What's annoying you today?

[Yudster]

Why? I * up - sent one email to a group of people instead of two, with slightly different information - one set of people only needed the outline, the other needed the detail. The detail was something that could be construed as a breach of confidentiality, which is very serious. It was a teeny tiny breach, and only two people who probably shouldn't have seen it saw it and they are fine - but you have to be SO careful. Noted for future reference.

At least my boss was polite and constructive about it! She would probably have taken it further if I had responded differently but as soon as she said I was "Oh shit, sorry!" so she knew I wasn't going to get defensive and had listened. And let me tell you, she and I get on well but she is a tiny little woman from Glasgow who is a hundred times scarier than me when she needs to be. I listen to her because she knows what she's talking about. Which is rare, where I work.

[DevilsDuck]

You don't seem like the told off type of person. Good to know you are human or at least half human

[Yudster]

I never said I was human.

[DevilsDuck]

The thought never crossed my mind

[a-moron]

Always knew yuds was not from this planet.

She's actually moonlighting as the super hero 'The Sonic Vagina'.

Beware bad guys, 'The Sonic Vagina' is cumming for you.

Don't feed her whatever you do.

[Turicum]

Well, not only today but the way Chris and the team goes on and on about the new Plan B song really annoys me.

The strings he likes so much and credits Plan B is in fact completely taken (or "sampled") from another song by Peter Fox. A simple and quick Wikipedia search would have cleared that up.

So whenever Chris loops that beginning I turn off. I don't know why it bugs me so much, I usually don't really care if a song is sampled.

[Johnny 1989]

Why? I * up - sent one email to a group of people instead of two, with slightly different information - one set of people only needed the outline, the other needed the detail. The detail was something that could be construed as a breach of confidentiality, which is very serious. It was a teeny tiny breach, and only two people who probably shouldn't have seen it saw it and they are fine - but you have to be SO careful. Noted for future reference.

At least my boss was polite and constructive about it! She would probably have taken it further if I had responded differently but as soon as she said I was "Oh shit, sorry!" so she knew I wasn't going to get defensive and had listened. And let me tell you, she and I get on well but she is a tiny little woman from Glasgow who is a hundred times scarier than me when she needs to be. I listen to her because she knows what she's talking about. Which is rare, where I work.

That's the best way, I've worked for my firm for 9 & a half years now, once when I ballsed up I got a little snappy & got a bit of a telling off, however I've learnt that if you apologise straight away & acknowledge that it's your fault & you won't do it again then you're normally fine.

[Nicola_Red]

SO TIRED. Stupid clock change.

[a-moron]

I just YOL'd

[MK Chris]

SO TIRED. Stupid clock change.

Did you work Sunday then?

[bmstinton93]

I do get where she's coming from. Whenever I used to start work at ridiculous times in the morning about a year ago, it would always be significantly darker in the morning for about a week or so after the clocks have gone forward and its depressing and just makes you more tired even with the same amount of sleep and your mentality then makes you think its earlier than it is because of how dark it is outside.

[Nicola_Red]

SO TIRED. Stupid clock change.

Did you work Sunday then?

No, not this week. I just slept later than I should have yesterday, drank coffee too late in the day cos I hadn't registered that it was that late, then couldn't sleep. I was still wide awake at 1am. And I don't function well on less than 8 hours. Ben is right about the amount of daylight too - it only recently occured to me that I get very down when I don't see much daylight, even though it seems pretty obvious.

[chrysostom]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-ma ... r-17509969

this awful story - acid thrown in a woman's face by a stranger, while her baby was in a pram with her! what is wrong with people?!

[MK Chris]

No, not this week. I just slept later than I should have yesterday, drank coffee too late in the day cos I hadn't registered that it was that late, then couldn't sleep. I was still wide awake at 1am.

That's surely not an issue with the time change then.

Ben is right about the amount of daylight too - it only recently occured to me that I get very down when I don't see much daylight, even though it seems pretty obvious.

But you get more daylight in the evening, which is surely preferable? It is to me anyway.

[Nicola_Red]

No, not this week. I just slept later than I should have yesterday, drank coffee too late in the day cos I hadn't registered that it was that late, then couldn't sleep. I was still wide awake at 1am.

That's surely not an issue with the time change then.

Yes it is. I drank coffee cos it felt like it was an hour earlier than it was. I couldn't sleep cos my system thought it was only 10pm and not yet bedtime when in fact it was 11pm, as well as the fact I'd had coffee too late in the day. See?

Ben is right about the amount of daylight too - it only recently occured to me that I get very down when I don't see much daylight, even though it seems pretty obvious.

But you get more daylight in the evening, which is surely preferable? It is to me anyway.

No, I much prefer it to be light in the morning when I'm going out to work.

[Travis Bickle]

Nicola, you would have been on Fearne Cotton's side during the handover today then. She said pretty much the same thing. Personally I can't see how one hour could throw somebodies system about that much though. It's only one hour.

Mind you I hardly ever get enough sleep anyway so I am nearly always tired.

[Nicola_Red]

It really affects me. More so as I've got older, but I really feel it. I don't know why either.

[Yudster]

I agree. I used to think people were being really stupid when they would go on about how the time change messed them up, but in the last ten years the Spring one has got harder and harder for me to handle. The Autumn one is fine, but this one is tough for me. Although this weekend I was so busy I think I probably wasn't any more tired than I expected to be anyway so it registered less.

[dimtimjim]

Yeah, after enjoying sun through the curtains the last few weeks, its now back to being ruddy dark when I get up. Humph. Oh well, only a few weeks until back to normal.

Lovely day today, wish I was out on my bike....

[Boboff]

I just wish they would pick a time and stick with it.

Personally a time that would put us on European time seems sensible.

You shouldn't drink coffee after midday in any event, or coke.

You shouldn't have a 10 year old boy who wakes you at 9 saying he has tummy ache, and 11 saying he has a sore throat, and at 1 a.m. saying he has wet the Bed, and he's worried becuase he hasn't got something he needs for school in the morning, but some people do, so I say what ever it is, this is definately the place to moan about with out Topher pedant picking on you!

[dimtimjim]

I think we should jump an hour... So we are GMT+1 in winter and GMT+2 in summer.

This would vastly improve both our winter weather and summer too. Who, in summer, is gutted when the days ends at 22:30 and you still want to be sat out in the garden, chilled tipple in hand? And on the flip side, who really needs it to be bright sunshine at 04:30...?!! Light till nearly midnight and then light again at 05:30 instead - would make much more sense for the summer months.

[Yudster]

Bright sunlight at 4.30am makes it a lot easier for the farmers to see what they are doing while they are committing suicide I believe. Less messy.

[dimtimjim]

Aah, thats what its for!

[Nicola_Red]

I just wish they would pick a time and stick with it.

Personally a time that would put us on European time seems sensible.

You shouldn't drink coffee after midday in any event, or coke.

You shouldn't have a 10 year old boy who wakes you at 9 saying he has tummy ache, and 11 saying he has a sore throat, and at 1 a.m. saying he has wet the Bed, and he's worried becuase he hasn't got something he needs for school in the morning, but some people do, so I say what ever it is, this is definately the place to moan about with out Topher pedant picking on you!

I agree with all these sentiments! I just drink coffee after midday sometimes cos I'm stupid.

[SAV1OUR]

I'm with Nicola, I'm just far too awake now, I will have to try and get some shuteye and survive the bloomin clock change.

Thank God we've got a thread for moaning, phew, it could get messy otherwise....