Teetering on the brink

EatingBeans

Day two back at work and pain free! Fingers crossed it was just a weird blip caused by trying to skim read over a thousand e-mails all at once! 😬

Still no actual work to do so instead I decided to check out the employee benefits page to see if I am missing out on anything useful. I can indeed get a free eye test and glasses voucher - so I have applied for that. I also discovered a free Will writing service so I spent the afternoon writing my Will! 🤣 It’s one of those things that has been on my to-do list for years but I’ve always had better things to be spending my money on. Free though - how could I resist! 😁

itsthelittlethings

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81947762#Comment_81947762

Unless an email says I’m going to die if you don’t reply I think we can safely say it can be ignored if you have over 1000 of them.

Trigeminal Neuralgia is supposed to be very painful. I used to have an amazing colleague who suffered with it. I perceive it as like a bad sinus infection all the time. Must be hell.

Congratulations on going back to work.

ellenvan

Glad you are feeling better whilst earning.

Definitely check out all the freebies while you can.

daisy_1571

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81947776#Comment_81947776

Yup, I used to diligently work through oldest first trying to deal with them. Just about gave myself a breakdown. Then I got wise that I'm dealing with things that the person has emailed someone else about and they've already answered. So then I used to put them in sender order, go to immediate line manager and delete all the stuff that's now rubbish as it applied to when I was off - window cleaners coming, stationery request to be in by Mon, any meeting requests for when I was off etc. Then go back to date order and look at the last week or so, everything else move into a folder called 'sick leave early 2026' then it's there if you do need to find it.

Cherryfudge

It's great to hear you are pain free! Fantastic!

And a nice set of useful freebies.

EatingBeans

I love the idea of a ‘sick leave folder’! Thanks @daisy_1571 I will defo remember that one for the future!

In all honesty I deleted large chunks based on send and/or just the e-mail titles and would probably have done a lot more had it not been for the complete lack of work I went back to. I mean in a normal job, you go back and the work you were doing is still there but in my case what I was doing was finished off and no new work was allocated to me so in effect my job is made redundant by my absence! Now I have asked to go back two days a week they are literally scratching their heads trying to come up with something for me to do and I just got told not to worry about not doing anything. They know I am going so I get a sense they are just going to run the clock down. Even the task I have been told I will do has apparently already been allocated to the teams to do between themselves. So I’m just pencilling in random catch ups with people I want to talk with before I leave and then maybe going to do a free course or something. 😁 It will be fine.

The funny thing is that the leavers scheme was run university wide and yet in our department (of about 100), only four people are going and all four have the same role as me - that’s 4 out of 11 of us! Honestly I was surprised more didn’t go and of those I’ve spoken to about it there seem to be quite a few who are already regretting their choice to stay. Two days was enough for me to realise that things have got worse in my absence not better and whilst I will miss the people and the Uni in general, I wont miss working that job. Onwards and upwards!

daisy_1571

Brilliant ! Well done keeping it all in perspective. Mr d retired during covid and didn't get to wander about saying cheerio to people so if you get any face to face time that would be lovely

Dxx