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LindsD Oct 2022 5:24pm, 17 Oct 2022 57,523 posts	Quote Pin LindsD [They didn't replace me, by the way, so my colleagues are now struggling even more...]
Oscar the Grouch Oct 2022 6:16pm, 17 Oct 2022 5,255 posts	Quote Pin Oscar the Grouch Using assertiveness to manage workload - aka telling your boss to do one is career suicide
3M (aka MarkyMarkMark) Oct 2022 7:29pm, 17 Oct 2022 19,381 posts	Quote Pin 3M (aka MarkyMarkMark) You have to ask your boss which thing you can fail at, don't you? Seriously though, ask them to set the priorities, and then if you don't finish the lesser things you've got the defensive material.
Oscar the Grouch Oct 2022 10:05pm, 17 Oct 2022 5,258 posts	Quote Pin Oscar the Grouch Yeah, they're all priorities required by yesterday in my part of the public sector. Appreciate I'm off topic, but extra austerity should help... (I know we're not in the politics thread, so let's leave it there)
GlennR Oct 2022 11:24pm, 19 Oct 2022 66,090 posts	Quote Pin GlennR Just arrived in my inbox: Dear all The Marketplace will be unavailable between midnight tonight, Wednesday 19th and 9am on Thursday 20th October. CUFS Vulnerable Period CUFS will be unavailable between 6am and 9am on Thursday 20th October. This is to carry out a certificate renewal
LindsD Oct 2022 2:11pm, 20 Oct 2022 57,557 posts	Quote Pin LindsD At my other, more corporate job, there is a plate of cakes with the note: thank you for evacuating during the fire drill this morning So.... thank you for not burning to death?
um Oct 2022 2:14pm, 20 Oct 2022 6,639 posts	Quote Pin um 'Please look after these cakes. Back in 10 mins' Alfred Rex Saxonum
LindsD Oct 2022 4:01pm, 20 Oct 2022 57,560 posts	Quote Pin LindsD
flanker Oct 2022 7:03pm, 20 Oct 2022 20,741 posts	Quote Pin flanker I assume Cambridge university still uses certificates signed un blood and sealed with wax if it takes that long to renew it?
GlennR Oct 2022 10:10pm, 20 Oct 2022 66,122 posts	Quote Pin GlennR Indeed flanker. I witnessed some sealing the other day.

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