girlofprey

My parents are back tonight. In the middle of the night, and I'm still not sure how that's going to work. My mum said the plane lands at around 1am, and I'm not sure which airport they flew from, but with getting baggage it should still be at least 3am when they get home. But it generally takes me a huge amount of time to get to sleep, a couple of hours most nights, and if I know they're coming back it won't help me relax, so I might still be awake at that point. If I'm awake, do I go greet them? If I'm asleep, will they wake me up? Are they going to be up in the morning when I get up. It seems ridiculous after getting in at 3am after a holiday, but being like "lol no big deal" while they're dying is sort of my parents' thing. If they're awake, do I need to listen to holiday stories when I should be getting a shower? If they're asleep, will their bags be in my way? I just don't know, and I feel like I'm not going to be able to relax until next weekend.

The one good thing about this weekend is that I studiously arranged to not have to go into town at all, despite running low on food. It turned out everything I needed I could get in Leeds before work, or from an M&S deli on my way from work to Leeds train station, and even the cat food I needed could be purchased from a local B&M. It was a real result. I also planned to get some money out for takeaway this weekend and forgot, but then found a tenner in my purse for the pizza man, and realised I could pay with a card for my pub Sunday carvery today. Doing nothing for the win.

One thing I was planning to do by getting money out though was check my bank balance. I spoke to my manager, and I was right - he didn't have a fucking clue either. I think my manager might have only joined the company a few months or year before I did, and before that he was at a place that just paid sick pay, just paid your full wage whilever you were off (up to a certain period of time, of course). Then when he joined our company, he got told there was no sick pay, thought "hmm, that's weird", but was never off sick himself so never looked into it. Which in some ways is a relief, because we had an incident last year where I needed to take time off, and I asked if he wanted me to get a sick note, and he said no that's just one way we could do it, we could do it another way, and he had me take a bunch of that time off as holiday, meaning I had no holiday left for the rest of the year. And it would have been extremely unpleasant if I'd found out he'd just been cheating me out of my holiday instead of paying me sick pay. But as it stands, I genuinely believe he didn't know. I feel like maybe he should have known, while being a manager, and discussing his employees' sick leave and their options for doing so with them. I also feel like this could have all been cleared up when I originally requested that form, "for when your employers don't pay sick pay", if they'd just told me they do instead of sending me the form. I'm guessing they didn't even look at the form at first. So here we are.

So the long and short of it is, I am getting paid sick pay, but I don't know how much, and my CEO said something about "after the first week", which I don't exactly understand. I know roughly how much I should have been paid for the time I worked this month - although I'm not quite sure how my deductions like pension will come out of it, whether it's a lump sum or a percentage of pay. So I'm still not entirely sure what I'm getting/have gotten, since I got paid on Friday. If I'd checked my bank balance on Friday I would have some idea, but I didn't. I was also supposed to get on online payslip which would itemise it, but from checking my work email - which I haven't for a few months - I seem to have stopped getting those online slips in June. It tells me to log into a site, but I don't seem to have ever set up an account for it. So. Confusion. I am apparently getting paid something, but I don't know how much, I'll only know what I have the next time I check my bank balance.

It's been an okay week overall, I think. Fingers crossed, but I never got any calls from the woman looking after our dog to say he'd run away (which he frequently does), or my sister turning up on my doorstep having an emotional breakdown, or anyone banging on the door about anything that wasn't even really anything to do with me. It was pretty quiet, and I got to spend time with the cat. She took a long time to brave coming into the living room to hang out and get cosy, and now she finally has started and the dog's coming back tomorrow. That's a bit of a shame. But other than that it's been pretty nice. I watched Year of the Rabbit, which I enjoyed, and I'm watching What We Do in the Shadows, which I'm enjoying. I thought a few years ago, when I was watching the Mighty Boosh, that maybe I should just watch everything Matt Berry was ever in, and it's really working out for me at the moment.

Also I love Fallout 4, and I love Harringrove from Stranger Things. I found the anti's for the ship, but I guess it was my own fault for going on Tumblr. I just find it very strange to only read fic in a fandom, and not read or see any fannish discussions. And Tumblr's where the fannish discussions are at the moment. Anyway, that wasn't very nice, but mostly the fandom's quite lovely. I mostly think the only healthy relationship on the show is Carol/Tommy H, but that's just my opinion I guess. At least there's fic. There's no Year of the Rabbit fic, despite some very nice canon.