Here we can all be heard for a little while. Part 3

onomatopoeia99

tea, did you hear about the much less well paid job you applied for?

I cam in this morning to a broken server. I suppose the fact I no longer have work email copied to my home meant I didn't worry about it over the weekend, it just meant I had a bigger mess to sort out this morning as it had been broken for two days. Swings and roundabouts :rotfl:

Spent Saturday building my sheds with the help of a colleague - definitely a two person job. We finished one and there's a tiny bit left to do on the other, then we adjourned to the pub for beer and food when the daylight failed completely, so that was a productive day. Sunday wasn't , wet and miserable outside all day so I achieved pretty much nothing all day, apart from a bit of Italian translation

tea_lover

A day of not much sounds lovely ono.... there's just never enough of them! Well done on sorting the sheds out.

Nothing more on the job.... had a v brief chat with them two weeks ago (pretty much them just saying they'd got the application and didn't have a closing date as such). Heard nothing since then but it did sound as if they weren't in any major rush. Could really do with finding some other things to apply for but not having much luck with that.

Things any clearer for you code?

codemonkey

((tea)). You should really email your boss with elsien's post about priorities although personally I'd provide option A or B so he doesn't say all of it.

Things are much clearer and it looks like there's maybe some progress. I know it's a step back, but it feels like the right move for the moment.

I do have a heavy cold though so that's rubbish. I'll be back in the biohazard part of the fort. Deciding whether to call in sick tomorrow or go in and sneeze all over the nasty people's mice. :rotfl:

tea_lover

Maybe you could go in, sneeze on them and then go home again

My main problem now isn't even the amount of work, it's the total lack of any productive behaviour on my part. I've basically done nothing today but panic about all the things I should be doing but don't know how to. Have reached the 'too overwhelmed with it all to actually start' stage.

onomatopoeia99

tea_lover wrote: »

Have reached the 'too overwhelmed with it all to actually start' stage.

And me. Going to helpa colleague with something in a minute rather than actually look at my own work :rotfl:

codemonkey

tea_lover wrote: »

Maybe you could go in, sneeze on them and then go home again

My main problem now isn't even the amount of work, it's the total lack of any productive behaviour on my part. I've basically done nothing today but panic about all the things I should be doing but don't know how to. Have reached the 'too overwhelmed with it all to actually start' stage.

I know that feeling all too well tea. Once the motivation is gone, it's really hard to find the will to actually do the work, then it piles up and suddenly, you have loads of stuff due and not only are out of the mindset of doing the work, you don't even know where to start and you don't actually want to. That's where I am at the moment and I hate myself for it. In a new job I should be making an effort and trying to impress but things just started so badly and I mentally checked out months ago and now I just don't care. So what the mean people were saying is somewhat true I guess.

Anyway try the 10 minute rule. Pick a task and promise you'll work on it for 10 minutes and after that time is up you can do what you want for 10 minutes. Then do another 10 minutes of work.

tea_lover

Yep, my current work mode is very much "rabbit in headlights". I genuinely was quite motivated when I started here and I'm not sure when it went wrong but gone wrong it very much has. I don't even know when I checked out, but it was some time ago!

calleyw

Thought I would post this fun photo. No wonder action man calls me lickel. And I think he is a giant :rotfl:

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Yours

calley X

Torry_Quine

mellymoo74 wrote: »

Torry
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Just seen this, looks really helpful.

mellymoo74

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