Learning to walk before I run

edinburgher

Feeling very stressed about work this morning. A large set of actions to fulfil recommendations is being passed my way with some regularity by the responsible team and while it's tangentially related to my team, it's not for me to address. This has been rolling on for months, actually makes me feel a bit sick

Only financial news for the morning is £3.32 paid from my personal spends account into my SIPP (£4.15 after tax relief).

Back to the grind.

Suffolk_lass

You know you need to address this issue at work. You can't carry on with that manifestation of stress. I'm assuming they are under the same management structure and that your line manager is aware of these.

Maybe something that suggests that the remedial actions to address improvements or failings should really be addressed by the area that generates them or they don't gain the learning from correcting their shortcomings - it might help - and you could suggest your team facilitates the processes to improve with them (as the staff there will have suggestions and will then own it, as opposed to having things done to them IYSWIM)

QueenJess

edinburgher said:

Feeling very stressed about work this morning. A large set of actions to fulfil recommendations is being passed my way with some regularity by the responsible team and while it's tangentially related to my team, it's not for me to address. This has been rolling on for months, actually makes me feel a bit sick

Can you escalate it to someone?

edinburgher

Like all jobs that involve formal complaints in the public sector, we deal with cases that can roll on for years, there is seldom a sense of closure. I tried to escalate but the proposed suggestion (essentially "tattle on the service to a raft of managers a minimum of 2 grades higher than me, all the way up the most senior person in the organisation") seemed like a surefire way to really hack off people who I have to work with on a regular basis. By "escalation" I had really expected a friendly but firm word from our most senior manager to theirs to get things unstuck. The whole "velvet glove" thing, sadly lacking since recent management changes. Maybe the suggested approach is the right one, I can be a bit avoidant when it comes to conflict. I've also worked in the public sector for c. 15 years and think there's a way to do things...

• £4 paid into my SIPP from personal spends (£5 after tax relief)
• £2.47 paid into EF (cashback from TCB and Chase)
• A few £ shaved off budget lines to bring down our negative balance (looks worse than it is as we've still both to be paid this month and CB hasn't arrived yet)
  

edinburgher

So work got a little better after I stuck to my guns and agreed a solution with my boss that allowed me to make a nuisance of myself to the offending team without going DEFCON 1 on them. I'm still stressed and annoyed at the level of dragging to water that I'm having to work through but it is improving slowly. May be shot of it in a couple of weeks. Work was damn busy this week, not a bad thing for a worrier like me

Remember I praised FIL for repairing our broken gazebo strut? Well I went to repair it today and found 2 other broken parts that I am fairly convinced didn't arise from my original yank. My assumption is therefore that FIL broke them himself during his sometimes less than tender DIY ministrations I haven't said anything and have ordered a £6 replacement part that looks universal and may fix things with a little more tinkering. If it doesn't work, I'm tipping the damn thing

The weather is lovely in Glasgow today but it's a sane 23-24 degrees with a good breeze, not the 30s. Mrs E and the kids are at inlaws taking round some belated birthday presents. I did a little overtime and will now get a wee sneaky half hour to myself.

A decent week for finances:

• 5.5 hours of overtime (£163.44 before deductions)
  
• SIPP payment a day
• Wee dribs and drabs into the EF

Made a payment of £4.40 into my SIPP this morning (£5.50 after tax relief). I think I may alternate between PAD type months and months where I just make single payments at the start of the month. I prefer the former but they waste a bit of time with excess admin.

Right, off to chill out for a little bit, there's chat of a Japanese takeaway for dinner.

skint_spice

It was hitting 30C just as I left work today just down the coast😅

I hope you manage to get your gazebo fixed🙏

edinburgher

Hellish day, DD2 actually slept for less than 90 minutes last night. I got her to nap for a little over an hour in the pram this afternoon but parents are both half dead  

£3.56 paid into SIPP from personal spends account (£4.45 after tax relief). Found some ice cream and tropical sugar free Irn Bru on my walk with DD2, I may be addicted 

beanielou

Did not like the ice cream irn bru.
Not tried the tropical yet!

edinburgher

I like both, ice cream one like a float 🤤

beanielou

edinburgher said:

I like both, ice cream one like a float 🤤

Might try it in a float actually