The Not Happy Thread

Yeah, it's not like it smelled, it was just clumpy. I guess technically "bad" isn't the right word considering I used the rest to make soda bread, but it certainly wasn't tea worthy.

 

This is why you should be around. We're here for you.

 

Went to a job interview today. I thought.

When I applied to it they promised a job where you'd get a few weeks training if you had no prior experience. Great, right?

When I got there it turned out that the training was 45 weeks of unpaid work - and then a possibility to get the job afterwards.

I felt slightly cheated.

 

Forty-five weeks seems a little long for a training period, a less-trusting person than me might suspect that the newbies are performing useful work for the company after the first couple weeks. What, if I may ask, was the job?

 

Do you mean 4-5 weeks? 45 weeks is almost a year.

 

Yes it is almost a year - although @Lemie’s Finndish - they have that statutory wage-slob power business?

 

45 weeks? In America we call that either an unpaid internship and there are rules.

https://www.monster.com/about/b/unpaid-internships-common-legal

"Regardless of whether or not they’re willing to work for free, interns whose work benefits your organization must be paid at least minimum wage for the time they put in. That is spelled out in the Fair Labor Standards Act, which is enforced by the U.S. Department of Labor. In order to be unpaid, an intern must receive training from your organization that benefits the student and is similar to the training he or she would find in a vocational school. However, that training cannot advance your company’s interests"

I know you're not in the states, but you guys have to have rules about that too, maybe the company is just hoping you aren't aware of them.

 

I think it counted as a internship - but it wasn't what it said in the ads for the job. There they made it sound like a few weeks of training and then the real, paid job would start.

It doesn't matter much. I have this job which I hope to hear from this week. Just got my hopes up...

 

Yikes... Sounds like slavery. 45 weeks is a really long time I’m surprised that’s even legal.

Hopefully you will get good news re the other job. Lycka till!

 

Since they filed it under "education" and "training" - but since you would work during that entire time it didn't feel right.

They did make it sound like a job to begin with, though. Otherwise I wouldn't have filed for it at all. Though if they had just advertised it on sites for further educations I guess they wouldn't have gotten as many applications.

Tack

 

My stomach hole is getting smaller, but I’m really hating the leaks and stomach acids over raw skin. Feels like hot needles digging into sensitive skin. Why must healing be a pain?!

 

Sometimes the road to recovery can hurt. Stay strong and find something to help with the pain.

 

I agree with @GingerCoffee . Feel free to tell us what's happening on this thread ...or PM?

 

Hello insomnia, 0427 was a perfectly reasonable time to wake up with a Roger Waters song blaring through the inside of my skull (Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking, in case you like earworms as much as I do)

 

I've been quite tired this past couple of days, so last night I decided I'd get to bed nice and early so that I'd feel well-rested this morning. Successful in my endeavour, I settled down for a good night's sleep.

Fire drill at 6am. Wow. As someone said, if they wanted to get us out of bed, they could have done it at two or three, so that we could have got back to sleep as opposed to tossing and turning grumpily for an hour.

 

I’ve another 4-8 weeks of this, from what I’ve read. >:[ GAH!!!

 

Appreciate that.

Thankfully, nobody has died and no one is seriously ill, though I'm liable to make myself so if I don't watch it.

It's just that with four jobs and a house that's a literal construction site and trying to get the novel out, I've got too much to cram into a 24 hour day. I've been sliding by on two or three hours of sleep on weekday nights since school restarted in late August and I hope I'm not in the process of hitting the wall.

Sometimes I'm afraid I might be. It's probably why I haven't gotten my book published yet. My mind isn't working the way it should, so I do things wrong, or out of order. I fall asleep over my formatting and am surprised that I don't have more of thisssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss sort of thing in my text. By this time I would be glad to hire someone to do the formatting, but if I could afford that, I could afford to quit one of my jobs and do it properly myself.

Before I go teach in the morning and especially as I head for my retail job at night I pray I will be decent and helpful to the students and the customers and not let my tiredness trip me into losing my temper or erupting into meaningless babble.

Thank God, I usually manage this . . . but it doesn't leave a lot of energy for being productive when I get home. I feel I'm barely getting anywhere.

There's other stuff going on involving home reno projects and plumbing issues and a car with a blown head gasket, but we won't get into that at this time. Otherwise I'll have me another two-hours-of-sleep night and be zoomed to zombiedom till early Saturday morning.

 

Sounds like you need a scented candle, bubble bath, and a box of wine evening.

 

<gives everyone a box of wine>

We need it.

 

Whoa! That is a lot.

 

Sigh... So I was on a drug that really made my inflamed mouth better and now it's causing liver damage so I had to quit using it. Mouth symptoms are coming back.

Spicy food burns, nothing tastes right, and scratchy food like toast hurts to chew.

Plus I have to have a slew of blood tests to make sure the liver inflammation resolves and then I'll have a new set of weekly labs after starting the next drug on the list.

 

Car has broken down twice this week. Wife has hurt her back and my sleep problems pick this week to be a pain. So all in all I haven't gotten any writing done but I do have a bottle of whisky with my name on it.

 

The search narrows... unless you're a careful speller.

Hmm

 

I found a bottle with my name on it, too!

Spoiler: For Size

 

I tripped a circuit breaker somewhere in my house and I can't figure out where. The upstairs bathroom has no electric-at all.
All the GFCI outlets are fine and all the breakers in the basement are on(nothing in the box tripped) I spent close to 30 years in the building trades, none of them with an electrician.
Somehow I have to figure out what happened.