I'm considering going to work

pharmaton

but I'm late and my bed is warm.
Bare in mind I'm an intern in the public sector, almost everyone else there doesn't work and if I don't turn up nobody will be able to file the files alphabetically and the world might explode so it's not like I will be missed or possibly ever located if I stay here.
What should I do?

gramar

I'd start another thread because this one isn't going to work.

pharmaton

ok I'll just stay here with you

Teyla Emmagan

I got up and I'm seriously regretting it.

Stay where you are.

pharmaton

I've actually showered now and I can probably make the 9.10 bus so Im leaning toward going in

kylith

If you're already late, don't be in too much of a rush; take your time and enjoy your breakfast. You may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.

mondeo

I didn't go to work today...I called in sick even though I'm not sick. I just want to cycle into town on my new road bike and sit in Starbucks all day doing F all. I feel happy skipping work and have no guilt because I'm under paid and hate everyone I work with anyways.

suicide_circus

I'm in work and honestly I can't recommend it. Stay put.

AdamB

Did you consider not going to work?

barry181091

Gotta agree with the sentiments here. No craic at all in work. Definitely stay in that bed.

jester77

There is free coffee, free heating and free internet if you go to work. Some good savings to be made there.

strobe

Go in today but take Friday off instead. Fridays are better, it might not be raining and you can plan lots of fun indulgent things to do with your day off in advance.

tipptom

strobe wrote: »

Go in today but take Friday off instead. Fridays are better, it might not be raining and you can plan lots of fun indulgent things to do with your day off in advance.

Plus its not as near as suspicious as taking Monday or have bosses copped this on and I am going to have to change this to Thursday?

beks101

I love those days where you wake up and it's just "nah. Not happening. Not a fcuking chance". There's just no way you're getting out of your warm cosy bed, not for work, not for the Pope, not for all the money in the world and not a single fcuk is given about the consequences.

Doesn't happen to me often but I consider them rare, gifted moments of enlightenment because life is too short to always care about the bloody unimportant things like sitting on the bus in the rain and being in your stuffy office on time & listening to Lucy in accounts moan about her ex husband all day.

For the love of god stay in bed OP

pharmaton

I ran and just about caught the bus, on the downside I couldn't decide between chinos and sasparillas so I went with jeans.

gesler

pharmaton wrote: »

Bare in mind I'm an intern in the public sector

might as well be in bed, no difference in the amount of energy you will use today

dibkins

I got up because i wanted to check on my garrison in WoW. I was just earlier for work than i have been any day for the last month because of this.

Duckworth_Luas

pharmaton wrote: »

I couldn't decide between chinos and sasparillas

What the hell are sasparillas?

Red Pepper

How many sick days have you left?

Sclosages

Can I be the first to say that you should be grateful to have a job to go to?

Realt Dearg Sec

Sclosages wrote: »

Can I be the first to say that you should be grateful to have a job to go to?

No, you can't, because that will wreck the craic.

Sclosages

This is where the craic starts you see. If he was in the private sector he'd be getting out of that bed fairly lively, otherwise he'd be out on his ear.

Duckworth_Luas

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

What the hell are sasparillas?

They angry up the blood

pharmaton

gesler wrote: »

might as well be in bed, no difference in the amount of energy you will use today

Yeah I got here and no one seems to know where I should be or what I'm supposed to do. I got directed to some secretary's office and told her I'd be her bitch for the day but she was not amused and sent me away. I'm sitting in the foyer waiting for the coffee queue to reduce in size.
Drainpipes, I meant drainpipes.

auldgranny

I am not in work because I am sick. Really sick. Can't even enjoy day off now.

Nidgeweasel

auldgranny wrote: »

I am not in work because I am sick. Really sick. Can't even enjoy day off now.

Don't be so defeatist.

auldgranny

Nidgeweasel wrote: »

Don't be so defeatist.

I am really sick. Can I get some sympathy instead of encouragement to be positive.:)

irishejit

Probably best you landed in....you can never take one day off sick as it looks like you are blagging or it was a hangover...you always have to take at least 2 days off to make it look like a real illness.

Dammit have I let the cat outta the bag???

Realt Dearg Sec

Sclosages wrote: »

This is where the craic starts you see. If he was in the private sector he'd be getting out of that bed fairly lively, otherwise he'd be out on his ear.

Yeah turning it into a debate about the private sector and the public sector ruins the craic, if I wanted to read the comment section of the Daily Mail website I would. One thing is for sure, it would be better than working.

Specialun

beks101 wrote: »

I love those days where you wake up and it's just "nah. Not happening. Not a fcuking chance". There's just no way you're getting out of your warm cosy bed, not for work, not for the Pope, not for all the money in the world and not a single fcuk is given about the consequences.

Doesn't happen to me often but I consider them rare, gifted moments of enlightenment because life is too short to always care about the bloody unimportant things like sitting on the bus in the rain and being in your stuffy office on time & listening to Lucy in accounts moan about her ex husband all day.

For the love of god stay in bed OP

Boom..I like this person

pharmaton

Specialun wrote: »

Boom..I like this person

We love beks.
in other news I've been allowed take the day off. I needed it tbf, lack of sleep and pure frustration are never a good combination so the world is a better place now that it is safe from me for the day. Thanks for all your help folks

Gongoozler

As to why I'm seeing ads for paper cups at the bottom of this thread, I don't know.

I am also out sick. The novelty is nice, but come 3 o clock I'll be bored out of my mind. Hope I'm better tomorrow so that I can go back. Boooo to being unwell. And not even some good drugs for it either.

Dravokivich

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

What the hell are sasparillas?

Isnt that they drink the cowboy had in the big lebowski?

Duckworth_Luas

Dravokivich wrote: »

Isnt that they drink the cowboy had in the big lebowski?

That's an old type of soft drink famously used in Shane where Alan Ladd asks for a Sarsaparilla at the bar instead of whiskey.

pharmaton

pharmaton wrote: »

but I'm late and my bed is warm.
Bare in mind I'm an intern in the public sector, almost everyone else there doesn't work and if I don't turn up nobody will be able to file the files alphabetically and the world might explode so it's not like I will be missed or possibly ever located if I stay here.
What should I do?

Why did you take a jobbridge in the public service knowing they cant recruit you afterwards why didn't you take an a jobbridge with the possibility of a job afterwards.

Last night I decided not to set my alarm and just get up whenever I woke. I woke at 7.20 and got up at 7.30.

I'm doing that more often, it's much much bloody nicer to get up when you're ready, rather than have a poxy alarm spoiling your dreams. Didn't mind so much getting up then.

magicmoves

mariaalice wrote: »

Why did you take a jobbridge in the public service knowing they cant recruit you afterwards why didn't you take an a jobbridge with the possibility of a job afterwards.

Because he wants lots of sick days ))

WinnyThePoo

mariaalice wrote: »

Why did you take a jobbridge in the public service knowing they cant recruit you afterwards why didn't you take an a jobbridge with the possibility of a job afterwards.

Why don't you stay out of the pharmatrons bizness?

YellowFeather

Ha. If I did that I'd either sleep 'till noon or else wake up every five minutes in a panic that I had slept 'till noon. I need my three alarm clocks!

YellowFeather

YellowFeather wrote: »

Ha. If I did that I'd either sleep 'till noon or else wake up every five minutes in a panic that I had slept 'till noon. I need my three alarm clocks!

Yeh the chances of that ever happening to me are slim. I'm not a late sleeper at all!

I'll have to set it on certain mornings though definitely.

Dial Hard

Deleted User wrote: »

Last night I decided not to set my alarm and just get up whenever I woke. I woke at 7.20 and got up at 7.30.

I took the IKEA man's advice and stopped hitting the snooze button, I just set the alarm for the later time now.

Jury's still out on whether it makes any difference, though.

pharmaton

mariaalice wrote: »

Why did you take a jobbridge in the public service knowing they cant recruit you afterwards why didn't you take an a jobbridge with the possibility of a job afterwards.

I want to answer this question mostly because I'm trying to justify it to myself right now.
First of all, I had spent the last year getting a qualification in an area specific to the work I'm doing, I used the job bridge as my work placement. It took a bit of orchestrating but I was eventually allowed to participate while completing my exams. A lot of things have happened since then which make me question these choices. Firstly, the vast majority of people working there have no qualifications, it appears to be very much a case of who you know rather than what you know. In fact, it appears having a relevant qualification can be more of a hindrance to your development. Without making it a private sector/public sector issue, I genuinely struggle to make sense of the whole thing. I cheekily responded to a text this morning claiming I had concluded I wasn't useless enough to work there and that I was practicing doing that more. But it would be closer to the truth, those who seem to do the least and appear to be the most incapable, incapacitated or just plain old incompetent are the ones who are rewarded.

To make matters more interesting, I did a lot of research on this organisation while I was studying. I wrote papers and dedicated a vast amount of time looking into the problems and trying to figure out solutions, albeit in a very naive and innocent way. Getting here and immersing myself in the culture has revealed a lot of the answers which I would otherwise not have been privy to. In that regard it has been a worthwhile endeavor.

Secondly, just because it is in the public sector doesn't mean there isn't the possibility of work from it, on the contrary, three other classmates who did shorter ten week placements have all found temp work there through agencies and will more than likely get more permanent work as the recruitment drive in the sector gets underway.

And lastly I suppose, my priority was to just do it for it's own benefit. To grow and develop and extend myself and benefit in ways other than the obvious one of getting a job. I've discovered along the way that the parts I enjoyed the most throughout my training has been the research and writing and the developing of ideas and that has been a nice discovery. I feel I have may have something to contribute after all.

thanks for asking the question

Red Pepper

Employee: [Rings boss on phone]
Boss: Hello
Employee: Boss, it's me. I am sick, I wont be in today.
Boss: Ah now, we really need you today
Employee: I cant do it, I am sick
Boss: How sick are you?
Employee: I am in bed with my sister

Conall Cernach

I'm not in work today because I have no work to go to and little probability of there being any work in the future. A fortnight ago I was turned down for a Christmas job in Argos, that's how bad it is.

Sclosages

Conall Cernach wrote: »

I'm not in work today because I have no work to go to and little probability of there being any work in the future. A fortnight ago I was turned down for a Christmas job in Argos, that's how bad it is.

Save 100 quid a week out of your dole for the next 2 months - then move your ass to London. You'll be grand.

thelad95

kylith wrote: »

If you're already late, don't be in too much of a rush; take your time and enjoy your breakfast. You may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.

I know interns are often treated badly but surely he won't be hung for being late?

pharmaton

thelad95 wrote: »

I know interns are often treated badly but surely he won't be hung for being late?

I wasn't :P (I know gender is irrelevant but just thought I mention that I be a she). I did schedule a meeting with hr hopefully for tomorrow though, I thought maybe we could have a chat over some tea. (ironically, it's usually the general workers who treat interns reprehensibly, they tend to use the opportunity to crap on someone lesser than themselves, which I suspect makes them feel a bit bigger in the scale of things)

B.A._Baracus

Can't blame the op.
Everyone has days when they don't want to get out of bed for work. But on an internship I imagine that would be really hard at times. Especially if you hated the place. Especially when you can look over to the person beside you and think they are getting a full weeks wage for the exact same thing you do.

dr.bollocko

When you're lying on your deathbed you will always regret Monday November 17th 2014 because you had a chance on that one day to do more pointless work. But you said no.

magicmoves

dr.bollocko wrote: »

When you're lying on your deathbed you will always regret Monday November 17th 2014 because you had a chance on that one day to do more pointless work. But you said no.

Aint that the truth

WoollyRedHat

Deleted User wrote: »

Last night I decided not to set my alarm and just get up whenever I woke. I woke at 7.20 and got up at 7.30.

I'm doing that more often, it's much much bloody nicer to get up when you're ready, rather than have a poxy alarm spoiling your dreams. Didn't mind so much getting up then.

That's like Russian Roulette for me. With all the chambers full.