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Jul. 30th, 2019 11:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
girlofpreyI'm going back to work tomorrow. But here's the thing: my parents and all my nephews are going on holiday on Sunday, so next week my parents won't be around. Which means I'll have no chance of a lift to the station if I'm running late in the morning. Which means I also have to remember to look after the cat and organise her care properly around my working hours. Which means I'll probably have to do some food shopping, and cook for myself when I get in in the evening. So it won't be a usual week any way. Which is not ideal timing, but here we are. It also means mum won't be doing the washing, and I'm completely out of the habit of doing it myself, so if our heatwave returns and I really need to just spam the same set of light clothes for a week or two, I'm a little bit fucked. So that's that. Purely because of that, I'm not feeling super confident about next week. But like I say, there's no changing it now, and I don't really want to stay off work another week, so here we are. I'll just have to see.
And then the following week, they're returning on Sunday - but it's the middle of the night on Sunday, and they'll have all three kids with them, and while the idea of taking the children home that night has been floated about, what they usually do is bring all the kids here. So it's more straightforward and mum can sort out all the clothes she's sending back with them from the cases or whatever. So next Sunday night, my parents will be returning to our house with three fairly young, behaviourally-challenged children, in the middle of the time when I will be trying to sleep to get up for work the next day. My dad has been an arse about it, "oh, sorry to get in the way of your routine", and there's not much anyone can do about it now, but the fact remains that what they do will probably affect me. So I don't think that will be fun.
But I'm going back to work. To be honest, I don't feel too weird about it, apart from the holiday/parents stuff. And I don't feel weird about the idea of working next week. But when I think about working the week after that as well, I start to go "hmm?". And then when I remember they expect me to work, day after day, week after week after week until my next available holiday, I start to feel not great about it. So I don't know how tomorrow's going to go. We'll just have to see.
I did check my sick note, and it said you can go back before the end date on it if you feel able to, so that shouldn't be a problem. I guess just going in sometimes while off sick is a problem, maybe? Or that one doctor was just making things up. Anyway, I spoke to my boss to let him know I was planning to be in tomorrow, and asked if he was around so we can talk. I think I probably need to talk to him about the f-ing car park, because if he's not going to be around the office so much from now on, I don't know what my chain of command is supposed to be (so to speak). And he's never replied to me to talk about my sick pay form, so either he hasn't read it (promising to do things and then not doing them is somewhat his thing), or he has looked at it and it's awkward, so he's trying to pretend it isn't happening. Either way, I will probably have to speak to him about it tomorrow - without having any idea if he's even read the form or not, and knows what I know or not. So that will be fun.
And then the following week, they're returning on Sunday - but it's the middle of the night on Sunday, and they'll have all three kids with them, and while the idea of taking the children home that night has been floated about, what they usually do is bring all the kids here. So it's more straightforward and mum can sort out all the clothes she's sending back with them from the cases or whatever. So next Sunday night, my parents will be returning to our house with three fairly young, behaviourally-challenged children, in the middle of the time when I will be trying to sleep to get up for work the next day. My dad has been an arse about it, "oh, sorry to get in the way of your routine", and there's not much anyone can do about it now, but the fact remains that what they do will probably affect me. So I don't think that will be fun.
But I'm going back to work. To be honest, I don't feel too weird about it, apart from the holiday/parents stuff. And I don't feel weird about the idea of working next week. But when I think about working the week after that as well, I start to go "hmm?". And then when I remember they expect me to work, day after day, week after week after week until my next available holiday, I start to feel not great about it. So I don't know how tomorrow's going to go. We'll just have to see.
I did check my sick note, and it said you can go back before the end date on it if you feel able to, so that shouldn't be a problem. I guess just going in sometimes while off sick is a problem, maybe? Or that one doctor was just making things up. Anyway, I spoke to my boss to let him know I was planning to be in tomorrow, and asked if he was around so we can talk. I think I probably need to talk to him about the f-ing car park, because if he's not going to be around the office so much from now on, I don't know what my chain of command is supposed to be (so to speak). And he's never replied to me to talk about my sick pay form, so either he hasn't read it (promising to do things and then not doing them is somewhat his thing), or he has looked at it and it's awkward, so he's trying to pretend it isn't happening. Either way, I will probably have to speak to him about it tomorrow - without having any idea if he's even read the form or not, and knows what I know or not. So that will be fun.
