Today I'm neither Angry nor Happy about....

[Bruce Rioja]

Sympathy for the Devil.
Paint it Black.

Indeed so - can't believe you don't like that Bruce.

Gimme Shelter too.

Not so much don't like, Willy - I don't like rap for instance, I just find it all very meh. Sympathy for the Devil is probably my favourite but it's not a song I'd find myself refusing to get out of the car until it'd finished, kinda thang.

[Prufrock]

Gimme Shelter is ace! As are Angie, Miss You, Under My Thumb, and a few others.

I wouldn't sit down and put an album on though.

[Worthy4England]

Gimme Shelter is ace! As are Angie, Miss You, Under My Thumb, and a few others.

I wouldn't sit down and put an album on though.

The problem I have with Gimmie Shelter, is it's a great into, then it goes into a Stones song. Under My Thumb ain't too bad though

[Puskas]

The problem I have with Gimmie Shelter, is it's a great into, then it goes into a Stones song.

Indeed.

And, with Gimme Shelter, there are better cover versions than the original.

Hawkwind, New Model Army and Sisters Of Mercy for three.

[Worthy4England]

The problem I have with Gimmie Shelter, is it's a great into, then it goes into a Stones song.

Indeed.

And, with Gimme Shelter, there are better cover versions than the original.

Hawkwind, New Model Army and Sisters Of Mercy for three.

Didn't know Hawkwind had covered it, but then again, not seen 'em live since about 1981! (which is scary as it's "over thirty years ago")

[Gooner Girl]

Think i have finally made the decision to quit my job that has caused me little but misery since my return from mat leave. If all works out i will be feeling very relieved (and skint...)

[Annoyed Grunt]

Think i have finally made the decision to quit my job that has caused me little but misery since my return from mat leave. If all works out i will be feeling very relieved (and skint...)

Not good Hells Bells......the Mrs has gone through a slightly similar situation, fortunately she managed to get another.

Chin up

[Gooner Girl]

Think i have finally made the decision to quit my job that has caused me little but misery since my return from mat leave. If all works out i will be feeling very relieved (and skint...)

Not good Hells Bells......the Mrs has gone through a slightly similar situation, fortunately she managed to get another.

Chin up

Thanks hun, having a bad week anyway and today they were arsey again and i'm just fed up with it now. Its my PE teaching job at the school thats the issue. I only do 2 afternoons a week there but its given me so much stress i haven't been sleeping well at night. I also work one afternoon a week teaching swimmming at a local leisure centre which is entirely stress free normally, but not as well paid sadly. They can probably give me some more hours there and if they do and it works with my parents and in laws doing child care then i will jack the other job in. Perhaps not the greatest career move ever but i am a bit past caring, we will be even skinter then we are now and i'm not sure how we will manage but i can't take much more of things as they are.

[Harry Genshaw]

Sorry to hear that GG. Just jack it in then. Life is too short to be made ill by work. I watched Mrs G come home in tears several nights in a row and for once it wasn't my fault, it was work that was chipping away at her self esteem and well on it's way to reducing her to a gibbering wreck.

In the end I told her to pack it in, it didn't matter that we wouldn't have a pot to pee in, I just couldn't stand the thought of what was happening to her day after day. Now, she's in a different job, different place and couldn't be happier, and to be honest neither could I. I've got my wife back

[Gooner Girl]

Sorry to hear that GG. Just jack it in then. Life is too short to be made ill by work. I watched Mrs G come home in tears several nights in a row and for once it wasn't my fault, it was work that was chipping away at her self esteem and well on it's way to reducing her to a gibbering wreck.

In the end I told her to pack it in, it didn't matter that we wouldn't have a pot to pee in, I just couldn't stand the thought of what was happening to her day after day. Now, she's in a different job, different place and couldn't be happier, and to be honest neither could I. I've got my wife back

Well thats reassuring to know Harry, that Mrs G went through something similar and is now much happier elsewhere. I think Mr GG, though worried about the money side of things a lot is starting to realise i can't cope with much more of this.

[Dujon]

Emigrate, lass!

Seriously though; high level stresses at work can affect your health and wreak havoc on a marriage. I doubt that it helps with the children either. If you are being used and abused by your employer then someone is either an unfeeling git or wants you out of the place for budgetary or personal considerations. You can stay and tough it out by keeping your upper lip stiff in true British style or make a strategic withdrawal from what might well be a lost cause - and resign. That is a decision only you and Mr. GG can make. Provided you are both sensible and analyse the situation as best you can with the information you have then resigning is not 'giving in' it's just sensible. Like Harry I've been through it - although it was me who was stressed to almost breaking point and not my wife (although she, obviously, was also severely affected by my state of mind.) Ask hubby to play devil's advocate and question you on everything you say as it sometimes helps you to crystallise your thoughts and feelings and put them in some sort of order rather than your emotions taking charge and blowing you around like a yacht in a fickle breeze.

Whatever you decide on, GG, I wish you all the best.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Quite right! Emigrate. But not to Australia...

[Gary the Enfield]

GG if the job's that bad then leave.

There are always other options. I presume if you work with kids extensively that you are CRB checked. Why not look at being a child-minder? I know people are always desparate for decent childcare and your local authority would get you started.

You would work from home, have more time with the twins, not worry about travel costs.

There are always options.

[Gooner Girl]

GtE - that's not a bad idea for the future, am used to dealing with large numbers of children - though I was speaking to the head of boys games at another local school on Facebook last night and he said he'd love to share an office with me there, so if there's any jobs going at his school he will put in a good word for me, I'm sure.

The good thing about my job (unlike being a maths teacher or whatever) is because you travel to other local schools for matches you get to know their PE staff so if a position does come up they will often recommend you (is how I got my current job in the first place)

Will probably look to the leisure centre first and see what they can offer me, am talking to them on Monday so should know if resigning is feasible after that.

Dujon, some wise advice there, I do feel a little like resigning is the chickens way out and I should stay and fight for my right to be treated ok but whilst things were fine there before maternity leave ever since I have been back (a year now) its been horrible. I decided against taking them to tribunal for sex discrimination but perhaps I should have done, think they think I'm a push over now. Which I probably am.

So Monty, where do you recommend emigrating too?!

[Bruce Rioja]

Birthday Cake Nazis - has every office got someone who thinks that their chief function is to keep tabs on whose turn it is to get the cakes in or is it just ours? It's not even my birthday until the 27th but Cake Nazi has pointed out that I'm off for a fortnight after today and has, as such, sent me to get them in today.

[Worthy4England]

Birthday Cake Nazis - has every office got someone who thinks that their chief function is to keep tabs on whose turn it is to get the cakes in or is it just ours? It's not even my birthday until the 27th but Cake Nazi has pointed out that I'm off for a fortnight after today and has, as such, sent me to get them in today.

I generally don't have "an office" as I surrendered it years ago (in the sense I couldn't see why to bother having deskspace anywhere). When I do attend, an office, it's generally full of

1) People I've never met
2) People who wouldn't notice for a month if someone died.

I attend it once a year, if that - and nowhere near my birthday.

On the flip side of that, my office is therefore generally at home and my missus does generally remember when my birthday is and gets cake - I s'pose that makes her the cake nazi.

[Gary the Enfield]

Birthday Cake Nazis - has every office got someone who thinks that their chief function is to keep tabs on whose turn it is to get the cakes in or is it just ours? It's not even my birthday until the 27th but Cake Nazi has pointed out that I'm off for a fortnight after today and has, as such, sent me to get them in today.

Tell 'em to feck off. (Unless you get permission to post a picture of that hot intern you keep salivating over in which case you'll go to the Krispy Kreme concession in Tesco's.)

[Bruce Rioja]

Birthday Cake Nazis - has every office got someone who thinks that their chief function is to keep tabs on whose turn it is to get the cakes in or is it just ours? It's not even my birthday until the 27th but Cake Nazi has pointed out that I'm off for a fortnight after today and has, as such, sent me to get them in today.

I generally don't have "an office" as I surrendered it years ago (in the sense I couldn't see why to bother having deskspace anywhere). When I do attend, an office, it's generally full of

1) People I've never met
2) People who wouldn't notice for a month if someone died.

I attend it once a year, if that - and nowhere near my birthday.

On the flip side of that, my office is therefore generally at home and my missus does generally remember when my birthday is and gets cake - I s'pose that makes her the cake nazi.

We're currently having a new, bigger office built with, get this, a rest room and dining area. I'll give until mid September before we're all back to dining al desko and said restrooms full of shite.

[Bruce Rioja]

Birthday Cake Nazis - has every office got someone who thinks that their chief function is to keep tabs on whose turn it is to get the cakes in or is it just ours? It's not even my birthday until the 27th but Cake Nazi has pointed out that I'm off for a fortnight after today and has, as such, sent me to get them in today.

Tell 'em to feck off. (Unless you get permission to post a picture of that hot intern you keep salivating over in which case you'll go to the Krispy Kreme concession in Tesco's.)

She's not hot, she's just very cute

[Annoyed Grunt]

Birthday Cake Nazis - has every office got someone who thinks that their chief function is to keep tabs on whose turn it is to get the cakes in or is it just ours? It's not even my birthday until the 27th but Cake Nazi has pointed out that I'm off for a fortnight after today and has, as such, sent me to get them in today.

As others have said, tell them to do one.