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ellie99

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Whew! to the thought of no lunch at lunchtime:eek: Horace and Ellie.

What would your employers' attitude be if you carried some food around in your pocket and ate it as you worked? (eg making up some healthy type flapjacks/fruit/chunks of cheese/etc)? Would they accept that obviously you were going to do so, rather than miss a meal out or get shirty about it?

For me personally, I can do as I please, I organize my own day and my manager's not watching! In theory I could take an hour for lunch, but in practice that would mean I wouldn't be finished by the time it got dark, and I prefer to be home by tea time. I find eating when I'm rushing at work messy (tried it, think crumbs and spills ) so prefer not to.
I'm more concerned about having a drink, tend to just have mouthfuls of juice, because I'm mostly outdoors, and you can imagine the toilet situation :rotfl:...so I spend the evening drinking loads to make up.

People do a lot of different shifts nowadays. I don't think it's unreasonable for employers to expect someone to work a 4 hour shift without needing to eat...it's no different from when I worked in an office...8.30 - 1pm, lunch, then 1.30 - 5pm, and no food at your desk. It just takes a bit of getting used to, eating at slightly different times so that you're not hungry when working.

Frog number one eaten
Made a large door curtain from a blanket, took ages to sew on 2.5 metres of curtain tape by hand. So glad I got it done.

greenbee

I need to do my tax return too Ellie... should we agree a date and set a challenge?

Re. meals - shift workers (particularly those who work in catering) have always had to adjust their meals to shifts. I used to work split shifts in catering 9-3 and 5-midnight. Sometimes I had breakfast added on (6.30-9). Statutory breaks are 15 mins every 4 hours. If we were lucky we had time to stop before service. Sometimes we didn't.

Now I please myself (i.e. if I'm not with a client I can eat when I like). However, sometimes when I'm travelling the sales people looking after me seem to forget that I need to eat at some point... having meetings over breakfast, lunch AND dinner is very good for the waistline as you can't talk and eat at the same time

ellie99

greenbee wrote: »

I need to do my tax return too Ellie... should we agree a date and set a challenge?

Sorry greenbee, mine is already filed
I'm trying to get a jump on preparing for next April, as I know some of the rules that affect me have changed.

and you can't talk and eat at the same time? amateur, you need to try harder :rotfl:

(sorry, I know it's different being professional to eating with friends )

Horace

I am not allowed to take anything onto the shop floor (the only thing I can take is my staff card but as I don't have any pockets even that stays in my handbag locked away).

I saw my parents and mum cooked a lovely dinner. She has managed to get someone to clear the loft and some of the stuff is mine - I came home with boxes of carnival glass (I will keep the rare stuff and sell the stuff I am not overly keen on). I also came home with the posh placemats which were a wedding present that I never used, a set of three green ceramic storage jars with wooden lids, a wooden pepper grinder and I had bought a small wooden pepper pot that I had intended to put salt in. During my rummage I found my guzzini scales but as I know mum has great difficulty with scales I asked her if she could read them and she confirmed that she could so I offered them to her. She thinks her iron is on its way out and I have a new tefal one (well it was new when I bought it in 1998 and it has never been used) so I said that she could keep my iron, she is also keeping a wooden trivet and my expensive cake knife (she wants to give it away as a present), I don't really see myself using the cake knife again.

I have a set of 12 glasses but stupidly left them behind. Mum bought me some silver tinsel, she gave me a green frondy thing to go on my mantelpiece for C as well as some battery operated lights. I was also given a thing for my outside tap - some ham from Al Dee that I had been after, the remainder of the pork joint as dad decided he didn't like it, the very last of the home-grown tomatoes, some cooking apples that need to be cooked this week. Some things have been left so that my aunt can sell them for me at a carboot (she will give me the money).

Mum gave me £60 which she had been hanging on to as this was the money I made from selling sacks of clothes, I was given £50 for my birthday and dad gave me £100 to help me out this month in case I have no money for food etc.

Managed to get home before it got dark - it was a bit gloomy and I wasn't overly fond of the bright headlights (why can't drivers adjust them so they are not raised?:mad:).

ellie99

Very quiet in here today, hope you're all doing nice things.

I didn't manage to do anything from my list today, this morning I found and altered curtains for DS2 (not on the list, slipped up there :rotfl:)

Aunt has just moved into a care home, so visited her this afternoon. Thought it would take an hour or so, ended up being there all afternoon...saw a performance of Aladdin with many songs I'd never associated with Aladdin :rotfl: (like I'm getting married in the morning, Working at the carwash, I'm a believer, I'm forever blowing bubbles)...it was really good fun.

Have been watching The Great British Design Challenge final tonight...the lady designer was robbed!!!

LavenderBees

ellie99 wrote: »

I didn't manage to do anything from my list today, this morning I found and altered curtains for DS2 (not on the list, slipped up there :rotfl:)

Add it to the list, and then cross it off :rotfl:

Sorry...I've done that before :T

LB xx

ellie99

LavenderBees wrote: »

Add it to the list, and then cross it off :rotfl:

Sorry...I've done that before :T

LB xx

Well it did cross my mind, but I thought it might be just sssllliiightly obsessive :rotfl:

Horace

I have been doing some tidying up, I ate the cottage pie that mum gave me yesterday (dare I say it but she slightly over salted the mash - I don't cook with salt which is why I noticed). Still it was yummy.

I fell asleep on the sofa after lunch. I have also been inviting people to join an events sub committee for the friends group. I booked myself onto a walk leader training course too (not til 25 Feb).

Someone I did the MnS training with prior to our induction last week has been texting me asking me to tell her about her shifts. I have no idea what her shifts are - I didn't listen when it came to knowing what her shifts were, I was more interested in my own. To be honest I don't see why I should be telling her about her shifts - she should have paid attention.

Talking of tax returns I need to do mine or get my accountant to do it.

Best sign off now - I need to be up early tomorrow for a hospital appointment. I have to be there for 9.15am and it is two long bus journeys from my house.

Wrap up warm ladies (& gents) the weather is changing next week with gales and snow in the north which may slip into wales too.

BookWorm

ellie99 wrote: »

Very quiet in here today, hope you're all doing nice things.

Not really just work Is it the weekend yet????

LavenderBees

BookWorm wrote: »

Not really just work Is it the weekend yet????

Nope! So get on with your work!

:rotfl:


LB xx