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I've not seen many places topping it up at all, one place (I heard somewhere) was taking it to 90%, a Games Workshop chum said they were taking it to 100%, but they can bloody afford it.

I checked all dis with my senior on Monday, who said she would be picking up the majority of that work, whilst I admire her resolve, I'm not sure if it could be done as there are other departments she might have to do this for also, but I still have to man the phones with the new starter and email queries to the sec working at home to chat with their consultant about, to feed back to me if necessary (piece of piss) so was expecting my duties to be expanded, which I didn't mind as such, just wanted the heads up. Then Boris dropped his lockdown bomb. Now those who aren't working at home have been split into two teams, each team is doing 2 days in, 2 days off alternating, with the time off paid. Which from a time spent doing work, does work out "better" for me as I'm going to have 2-3 days at home a week painting models over those who will be working from home all week. It's the invariable amount of emails I'll have in the 2-3 days a week when I have to come into the office.

They'd be royally fucked otherwise.

So who's working from home next week? SOCIAL DISTANCING! FUN AT WORK! Workers at their desks n' shit need to be 2m away from everyone else (which the self isolating bit has helped with, would be impossible otherwise). I pushed the communal printer away from my desk, hopefully I won't have to move my stuff. The below video will be, I think, an accurate representation of what I will be doing next week, the current team roster: B (senior) - leaving by end of week, so is effectively off the phones / winding down her duties to hand over to new girl S S1 - not properly trained, so won't be on phones J1 - self isolated herself last week because her boyfriend's co-worker was confirmed covid-19. parent. H - off for 8-12 weeks recovering from surgery, full time, duties being covered by J2 J2 - part time, parent of 6-ish month kid, dunno what her childcare arrangements are, may not be coming in S2 - two kids, most likely not coming in on Monday R - one kid, coming in Mon-Tue, off after that Depending on how their schools are playing it (I don't think we're considered key workers as we're not patient facing secretaries) I'm going to be the only active secretary on our team in the office, as parents are allowed to "work from home", which means possibly all the phone calls, mail sorting / scanning / sorting prescriptions / sending out sample forms etc will fall to me. I'm checking on Monday how shafted I'm going to be

Been to the gym a couple of times this year, it's just been too damn busy to get a range of machines. Worse of all are the groups of about 3 kids who all hover around one machine, one using and the others just standing there looking at their phones. Rotate and repeat. If you're going to waste your time not doing stuff at the gym, go in the corner and get out of everyone's way. Over the past week I've been having some shoulder pain, and think somehow I've damaged my rotator cuff a lil, so that's put a hold on gym stuff at the moment. So my body's making more excuses.

Lead poisoning

https://newsthump.com/2020/03/04/retro-hipster-has-sars/

How much for a badass worm?

2020 is now here. I got my contract extended another year, which I think is a necessity for them at the moment as staff numbers have gone even more to the point that they're getting agency staff to prop us up, as not enough people are getting through the application process. The person who sat next to me has left, which the admin managers are trying to hold me responsible for, but I blame the other staff and they have no intention of doing anything about them, so that's another boost to morale. Her consultants have been shuffled around (with me losing my easiest and gaining two regular ones, effectively doubling my work) with no sign of her being replaced. 3 seniors (including our new one, and the one in nearby department who oversaw us when we lacked a senior) are both leaving in about a month, our senior is being replaced with another staff member, so the work isn't going to be diluted further, but senior duties now overtaken by the admin managers. Hopefully, I just need to hold off for a few more months though, one of the consultants I work under is getting a grant for some cancer pathway thing, and has said I'm the only one she wants to be her secretary for it. Nothing is concrete so I'm not getting my hopes up too much, but hopefully something to look forward to.

Did you only watch that one because Madonna did the theme? O_O (which blew as well) I saw Last Vegas last night. I'm sad I didn't go to see it at the cinema as it one of those ones where I went "I'm definitely going to watch this", but never did. Some nice heartwarming-ish moments with old people tearing the young 'uns a new one with just the right amount of swearing. Will most certainly watch this again.

Only had one at the moment, was a Labour one and I told them to save their breath ad they had my vote.

Wrong manifesto link dude, this is the REAL one https://www.labourmanifesto.co.uk/ ¬_¬

Thankfully due to the assigned buttons Roc's Feather has barely left the Y assignment.

I'll take it drahkon*, well played 😁 *nope

I've taken myself to beginning of third dungeon and forced myself to stop. It's a lovely looking game but I know how short it is, so wanna make it last a bit.

I've heard it's really bad. Maddox has reverted to a weird lil bitch called George who is trying to bang his co-host

@Happenstance you a fan of post-Lawsuit Maddox's podcast about Godzilla?

The top tip is let her do most of it.

Many thanks. Can;t even remember how long we've been engaged...

As this book kept being advertised in my Sudoku app, I was aware of its existence. When the missus and I had to go to our local library to give notice of getting married this book was outside the room where they grilled us one at a time. Whilst she was chatting to the registrar I picked this off from the shelf. Got to page 30. Liked what I read so as we went to Tesco for milk I got it And since it was 2 for ~£8

Came out in Roaring Skies:

Is Double Dragon Energy still legal?

I'm going to have several beers lined up for my Sunday ritual of watching RedZone. Which is nice because I have this week off work.

I'm trying to give learning German a go. At the moment I have this app which gives me a German word each time I unlock my phone