simonworden

I like to throw on massive playlists or compilations while at work as it's easy to end up playing personal DJ otherwise. Amy Holland's She's on Fire came on and all I can here is Cheese On Fire. I hate this place.

Couldn't agree more with this one. As soon as someone starts a sentence with "listen" my spine starts tensing up. I can forgive if it's used as an apology for something like having to move a meeting or something minor, but I've started to encounter loads of people using it to put some form of forced exclamation at the start of an opinion statement. As soon as I see that I know they're an obnoxious tit and stop listening. The one for me is people who use the argument " [thing x, y or z] says a lot about you" as some kind of morally superior argument. I even had it used with "The fact you didn't enjoy the Odessey says a lot about you" recently. Yes, the fact I thought a new move was a bit meh for my tastes clearly shows everything about me.

I wouldn't be surprised if they start using AI to process and respond. Eventually you'll have a completly closed loop of complain-o-bots in an infinate loop of turning minor incidents into absolute sagas without anyone ever knowing what's happening or caring. What a wonde6way to end the world.

I'll have to take your word for it as I've got no Gen Z employees in my department luckily. I can certainly agree with your point of view about treatment of junior staff from my time as one 20 years ago. The Chat GPT thing is an interesting cause of this as well.

I'm convinced that the fact we're not allowed to take the piss out of things like this anymore to the culprit is a huge factor in this. I was a tit doing more things that I care to remember wrong in workplaces when I was younger, having a quick-witted elder to make fun of it definitely helped shape me up. My wife had a long catch-up call with her old school mates that live in different corners of the world nowadays. All of them are in management roles in their 30s now and were able to fill an hour sharing stories of how they have had formal complaints filed against them from Gen Z junior employees for telling them how to do their job or commenting on something not being up to expectations. I think my favorite was the one where the junior employee filed a serious grievance because she was sent a gentle deadline reminder via email rather than on Teams. All because they felt a tiny bit of embarrassment or ever so slighted. The cost of the man hours alone dealing with these petty tantrums must be staggering for a huge corporation.

A few weeks ago I got a bit butt hurt with some feedback about my typos (neither is really that new an occurrence) and decided to check if it was linked to my old Dyspraxia diagnosis from when I was 10. This has opened up a massive can of worms as back in the 90s Dyspraxia/DCD was considered basically medically clumsy but since then there's been huge research on how it affects so much more including the way people think, speak, collect thoughts, memory etc and is a type of neurodivergence. I've been managing my whole life and just accepted it but reading through the literature and thinking back has brought up a lot of trauma and upset from the past I'd bottled up where quite frankly had I known I would t have taken the blame so much or at least I could explain myself. I actually don't really know what to do about it next. I feel like my eyes have been opened but with that, I'm almost less ambitious. Like I'm looking for maybe a new career path and there's so many things I just won't consider anymore. I can't really explain it to be honest (part of the problem!) it's helped to know but hurt my confidence and I don't really know how to handle all this new info about my condition moving forward. I appreciate this is the UKFF and not a doctor's office but just wanted to share somewhere I feel reasonably comfortable.

Problem with this is there's so many from the big names like Rev Pro and Progress down to ones who put a single poster in their Gran's church hall that you'll never find? Not to stifle your ambition but I would try to do something like see a show in every county and decide which fans wear the least deodorant?