• imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    DT hivemind - what does a “mental health day” mean to you? or “Personal Leave day” in general?

    In my brain (office work, Gen X) my personal leave is for dealing with either being sick, caring for someone else or preventing being out of action (might be doctors appointments, might be a day off because I’m processing physical or mental stress etc). I have a team member that often asks in advance for a “mental health day” and their vibe is that this is a ‘not a lot on this week I’ll grab a day off’…if this were me I’d take an annual leave day. Also I have worked through poor mental health and other illness because I was scared of stigma so I’m aware someone saying ‘mental health’ in a blase way might niggle at me for my own reasons…

    It just made me wonder how people see personal vs annual leave and if it changes based on industry / age etc.

    • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I use sick leave for mental health days. With how much evidence is coming out about how our mental and physical health are connected, and anecdotally I’m more susceptible to colds when mentally fucked. I also have CPTSD and when that flares I can’t sleep, and I can’t work if I can’t sleep.

      I suspect most of my own issues will alleviate with removing myself from call centre work, however. But mental health is different for everyone. Some can work through it (I can work through my depression, for example), and some cannot. It affects everyone differently. Plus, Im not in the habit of divulging my medical history to coworkers, so I just say I’m unwell and will not be in, and I’ll get a med cert/Stat Dec, and that’s that.

      Edit to add: I have never “booked” a sick day in advance though. Like, I’ve never sat at work and thought “I’m gonna take X day off next week”. I use annual for that sort of thing, like maybe a day of annual after a busy period, to recharge. But not a sick day in advance.

      • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
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        4 months ago

        Yeah I am getting better at taking a day when whatever issue is starting to flare, and it’s not uncommon for people to have a personal leave day for not sleeping or just generally feeling crap. We are a pretty open and accepting team generally. But I think it’s the booking ahead that strikes me as weird …

        • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          4 months ago

          I think that’s the odd thing here; they booked it in advance. Very odd behaviour.

          I don’t think I’ve even considered it possible to do haha

    • Force_majeure123@aussie.zone
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      4 months ago

      The majority of my personal leave days are for mental health in my mind. Those days you wake up and say “nah fuck this shit, not today”, or where I’ve had a shit sleep and could work but would be hating every second and not doing a great job. Or because work has actually been really rough and I’m stressed out and need a breather. I have no guilt taking these days off. I also do not straight up say they are for mental health, none of my companies business. It’s a sick day and if they want me to get a med cert I will (but thankfully they rarely do).

    • Duenan@aussie.zone
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      4 months ago

      Ok so for my work a personal leave day comes out of my sick leave and it’s when I just want a day’s break either to rest or do whatever I want.

      We get allocated 3 days in a year for personal necessity leave and that’s all we need to give to do whatever we want for the day as long as we don’t take it consecutively next to each other.

      If I want a mental health day I’ll call in as sick on the day or use a PNL day.

      If I’m feeling crappy I’ll take an official sick day off.

  • Taleya@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    Site: When I power on your DDU our dolby stops working!!! "
    Me: That’s ok, can you please unplug the port marked MEDIA. The IP we were given to use is clashing with your player’s IP. I can change it remotely - is .8 available?
    Site: No it is not the IP. The dolby does not like the hardware and is refusing to connect to the servers. It cannot remain plugged in if we are to use our dolby!!!
    Me: The DDU literally doesn’t do shit mate. It’s an FTP server that sits there with its thumb up its arse until you initiate a connection from your end. If your player is misbehaving the instant it’s turned on, then it’s an IP clash
    Site: No. You’re wrong. I will now prove it by turning the DDU unit off. See? Our dolby works now!
    Me: I s2g I WILL COME OVER THERE AND SMACK YOU SO FCKIN-

    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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      4 months ago

      dont you just LOVE when non-IT people think they know better than IT people on IT related things?

      • Taleya@aussie.zone
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        4 months ago

        Dunning Kruger. Big time. He sent me a screenshot of a softperfect network scan result that showed our machine on that ip and see? there’s no clash!!!

        …meanwhile, being an actual tech I ran down the hostnames and I noticed I could not see his dolby on the list of devices. I could see our DDU had its internet interface up, so I jumped onto it via our tunnel, hopped into the logs and took a big fat screenshot of “ERROR: ANOTHER DEVICE IS USING THE IP ADDRESS ASSIGNED TO INTERFACE “MEDIA” PLEASE CONTACT YOUR NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR” and sent it back

  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    Gratitude thread!

    Because of my work schedule over the weekend, I’ve been falling asleep before midnight. I hope now I can maintain this habit, seeing as I’ve gotten into a bit of a flow. Also about the wakeup time too.

    My aunt got a little cavoodle puppy who is adorable.

    Also grateful for deleting Tik Tok and Instagram. I’m calmer and not trying to fill a void anymore. I developed such an addiction to social media, to the point where I panicked and wondered what I would do instead. I’ve been cooking, going to the gym, listening to music and podcasts, watching longform stuff, writing, talking to friends, preparing for uni, and life feels a lot fuller.

    • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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      4 months ago

      I’m grateful for having jobs with sick leave!

      And grateful for my energy plan that has significantly cheaper rates during the day so I don’t feel so bad cranking up the heater while I feel sorry for myself. Also grateful that yesterday-me did some meal prepping and took an item out of the freezer. Though, none of it is soupy, so I think I’m going to end up making some soup with all this rainbow chard I’ve got.

    • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Due to my early wake up yesterday I went to bed around 1030 and slept straight through 6 am. For someone who gets 6-6.5 hours a night the extra hour felt goooooood

    • SpinMeAround@aussie.zone
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      4 months ago

      I’ve been sleeping so well that I’ve gone from a Nervous Penguin to an Unconcerned Lion. Still forever tired, but that’s okay.

    • 00Steve@aussie.zone
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      4 months ago

      Im grateful that i got to start Calisthenics last week :) Im grateful for all of the work ive been putting in to be the best version of me i can be and the positive changes i am seeing :)

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    Sickie = chucked. Not going into an office with a now properly sore throat, and I decided I won’t even wfh today as I could do with resting up/catching up on things I couldn’t do on the weekend, rather than pushing myself.

    • mysticgreg@aussie.zone
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      4 months ago

      Is it still “chucking” a sickie if you’re genuinely sick? I’d just call it being responsible and looking after yourself and your colleagues.

      Feel better soon!

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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        4 months ago

        Yeah, it isn’t really chucked tbh. This is a legit one! I would’ve had to go interact with the public for work today as well and no way I was doing that while sick. I probably could wfh if I pushed myself but… it’s only Tuesday.

        I think this job requires me to get a !@#$ing med cert to take sick leave though so I think I have to go and sort that out… I’ll have to go and check if a stat dec can be used instead.

        • Duenan@aussie.zone
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          4 months ago

          At worst use instant scripts for 1 day if you really need medical cert. it costs 19 dollars to get one but that’s a so much cheaper than going to a doctor with no bulk billing if you only need it for one day.

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
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    4 months ago

    I thought I had a nasty patch of dry skin on the back of my hand, but it turned out to be dried remnants of the icing from my morning tea.

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

    All this talk about Sizzler pop up store in Brisbane has prompted me to make my own cheese toast tonight to have with soup.

  • bacon@aussie.zone
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    4 months ago

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    • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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      4 months ago

      All your lemon and honey and ginger please.

      …also a little hot treat of your choosing (NO TENTACLED BEINGS, PLEASE).

      • bacon@aussie.zone
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        4 months ago

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          • bacon@aussie.zone
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            4 months ago

            Sleeping on the truck means you might not get back to your home universe until some time tomorrow. Hope that’s okay.

            • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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              4 months ago

              Given how crap I feel right now, I could do with an adventure out of here. Are there any drs notes from other universes valid in this one? Then I don’t have anything to worry about.