The 'have a moan' thread

[sportzgal82]

Hope everythings OK emmasi

I had an iron deficency before and its such the pits - couldnt swallow the tablets so i had the most disgusting medicine

Whatever iron (tablet, meat, egg) always have something with heaps of Vitamin C... make sure you drink orrange, blackcurrent juice like its going out of fashion It helps the body take iron in better!

I keep trying to tell my boss that we need to keep some of the temp workers we have otherwise there will be no one left to do the job...

He won't listen... it's like he wants everything to go down the crapper... We saved $84,000 in wages last month. I know these are harsh economic times, but so much more could have been done by getting some extra staff instead of running on a skeleton crew and stressing everyone out till they literally drop of heat and exhaustion and now have to take time off because they are sick! And so the rest of us suffer now as well because we have to take on some of their workload.

Maybe he'll get the picture when he walks in this morning and nothing is done. Nothing is done because WE HAVE NO PEOPLE!! And the people who are there are sick and tired!

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...!!!

Hugs,

I finished a temp job last week working as a kitchenhand at a resthome, and this resthome's kitchen only had 2 permanent fulltime members of staff + 1 part time floater staff member (she worked between 2 sites) and 3 temps(it's now been raised to 4 temps). I actually left after a lot of deliberation with my temp consultant, because I was generally worried that if I was to continue doing 40-50 hours a week with just 1 day off i'd burn out (the rosters were not seen by the temp agency until my consultant asked for a copy and a review) (i burned out in my last fulltime permanent job too which had similar hours and 2 days off a week). I really do hope that your boss realises what he is doing before it's too late (and hopefully he doesn't cut your hours because you do end up sick).

what people are not realising is that if you lay off workers then you run the risk of loosing more money through workcover due to stress leave and stress related illnesses

it cost so much more to go through work cover then having 3 extra staff

I work as a casual at TAFE and even they are trying to cut down on staff so they can privertise TAFE, which means less jobs and less people can afford to go to TAFE

Thanks guys. And you are all so right. You were right on the ball Cal. I feel for your situations suzanne and sportzgal. The company I work for still makes hundreds of millions of dollars of profit each month, but they are seriously cutting staff levels and refused to pay out our bonus because "economic times are tough". (I'm a middle manager in this company and achieved all my targets and objectives) Then I hear that shareholders and senior managers got a full payout and then some. Hang on who was the one slaving away?? I was soooo angry!

I felt so much better after I posted that though. It's just so frustrating when they expect one person to do the job of five people. We worked almost 15 hour shifts over Christmas because we were so behind and we didn't even get a thank you. As much as I want to do a good job, i secretly just want the whole place to fall apart...

Thanks its so fustrating and sometimes I feel pretty useless not being able to score that job but its about being the right place right time & the contacts you know sadly

I think businesses are using the crisis as an excuse to cut jobs and scaring workers into doing what they want!

[emmasi]

I actually did have some fruit juice with dinner, and it had added vitamin C. It seemed to help. Thanks for the tip

[Symphony]

it's raining on australia day!

[suzannelgnz]

I actually did have some fruit juice with dinner, and it had added vitamin C. It seemed to help. Thanks for the tip

Hey Jem, I'd still be careful not to have too much vitamin C (more than 2 glasses of fruit juice) because it will give you a really bad stomach upset.

[sportzgal82]

of couse it goes without saying you cant have too much of one thing but when you are low on iron you need more than average intake of Vitaman C than normal

[Lesley Bee]

Just been to the gym and boy do my muscles ache

[defying_gravity]

i really want to start preparing my audition pieces for all the music theatre schools but its really hard when none of them have posted the monologues for this year!!! i want to start preparing while im still motivated and knowing my luck they'll put them up when im really busy with work and uni and i'll end up being unprepared

[~Zoe~]

For some strange reason my internet connection wouldnt work all day..only just come online, and had lots of emails to reply to..

[Laura]

Well my msn is not working and half my messages wont send

[Izzy H]

Its so annoying when people don't respect others ideas, opinions, beliefs. If people don't agree then there no need to comment if they are going to be rude and show no respect.