Preparedness for when

maryb

I have two outfits for dressy dos which I have worn over and over. Only one person ever made a comment and I just said I loved having a chance to wear my favourite outfit, I loved it so much

GreyQueen

Nice one, Bob. Got any preptastic purchases in the pipeline?

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Nothing planned GQ.

I plan to put a decent chunk of it, into my ISA.

GreyQueen

Look at this camo, it's awesome.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2523058/Camouflage-suits-make-wearers-impossible-see.html

I have to admit, I'm very tempted by those humungous fishing umbrella things with leafy prints on them. Far too big to blunder around on these narrow city pavements, but they could double-up as a dome tent in an emergency. And have you seen those fishing buckets with the plant-print design?

No I didn't. But I wanted to.

I accidentally found out that a green-grey handknit jumper is the perfect informal camoflage item in British woodland. And you don't get too many funny looks wearing them to the pub afterwards, either.

Hard_Up_Hester

I've worked out that one of the biggest triggers for my diverticulitis attacks is stress, so on top of the 'you will buy a jumper/go for a meal out' I have now had my appraisal at work, as usual I was told that the head is not happy as I make too many mistakes, no evidence or examples can be produced therefore I can only assume it's done out of spite. This time I put my foot down & said 'I must be provided with details of all the mistakes I'm allegedly making, otherwise I am unable to refute them'. A spreadsheet is now being set up and all the 'complaints' are to be listed on it. I can see the next few months will be stressful.
Hester

Goldiegirl

Hard_Up_Hester wrote: »

I've been told to join in with the 'wear a Christmas jumper' on the last day of term as otherwise I'm 'spoiling' things for the rest of the team, £12 for the correct jumper. Then there is the team meal. originally £70 a head, now down to £20 & finally the end of term buffet, take in an item from a list but don't get to join in the buffet as we'll be to busy. Can you tell I really not 'feeling the love' at work at present. I've had my work appraisal y'day & I've been told I'm very negative, not really surprising is it.
Hester

It's my department's team meal this evening. I'm not going - I don't dislike any of them, but I just don't do team meals out of office time.


Last year on the 'Christmas theme day' it was 'wear a Christmas jumper. I suppose it's a bit too late now, but I did manage to pick up one on ebay for a couple of quid ( and amazingly sold it for £15 this year)


This year's theme day (next Friday) is 'Nativity play'. We have to dress as what we were in our school nativity play. If you don't take part you get 'fined' ( it is for charity) I think I might stick a tea towel on my head and go as a shepherd

mardatha

Does Fat Hen grow up here? I saw it on the Tudor Farm and don't recognise it.

Goldiegirl

Hard_Up_Hester wrote: »

I've worked out that one of the biggest triggers for my diverticulitis attacks is stress, so on top of the 'you will buy a jumper/go for a meal out' I have now had my appraisal at work, as usual I was told that the head is not happy as I make too many mistakes, no evidence or examples can be produced therefore I can only assume it's done out of spite. This time I put my foot down & said 'I must be provided with details of all the mistakes I'm allegedly making, otherwise I am unable to refute them'. A spreadsheet is now being set up and all the 'complaints' are to be listed on it. I can see the next few months will be stressful.
Hester

Yes, we have spreadsheets like that too. Our appraisals are very depressing - most of us feel worse when we come out than when we went in.


As I only work two days a week, my monthly appraisal happens every 8 working days - for a full timer, they'd be appraised every week and a half! It's ludicrious, really.

GreyQueen

That's a rotten way to go about managing a worker and is nothing more than bullying, imo.

If you're making mistakes (which I doubt) they need to take them up, with examples, with you in real time. First to check that it wasn't just a butterfingers moment, that you thought you were supposed to do it X way whereas they actually want you to do it Y way. And to identify if you need some more training to do it that way, or if a quick word was sufficient.

A senior had a quiet word with me very informally last week. Did I know what to do, in X circumstance? I relayed the correct answer only to be told that the feedback from a liason meeting had come back that I had done this particular thing incorrectly, not once but twice.

I was surprised but didn't argue as everything we do on systems is on our own log-ins so traceable back to ourselves. I didn't sweat the small stuff, just mildly surprised and a bit disappointed in myself.

A couple of hours later the same guy came back to me a bit sheepishly; sorry, he'd made a mistake. The person who had done the wrong thing had done it to something I had initiated, after I had launched it correctly on its way into systems and moved on to the next thing. Closer examination had traced the error back to another person who'd got hold of it later. Same for the other example.

The senior was sheepish but I was grinning from ear to ear, glad that I wasn't losing the plot.

Nobody's perfect, but there are ways and means of giving feedback and correcting people gently, and saving it for an appraisal and not being able to provide examples is p-poor management. !!!!!!.

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Goldiegirl wrote: »

We have to dress as what we were in our school nativity play.

What if you were never in a nativity play?