Paid Members gmoney Posted June 29 Paid Members Posted June 29 On 6/5/2026 at 2:32 PM, gmoney said: I've managed to secure a one year extension to my secondment, which I'm extremely pleased about. I'd obviously rather a permanent role, but I was originally covering someone's maternity leave, and no other role came up in that time, so I am extremely grateful that they've fought to keep me on at all, even if they can't argue for a permanent role at the moment. It's basically a department that people rarely ever leave voluntarily so opportunities can be scarce. It's such a fun role, a great friendly team and not stressful in the slightest. I'm keeping my fingers crossed a permanent role comes up eventually, but I am buzzing at the moment. This has been kiboshed by my home department, as it would have meant my secondment would exceed two years, which is not allowed apparently. To say I'm disappointed is an understatement. It feels a bit like I've been booted in the knackers. It wouldn't have been so bad, but I'd been told it was all done and dusted, so I'd mentally put it behind me. It's not the end of the world to go back, but fuck. Quote
westlondonmist Posted June 29 Posted June 29 (edited) 5 hours ago, gmoney said: This has been kiboshed by my home department, as it would have meant my secondment would exceed two years, which is not allowed apparently. To say I'm disappointed is an understatement. It feels a bit like I've been booted in the knackers. It wouldn't have been so bad, but I'd been told it was all done and dusted, so I'd mentally put it behind me. It's not the end of the world to go back, but fuck. The fact that they wanted to keep you should tell you that they would have you back. A vacancy will happen soon enough Edited June 29 by westlondonmist Quote
westlondonmist Posted July 29 Posted July 29 Been given Animal Welfare to co-manage at my Local Authority, it only had 2 people working on it but one of them has been sent on "secondment". I know absolutely nothing about animals or their welfare but they can't hire someone in who does because we're in a restructure. I don't mind though to be honest, our Animal Warden is lovely she's just not great at finance or contract management which is the part I will do. It's also something different and I'd been a bit bored at work and it was getting samey so this has given me a kick up the arse I probably needed. Quote
Paid Members BomberPat Posted August 3 Paid Members Posted August 3 our Payroll department are the bane of my existence, and the only thing worse than everything they do that annoys me is when I'm put in a position of actually having to defend them. An academic submitted an expense claim (which I have to do for them, because the system is stupid), and Payroll queried it with me (because Payroll deal with us as middle-man rather than ever speaking to the person who actually submitted the claim) because they hadn't provided receipts for everything they're claiming for. I emailed the academic asking for the missing receipts, and they've replied with a really unpleasant angry rant about how they're on holiday at the moment, it would be "almost impossible" for them to download receipts from the travel apps they used, and how the Payroll process is always "unfairly long and onerous" and they don't understand why they have to jump through hoops just to claim their money back. It's not exactly forcing you to run an obstacle course to ask that when you claim expenses you actually provide evidence that you actually did purchase the things you're claiming for. And even if you're too thick to recognise that, you'd think that maybe me having to ask you to provide all the receipts for you last expense claim in June might have helped. Or maybe the exact same thing with your expense claim in April. Or maybe went I sent you the expenses policy in full in March? Maybe this process wouldn't be so "unfairly long and onerous" if you didn't consistently fail to actually follow a pretty straightforward and simple policy, and just did what you were fucking asked? It's probably my biggest pet hate in every admin job I've had. People who make some sort of "this process takes too long!" or "this system doesn't work!" complaint when it's entirely them at fault - when someone claims a system is "broken" or "doesn't work", I want to point out to them that it worked for the two hundred other people who used it that day. It's just the arrogance to not even consider the possibility that it could be them at fault that gets me. Quote
SaitoRyo Posted August 3 Posted August 3 I am seriously considering what I want to do for a living moving forward at the moment. I don't hate my job. Far from it, actually. I enjoy what I do, as it's easy and there is literally zero stress. The company and the people who work there are good. I am not motivated by work, as I really do think there are much more important things in life, so it has been fine for me. I work from home, am left to my own devices and am trusted to produce what I need to produce. I do not have to answer emails or attend virtual meetings outside of my 'office hours' and I love it. The trouble is that I've been coasting for too long now, I feel. I took the job right before COVID hit as I was moving from the city, where I worked in a prominent role for an events management company, to the countryside and needed something I could do short-term from home while I figured out my game plan. And here were are, six-and-a-half years later and I'm still doing the exact same thing. Again, it's fine, but I'm in no way challenged and I fee as I'm in my mid-30s it's probably time to start thinking about something I can do as an actual career where I make some proper money and can plan more for the future. It just feels like it's natrually coming to an end and I should make some moves. Jump before I'm pushed. I really don't know how to go about this, however, as ideally I'd still be doing something where I can work from home and ideally for a company based in the UK or US. Does anyone have any advice? I have a first-class degree, an MRes and a range of experience, with strong research, writing and editing skills. I like to be creative and really wouldn't fancy anything where I have to even look at Excel again, but am open to hear anyone's ideas! Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted August 3 Members Posted August 3 8 minutes ago, SaitoRyo said: I have a first-class degree, an MRes and a range of experience, with strong research, writing and editing skills. Are these things you currently use in your job? If not, would you be happier using them in a role? If the answer is yes, it's probably time to look for something more challenging which you like, but stay in your role until you've found something. I'd suggest maybe a qualification or a course in what you want to do/like but sounds like you're pretty well covered in that respect. Quote
SaitoRyo Posted August 3 Posted August 3 2 minutes ago, SuperBacon said: Are these things you currently use in your job? If not, would you be happier using them in a role? If the answer is yes, it's probably time to look for something more challenging which you like, but stay in your role until you've found something. I'd suggest maybe a qualification or a course in what you want to do/like but sounds like you're pretty well covered in that respect. I research, edit and write (primarily my own stuff) in my current role. The MRes was in an unrelated field and something I did with a view to doing a PhD, but ultimately opted against doing that for various reasons. I have thought about doing a qualification or course, I just don't know in/for what? Honestly, my worst problem is my lack of motivation because I really don't care about work. For me it's just something to do to earn a living and provide for my family. I'm just at a point now where I want to earn more and feel I am capable of doing more, is all. Maybe I need to change my mindset and be more ambitious. I also feel it would be a lot easier for me to find something or fall into a new field if I worked in the UK or another English-speaking country. Quote
Paid Members Slapnut Posted August 3 Paid Members Posted August 3 3 hours ago, SaitoRyo said: I work from home, am left to my own devices and am trusted to produce what I need to produce. I do not have to answer emails or attend virtual meetings outside of my 'office hours' and I love it. Sounds like you were in a similar position to me 3 years ago. Whilst I don't have any particularly helpful advice (I was very lucky to find an entry level training scheme in an area of interest), what I will say is don't take the home working element for granted. I moved from a fully remote job into full-time office work and I just had no idea how significantly the change would affect me. I've never been more tired than I am now, never felt so drained, and never has my social battery been so depleted. I feel awful for my wife because I just never want to do anything after work. I don't regret leaving my WFH job because I hated it and it ruined me, but I still find the jump to fully office based really difficult almost 3 years later. Quote
Paid Members Slapnut Posted August 5 Paid Members Posted August 5 I switched jobs last week. Same job as my last one but with a competitor, a bit more pay, better hours, more annual leave, and generally just a smaller company who seem relaxed as fuck and aren't bothered if you leave early to catch your train etc. Most importantly, there are no immature dickheads talking about poo and cum all day. It was an absolute no brainer to take the job. However, I just can't escape this nagging feeling in the pit of my stomach that it's not for me. For context, I work as an edit assistant in TV post production, essentially supporting the entire post production period with edit support, and in my previous job the vast majority of my time was spent using Avid which I really enjoyed. In theory, this job should be the exact same thing, it was advertised as such and it's a very local competitor so you'd assume it's more or less the same thing, but after a week and a half it's becoming clearer than the job is actually 90% tech support dealing with servers and drives and generally just troubleshooting IT issues, with very little actual Avid usage or anything that remotely resembles editing. I don't think I'll be doing the vast majority of the work I enjoyed at my last job. I know it's only a week and a half in but I just feel super deflated by it. It's not an entry level job and they were looking for somebody experienced in my field so I thought I'd be getting stuck in straight away, but so far I haven't seen any opportunities to use my skillset and I'm having to learn a whole bunch of things from scratch again, things that I genuinely don't think I'll actually enjoy. I've wanted to be a freelance Assistant Editor from the day I entered the industry, and on one hand it seems like this is a good place to be to position myself for that jump. But on the other hand, I don't think I'm going to be getting anywhere near enough practice in the way I was getting at my last job, and I don't think I'll actually need any of the skills I'll learn in this role. Nobody saying 67 every few minutes and asking me what I'd do if I cummed myself in work though, so that's a win. Quote
Paid Members Carbomb Posted August 5 Paid Members Posted August 5 25 minutes ago, Slapnut said: Most importantly, there are no immature dickheads talking about poo and cum all day. Damn straight - that's what here is for. Well, less about the cum now that @Astro Hollywood has gone. Quote
Paid Members Slapnut Posted August 5 Paid Members Posted August 5 The poo chats here are sophisticated and relevant. You wouldn't get a scientific experiment involving apple juice and prune juice at work. Quote
Ironic Indie Lad Posted August 5 Posted August 5 1 hour ago, Slapnut said: what I'd do if I cummed myself in work. It's a thread waiting to be created. Quote
King Coconut Posted August 5 Posted August 5 1 hour ago, Ironic Indie Lad said: It's a thread waiting to be created. Surely it's a dead end. Just cumming yourself with no external stimulus isn't going to be a huge problem. Just get to the bogs and clean yourself up. Anything else, though, wouldn't be cumming yourself. Now I read that back, there's a good 6-pager in this discussion. Quote
Ironic Indie Lad Posted August 5 Posted August 5 2 minutes ago, DavidB6937 said: Guys this is WORK not WANK. As my boss reminds me every time I go into the office! Quote
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