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Coping at work

ryanh97

ryanh97

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After having 3 years at uni and watching the festival at a bar all day, I now have to work for the first 3 days, can anyone here advise me on how to cope? I plan to have a stomach bug and keep running to the toilet every 35 mins, does anyone else have any ideas?
 
ryanh97 said:
After having 3 years at uni and watching the festival at a bar all day, I now have to work for the first 3 days, can anyone here advise me on how to cope? I plan to have a stomach bug and keep running to the toilet every 35 mins, does anyone else have any ideas?
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call in sick
 
ryanh97 said:
After having 3 years at uni and watching the festival at a bar all day, I now have to work for the first 3 days, can anyone here advise me on how to cope? I plan to have a stomach bug and keep running to the toilet every 35 mins, does anyone else have any ideas?
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especially if you have the stomach bug you're planning
 
Go in Monday. Act like you are ill. Leave during the day. Call in sick Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Do they know you like racing?

In any case, hang your head in shame for such terrible planning ;)
 
quit your job and think of the consequences on the saturday after! :triumphant:
 
charlie said:
Go in Monday. Act like you are ill. Leave during the day. Call in sick Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Do they know you like racing?

In any case, hang your head in shame for such terrible planning ;)
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Sadly they know I do. I got a new job and I couldn't get the week off due to somebody else in the department already having it. I've managed to get the Friday but not the rest
 
ryanh97 said:
Sadly they know I do. I got a new job and I couldn't get the week off due to somebody else in the department already having it. I've managed to get the Friday but not the rest
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Active shooter ???
 
Have the holidays booked in as soon as you can each year (otherwise, see the last line of Charlies post) and make everyone in your office/workplace well aware if they try and blind side you on the holiday front, you wont be afraid to take hostages/pinch their coffee and tea for the remainder of the year.

Ultimately, if they wont give you Cheltenham week off, are they really worth working for? There's more to life than being employed and building a career, the way the weather's turning out recently there's never been a better time to sit about in parks all day with a couple of tinnies.
 
ryanh97 said:
After having 3 years at uni and watching the festival at a bar all day, I now have to work for the first 3 days, can anyone here advise me on how to cope? I plan to have a stomach bug and keep running to the toilet every 35 mins, does anyone else have any ideas?
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Feel for you. I’m in uni first year and am taking the whole week off. Going up to Cheltenham on the Monday and back on the Sunday after.

I’m not sure whether to tell the uni it’s a prior booked holiday so I’m away or just to throw a week long sickie.
 
ryanh97 said:
Sadly they know I do. I got a new job and I couldn't get the week off due to somebody else in the department already having it. I've managed to get the Friday but not the rest
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Prebooked holiday!

Almost every firm gives it

Or for Aintree I just take my laptop to the break room and work in front of the tv, my boss works in a different city so nobody can say anything
 
Middle_Of_March said:
Feel for you. I’m in uni first year and am taking the whole week off. Going up to Cheltenham on the Monday and back on the Sunday after.

I’m not sure whether to tell the uni it’s a prior booked holiday so I’m away or just to throw a week long sickie.
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Week long sickie mate
 
Find something self-employed, and working from home.

Turn your mobile off between 10am-5pm :highly_amused:
 
You could ask for half days?

If you don't think that'd go down well...

I'd have an emergency dental appointment Tuesday at 1pm - and rip a tooth out.
 
I'm there Tuesday, will watch Wednesday in a Cheltenham pub, then I'd been granted holiday Thur and Fri to be told I have to work it now... so I'm debating aeroplane mode and ITV player in the evening :grumpy:
 
Work is overated in March.
You could get creative with excuses and come up smelling of roses;
cousin living abroad in abusive relationship you have to bring back to UK, elderly family member gets burgled and you step in to clear the place up and ramp up security.
How good are you at keeping a straight face ?
 
Get on one of the Mayo Millions and hand in your notice on the Tuesday lunctime
 
I genuinely don't understand.
I've not worked cheltenham week for 15 years and i'm only 48.
semi retired though now.
 
What about a topical one that they cannot refuse due to the current politically correct climate.

You need the week off for counselling as you consider gender transition.

Then go back in the week after and say you couldn't get on with the "heels" so you're gonna stay as you are.
 
I start a new job on Monday, told them from the outset that under no circumstances can I work the following week.

Being the team player that I am though I have offered to do the Monday then Tuesday until 12.

Then it’s Festival full steam ahead.
 
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