Travelling On

beanielou

A vote for the email to the CEO of SAinsbugs.
Certainly got things moving for me car wise.

apple_muncher

Hope the baby stuff goes smoothly today.

Suffolk_lass

You are right to balance the emotional energy that it takes to pursue these things. I think I go nuclear more quickly in my choices having worked in a public sector area where we had very tight deadlines for responding to cases that were raised via elected politicians or our Executive Office, so I expect the same level of diligence in responding to poor publicity or escalated issues (it is why using the newspaper aunties is so successful in private sector instances).  @beanielou had the perfect storm with the garage (private) the Charity (public funded) partnership with Government and politicians and HRH as patrons. None of whom needed to be sullied by association with a rip off or failing situation.

Having lost their previous CEO after the "We're in the money" singing/humming episode I would have expected them to have ramped up their reputational risk mitigation strategy...

rtandon27

Good on you for exercising balance KC!  I'm sure you will manage to sort it out in the end, but keeping your energy in check is so very important as well.  Attacking the problem in manageable chunks is a good way to do it if the situation is wearing you out!

Karmacat

Thanks I refer to what I experience during things like the Sainsbo phone calls (and too many big house spiders!) as adrenaline poisoning possibly its not only chronic fatigue, but an overdeveloped startle response, which my mum also suffered from.  The feeling afterwards is a little bit like you're just becoming aware you've been beaten up (thinking back to demonstrations I've been on, being dragged about by the police) ... so today, because of the booster jab tomorrow, I've been preparing the house - getting tins of food I like out of the cupboard, using the dw and the mw, getting clean myself, tidying - and getting the birth congratulations cards ready to send (they have them for grandmothers these days!  I didn't know  😄 no birth news yet except that the father-to-be is being blamed for everything, which seems pretty normal to me 😄

beanielou

Hope your booster goes well tomorrow.

Chiglepig

Karmacat said:

Thanks I refer to what I experience during things like the Sainsbo phone calls (and too many big house spiders!) as adrenaline poisoning possibly its not only chronic fatigue, but an overdeveloped startle response, which my mum also suffered from.  The feeling afterwards is a little bit like you're just becoming aware you've been beaten up (thinking back to demonstrations I've been on, being dragged about by the police)

I knew you were a terror on the quiet

But I totally get it, I find those sorts of telephone calls really difficult - and no chronic fatigue here.

Karmacat

Chiglepig said:

Karmacat said:

Thanks I refer to what I experience during things like the Sainsbo phone calls (and too many big house spiders!) as adrenaline poisoning possibly its not only chronic fatigue, but an overdeveloped startle response, which my mum also suffered from.  The feeling afterwards is a little bit like you're just becoming aware you've been beaten up (thinking back to demonstrations I've been on, being dragged about by the police)

I knew you were a terror on the quiet
I do feel a bit of a fraud on here, sometimes, my life really hasn't had the usual trajectory    

But I totally get it, I find those sorts of telephone calls really difficult - and no chronic fatigue here.

Thanks chiglepig!  Yes, they're difficult enough for everyone, aren't they.

Karmacat

I'm pleased to announce that Great Auntie Karmacat can add a seventh notch to her belt 

themadvix

Congratulations! 🥳 Boy or girl? Does he/she have a name yet and do you like it? 😉 hope mum and baby are doing well x