My hands have been fairly buggered on and off since 2000, when lab work gave me RSI. Osteopathy alleviates it when it gets worse.
With handling a squirming quatlet, and having to deal with work machines in order to get a new post and then arrange 'flexible' working (we're supposed to hotdesk except I'll need a fixed desk for my phone), they flared up and ( Read more... )

Are Post Office workers on commission? Or just expected to con people into paying for more expensive services ( Read more... )

So I tried again with my new computer to install the software for downloading BBC programmes, and it claims to have done it properly. Except that the 'settings' are wrong. It says to change the security settings using 'this guide' - ie a link to something totally different ( Read more... )

Everyone was working in a muggy haze this morning, until I woke them all up by screaming really loudly.
Woman came over to talk to me and without my seeing reached out and put her hand on my tummy.
Cue "AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU'VE GOT COLD FINGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"Usually-sensible woman: "What? I didn't hurt him! He probably likes being ( Read more... )

There's an unwritten law that any audiology or hearing aid department - you know, places where lots of people who can't hear much are likely to go - must only hire receptionists who speak little English, with strong foreign accents, and who are as unhelpful, jobsworthy and generally gormless as possible ( Read more... )

My work phone has died. It worked on Monday ( Read more... )

I admit I don't like cats, although I've often liked individual cats - what I hate is being jumped on unexpectedly, so cats in houses where they aren't trained not to jump on people or furniture and are allowed in bedrooms or to stay in at night, therefore freaking me out, are the ones I can't deal with ( Read more... )

Thanks to all websites being on the blink at the moment, I have gormlessly booked a ticket for the matinee of Little Shop of Horrors, for tomorrow. I've now booked for the evening, too. Which was cheaper, even ( Read more... )

They CANCELLED DR WHO the bastards ( Read more... )

Scenario: An office that you regularly visit for work is inaccessible in some way, although advertised as accessible ( Read more... )