The end of summer
Aug. 25th, 2005 09:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sobriqueSummer's like, June/July/August, isn't it?
By my count, aside from holiday booked (for last maesltrom), I've been in work almost every weekend this summer.
This makes me sad. Over the 'summer months' I will have worked an additional 130 hours or so, which is getting dangerously close to having 'squeezed' an additional working month in.
And basically have done sod all with the weekends. I don't know if I otherwise would have, but even spending time socialising, in a pub garden, with friends, makes life ya'know, worth living.
I've just started getting earbashings from users about how I've not been 'proactive' about responding to their requests. It's a fair criticism, I've got open calls that I've been sitting on for ... well about the same amount of time.
However it does make me think. "Why the hell am I doing this?"
Oh, I enjoy playing with technology, and computers, 'n stuff, but even so, in light of the previous 3 months, getting a bashing over being 'incompetent and lazy' is somewhat hard to take.
Makes me thing that maybe I should take it somewhere else.
Maybe I'm just pissed off and grumpy, and it'll go away. Or maybe 'pissed off and grumpy' isn't a good way to be, and trying to change what's _making_ me pissed off and grumpy is in order.
By my count, aside from holiday booked (for last maesltrom), I've been in work almost every weekend this summer.
This makes me sad. Over the 'summer months' I will have worked an additional 130 hours or so, which is getting dangerously close to having 'squeezed' an additional working month in.
And basically have done sod all with the weekends. I don't know if I otherwise would have, but even spending time socialising, in a pub garden, with friends, makes life ya'know, worth living.
I've just started getting earbashings from users about how I've not been 'proactive' about responding to their requests. It's a fair criticism, I've got open calls that I've been sitting on for ... well about the same amount of time.
However it does make me think. "Why the hell am I doing this?"
Oh, I enjoy playing with technology, and computers, 'n stuff, but even so, in light of the previous 3 months, getting a bashing over being 'incompetent and lazy' is somewhat hard to take.
Makes me thing that maybe I should take it somewhere else.
Maybe I'm just pissed off and grumpy, and it'll go away. Or maybe 'pissed off and grumpy' isn't a good way to be, and trying to change what's _making_ me pissed off and grumpy is in order.
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Serious point.
Date: 2005-08-25 04:13 pm (UTC)New laws have also come in stating that under new Health and Safety regulations, your employer has a responsibility to ensure you are not put under too much stress. Again the H&S site will have more details.
Ask very loudly in the office if anyone has the local paper - on job day...