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Taking time off for literally any reason increases your rank on the 'next to go' ladder It's because management are scum and bosses are incapable of things like empathy. Unless you work for company that actually rewards empathy and other such frivolous things.
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Jestery posted:Hey guys, can anyone fill me in how a mental health plan figures into your work a mental health plan is something your GP gives you along with a referral to a psychologist. its not a 'plan' in the typical sense of the word. most workplaces these days dont call them 'sick days' anymore, rather 'personal days' additionally, mental health is a valid reason to use sick leave. so they're either running down their sick leave before they leave (cool, good), taking sick leave for mental health reasons (cool, good) or your employer is loving them over given the unusual circumstances we are all in right now (uncool, bad)
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Laserface posted:a mental health plan is something your GP gives you along with a referral to a psychologist. its not a 'plan' in the typical sense of the word. Yeah, and incidentally how was it disclosed to you that they have a mental health plan and are taking mental health days? From the coworker themselves?
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May 7, 2020 08:17
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Trip report +24 hours: arm hurts even worse and half the office were saying same thing today. Thankfully the messages went down okay. Day was incredibly strange overall though for sure and I feel exhausted with this week. Please nano bots in my body now keep me alive another day.
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May 7, 2020 08:18
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The company gives us two mental wellbeing days per year to take that don't count as sick days it's pretty sweet.
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naeka posted:Trip report +24 hours: arm hurts even worse and half the office were saying same thing today. Thankfully the messages went down okay. Day was incredibly strange overall though for sure and I feel exhausted with this week. Please nano bots in my body now keep me alive another day. It sounds like a pretty textbook reaction, some people get horrible keloid scarring from them. It sounds like you have gotten through the worst of it, generally the first few hours can be rough if the vaccine was compromised in some way. if you get a rash or fevers, id go see a doc/ER
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May 7, 2020 08:42
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I woke up today feeling tired for no reason and have spent the rest of the day feeling progressively more worn out. Switched to WFH for half of today and I can't be hosed to go out to my car to grab my ecig at this point. Pretty sure I'm taking a day off tomorrow and if I do the main office is going to want me to get tested.
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May 7, 2020 08:43
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Yeah, he's an old friend , we've worked in the same industry for 5 years or so and he's started at my new place same time as me He very open with having mental health issues, and I found out just shooting the poo poo with him I think. Some times hes having more personal days than working days and I'm worried I dunno, it's just very hmmmm none of my business I guess
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May 7, 2020 08:49
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Raged posted:I woke up today feeling tired for no reason and have spent the rest of the day feeling progressively more worn out. Switched to WFH for half of today and I can't be hosed to go out to my car to grab my ecig at this point. Tested for drugs or covid?
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May 7, 2020 08:56
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May 7, 2020 09:10
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maxe posted:the extra fucken aggravation of buying poo poo on gumtree/FB is so rarely factored in when I see the price vs new I only buy things that aren't made anymore off Gumtree/FB and people who are trying to get rid of old poo poo are generally very responsive.
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May 7, 2020 09:33
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had an awesome moment today where i was walking down the street and walked past an ex girlfriend, we met eyes and seemingly both simultaneously decided not to talk to eachother that is what I call dealing with a situation maturely
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May 7, 2020 10:43
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Jestery posted:Yeah, he's an old friend , we've worked in the same industry for 5 years or so and he's started at my new place same time as me Is he seeking help? If not, a nudge or encouragement from a friend might help. Has it increased lately? Have you got a decent/compassionate boss? Is he in the union? It’s good that you’re concerned about him, sometimes just expressing that and recommending action is enough.
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May 7, 2020 11:03
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Kharnifex posted:Do you really like trains all of a sudden? I'd scored a ½oz of weed and was somewhat wasted waiting for a train at Sutherland railway station. Platform 3. A loving Steam Train pulled in on platform 2. Smoking, hissing, chuffing, steaming, clanking. Pretty loving cool. 
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May 7, 2020 11:29
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femcastra posted:Is he seeking help? If not, a nudge or encouragement from a friend might help. He's seeking help , I think for the past couple years but seemingly to no avail such is the pit of mental health. I heard though the grape vine too at his previous job he was pulling erratic personal days. I'm not sure how much good I can really do. We worked together for a year or two in our early twenties but I left and we didn't keep in contact. I've changed a whole lot in 5 -6 years and he seems to have stagnated. So I'm stuck in an awkward position of being the default work friend to someone I'm not really friends with anymore. There is only so much I can professionally express to him before is sort of crosses a friend-line I'm not willing to. And I think he is already seeking appropriate help for what ails him My Boss is quite good and Understanding if not compassionate. But I don't know how much patience they have for someone who was employed on a 5 day contract but regularly only works the 3-4 days that they feel capable of that morning I know it would do no good but I just wanna slap him and yell at him to straighten up and do poo poo right
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May 7, 2020 12:11
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Airstream Driver posted:The company gives us two mental wellbeing days per year to take that don't count as sick days it's pretty sweet. That's super cool but also an indictment of capitalism
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May 7, 2020 12:31
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Zazi posted:That's super cool but also an indictment of capitalism can you explain? i'm too dumb to understand.
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May 7, 2020 12:44
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Caesar Saladin posted:can you explain? i'm too dumb to understand. I'm not trying to be super clever, but basically jobs make people want to cry and that's terrible [edit] as far as jobs go it's super cool that the job gives sick days +time off for mental health but the clear understanding is your job is ruining your brain
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May 7, 2020 12:48
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Caesar Saladin posted:I had an awesome moment today, whilst I was walking down the street and walked past an ex-girlfriend. We met eyes and seemingly both simultaneously decided not to talk to each other. I get weirded out when I run into my ex-gfs. I either feel guilt 'cos I broke up with them, or guilt for them breaking up with me.
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May 7, 2020 14:00
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May 7, 2020 14:01
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Zazi posted:I'm not trying to be super clever, but basically jobs make people want to cry and that's terrible Also two personal days is gently caress all. I worked for a company that gave us the standard 4 weeks vacation, 2 weeks sick days. But half the sick days were personal so you have five days a year you could just not turn up. They very specifically, but unofficially, said 'as long as you're caught up, let us know if you're going on a bender and won't be in on Monday'. Then we got bought out by a giant multinational engineering firm and it all went to poo poo. 'You won't be any worse off under new management' , they said through their teeth.
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May 7, 2020 14:50
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maxe posted:Rescuing myself from WFH doldrums by watching Deadliest Journeys and other youtube docos. About people in desperately poor countries risking their lives monthly for less money than I get paid to be bored and sad by the hour. Foxtel has opened up all the Movie channels for free (CV-19 I guess). I've sorta blown through the Action and Comedy stuff. Now I'm watching the "Romantic" movie channel. If I smoke weed and drink Coopers Sparkling Ale it's all cool, but it makes me cry like a girl.
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May 7, 2020 14:51
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Jestery posted:He's seeking help , I think for the past couple years but seemingly to no avail such is the pit of mental health. I heard though the grape vine too at his previous job he was pulling erratic personal days. I'm not sure how much good I can really do. At the end of the day, you are not responsible for someone else’s mental health and wellbeing. You have made it clear that you are there, but it’s not your journey. Let yourself off the hook.
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May 7, 2020 23:06
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femcastra posted:I’ve got a mental health plan from my gp so that I could get Medicare subsidised psychologist sessions. This is what I did as well, I got it for subsidized psychology Airstream Driver posted:The company gives us two mental wellbeing days per year to take that don't count as sick days it's pretty sweet. We get 15 days of personal leave a year instead of the normal 10, I'm thinking about taking a day once this big cad project I'm working on is done just to unwind a bit
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May 7, 2020 23:28
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Paging TFAB https://twitter.com/GlennaKGill/sta...ingawful.com%2F
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May 7, 2020 23:31
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There's a daily megg mogg & owl in the webcomics thread in byob. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3822798&userid=130500&perpage=40&pagenumber=1 He's really good at making GBS threads out a storyline on the trot.
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May 7, 2020 23:57
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Outrail posted:Also two personal days is gently caress all. It's not the best but we do get 3 weeks sick leave instead of the usual 2, plus higher super contributions than standard so it's better than most employers I've had. It only came about after a number of lovely newsworthy issues occured to the company over a few years and the feedback from their internal surveys they were getting was either 'I want to quit' or 'working here is making me want to quit life' so this was their solution.
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May 8, 2020 00:04
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well why not posted:lol I messaged the guy saying sorry to pester but is it available? He writes back simply “yes” for anyone invested in this GBS australia subplot wherein i use a very basic app to do a simple transaction - finally got the guy's number and address and i'm gonna pick it up soon.
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well why not posted:what else would I do? Make eye contact ??? My South African (Zulu) mate told me one time that making eye contact to an elder is disrespectful in Zulu culture. Eye contact = bad You're supposed to look at your feet.
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May 8, 2020 00:43
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Coffee delivery has arrived, this month is from a mob in Melbourne and they also sent a little bar of Pana chocolate, bless em Anyone needing coffee (and you're a sperg like me about the quality)- Criteria coffee is doing a competition at the moment if you order from them during May. First prize is a moccamaster
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May 8, 2020 00:44
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tardwrangler posted:There's a daily megg mogg & owl in the webcomics thread in byob. If you don't want to be exposed to the other horrors of the bad webcomic thread (e.g. latex werewolves) you can also see those MM&O strips on Simon Hanselman's instagram.
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May 8, 2020 01:13
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dingo-gate is tearing my neighbourhood apart and I bailed out on facebook bc of a desire to not get involved and I pretty much only use it to keep abreast of poo poo like this. Nobody actually has nearly enough land to get a permit to shoot them bc we're all either tree-change city fuckwits like me or obnoxious horse people and last night someone was very obviously hunting a bunch of them and its popping off and the cops are involved and everything
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May 8, 2020 01:47
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tardwrangler posted:There's a daily megg mogg & owl in the webcomics thread in byob. pro click, that was loving great.
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May 8, 2020 02:13
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Went and got tested for covid today. Yeah that nasal swab suuuccckkss
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May 8, 2020 02:33
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Raged posted:Went and got tested for covid today. Yeah that nasal swab suuuccckkss its pretty bad but honestly at least it was over with quickly, my lab lady got in and out quicker than 17 yo me
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Airstream Driver posted:It's not the best but we do get 3 weeks sick leave instead of the usual 2, plus higher super contributions than standard so it's better than most employers I've had. LOL "Working here is making me suicidal." "UHG. FINE. You can have one (1) extra weekend this year to get your poo poo together. You're welcome by the way."
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