Non-PG13 (Strong Language): One of those weeks...

[dr2005]

So, last Friday I find out my car insurance company has signed off a ridiculous claim on damage I caused to another person's car in an accident (said damage being a series of scratches on a bumper from a crash at around 10mph...), and that my policy is going to go through the roof as a result. That's the weekend off to a bad start already. Then I come down with another cold just as I need to get back into training for a charity run I'm doing in March, oversleep on Sunday, and as a result of both go into work on Monday in a pretty bad mood.

Then the shit really starts hitting the fan. I call the garage and find out that my car's engine problems are more serious than first thought, and so the whole fucking engine is going to need replacing and that means I'm stuck without my car for another week at least. As I live in the middle of nowhere, that means I'm stuck at home or at work, which really doesn't help my mood. Then things start going wrong at work - people not responding to e-mails, conflicting information, printers going haywire and computer problems generally - and that just winds me up even more. And just when I couldn't get more fed up with things, I find out the fees for the course I'm starting in September have gone up again, and then I manage to make an idiot of myself through being scatter-brained as a result of all the above. So I end the week run down, fed up and starting to feel like depression is trying to take over again.

Seriously, what the fuck is going on? I know I've not been the best person sometimes but I don't think I deserve this level of shit in one week. It's certainly not the start to 2012 I had in mind, and all I can say is next week had better be an improvement on this one. Maybe I'm just going a bit stir crazy...

Anyway, rant over. Sorry about that - just needed to get it off my chest.

[BDF]

My general attitude with respect to work is I only do what the boss tells me. I've had little to do with proper jobs where you sign an employment contract, but enough to be able to pass judgement I think.

Sometimes the neighbouring desk might ask you to "do them a favour", or another worker on a building site will ask you to take over for 5 minutes. Unless I'm pretty good friends with them... I won't do it. Not only you get very little payback for it, but people start seeing you as a push over, if something goes wrong, you take the fault, your boss gets pissed etc. Plus you usually have your own things to get on with.

If they want me to do something, they can go to the manager or the boss with it first. I'd usually say to them "you don't pay me". I wasn't very popular for it, but I never got into trouble.