus On the jazz.

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    It feels like I might be coming down with a dose of the grots again. Got a headache, didn't sleep too well last night - kept waking up every 30-45 minutes with an extremely dry mouth, got some aches and pains although I am not sure if that is anything new or an extension of the horrible amount of lower back pain that I am current in (yay for getting hit by cars...). I did seem to be running very hot in bed last night, but then again that is not new, I tend to get hot when I sleep.

    Meh, we shall see what happens, at least it shall be the weekend in an hour and a half AND it is payday today. Of course it doesn't help that my wife is not well either, as I shall be working extra hard as nurse/carer for her over the normal amount.
     
  15. Andersen

    Andersen I'm fine. I'M FINE! *torches a dandelion*

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    So... 39.5 to 40.7 fever depending where you measure

    I smell a hospital trip in the very, very immediate future
     
  16. Andersen

    Andersen I'm fine. I'M FINE! *torches a dandelion*

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    Welp fever's gone down, continue to be ill tho
     
  17. IanW

    IanW Grumpy Old Git

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    Some of the little darlings around here have been playing "Knock Down Ginger" with my Ring doorbell the last couple of days.
    I guess no-one told them that a Ring doorbell begins recording when it sees people walking towards it, before they press the button and sprint off.
    They're going to get a shock when I start hanging their portraits next to my door.
     
  18. Andersen

    Andersen I'm fine. I'M FINE! *torches a dandelion*

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    Two places I lived back in finland had door intercoms. First place had a mute ringer option, second didn't but somehow that option appeared after a few days... Simple SPST switch guaranteed silent nights

    Drunken "adults" ringing all the flats because **** your sleep
     
  19. adidan

    adidan Guesswork is still work

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    Barely any signal and the fibre is down.

    A fat old red LOS and no PON since yesterday.

    Never experienced such hefty winds, the chunk of a BBQ ended up on it's side at the end of the garden.

    At least the electricity came back this morning.

    Pfft.
     
  20. Mr_Mistoffelees

    Mr_Mistoffelees The Bit-Tech Cat. New Improved Version.

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    At least you’re ok.

    Here a 10 > 12m pine tree on the golf course, about 100m away, snapped-off about a metre from the ground…
     
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