Summer's on its way

[Griff]

Earliest sunset is tonight - we can look forward to lighter evenings.

[harlowhenry]

Yeah, it was marvelous.

[Futtocks]

On 14/12/2023 at 11:46, Griff said:

Earliest sunset is tonight - we can look forward to lighter evenings.

The days'll be drawing in soon...

[Bearman]

I hate these light nights

[GURNER]

still 3 more days to go chaps

[Ullman]

18 minutes ago, GURNER said:

still 3 more days to go chaps

To the shortest day yes but Griff's right, the earliest sunset has already passed.

Soon be light nights.

[EggFace]

Why doe's it get mild most times on Christmas Week...it's awful I known colder October's Bah Humbug.

[The Hallucinating Goose]

I'm starting a new job in the morning which I have to get up at 4.30am for and leave home at 5am so I can't wait for the mornings to start getting lighter, sooner the better for me. 

[Ullman]

 

[graveyard johnny]

17 hours ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

I'm starting a new job in the morning which I have to get up at 4.30am for and leave home at 5am so I can't wait for the mornings to start getting lighter, sooner the better for me. 

leave me a pint of semi skimmed and 2 strawberry yoghurts  please

[Wiltshire Warrior Dragon]

23 hours ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

I'm starting a new job in the morning which I have to get up at 4.30am for and leave home at 5am so I can't wait for the mornings to start getting lighter, sooner the better for me. 

Good luck, HG.

[The Hallucinating Goose]

7 hours ago, Wiltshire Warrior Dragon said:

Good luck, HG.

First day was horrible. I was working my feathers off and was still miles behind getting all my work done. At one point I was seriously considering walking out but then towards the end of my shift the area manager showed up and told me I was working too hard and doing far more than I needed to. So today should be more relaxed now that I know I don't need to work as hard! 

[JohnM]

3 hours ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

First day was horrible. I was working my feathers off and was still miles behind getting all my work done. At one point I was seriously considering walking out but then towards the end of my shift the area manager showed up and told me I was working too hard and doing far more than I needed to. So today should be more relaxed now that I know I don't need to work as hard! 

So. How's life as a civil servant?

[Wiltshire Warrior Dragon]

4 hours ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

First day was horrible. I was working my feathers off and was still miles behind getting all my work done. At one point I was seriously considering walking out but then towards the end of my shift the area manager showed up and told me I was working too hard and doing far more than I needed to. So today should be more relaxed now that I know I don't need to work as hard! 

Well done, your area manager - a thoughtful and sympathetic start by him/her.

Our daughter lives and works away from the family home (in university administration), so Mrs WWD and I speak to her by phone, usually every other evening.  On one occasion, she sounded really stressed and said work had been awful, with just too much to fit in to the time available.  She was a bit non-plussed when I asked her what her manager had said about prioritising the work load.  She hadn't spoken to her manager.

It prompted me to coin a simple phrase (or maybe I remembered it from somewhere else) -"Let your manager manage".  It's part of their job, of course.  I think it is always good advice whenever you might feel overwhelmed, not least of all because feeling stressed may impair the soundness of your judgement about priorities, including the delicate balance between the most urgent and the most important tasks; urgency and importance are not - or rather not necessarily - the same thing, something not everybody I dealt with in my working life necessarily understood.

Good luck with day two et seq.!

[The Hallucinating Goose]

39 minutes ago, Wiltshire Warrior Dragon said:

Well done, your area manager - a thoughtful and sympathetic start by him/her.

Our daughter lives and works away from the family home (in university administration), so Mrs WWD and I speak to her by phone, usually every other evening.  On one occasion, she sounded really stressed and said work had been awful, with just too much to fit in to the time available.  She was a bit non-plussed when I asked her what her manager had said about prioritising the work load.  She hadn't spoken to her manager.

It prompted me to coin a simple phrase (or maybe I remembered it from somewhere else) -"Let your manager manage".  It's part of their job, of course.  I think it is always good advice whenever you might feel overwhelmed, not least of all because feeling stressed may impair the soundness of your judgement about priorities, including the delicate balance between the most urgent and the most important tasks; urgency and importance are not - or rather not necessarily - the same thing, something not everybody I dealt with in my working life necessarily understood.

Good luck with day two et seq.!

The shift was a lot better today. I did only what I now know I need to do and actually got finished a little early so just wandered round looking like I was working for half an hour!

[MattSantos]

1 hour ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

The shift was a lot better today. I did only what I now know I need to do and actually got finished a little early so just wandered round looking like I was working for half an hour!

Flap your wings and scare a few joggers?

Whilst holding a clip board, quacking to yourself.

[Griff]

On 19/12/2023 at 22:02, The Hallucinating Goose said:

I'm starting a new job in the morning which I have to get up at 4.30am for and leave home at 5am so I can't wait for the mornings to start getting lighter, sooner the better for me. 

Just a week to go to lighter mornings.   Hang in there!!

[Griff]

Here's the science behind the Equation of Time - from the fella who lectured me on Physics at uni a good few years ago now, the late David Hughes.

 

https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?bibcode=1989MNRAS.238.1529H&db_key=AST&page_ind=0&plate_select=NO&data_type=GIF&type=SCREEN_GIF&classic=YES

[Bedfordshire Bronco]

On 21/12/2023 at 09:50, The Hallucinating Goose said:

The shift was a lot better today. I did only what I now know I need to do and actually got finished a little early so just wandered round looking like I was working for half an hour!

Still going ok?

[The Hallucinating Goose]

1 hour ago, Bedfordshire Bronco said:

Still going ok?

Yep, starting to settle in now. It's the same kind of work I've done for years which I can do with my eyes closed, standing on my head. I am just finding it incredibly boring and repetitive work at this new site, more so than any other site I've worked on before. 

[Bedfordshire Bronco]

1 hour ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

Yep, starting to settle in now. It's the same kind of work I've done for years which I can do with my eyes closed, standing on my head. I am just finding it incredibly boring and repetitive work at this new site, more so than any other site I've worked on before. 

Is it a job where you can you wear headphones? Maybe podcasts or audiobooks or learning something new?

[The Hallucinating Goose]

10 hours ago, Bedfordshire Bronco said:

Is it a job where you can you wear headphones? Maybe podcasts or audiobooks or learning something new?

Yeah, last couple of days I've been sticking random podcasts on. Even if I'm not really listening to them, it gives me a bit of company if nothing else.