Wednesday asked to talk about feelings

Work are asking you to do that?

In what setting? Is it facilitated by someone qualified to do so? say it's potentially very irresponsible, never mind toecurlingly excruciating.
 
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lolly said:
Work are asking you to do that?

In what setting? Is it facilitated by someone qualified to do so? say it's potentially very irresponsible, never mind toecurlingly excruciating.
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The managers have been asked to get us all to share our positive experiences from lockdown to forward to the senior leaders. So I told them the senior leaders have treated the office based workers with contempt and have actively harmed our mental health with their lack of regard for us and our wellbeing.
 
I hope my work ask me to share my positive experiences of lockdown, because it's that it has been nice to be able to listen to the radio whilst working.
 
Omg i was on the way to Glasgow cycling to the station and got a puncture, like the whole tyre looks like it’s fucked

so I’ve had to put my bike in to a shop.

worst of all I was on the way to see my dead gran before her funeral tomorrow. So now I’m going to miss that. Fucking hell.
 
Having a very stressful morning. Mr F passed a stone ten minutes before we were due to leave for the hospital, my toilet looked like something out of Saw. Didn't have time to clean it properly so had to leave it till I got back. Dropped him off at hospital, came home, cleaned up the bathroom, hoovered everywhere, stripped and remade the beds and brought the bins in. Obviously I'm waiting for a phonecall from the hospital and I've had ten people ring my mobile up to now and I jump at each one and my stomach knots up. I haven't had ten calls to it in total in the last month! I'm not sure how many more times I can say "... but I'll let you know when I hear owt" before I lose the plot completely and go on a rampage.
 
Floppet said:
Having a very stressful morning. Mr F passed a stone ten minutes before we were due to leave for the hospital, my toilet looked like something out of Saw. Didn't have time to clean it properly so had to leave it till I got back. Dropped him off at hospital, came home, cleaned up the bathroom, hoovered everywhere, stripped and remade the beds and brought the bins in. Obviously I'm waiting for a phonecall from the hospital and I've had ten people ring my mobile up to now and I jump at each one and my stomach knots up. I haven't had ten calls to it in total in the last month! I'm not sure how many more times I can say "... but I'll let you know when I hear owt" before I lose the plot completely and go on a rampage.
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This is the cholecystectomy? I remember I cried when I was leaving the hospital for Mr L to have his. And then cried again when I had the phone call that he'd survived the op.
 
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ButterTart said:
The managers have been asked to get us all to share our positive experiences from lockdown to forward to the senior leaders. So I told them the senior leaders have treated the office based workers with contempt and have actively harmed our mental health with their lack of regard for us and our wellbeing.
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I do seriously think it's irresponsible. Largely because they aren't interested in the negatives. And obviously I can see why, but if you're going to ask people to talk about the positives, naturally people will also have to consider them. And that could throw up all sorts of emotional shit for people to deal with, for nothing more than managers being able to feed their own egos. And it's even worse when it's done by Skype, zoom or whatever, because when that ends, people who have possibly been exposed emotionally are just sitting their on their own, having to face the fallout of it.

In my line of work we talk about feelings all the time, but it's done in a very structured way, one to one, or if in groups with a BACP accredited facilitator.

I just think it's a CUNTY way of going about things, and really NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS, unless it's something that your employer has caused to be positive. And then the negative should very much be on the table as well.
 
lolly said:
I do seriously think it's irresponsible. Largely because they aren't interested in the negatives. And obviously I can see why, but if you're going to ask people to talk about the positives, naturally people will also have to consider them. And that could throw up all sorts of emotional shit for people to deal with, for nothing more than managers being able to feed their own egos. And it's even worse when it's done by Skype, zoom or whatever, because when that ends, people who have possibly been exposed emotionally are just sitting their on their own, having to face the fallout of it.

In my line of work we talk about feelings all the time, but it's done in a very structured way, one to one, or with a BACP accredited facilitator.

I just think it's a CUNTY way of going about things, and really NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS, unless it's something that your employer has caused to be positive. And then the negative should very much be on the table as well.
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Well, the upshot of it has been that someone working from home claims she’s been told people in the office have said home workers don’t deserve annual leave or the pay rise, so now we’ve had a cuntily worded e-mail telling us it’s discrimination and we’ll be subject to a disciplinary if it’s said again.
To recap, the meeting that was arranged to discuss the positives of lockdown has ended up with everyone in the office looking like bastards despite the work we’ve done, everyone at home feeling demotivated and angry at us for something we don’t even know was actually said, and accusations being thrown around all over the shop about who could have said it. Morale’s utterly fucked, so hurray for senior leaders and their shit ideas.
 
and I thought that Department was SHIT when I worked for them!
 
do they still have the same SEO/HEO/EO etc management structure?
 
Oh do fuck off universe

I’m on the train to Glasgow and it was like we ran something (hopefully not someone) over?

so the train has now come to stand still

why does god hate me so much today? I’m no gayer than I was yesterday :evil:
 
lolly said:
This is the cholecystectomy? I remember I cried when I was leaving the hospital for Mr L to have his. And then cried again when I had the phone call that he'd survived the op.
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If that's the gallbladder removal, yes. I had to leave him at the door of the Daycare Unit and I managed to make it back to the car with only one tear having fallen from each eye but that was purely because I didn't want the reception security blokes or the plods there seeing me blubbing like a baby. I had a little cry when I got back to the car but was fine a minute or so later after I gathered myself together.

My stomach is completely knotted up and bubbling away waiting for a call - or it could be my body rejecting that delicious naughty pie I had at dinner - so I'm doing a horrible work job to take my mind off the nerves.
 
SDF said:
Oh do fuck off universe

I’m on the train to Glasgow and it was like we ran something (hopefully not someone) over?

so the train has now come to stand still

why does god hate me so much today? I’m no gayer than I was yesterday :evil:
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Could have been worse.

You could have run someone over with your bike and then the train got a puncture. Both of those would have worse outcomes for you.
 
I've just bought a massive floppy hat and a bag of Moroccan spice. Been for a lush Mediterranean lunch.

I have also obtained three fans for three.

On balance = success.
 
Floppet said:
Mr F is home safe and sound and gallbladderless. I'm so happy and relieved at the moment but give it 24 hours till my sympathy runs out and I'm taking him cold soup for tea.
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Sounds like it was straightforward enough at least. I remember with Mr L they mentioned that there was a 10% chance that when they got in there, things might not be positioned a certain way and they would have to rummage around a bit more, and that would mean an overnight stay.
 
lolly said:
Sounds like it was straightforward enough at least. I remember with Mr L they mentioned that there was a 10% chance that when they got in there, things might not be positioned a certain way and they would have to rummage around a bit more, and that would mean an overnight stay.
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We already knew that keyhole might not be an option because he's got mesh under the skin after he had an incisional hernia from his laparotomy but his surgeon reckoned he'd like to give it a go. He had to use a special scanner which was why one of Mr F's previous appointments got cancelled because another surgeon stole the machine for an emergency case. He's got four holes, two are higher up on the right side of his stomach then there's one at the top of his laparotomy scar and one at the bottom (middle of stomach) so I assume they had to work around the mesh. If they couldn't have done it keyhole they'd have to cut his scar out, remove the mesh, whip out the gallbladder, put new mesh in, stitch the muscle back together and staple him back together and he'd be in for a couple of weeks afterwards.

So being able to have it keyhole is the biggest bonus I can imagine. Him being home means I don't get sneaky chinese for tea but I don't really mind.
 
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