Learning to walk before I run

edinburgher

Being woken up at 05:30 =

Being awake at 05:30 = opportunity!

2 hours of overtime done, will be a long day at 11 hours but now "free" until next weekend should I choose to be

Suffolk_lass

Ooh, you could have messaged me. I got up at 04.40 this morning. What are we like!?

killerpeaty

How on earth do you get up at that time? I wake up and think "no". That's it, no arguing, just no.

(I love my electric blanket, the instructions let you know to ensure that no wires within the blanket cross before use but otherwise should be safe)

Also last year, wasn't there a think about bed tents so that kids could stay warm? Is that still a thing?

edinburgher

@killerpeaty -

Mrs E had been up since 4 with DD2 and brought her into our bed at 5:30. I didn't fancy the couch as it was freezing and not 100% convinced we've got all the fleas yet, vet trip to come on Friday.

South_coast

Being woken up at 05:30 = Perfectly normal!

I have high hopes of soon being able to reset my body clock so I don't sleep between 9.00pm-5.00am 😀

savingholmes

Well done on the overtime. 

Sympathies on the fleas - they seem very resistant to treatment this year.

edinburgher

I am apoplectic, work is seriously getting on my wick

Pay slip for next week is available and £££ of overtime has not been approved/paid. The helpline to discuss payroll queries has a faulty system routing calls, so all options lead to you being hung up on.

Also a horrendous meeting re. trying to address a massive backlog of work where the big boss shot down 75% of suggestions in advance, was pleased that we could address perhaps 15% of suggestions even though these all relate to the fact that my boss can't do their job properly and has ****** our productivity and tried to tell me off for contacting our supervising authority about a point of practice. The only reason I did so was because my boss showed a complete lack of interest in my genuinely valid concerns. I was too nice to raise this in a team meeting.

So I have a job where I do 40 hours over 4 days, I get nowhere, solutions that I am more than qualified to suggest are ignored and I'm not even paid for my overtime. Honestly, I feel like chucking it. I won't, however, as I have many many responsibilities. Man I could cry.

£2 cashback on £5 spend at TCB today all - Just Eat voucher for me

Suffolk_lass

How awful for you. Do other members of the team feel the same way, I wonder? You can only look for other work. There will be options after the festive season, even in different parts of your current organisation. I always thought good bosses were an undervalued jewel in the organisation crown. You need to write an escape plan in my view (having one is more important than deploying it; it makes things feel better because you have a way out)

Baileys_Babe

Is it possible to email payroll?

Still very frustrating. 

Enjoy your weekend.

edinburgher

@Suffolk_lass - I am not sure I have an escape plan - too cash poor.

@Baileys_Babe - Yes but they routinely fail to respond to emails.

It turns out that I may not be getting bumped, it is that the overtime system is crap. There are 13x 4-week periods each year during which you can log overtime. The deadlines for submitting overtime in each period, however, do not align with the periods during which overtime can be logged. It's like the deadlines operate as a second set of periods that don't correspond to the 4-week working period that just passed. So it looks as if some overtime will be paid almost 6 weeks after it is logged and approved

At least I can't hold that against my boss, "credit" where it's due. I am still furious, I really struggle to unwind after a day like today and then I get a nasty adrenaline crash later in the evening and feel sick.