I have a summer project! I want to buy a store. Quit the office in the fall and work for myself!!
I have dreamed of having a bookstore for 15 years now, the stroe for sale is not books but OH soooo interesting and spiritual. I have so many projects.
And I have hooked my husband into doing a business plan for me with a budget and all!
we seriously need a puff of smoke and sparkles in the faces/signs.
I am all better. I am doing my work at a good clip. I am able to look people in the face again. I am sleeping at a more normal routein and WILL KEEP TO IT THIS WEEKEND!!! no late nite books and tv and internet and painting and and and and,... I promise MYSELF
I have had 2 salade lunches this week with no dressing! and am controlling the caffine and sugar craving.
So I do not see everyone as out to get me. i have more patience with the others... I am not 100% but 80% is good!
**And I have not spent the rent on a bunch of books I saw and really want!!!! **
Hey, how are the work troubles going for everyone?
I have been having a lot of good experiences at my workplace lately. I find setting boundaries really helps. Sometimes people walk all over people just because they know they can. I tend to be too much of a people pleaser but I often get less respect because of it (weird eh?). Well I have learned if you voice your opinion and let people know when you are offended then people respect you more. I hope this helps someone!
Now that I am not fighting with my body ... things are going a lot more smoothly (even if it is month-end).
When I saw the accupuncturist on the weekend she did some digestion points ... and now I have the SUGAR and CAFFINE CRAVING under controle! So I am exhausted but not all over the place...
I mentioned the scolding to my boss last week, and she has done the positive reinforcement for a second time this week... So I am a lot more calm. You know I did not notice if she did it withinn ear shot of the person wo scolded me... !! I am exhausted, normally i would have noticed everything down to the colour of the socks she was wearing...
But my gift to create panic has stirred-up the wasps nest again so I am dealing with another problem... I asked for wrist support since I do a lot more typing and less writing. And It is no office supplies ... it is something that is custome made for your hand by an orthopedist... the h/r girl had one made go see her she will explain it all...
All I wanted was a $20 keyboard sponge to lean my hands on from Staples Office Supplies - a wrist-support not a wrist splint. I had my superviser and another manager go Funny! due to this request... what a gift
Work places can be very stressful! When I returned to work from a 6 month sick leave, one of the conditions of my returning was that someone was to be available to answer my boss's phone at all times. Not a problem, there was another girl in the office who could do that when I wasn't there. Only problem was, we both wanted to take the same coffee and lunch times. I talked to her and asked her to take the earlier time because she and a couple of others went for a walk at coffee and lunch rather than going to the lunchroom. The people I usually had coffee and lunch with went at the later time and there would be no one for me to socialize with if I took the early time. And her answer was, No, we've always walked at the 12:30 and we're not going to change! Talk about being made to feel unimportant!
It took me writing an email to the 3 people involved and a cc to my boss (who is also their boss) and a staff meeting with everyone involved for the issue to be resolved. The boss finally said we could try putting the phone to voice mail over the breaks but I was to keep track of how many calls came in and how urgent they were, which turned out to be very few calls and none were urgent - go figure!
It also took me over a year to get this same boss to agree to an accommodation of a half hour later start time - and it took letters from my psych doc to our occupational health dept & a phone call between my doc and the employer's doc to confirm that this was a legitimate medical accommodation (one of the meds I take is very sedating and makes mornings extremely difficult) and thus the boss had no choice but to agree!
Talk about having to fight the stigma of mental illness - issues that should be a no-brainer to solve are made into mountains!
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