Other What's ruining your life right now?

Not RUINING, but making it more annoying.
When you say "sure - I'll do the firm this favour and handle this project without all the paperwork, because it won't get done otherwise. Give me 12 Weeks with the final spec, and it's done." - in Feb
In late May you get something and the words "you'll have to figure out the exact spec from this."
Then you get told due date is 07 July, but the person that needs to approve everything is not there from 01 July, since they're on vacation.

 

That's the kind of crap I'd get in writing.

 

Quite frankly - I lost ALL OF my sh** in this case, told them to be thankful that I am doing it at all, told them that I am already spending 12+ hours at work every single day, contrary to what our labour law says (complete with sections, paragraphs, etc - LLB part time has its advantages), and they cannot expect to compromise everything I asked for and still as for the favour on their terms.

 

You give an inch... They take a liberty!

 

Exactly that...
Not a great day to do that, though... Wife was in tears last night, cause her favourite aunt was admitted to ICU cause she's not waking up (in the recovery ward at the hospital)... so yeah... not much sleep, the work noise, generally high levels of pressure - not a great combo.
anyway 'nuff crying from me.

 

LOL
But I like the exotic tea.

I've got a bunch of loose leaf teas from all over Asia and Africa, white, green, black, oolong and pu'erh, so it's not just a single type or from a single place I'm drinking.
I think either my body's intolerant to some obscure pesticide on the Chinese ones that's probably illegal here , or there's something in tea itself (caffeine, tannines, theine, ...) I've always been slightly allergic to and it was just the increased quantity of tea I'd started to drink every day that made it apparent (regularly ~1,5L).

I'm going to try experimenting in a few days to see exactly what triggers the rash and I'll start out with the bog standard teabags I've been drinking for years. If those give a response there's something very weird going on.

 

Yorkshire Tea needs banning because it tastes like ball soup.

 

Can't say i'm in a position to comment as i've not drank ball soup myself.

 

I always found comments such as "this tastes like a donkeys backside" etc, rather irksome.
It infers not only have they tasted said animals anus but also enjoyed it enough to recall the flavour and wish to share this information with others.

Mine, come back into work, overly "oh sorry" manager trying to be overly nice then kindly dumps a trainee on me plus a pile of work. Just what you want after being signed off with stress/anxiety.

*edit*
Also to add to this my return to work meeting basically confirmed they wont change anything (work was the main stress driver) bar moving me onto the lower rate of sick pay due to being off for more than 15 days over a 12 month period. So being signed off for two weeks plus a single days sickness in September last year is enough.

 

I take it you didn't attend a private school then...

 

Nah, none of the biscuits at my school were soggy.

 

Oh I've seen some things...

 

Hayfever.

God. I. Hate. Hayfever.

 

* pulls up a seat for Hayfevers Anonymous *

 

I really shouldn't laugh but I did.

When I used to live with my mother it was a village that literally closes at 11pm and is in the middle of nowhere. Three times I was outside having a cig quite late and a still drunk man would stagger up to me asking where the nearest hotel was lol. Three times it happened, poor sods. Mum's village was the last stop, they had all fallen asleep on the train and then been locked out of the station. They must have slept in a field hahahaha.

 

Nat ****ing West...

Need to speak to them about stuff...

Can I Use the app? No, no smartphone
Can I Use their online banking? No... because it never ****ing works
Phone banking? at 30p/min I ****ing think not
Visit a branch? lol... what ****ing branch?