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byslantedlight

...and it's only 6.24am

Oct 06, 2017 06:46

Okay, sorry, this is not a happy post, this is a grumpy-wtf-is-up-with-my-world post. It may or may not be connected to today's early start at work (7.15am). See, I got up and had a shower, as usual, and as usual I had shower-thoughts (your mind is freed up for them, when you're doing things that don't require concentration). And ( Read more... )

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loxleyprince October 6 2017, 16:21:14 UTC

First things first:-

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loxleyprince October 6 2017, 16:26:05 UTC

p.s. I know it's not the same as going to Germany for a Christmas market, but my little sister speaks very highly of the Winter Wonderland they have in Hyde Park every December which includes a big German Christmas market :-

https://www.visitlondon.com/things-to-do/event/8696953-winter-wonderland-in-hyde-park#EgdV3qqpe8MeK7XH.97

byslantedlight October 7 2017, 09:11:26 UTC

Oh, thank you! Very nice Bodie. *g* I like to think he's waiting for an assignation with Doyle - they're off to try a restaurant together, all dressed up under guise of expecting to meet their dates there - who then won't turn up, of course... *g ( ... )

heliophile_oxon October 6 2017, 20:04:56 UTC

I'm so sorry they have been dicking around like this. Arseholes. I hope that the next job you get is an absolute blinder (and part of me hopes you especially get an offer that allows you to leave earlier than they expect, the bastards). I'm glad the kids sound pretty sweet for the most part - it's just a pity their parents aren't!!!!

byslantedlight October 7 2017, 09:17:56 UTC

Ah, thank you! I'd be sorry to leave little A sooner rather than later, but I keep reminding myself that maybe sooner would be better for her sake... although that would also mean that she ended up with someone else in the middle, or full-time at the nursery or somewhere... Oh, I hate that they're doing this! I'll be less sorry to leave R to someone else, to be honest - I've never come across a child with no empathy for anyone else before, and she just doesn't seem to understand the idea of it, no matter how I try to introduce it. I've started to think she's actually lacking it, rather than just having been spoilt enough not to have had it encouraged.

Mostly, I'm cross with myself for not having seen the potential for this at the interview!

msmoat October 7 2017, 00:50:35 UTC

I'm sorry. They've really messed with you completely. It's unfair and demonstrates a real lack of concern for others in them. I hope you are able to find a decent job in the time remaining, so you can leave knowing you're going forward, to a better place.

And I see that there were good things in the day, later, so yay for that!

byslantedlight October 7 2017, 09:20:02 UTC

Yeah, I see now where R gets her oblivious-to-others nature from - even if it's not innate in her, she'll be copying their actions.

And thanks - it's definitely a good way to think about it - going forward, to a better place. I'd hoped I was already doing that, and I guess I'm partly cross with myself for having been fooled by either them or myself into thinking this was a better place, but... well, hey-ho - better places to come!