RoofOnFire ⋅
What do I say without it sounding like I'm doing a profile for a dating site? I'm a transferee from OD, live near London in the UK and work full time. I like dry humour, hate slapstick and love sarcasm. I throw things at my computer and chuck my phone across the room when the automatic spell check makes me spell words incorrectly - like "recognize" instead of "recognise". I like reading well-written rants by other diarists.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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Social Research Interviewing in Work
I worked for a government sponsored social reseach organisation; a well-respected one whose reports grace many institutions’ bookshelves. The survey interviews I was doing were for the NHS and He...
Agency teaching special needs primary children in Work
Not a lot to this one, but it was in my list, so write it I will! The school was a new one set up to work with children with a range of disabilities, although the majority were on the autistic sp...
Another dislike about Facebook in A mish mash of entries
Posts like: “When your sons alarm clock goes off for an hour and you can bet its my fault cos i didnt wake him up lol” “When I’m so excited I literally can’t breathe all day” “When the party is g...
The flip side of yesterday in Work
If you read my yesterday’s rant, you’ll have worked out that I now work for a charity that supports unpaid family carers. Today, a lady phoned the office. She is looking after her friend’s fianc...
The system is failing people / bit of a rant in Work
Our country’s health and social care system is absolutely going to pot - and the pot’s cracked and broken beyond repair. Today, I spoke with a carer - this is an unpaid family carer - who is look...
10 days in hospital in A mish mash of entries
The week after taking the Project Management exam, I wasn’t feeling too well; just tummy ache, but it hadn’t improved by Thursday and was hurting more, so I made a doctor’s appointment. In a nut...
Apart from pouring it down the sink in A mish mash of entries
what can I do with an unopened box of red wine that is 5 years out of date? I found it at the very back of a cupboard this week while having some serious de-clutter time. Normally, I’m good at u...
Signing on for Job Seeker's Allowance in Work
Not my favourite experience of the year. To get £70 per week for up to six months, I had to visit the office every fortnight, show evidence of having job searched every day and declare the colou...
Taking a Project Management qualification in Work
Not much to this really, but I am determined to follow up all that’s in the list on my horribleness entry, I left the local authority on 14 January 2016. However, before I left I had applied to ...
One reason I don't like Facebook in A mish mash of entries
“don’t give your dog’s any food bought in B&M i.e beef jerky,dog treats etc made in China. Vet has had to put 2 dogs down in last 2 weeks as they are injected with something that destroys the...
The title says it all really. The previous restructure in 2013 saw me and other engagement professionals be placed within organisational intelligence. Not a good fit as although some of our wo...
18 months of horribleness in Work
18 months ago, we learned of another restructure at work. Not unexpected really, as I worked in a local authority and they were, and still are, having to cut spending by stupid amounts. I didn’...
I miss OD in A mish mash of entries
Somehow I never managed to feel at home here in the same way that I did in OD. I stopped making entries completely for 18 months or so and investigated Facebook properly (still don’t like it), k...
Targeted ads in A mish mash of entries
Targeted ads both annoy and scare me. Presumably from the depths of a clever website that somehow got me to input my age, I'm getting ad after ad HERE ON PROSEBOX about services for (choose here...
Like lots of offices, we have a sweepstake at work in our team. I drew England. My until-recently-boss drew Brazil. She, who knows nothing about football, said, "Oh, just my luck, I wanted Eng...
Another couple of weeks on in A mish mash of entries
Quickie as I’m off to work in a minute. Girlfriend is still here and she and son seem to be getting on fine, although they’re not particularly touchy-feely (but that might just be in front of me...
She likes Terry in A mish mash of entries
The girlfriend is actually quite nice. We have a lot in common including the authors we like to read and we both belong to blogging sites (although my attendance at OD and here in recent years i...
Not too bad so far in A mish mash of entries
Having the girlfriend stay is actually no problem ... so far. 'So far' because son has had last week and this week off work so none of the entertaining and keeping her company has fallen onto me...
Cut in half in Work
Today, my boss’s boss called us out one by one. The team is being split – those of us who work on aspects of engagement and involvement to do with social care (in other words, statutory work) wi...
Post birthday day in A mish mash of entries
Today was a nice day. It’s the day after my birthday so that’s over and done with and doesn’t have to be thought of again for another year. My friend Di and I drove to a lovely little farm shop...
First impressions in A mish mash of entries
Oh boy.... the girlfriend has landed! She seems ok, very southern states American (which to me is cool), and she's really giggly, which is probably/possibly nerves as this was the first time she...
Countdown in A mish mash of entries
She's on her way. Left her home an hour ago and tomorrow morning son and I will be driving to the airport to pick her up. In the last few days son has bought new underwear (and other clothes an...
Girlfriend in A mish mash of entries
Son threw a curve ball at me tonight. Actually it spiralled round and round before whacking me hard. Mum, he said, my girlfriend's coming to stay. That doesn't sound too bad, but I didn't know...
A visit to a friend in A mish mash of entries
Lorraine and I were “doing lunch” at an outdoor table of a restaurant. We both had onion soup in bread. I don’t know if you’ve come across this before, but it’s a hollowed out large roll, almos...
Shiny chrome in A mish mash of entries
I use Google Chrome - I can't even remember why I abandoned Internet Explorer now, but I did. One of Google Chrome's features is that you can display quick click links to your most visited websi...
