Messymascot's faith in humanity and ginger safe haven

[Terrarian]

Hello how are you all doing?

So I'm headache free so far today, touch wood. I wasn't too bad yesterday but my stomach decided it wanted to be a bitch instead.

I hope you are all well. Hopefully more signings to come this week.

Can you believe, my meds have been transferred from the mental health unit, where I had to pick them up once a month from the hospital, over to the GP surgery now as I've been monitored long enough for side effects and they've botched my very first prescription up.

I had a copy of the letter sent and so I know the mistake is on the GP side and I am struggling to get it sorted and they've left me 100mg per day short. So that's what I am doing.

Enjoy your day guys.

 

[Terrarian]

Feeling like a genius. Grade C O Level Maths!

I got a B, I had an A going into the exam off my coursework but I am not good at exams. Maths is my strong suit, I love it even now, algebra and everything, I even enjoyed calculus lol I didn't get over a C in anything else because I can't do exams and don't put the required effort into revising. Once I have an answer in my head it is impossible to see a different outcome.

 

[Terrarian]

Deserves more than a like!

Add some spring onion and salad cream to the tinned salmon , bliss

Tinned salmon is just nasty yuck in my opinion. Tinned tuna much better but still not a patch on a tuna steak. I have never liked salmon for some reason but I have never tried a fresh one tbf trout is lovely fresh, first time I was ever served a full fish, eyes and all was a trout.

 

[Bluerover]

I got a B, I had an A going into the exam off my coursework but I am not good at exams. Maths is my strong suit, I love it even now, algebra and everything, I even enjoyed calculus lol I didn't get over a C in anything else because I can't do exams and don't put the required effort into revising. Once I have an answer in my head it is impossible to see a different outcome.

Typical mathematician, whereas we humanities types always look at different sides to a proposition.

Seriously it seems it depends on which side of your brain is your strongest that will determine if you are a numbers type (one answer) or a humanities type (daydreamer)

 

[Blue Piper]

Very interesting points Val.
I was probably the opposite.
Despite working my way up through the legal profession from office junior to telephonist to trainee legal executive to solicitor and eventually partner I never managed to master typing or acquire decent keyboard or IT skills.
In part this was a generational issue but in all honesty I never got to grips with it despite enrolling and paying myself for a touch typing course.
As a legal executive and solicitor I always had a secretary and as a partner a PA.
Towards the end of my career all solicitors were encouraged to do their own typing.
Increasingly secretaries were made redundant.
I disagreed. It was a shortsighted and backwards step. Not because solicitors shouldn't type but a trained secretary will be faster , more accurate and generally be error free.
It was absurd to expect senior solicitors working in my team on catastrophic injury claims where you will often have to produce a witness statement over 30 pages long to not only draft it but then type it .
Anyway it was all part of a move for "efficiency" which saw things done quicker and with less staff and which in reality meant a significant lowering of quality and standards and ultimately impacted upon the client
So , I saw the writing in the wall and got out before my own standards were compromised.
I suspect that what happened in the legal profession is mirrored in other areas.

I started work in the Irish Post Office in 1978 as a clerk and I was told that a pen was all I would ever need in my job. It's strange to think now but where I grew up there was only one house who had a telephone. I actually learned how to use a phone in work. Everything was enterd into ledgers. I sold stamps in the GPO in Dublin and the daily balance was entered into a ledger. I had a big adding machine as a calculator, the one with the handle. I also used what was called a "ready "reckoner". I didn't get really into further education until my later years. I did a Science degree and then a Law degree and qualified as a solicitor three week before my fiftieth birthday. I'm still working in the Post office (forthy five years later) but I hope to retire by the end of the year.

Do people still work their way up through the ranks? At the moment all the management seems to be hired in; very little internal promotion. A huge amount of corporate memory leaving and being replaced by poor ideologies (management by whatever books that were covered in college). Lip service being paid to employees mental health and well being. (I believe that the best way to promote employee mental health and well being is to pay the workers well and don't overload them with work). I liked the story about the photo copier Ange. I too have wasted time trying to photocopy large scale maps on old deeds.

 

[jazzy]

I started work in the Irish Post Office in 1978 as a clerk and I was told that a pen was all I would ever need in my job. It's strange to think now but where I grew up there was only one house who had a telephone. I actually learned how to use a phone in work. Everything was enterd into ledgers. I sold stamps in the GPO in Dublin and the daily balance was entered into a ledger. I had a big adding machine as a calculator, the one with the handle. I also used what was called a "ready "reckoner". I didn't get really into further education until my later years. I did a Science degree and then a Law degree and qualified as a solicitor three week before my fiftieth birthday. I'm still working in the Post office (forthy five years later) but I hope to retire by the end of the year.

Do people still work their way up through the ranks? At the moment all the management seems to be hired in; very little internal promotion. A huge amount of corporate memory leaving and being replaced by poor ideologies (management by whatever books that were covered in college). Lip service being paid to employees mental health and well being. (I believe that the best way to promote employee mental health and well being is to pay the workers well and don't overload them with work). I liked the story about the photo copier Ange. I too have wasted time trying to photocopy large scale maps on old deeds.

Well done that's great career progression and some achievement.

Working you're way up through the ranks ? I'm not sure that happens any more in the legal profession. It used to be the case that the qualifications that you earned ( for me as part time study ) as a Legal Executive counted towards a law degree , don't think so now - might be wrong. I will tell you what though , hard as it was to pass the final , for me academic , law subjects at what is now JMU - constitutional law etc , the 10 years that I had been in practice prior to doing the Finals gave me a ridiculous head start. Ultimately I knew more than the lecturers who had never practiced and enabled me to pass with 1st class honours beating all the Oxbridge students - much to my delight. By the way we both started work in the same year !

 

[lancs blue]

Just seen this on the site's ads

Cheap and nasty....

Will keep the neighbours quiet

 

[anjelikaferrett]

Good afternoon folks and welcome back @Terrarian - even if you don't share my appreciation of tinned salmon
. I'm glad you're headache free today and hope you get the prescription sorted.
I've had a lovely morning. Daughter starts her night shifts tonight so we've had a bit of a Mum and daughter shopping trip, including getting our nails and eyebrows done. Then we went for lunch. Bank of Mum is slightly depleted ut I don't mind. It was really nice spending time with her.
I'm feeling OK about Everton but then again I usually do at this time of year. Drama free season finishing 9th-14th, nothing to play for by April would be fine for me.

 

[Terrarian]

Good afternoon folks and welcome back @Terrarian - even if you don't share my appreciation of tinned salmon
. I'm glad you're headache free today and hope you get the prescription sorted.
I've had a lovely morning. Daughter starts her night shifts tonight so we've had a bit of a Mum and daughter shopping trip, including getting our nails and eyebrows done. Then we went for lunch. Bank of Mum is slightly depleted ut I don't mind. It was really nice spending time with her.
I'm feeling OK about Everton but then again I usually do at this time of year. Drama free season finishing 9th-14th, nothing to play for by April would be fine for me.

The Dr's secretary is sorting it for me so should be sorted today hopefully. Cheers.
Definitely a stress free season needed, can't do that for a 3rd time, we'll sink at some point.

 

[jazzy]

Hello how are you all doing?

So I'm headache free so far today, touch wood. I wasn't too bad yesterday but my stomach decided it wanted to be a bitch instead.

I hope you are all well. Hopefully more signings to come this week.

Can you believe, my meds have been transferred from the mental health unit, where I had to pick them up once a month from the hospital, over to the GP surgery now as I've been monitored long enough for side effects and they've botched my very first prescription up.

I had a copy of the letter sent and so I know the mistake is on the GP side and I am struggling to get it sorted and they've left me 100mg per day short. So that's what I am doing.

Enjoy your day guys.

Good to hear from you T and even better that you are headache free today.

Shift Gray , bring in Gnonto or Harrison plus an out and out centre forward and ( shock , horror @blue1948 ) I'd be confident of us staying up. That's the bare minimum we need though.

 

[jazzy]

Our daughter decided that university was not for her so she applied for a job at a local company. The chap who interviewed her noticed on her CV that she worked in the Posh shop on matchdays. Turned out he was a season ticket holder and she got the job. She went on day release for shorthand and typing etc and she’s now his PA.

Brilliant.

 

[Terrarian]

Good to hear from you T and even better that you are headache free today.

Shift Gray , bring in Gnonto or Harrison plus an out and out centre forward and ( shock , horror @blue1948 ) I'd be confident of us staying up. That's the bare minimum we need though.

As much as I think Danjuma is a rat, he will make a huge difference if you ask me, it killed us not having a forward last year and puts a lot of pressure on the rest of the team. Maupay was an actual disgrace last season, Brett Angel level bad.

 

[jazzy]

BTW @Val P and @anjelikaferrett and indeed anyone else who loves Greece ......absolutely killing me to see the terrible pictures and stories from Rhodes ( and now Corfu ). Just as they were getting back on their feet after covid this happens to the Greek tourist industry , I feel so sad for them.

We've stayed in one of the hotels that apparently burnt down. Just terribly sad.

 

[anjelikaferrett]

@Gwladysover my daughter also decided she didn't want to go to uni. After a couple of temp jobs after she left school she got taken on by a fostering agency as a receptionist. She ended up as a placement officer - matching kids and carers and doing all the processes around that. So she has worked her way up too. I think she would really like to do social work but still doesn't want to commit to any more education!

 

[jazzy]

As much as I think Danjuma is a rat, he will make a huge difference if you ask me, it killed us not having a forward last year and puts a lot of pressure on the rest of the team. Maupay was an actual disgrace last season, Brett Angel level bad.

Is he a rat though T - do any modern footballers really care ?

Think about it this way mate. You go for a job and the person that hired you , that sold you the vision of how great it's going to be gets sacked the following day. Naturally that worries you a bit and you think how stable the situation is. Then another company , with much nicer working conditions and potentially better prospects comes along and makes you an offer. What you going to do ?