Moving on up! 🏡

Jessy103

Watty, I completely agree and see why you bought a puppy, dont blame you at all. P.S I've always dreamed of having a GSD one day!

Thank you Sunshineli! x

Unfortunately the job didn't work out, they want someone for a few hours during the day, which is fine but then also to go back in the evening at 8pm for an hour and a half. Its on the outskirts of the village, the opposite end to us and the thought of doing that in winter on my bike, was just not sensible.

I did however ask my current MD if I could go part time. The condition with my eyes is not going away and I could end having blockages again and needing surgery again. The condition is made worse by being infront of a screen all day, because it dries your eyes out even more, so cutting down my hours would be the best thing for my health. I've been told I will find out next week because he has to think about it as I've asked to go down to 25hrs a week (8am-1pm). If im told no, then i will have to squirrel away as much money as possible and then if i havent found another job by Christmas, I will be leaving and building up my cleaning business with my savings as a back up if needed.

Unfortunately, we still haven't heard anything back from the whippet rescue, so we had a chat and the puppy was still available, so yeah, shes coming over from Ireland to live with us in the next few weeks! Seriously, how were we ever going to say no to this face! 😍

Cheery_Daff

Awwww, I don't think you will Jessy! 🥰🥰 does she have a name yet?

Mrs_Money_Penny

Aww How could you not! She’s beautiful x

South_coast

Oh, what a cutie 🩷!

beanielou

So much cuteness. Hope you get to go to part time.

Jessy103

Thanks everyone x She is super cute!

@Cheery_Daff She does have a name but it doesn't really mean anything to us so we will change it. Our other girls have norse names, Dog 1 who passed recently was Freya so we think we'll stick with a name along those lines 🙂

sunshineli

Sorry to hear the job didn’t work out but I hope you get to go part time in your current job.

That’s such great news about the pup. How precious!

Watty1

Pup is so cute😀

Jessy103

Another week done and it's been a tough one in this heat! Boyo came to stay with us last Sunday until Wednesday. It was good to see him and it was handy in the heat as we were able to leave the door open all day for the dogs while he was home and we were at work, which kept the house cool and the dogs happy. The office has been fine as it has air con but cleaning jobs have been rough.

The company MD said to me on Friday he was struggling with my request to go part time as there is a lot of work to do. This is true but seeing as I was told by him to help other people/teams do their work, maybe if they took their work back and started doing it themselves instead of getting me to do it, I wouldn't be so busy! The whole situation has made me quite angry really, there are people that are allowed to do four or three days a week, work from home one or two days a week, work different or flexible hours and yet here I am with an actual health condition and 8 years at the company but I'm being made to feel like I'm asking for the world! I now have to think of ways my work will get done and report back to him. This is a company that goes on about being a family run business and all the loveliness that goes with it but no, you are just a number. If it wasn't so blooming convenient with being in the village i would be handing in my notice Monday.

Anyway, I was paid yesterday and have next week off as I will be turning 40 on Tuesday. I am lucky in that i do work with some lovely people and I came home yesterday with cards and presents. Nothing really planned, I'm just happy to be having a break and being able to spend it in our lovely home and garden. DH will be taking me out to do a bit of shopping and dinner on my actual birthday, I need a new coat and some trainers so they will be my birthday treat.

Overpayments have been limited this month as I've been saving instead. Currently at £4,500. I want to get this to £5k by the end of July. I did pay a small £90 towards the mortgage today just to feel like I'm making some progress. Maybe my birthday will yield some pennies that I can put towards it 🙂

daisy_1571

Firstly Happy 40th When it comes jessy xxx

I'm sure you'll do this but first place I'd start would be your job description and how long that work takes you.

Then look at the work you do that used to be in other departments or under other people's remit and how long that takes.

Then remind (in whatever way you think will go down best) that employers rely on employee's goodwill however you will henceforth be focusing Firstly and potentially completely on 'your work'. Anything else would be a bonus.

definitely no harm in having a note of everybody that you can remember has changed hours or days that you can remember. Handy to have facts at your fingertips

And finally a look at acas cab and other websites about dda to ensure what you are asking is within its limits

Good luck with it all. By the time you go back you'll be in a much stronger position