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Hi Karen just been reading your thread with great interest. There is nothing worse than when you are unhappy in your work - and your management sucks!! I really feel for you but also admire your determination to stick at the diet. Keep going Girl xx
I work for my local police force and we have to work 24/7 including Xmas and it causes so many problems. Managers won't let you book off any time over Xmas and also we are having terrible time getting leave for hols etc. I know how you feel love :sigh:
 
Shelley3774 said:
Hi Karen just been reading your thread with great interest. There is nothing worse than when you are unhappy in your work - and your management sucks!! I really feel for you but also admire your determination to stick at the diet. Keep going Girl xx
I work for my local police force and we have to work 24/7 including Xmas and it causes so many problems. Managers won't let you book off any time over Xmas and also we are having terrible time getting leave for hols etc. I know how you feel love :sigh:
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my company are normally ok with booking time off for holiday - we only have to give 2 weeks notice.

last year they told us if we want xmas off in future we had to book it as holiday. so i put a request in this month, to be told that no-one is having xmas off unless we can get it covered by another staff member ...as if anyone is going to offer to do that!!!

i don't blame my line managers - our company is a charitable business and has financial issues. unfortunately it ends up with higher management making stupid decisions, which results in a high staff turn over as they burn their staff out!

i guess the diet is the one thing i can control at this point in my life. if i start eating crap i will only feel worse about everything!
 
mod-karen79 said:
my company are normally ok with booking time off for holiday - we only have to give 2 weeks notice.

last year they told us if we want xmas off in future we had to book it as holiday. so i put a request in this month, to be told that no-one is having xmas off unless we can get it covered by another staff member ...as if anyone is going to offer to do that!!!

i don't blame my line managers - our company is a charitable business and has financial issues. unfortunately it ends up with higher management making stupid decisions, which results in a high staff turn over as they burn their staff out!

i guess the diet is the one thing i can control at this point in my life. if i start eating crap i will only feel worse about everything!
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I totally agree there you would probably feel 100 times worse if you let the diet slip as well.
We have to book our leave 1 year in advance which is a nightmare if an event crops up last minute. I requested an early finish last month (only 1 hour) to go to my sons sports day and i requested it 2 weeks in advance. On the day they told me no we were too busy!! Try and explain that to a 5 year old. For the first time ever like you I got really tearful and nearly walked out. I don't normally rock the boat but I went straight in to see the new Top boss and she was fantastic and said no problem I could go. This really rubbed my supervisor up the wrong way though!!! It only takes a bit of common sense and good people management to make staff happy again.
I've worked there 11 years now and I really felt crapped on.
Keep up the good work on your diet Karen:)
 
shrinkingsue said:
Shelley I can't believe that they wouldn't let you have an hour off good on ou for going to someone higher, I'm so lucky in my job its so flexible but I have been there working shifts weekends and bank holidays when my boys were younger and its so hard to explain why you can't go to something like sports day x
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I know shocking isn't it especially when there were 25 of us taking non 999 calls at the time. There were not enough seats for all of us anyway. :eek:
 
you're job sounds worse than mine shelley! in fact i don't hate my job, i love it - but, i hate the way the staff are treated. it makes no difference if i work a weekend or not - if i worked a weekend i have fri and mon off, so they would still need to get agency staff in to cover my days off regardless of when they are.
 
mod-karen79 said:
you're job sounds worse than mine shelley! in fact i don't hate my job, i love it - but, i hate the way the staff are treated. it makes no difference if i work a weekend or not - if i worked a weekend i have fri and mon off, so they would still need to get agency staff in to cover my days off regardless of when they are.
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I've always loved my job too but we had a major reorganisation last year and our office expanded from 40 to over 100 and this is when the problems started.
I'm nights tonight and i've been off for 2 weeks so really not looking forward to it!!!
I struggle on the diet when i'm nights too so just been to Asda and stocked up on some munchies to see me through x
 
my company's the same. we had a restructure 2 years ago and everyone and everything has been shuffled around, budgets have been cut and we're not allowed to do activities with clients like we used to be able to :(
 
I love my job and we are in the middle of a management reshuffle right now. I know where all of our 4 current line managers are going and the pone that really doesn't like me is NOT going to be my manager anymore which is fantastic! I know who one of my managers will be and I'm not sure yet if it's a good thing or not. She really doesn't seem to enjoy her job and I think that ultimately we may suffer for that but I guess we will just have to wait and see!
 
have tried to be relaxed today but it's not quite worked! have decided to take friday off of work too - as i haven't managed to wind down yet!

got weighed and lost 2lbs so at least that's good! :D
 
well done loser! xxx
 
3.5lbs to go for my 2.5 stone award! woohoo!!!

going to be extra good this week...although i have had a lots of sins today as post weigh-in treat. definately tooooooooo many sins! but they don't count ;)
 
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I just keep following Taz round the forum this morning and shes beating me to say things raaaaaggghhh you Taz!!! I was going to tell her that they dont count too!! xxx
 
i think they did yesterday. i normally get weighed at 5pm, but yesterday i got weighed at 11am, so had 6 hours extra eating time and i certainly went overboard! i reckon what i ate came to 100+ sins! *gulp!* and i've slept all night with hearturn :( ...just woke up and chewing on a rennie now!

think i will go straight onto success express this morning.
 
But that's fine, you just get straight back on it and it probably wont make much of a difference
 
Good old Rennie - I bought some to take away with us! x
 
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