One of the most important members of the technical team rang me on my mobile (im on sick leave) and told me she’s quitting.

She is one of the most amazing and intelligent people i have ever met. She is the companies knowledge base, and they are doing to her what they’re doing to me. The work overload.

They pay her poorly. Very poorly. And knocked back raises in the past.

I told her what I did, and she’s going to give it a last shot.

Rome is burning.

Hi sorry for the late response, I’m on sick leave.

I don’t disagree that spud overreacted. And i believe they have, or will when they are allowed back, be apologising for what happened. But i can’t speak for them.

I understand where you’re coming from, but he could have just blocked her if he felt that he was being treated poorly.

And admittedly, that decision doesn’t come easy when you’re feeling cornered.

I don’t think it’s fair to lay the blame entirely on one person (even though they instigated it) when there was a dialogue where both people continued to attack each other.

I hope that makes sense.

I want to answer properly and I’m about to crash out. I’ll reply again to your message tomorrow.

It deserves a clear and awake mind.

Asana! The free version is more than enough.

There’s someone you’re forgetting in your apology.

You aren’t innocent in this.

They may have overreacted, (indeed they did) and quite frankly as would I have if I were in their position, but you continued to badger them.

That doesn’t mean they didn’t fuck up. And it doesn’t mean they didn’t make a mistake.

There is no doubt of that.

Sometimes when we stand up for the things we believe in, when the people we care about are in the firing line, we may may err in how we communicate. We may let our anger get the better of us in a moment.

I assure you if the topic was particularly close to my heart my sense of decorum would go out the window and my frustration would get the better of me. And i would be surprised by any who wouldn’t. Especially when they are being goaded further.

But I’ll wait until the person who was banned is allowed back so I can hear what they have to say as well.

I’m not a fan of witch hunts nor of popularity contests.

That’s my 2 cents.

Perfect night to cuddle up with fluffy and a book.

Nice view out there as well

Goodnight all ❤️

Boring work thing:

Found a great Web app to organise all my work. Will make life so much easier!

Absolutely. I’m looking at one right now lol

Fingers crossed. What i asked for would make it worth it.

Honestly, I don’t know. The raise would be life changing. I could actually buy a house a lot sooner.

I am overloaded. And I will need to work outside office hours. But everything has a cost. Depends what we want to sacrifice to achieve our goals.

In the least, it will give me an incredible ability to handle large amounts of work which I can take with me to another place.

Life has so many tough decisions.

I’m going to wait 2 weeks before approaching my manager again about the outcome of the raise discussions.

Have kept applying and have a couple more interviews next week.

Will have to be working outside office hours anyway, and the raise would make it worthwhile, but we’ll see.

Fingers crossed.

I feel that in my bones lol

Thats what I’m going to miss about my old manager. She demanded you not come to the office if you weren’t feeling well. Was super understanding about it.

It’s good you have that flexibility man.

I needed a break from the heat, same as the fluffy ones amongst us lol

Agreed. Life isn’t always sunshine and roses.

I would love if laptops had upgradeable parts. I get why GPU’s are hard, but let me upgrade the CPU!

That’s exactly right. Probation ends on Thursday and there’s no issue there at all.

If they cough up the pay rise i can deal with the chaos. But we’ll see.

I walked through the door and Gibson wandered over and did the same thing lol

Couldn’t hurt to have another option to use as leverage…