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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (19 children)

Bleah, back to being cranky pants again today. Feeling bristly when people ask the prerequisite "what did you get up to on the weekend" and I don't have anything exciting to say like a fishing trip or running a marathon or whatever so they tune out anyway. I know it's a nicety but like I wish they round just skip the question, neither of us enjoy it at this point. And I don't actually want to hear about what most of my colleagues have gotten up to because it's not in my wheelhouse anyway and i can only feign interest for so long.

Ordinarily I'd just bury myself in work but we've run out of stuff to do and the only stuff left is some very very tedious document updating which I've already spent a lot of time on and I'm dying of boredom send help. Almost tempted to start chucking sickies...

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

My last job, mandatory Monday morning in-office meetings when the first 10 minutes was wasted hearing about everyone's weekends and having to explain what I did for my weekend. It was a truly horrible way to start each week.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Things like that make me understand why people shoot up workplaces.

Not condoning it, but you know.......

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