Notices tagged with work
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Damn it. Spent three days adjusting my circadian rhythm to suit a 1am shift tonight, and it's been cancelled. Looks like it's going to be a lean few weeks at #work.
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Need to stay awake because shifts starting at 1am are a thing now at #work, and I have one in a couple of days, so I must recalibrate. Don't have a good track record with night work. Thankfully F-bomb Freddy at the far end of the landing and Pinky Tuscadero downstairs are engaged in a stereo war tonight. It's Total Eclipse of the Heart versus some generic heavy metal at the moment. Ordinarily I'd be annoyed, but since you can't get pseudoephedrine over the counter any more I'll take this instead.
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Another long day at #work, which is starting to resemble a Soviet supermarket. We wear ill-fitting red shirts and have many fine consumer goods, just not today the ones you need. Panic buying has snowballed from idiot #covid-19 doomsday preppers to people panicked by the idiots, to people panicked by the people panicked by… And so on, but for how long? https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/34631
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F-bomb Freddy is excelling himself today. I had a pre-dawn start at #work today, got home before lunchtime, and he was already blaring away some choice 70s acoustic folk-rock which has continued unabated for about eight hours so far (who knew there was so much of it?). I adjourned to the pub for a while, but I have neither the money nor the stamina to keep that up. At my wits end, but this is a seriously sketchy character that even a big chap like myself is not inclined to confront.
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And today's unexpected fit of #work brings me nearly, but not quite, up to a 40-hour week. Thank you, #coronavirus doomsday preppers, for all your deranged bulk purchases of loo paper, tissues, tinned fruit, pasta, anything with the word "antibacterial" - or indeed the prefix "anti" - on the packaging, flour, mosquito repellent, etc. As the saying goes, you have made a happy man feel very old. Keep your guns loaded, your billy on the boil, and your quixotic online purchases coming.
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@mjd "Good for my bank balance. Bad for my body." #work
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Second ten-hour day of the week at #work. Good for my bank balance. Bad for my body.
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Nearly out of toilet paper, tissues, and antibacterial liquid soap at #work this afternoon. #WTF are people doing? Building toilet paper forts and filling super soakers with soapy water? https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/34511
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@tregeagle They are all unexpected shifts. Except for the expected ones, which get cancelled at the last minute. Unless you expect that they will. #work
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Oh, dear. Ten hours at #work today. Shattered. Better than having the same hours spread over three days, though.
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@tregeagle I'm not sure. Maybe the guy I'm regularly mistaken for at #work has really lifted his game, so I'm getting called in more often. Best not to question it.
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Seven hours yesterday, nine today at weekend rates. My body's borked, and I've still to get up for a 7am start tomorrow, but that's my holiday paid for. #work
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Stepped out of the mall after #work this afternoon to see this. https://microblog.mjd.id.au/attachment/34076
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Feck I feel good today. Walking to #work, listening to Accelerate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerate_(R.E.M._album)) I felt better than I have done in twenty years.
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Saw our old chum #TW at #work this afternoon. He looked quite sprightly, and seemed pretty cognitively sharp (well, no worse than me; it's all relative). That makes two old friends I've bumped into at work in recent weeks who aren't dead yet. Feeling pretty happy about that.
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Hoping a cup-a-soup with a few generous dashes of tabasco, accompanied by a thick wodge of bread slathered in garlic butter, will get me into #work this afternoon.
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#DoNotLike #SMS reminders of medical appointments that arrive at exactly the time of day I'm most likely to be called in to #work. Oh, my nerves. There I was, thinking I'd have to cancel the whole afternoon's lack of plans, and it was a false alarm.
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Had to go into #work to tell the chap assembling the roster that I couldn't do Wednesday next week (and, tacitly, that I exist; nice but unexpected holiday I had last week). The smoke was all through the shopping mall. Could hardly see from one end to t'other. Lady in the off-licence said goodbye with "stay safe". Safe? I'm about to drink some of this cheap poisonous muck. Safety is a matter of degree. [*Cough*]
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Doing the washing and cooking dinner at 11pm because #work. Not happy. Yes I made half the average week's income today but, unless I calm down, the dummy spit tomorrow might cause some unpleasantness. Plus, Everything Hurtz. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls3OYPcUL1w
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Not rostered on at #work for four days in a row. On the one hand, getting called in would be good for my bank balance, but on the other hand, the hand I slammed in between two trolleys yesterday, a long rest would be nice. Ow, that smarts.
Matthew Davidson
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