Back to work after a holiday

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I've had five days off. And now I have to come crawling back into work to find that I've had five days of hell piled up while I was gone. Has anyone else ever come back to work after a break and just wanted to turn around and walk out? Is this the most depressing thing in the world or what?

Extra added bonus stress from hassling emails from your landlord's father... Anyone need a new housemate? I'm about to be evicted, it seems. I'm well behaved (most of the time) and I'm tidy...

― kate, Monday, 14 April 2003 09:36 (twenty-two years ago)

WHAAAAT?

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 14 April 2003 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll tell you about it when I get home. Not happy.

― kate, Monday, 14 April 2003 09:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't blame you; you haven't done anything wrong.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 14 April 2003 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Everyone else on ILX ignoring your thread: Dudder or even Dudder yet?

― kate, Monday, 14 April 2003 10:05 (twenty-two years ago)

La la la laaa, I don't exist.... la la la la laaaa, no one even noticed I was gone... la la la laaa laaaa laaaaa...

― kate, Monday, 14 April 2003 10:06 (twenty-two years ago)

i am on verge of eviction i fear. i was trying for new cheaper place anyway, i am hoping i have got one, waiting on call today, but they need to hurry!

hmm, in the last 8 or 9 months, i have come into work straight from airport from new york twice, and also berlin, and its about to happen on way back from los angeles too. that isnt much fun, land at 7am, go straight into work with bags and no sleep...

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 14 April 2003 10:16 (twenty-two years ago)

ha! well, of course coming back to work is a dud.

hope you find another place quick. good luck

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 14 April 2003 10:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't even go away. I just had a holiday in London!

I guess I just feel like I've been away because I've been spending so much time at Joe's house that my own house is starting to feel foreign to me.

― kate, Monday, 14 April 2003 10:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Every Monday morning feels like a trip to the chap who hands out the crosses at the foot of Calvary might and I usually start sweating by Saturday evening at the thought of Mondirt and another week of work, such is my delight at the prospect. So coming back from holiday is probably the worst thing this side of, oohhh, about slicing your finger off in heavy machinery, then slicing your another one off while you demonstrate to your boss how it happened, which is exactly what some chap did, according to the Sun the other day. Anyway, the only thing I can suggest is try to larf about it; it's either that or reaching for the Luger. Or maybe start a thread on ilx.. oh.

― Alex K (Alex K), Monday, 14 April 2003 10:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Coming back to work after a holiday is the worst thing in the world! I had a holiday to Tenerife (dud) which was actually quite nice apart from the nasty parts of the island! Then coming back to work to a load of work that had just been left to pile up was terrible. Within 3 days of returning to work we were both ready to quit our jobs & move abroad as it was so depressing.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 14 April 2003 10:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't take it. I'm going home for lunch and I'm not sure I'll be back...

― kate, Monday, 14 April 2003 10:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Take deep breaths, think happy thoughts and envisage the abject poverty that will occur if you walk out of a job, coz you don't get no dole money, innit?

― smee (smee), Monday, 14 April 2003 11:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Did you come back to work then Kate? I hope not for your sake. It sux!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 14 April 2003 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm here. But I picked up a big handful of CDs while I was back at home, so it's more bearable now.

― kate, Monday, 14 April 2003 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

no one even noticed I was gone

I did.

― hstencil, Monday, 14 April 2003 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't but I should've.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 14 April 2003 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, certainly dud. After Wednesday we get six days off before returning the following Wednesday, and I know I won't want to go back.

Good luck with the housing issue, too!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 14 April 2003 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Housing issue: Ed and I were *most* surprised to Read! It! Here! First!

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 14 April 2003 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, gee, I hadn't seen either of you in over 24 hours when I read it...

I'm very disappointed that this thread petered out so quickly. Today I got a bitchy note in my inbox because I forgot to run a backup. For FUCKS sake. I need to get out of here. Handsome Soundartist (actually, he said it's OK to use his real name) - Joe and I have been teasing each other that one of us needs to get a big record deal/grant so that the other one can live off them. I hope it happens SOON cause I'm dying here.

― kate, Tuesday, 15 April 2003 07:08 (twenty-two years ago)

nine years pass...

The sight of my inbox this morning was enough to make me want to go and have a little cry in the toilets.

― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, 3 January 2013 10:00 (twelve years ago)

I don't mind going back to work, only reason I'm depressed is I had a shit holiday and I'm normally very festive. I mean normally I return to with candy and new clothes and New Year's Resolutions. I feel like a drag on everyone.

― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Italo Night at Some Gay Club (Mount Cleaners), Thursday, 3 January 2013 15:38 (twelve years ago)

dud dud duddy dud

― mh, Thursday, 3 January 2013 15:40 (twelve years ago)

Not so bad yesterday because boss was still out and students don't return until Monday.

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 January 2013 15:41 (twelve years ago)

>The sight of my inbox this morning was enough to make me want to go and have a little cry in the toilets.

After a viciously busy run into the Christmas break I was half-expecting the same, but had forgotten that my workplace (a university) being properly "closed" from 21 December to 2 January means that people really do stop working. Actual office was maybe 1/3 full this week as well, so may actually get around to tidying my desk for the first time in 6 months.

― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Friday, 4 January 2013 08:55 (twelve years ago)

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Back to work after a holiday - Dud or Dudder?