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*'''Add some gaps in your day to think and rest''': Think, okay; — ''rest''? Look: you’ve been sitting on your chuff all day doing [[conference calls]]. What ''is'' that if it isn’t rest? Unless we are talking about lunch, and you self-identify as a wimp — do your resting at the end of the day. | *'''Add some gaps in your day to think and rest''': Think, okay; — ''rest''? Look: you’ve been sitting on your chuff all day doing [[conference calls]]. What ''is'' that if it isn’t rest? Unless we are talking about lunch, and you self-identify as a wimp — do your resting at the end of the day. | ||
*'''Have a cry''': Overcoming the stigma of mental health gets a lot of play, and we are frequently beseeched to be more understanding about each others’ psychological travails — and so we must — but that does not mean living through them at work. If your mental state is vulnerable enough that you are uncontrollably crying, ''you should not be at work''. It is no place to work through existential mental health issues, and nor is not fair on your colleagues — or you, for that matter — to expect them to provide the treatment you may need. If it is your work that is causing your mental issues, and you can’t resolve them, then ''change your job''. | *'''Have a cry''': Overcoming the stigma of mental health gets a lot of play, and we are frequently beseeched to be more understanding about each others’ psychological travails — and so we must — but that does not mean living through them at work. If your mental state is vulnerable enough that you are uncontrollably crying, ''you should not be at work''. It is no place to work through existential mental health issues, and nor is not fair on your colleagues — or you, for that matter — to expect them to provide the treatment you may need. If it is your work that is causing your mental issues, and you can’t resolve them, then ''change your job''. | ||
*'''Feel like these are crazy times, because they are crazy times''': No doubt he’s been cancelled by now,<ref>Can confirm, per the [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/manchester-students-union-university-rudyard-kipling-poem-paint-over-racist-colonial-a8452801.html Independent]: “Fatima Abid, general secretary of the students’ union, wrote on [[Twitter]]: “We removed an imperialist’s work from the walls of our union and replaced them with the words of Maya Angelou.”</ref> but Rudyard Kipling had it right: ''keep your head while all about you are losing theirs''. The craziest thing about | *'''Feel like these are crazy times, because they are crazy times''': No doubt he’s been cancelled by now,<ref>Can confirm, per the [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/manchester-students-union-university-rudyard-kipling-poem-paint-over-racist-colonial-a8452801.html Independent]: “Fatima Abid, general secretary of the students’ union, wrote on [[Twitter]]: “We removed an imperialist’s work from the walls of our union and replaced them with the words of Maya Angelou.”</ref> but Rudyard Kipling had it right: ''keep your head while all about you are losing theirs''. The craziest thing about 202{{strike|1|2}} is that there {{strike|hasn’t been a world war in seventy years|[[Subs: can we think of something ''else'' that is crazy about 2022?]}}. Think yourself lucky, and get on with it, while everyone else is running around with their hair on fire flapping about how crazy it is. | ||
*'''Have a crappy day''': See: have a cry. If you take this to mean “I can just be a bit rubbish at work” well, yes you can, but expect to be marked down for it. You are an athlete: [[do your talking on the pitch]]. Have a crappy day ''in your own time''. | *'''Have a crappy day''': See: have a cry. If you take this to mean “I can just be a bit rubbish at work” well, yes you can, but expect to be marked down for it. You are an athlete: [[do your talking on the pitch]]. Have a crappy day ''in your own time''. | ||
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