Depression

blessmycottonsocks said:
I am SO glad that I left Royal Mail IT before that particular curséd project!
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I remember your mentioning that a while ago.

It just wasn't ready or fit for purpose at any point.

Techy reckons I can't possibly have heard about it as far back as I did, which was long before it was common knowledge. However, I took an interest because I'd worked for the Royal Mail and knew about the ruthless theft/fraud investigators and had noticed very early Guardian reports about it.
 
One of the symptoms of depression is having very black thoughts, either after waking up in the very early hours of the morning and being unable to sleep with these thoughts churning through your mind OR having same or similar ideas after waking at your normal time. They tend to dissipate during the day. It's impossible to get back to sleep.

Just to clarify after re-reading the discussion earlier.
 
DrPaulLee said:
One of the symptoms of depression is having very black thoughts, either after waking up in the very early hours of the morning and being unable to sleep with these thoughts churning through your mind OR having same or similar ideas after waking at your normal time. They tend to dissipate during the day. It's impossible to get back to sleep.

Just to clarify after re-reading the discussion earlier.
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Yeah, this is one of the worst for me. My mind just races in a spiral of utter misery. Luckily right now I’m doing ok, and I usually spot the onset before it gets too bad.
 
Being a long time diabetic makes all your bad demons of the past seem worse.

If it was not for my wife to keep me in line, I would probably be on medicine.

When I was young there was a lot of bad stuff between me and my siblings, plus a lot of really bad bosses on jobs, and other things.
 
I find it difficult not to be depressed when everything in life seems to have got worse because of a sacrifice to some altar or another.
Take the canteen for example. I have cornflour starch cutlery which neither cuts food or forks properly. A tiny stick to stir my coffee which has a plastic lid.
Communications between departments are worse than they’ve ever been as there are at least 5 different means of contacting someone but not all joined up. A lot of blokes are avoiding women in the workplace in fear of being dragged in front of HR and now I see that not saying ‘Hello’ could cause another issue of the aggrieved ungreeted suing the company.
News is either generated for click-baiting and promotion of advertorials. Errors fill what are supposed to be proper articles in our mainstream media, harvested from wiki with extra errors added by young journalists more familiar with Love Island than any other form of external stimuli.
Celebrities lead the stories of their tireless efforts to educate the general public in the right way of thinking until they’re proved to be hypocrites, cheats and liars and in some cases, perverts.
Food is mass produced, over expensive and in many cases bad for us, yet the means of production of producing healthy, natural protein are being limited thanks to the worship on another altar of guilt and self-imposed ruining of our farming industry.
Now we have the prospect of voluntarily sacrificing ourselves in disintegration chambers.

I could go on and on and on as I don’t see any area where life has notably improved, only a slow degradation of efficiency, service, expertise, community and morals.

So I guess I’m the wrong person to ask on this.

Yours,
Charlton Heston
Soylent Green
Dystopia.
 
Analogue Boy said:
I find it difficult not to be depressed when everything in life seems to have got worse because of a sacrifice to some altar or another.
Take the canteen for example. I have cornflour starch cutlery which neither cuts food or forks properly. A tiny stick to stir my coffee which has a plastic lid.
Communications between departments are worse than they’ve ever been as there are at least 5 different means of contacting someone but not all joined up. A lot of blokes are avoiding women in the workplace in fear of being dragged in front of HR and now I see that not saying ‘Hello’ could cause another issue of the aggrieved ungreeted suing the company.
News is either generated for click-baiting and promotion of advertorials. Errors fill what are supposed to be proper articles in our mainstream media, harvested from wiki with extra errors added by young journalists more familiar with Love Island than any other form of external stimuli.
Celebrities lead the stories of their tireless efforts to educate the general public in the right way of thinking until they’re proved to be hypocrites, cheats and liars and in some cases, perverts.
Food is mass produced, over expensive and in many cases bad for us, yet the means of production of producing healthy, natural protein are being limited thanks to the worship on another altar of guilt and self-imposed ruining of our farming industry.
Now we have the prospect of voluntarily sacrificing ourselves in disintegration chambers.

I could go on and on and on as I don’t see any area where life has notably improved, only a slow degradation of efficiency, service, expertise, community and morals.

So I guess I’m the wrong person to ask on this.

Yours,
Charlton Heston
Soylent Green
Dystopia.
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Sorry Yith, pinched another one;

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Apparently the work place is becoming a major factor for poor mental health, and I can see why. A small example - Ms PeteS had for the first time in her life 2 consecutive weeks off work. After the first week she made the mistake of checking her emails and found she had had over 600 which became over 1000 when she returned to work. The stress of a modern working environment eh?
 
PeteS said:
Apparently the work place is becoming a major factor for poor mental health, and I can see why. A small example - Ms PeteS had for the first time in her life 2 consecutive weeks off work. After the first week she made the mistake of checking her emails and found she had had over 600 which became over 1000 when she returned to work. The stress of a modern working environment eh?
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Were all the emails ones that she had to (or was supposed to) respond to?
 
catseye said:
If she was off sick then work shouldn't be sending her emails. They should be dealt with by the person who's covering her job while she's off sick.
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I think he's referring to the "send to all" ones. I can return to work after two days and have 10-20 new ones asking if anyone can take someone's shift or ones from our scheduling dept with a list of shifts they are trying to fill. If I am off for a week, I can spend 20 minutes just deleting all of these, unread.

Rarely are any for me specifically. And the random staff members - we are all trained in different homes - asking "all" to cover a shift for them tend to start the email with "sorry to everyone who this doesn't pertain to". Ffs, you know who is trained in your particular home. Email them. I don't give a sh*t.
 
brownmane said:
I think he's referring to the "send to all" ones. I can return to work after two days and have 10-20 new ones asking if anyone can take someone's shift or ones from our scheduling dept with a list of shifts they are trying to fill. If I am off for a week, I can spend 20 minutes just deleting all of these, unread.

Rarely are any for me specifically. And the random staff members - we are all trained in different homes - asking "all" to cover a shift for them tend to start the email with "sorry to everyone who this doesn't pertain to". Ffs, you know who is trained in your particular home. Email them. I don't give a sh*t.
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You see, all our correspondence like that, all internal chat stuff, goes on WhatsApp or Teams. It would never come into an email inbox. I know different places have different methods, but this is the first time I've actually thought ours is a good method. It means that if you are off you can just mute WhatsApp or Teams and not have to even bother trawling through all the rubbish.

And I didn't realise it was 'send to all', it sounded as though they were emails particularly for MrsPete.
 
Floyd said:
Were all the emails ones that she had to (or was supposed to) respond to?
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catseye said:
If she was off sick then work shouldn't be sending her emails. They should be dealt with by the person who's covering her job while she's off sick.
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catseye said:
You see, all our correspondence like that, all internal chat stuff, goes on WhatsApp or Teams. It would never come into an email inbox. I know different places have different methods, but this is the first time I've actually thought ours is a good method. It means that if you are off you can just mute WhatsApp or Teams and not have to even bother trawling through all the rubbish.

And I didn't realise it was 'send to all', it sounded as though they were emails particularly for MrsPete.
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It was 2 weeks holiday - unheard of for her. Mostly the emails were from outside agencies requesting information from her, some copied into internally because the info is required, some job offers . The problem is that a proportion are very important indeed so every one has to be gone through and important stuff replied to. All this despite the fact that there was an auto response advising that she was away for 2 weeks. Therein lies the main issue and it started before I retired decades ago. People seem to think that their job is done by sending an email and if problems arise the get out is "well, I sent an email". Stress spreads very easily.
 
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