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niccatw

cherisong wrote: »

Don't get your knickers in a twist because it resolves nothing and just causes you to walk funny :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

:rotfl: I think I shall scrawl that in big letters in the front of my work diary!

Ahhh! That's what the Barclaycard call centre man was trying to tell me! It didn't make any sense and I asked if it would be in writing in the confirmation letter!

It confirms that it was a good plan to set the DDs up to cover the 2 year 0%. It means after this first lot of payments I can put it on the back-burner and concentrate again on RBS and NRAM overpayments.

I heard back from the waterproof trousers people. The trousers passed their waterproof test, but the manager believes I was mis-sold them as they couldn't do what I asked. Which means I can get an exchange or a refund. As I still need a proper pair of waterproofs, I'll head over and see what they have and then decide what to do. I suspect I will have to pay more money for a pair to do what I need them to do, but at it won't feel that way as I've already paid for the useless pair. I think not buying proper, warm, fully waterproof trousers for marathon walking is just asking for trouble. You know it will be a mild night if I get them but wild if I don't. Besides, in Glasgow, proper waterproofs should be kept within grabbing distance at all times! (PS To those of you who have asked, the link to my walking marathon is now on my MSE homepage and my fb info. page.)

Must get fringe cut today too. It is getting in my eyes and that leads to me getting lots more eye infections.



Tehehe. No-one would recognise me without my dark circles.

Butti

niccatw wrote: »

Butti, I nominate you to be on tea making duties in my absence!

I've been sorting the wine, for myself at least!!!

B

MrsMoo2U

Glad I made sense to you because when I read that BC bit back I was confused :rotfl::rotfl:

Shame you didnt make it to the reunion. I remember seeing you talking on the telly and thinking what a truly wonderful, thoughtful, caring person you were. (was Nick as gorgeous as he seems. I did see him once in Warrington - I used to work there and was shocked to see him smoking! )

You should most certainly get proper warm waterproofs. I have been to Glasgow :eek:

or should that be Edinburgh? Sorry red wine and all that.

Glad you liked the quote it made me really laugh and the man in the shop gave me a funny look, so much so that I had to buy the card to send to my friend.

Jesthar

cherisong wrote: »

Shame you didnt make it to the reunion. I remember seeing you talking on the telly and thinking what a truly wonderful, thoughtful, caring person you were. (was Nick as gorgeous as he seems. I did see him once in Warrington - I used to work there and was shocked to see him smoking! )

:eek: I didn't even know it WAS the reunion... How was it organised, I don't remember anything mentioned on here before now? Unless I'm blind!

Oh, yes, Nick and the crew were fantastic - truly lovely people, even when tired, stressed and on a deadline

MatyMoo

niccatw wrote: »

:rotfl: I think I shall scrawl that in big letters in the front of my work diary!

Or the front of the filing cabinet :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

MatyMoo

Jesthar wrote: »

:eek: I didn't even know it WAS the reunion... How was it organised, I don't remember anything mentioned on here before now? Unless I'm blind!

Oh, yes, Nick and the crew were fantastic - truly lovely people, even when tired, stressed and on a deadline

Twas mentioned on the thread and most of the regulars jumped in. Sorry not everyone got to hear about it

MrsMoo2U

Sorry, I wasnt sure if it was a BIG reunion or just a few getting together! I had just picked up that some were going to meet up somewhere over on the normal thread. Not sure that it was ever mentioned over here.

Or the front of the filing cabinet

Now that would be hilarious.

Butti

How was your weekend Nic?

MrsMoo2U

Evening Nic, hope you had a good weekend. Was the meeting today? Hope it went well if it was

niccatw

cherisong wrote: »

Shame you didnt make it to the reunion. I remember seeing you talking on the telly and thinking what a truly wonderful, thoughtful, caring person you were. (was Nick as gorgeous as he seems. I did see him once in Warrington - I used to work there and was shocked to see him smoking! )

Aw shucks Thank you! I shall also scrawl that in the diary to remind me I am brilliant on the crazy days! :rotfl:

Nick is not my type at all so I would say no! But I know there are many who would disagree with me!



I'd be looking for a bit more definiton in a photo such as this. (Unless Nick himself is asking, yes, it is he.)

MatyMoo wrote: »

Or the front of the filing cabinet :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Genius!!!

The meeting went well, I think. In that I said everything I wanted to. Inevitably my boss asked if I would move area and I did ask why I should be the one to move (not in that petulant sounding way. In a "I've built up good relationships with the teams, they respect me, they talk to me..." way).

I sense this might come up again and that I'll be easier to sway on the matter than supervisor so this might be an area to seek union advice on right now before it may become a forced issue. I feel, because I was off with anxiety, stress and depression for 5 months, and have been seeing my GP and going to counselling, and both GP and the counsellor have asked about work stress and it will be documented in my notes, that I might have a case for me staying where I am and the person who is the band above me being more "able" to move. I don't know. She'll point blank refuse though. And both my boss and I know that.

Boss asked for time to think about how to handle it and pointed out we are unlikely to change supervisor as her habits are deep rooted in her personality. So while it's out there, I'm not sure yet how things can or will change. But I'm pretty certain my boss knows the score with her and knew more than she could obviously let on about what might have been happening.

I also pointed out that I will be keeping a much tighter note on what is happeneing and will no longer be letting things go. (I have gleaned another diary for this purpose. And it's not that I want to be bad about it, but it's my word against hers and I know what goes back to my boss is "Nicca just isn't doing what I've told her" without any flexibility or questioning as to why or what I've been doing instead.) So the diary is for those filing cabinet moments and those "I'm going to have to tell the boss about this" moments and the pulling rank without listening to reason moments... basically anything that I can't bring up with supervisor as one of 2 things happen: 1) It's becomes a blame game and inevitably the blame falls to me or 2) It becomes an argument.

And despite my rants on here, I don't do arguments. And I certainly don't want to do them in the office! So I made it clear things have to change. I conceeded I didn't expect boss to have the answers or be able to respond to me immediately. It was quite a bit to throw at her first thing on a Monday morning! Boss is coming over on Wednesday to go through the list of things I'd been delegated so I can tell boss where I am with them and why some of them should never have been delegated to me in the first place.

It'll be nothing if not interesting in the next wee while! How glad am I that supervisor is only back a week before I go doggy sitting for two!

Boss also know I will be telling occy health that I don't think the capability policy is needed as I'm perfectly capable and that I haven't actually been off at all in the last 14 months and that my stress is on a par with the stress of the rest of the department.

So yes, I got a lot of my chest in 45 minutes! And it's documented in my new diary....