A coming-out story. At least, one small fragment of a coming-out story
Published at 9:36 am on August 23rd, 2024
Filed under: Dear Diary, This Is Not A Memoir.
Since the Great Pandemic, our lives have changed so much. Being forced to leave the office, we realised that to a great extent we didn’t need to be in offices. Our jobs didn’t even need to be near home, at all, except when we still needed to visit the office for meetings or when we had something to say face-to-face. That’s why I found myself, at 5am on a very dark morning after lockdown had ended, getting in the car to drive from Lincolnshire down to The South. A straightforward four-hour journey, at the most. Within five minutes of setting off, though, it had started to snow. Gently at first, but getting thicker. Within ten minutes, I reached a hill where the car’s wheels just spun to a halt on the fresh, wet snow beneath them. I paused, let my heart stop racing, and gently tried to turn the car round. This office trip had to be made. It was the last day in March, but the date was purely coincidence.
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Keyword noise: trans, transgender, transition, work.
Or, principles and platitudes
Published at 9:06 pm on July 29th, 2021
Filed under: Dear Diary.
It’s nearly a month now since I started the new job. It’s not been plain sailing all the way, of course, but it feels like it’s going reasonably well.
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Keyword noise: work, coding, motivation.
Regular readers might have noticed that there haven’t been many posts on here lately: the pressure of various other things that come before this place. The new job, for example, is one. Going to visit The Mother and help her with various bits of paperwork, another. I was up visiting The Mother the other day, as it happens. Not only did I also fit in a few nice long walks on her local beach, which will be the subject of another post another day, but I went down the pub and met up with this chap for lunch.
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Keyword noise: Wee Dave, work.
Back in the day, back in the mists of time when I first started writing this blog, I wrote quite a lot about work. If you go into the appropriate category there are many, many posts of slightly-disguised stories about the various characters I worked with: Big Dave, the cute one from the Accounts office, Wee Dave, Big Dave, the office tea fund lady, and, well, usually Big Dave. It all backfired somewhat in the end: it turned out that they all knew about it, and eventually the office tea fund lady complained I was being too sarcastic about her and I was asked to stop. I’m glad to some extent that I did it, but I’ve never risked being quite that open about the people I work with again.
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Keyword noise: work, Big Dave, Wee Dave, The Cute Accountant.
Or, doing things in your own way
Published at 9:58 pm on December 9th, 2020
Filed under: Dear Diary.
So, we’re coming to the end of a strange and challenging year. And I know it’s been a strange and challenging year, because at the office we’re in the middle of our end-of-year staff reviews and the phrase “this has been a strange and challenging year for all of us” features prominantly when summing up what’s been going on.
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Keyword noise: Yuletide, Christmas, colleagues, work, parties, Christmas parties, socialising, anxiety.
Or, a free-ranging post
Published at 9:37 pm on February 3rd, 2016
Filed under: Dear Diary, The Family.
The past two days at work have largely just been the long slog of writing unit tests for a part of the system which firstly, was one of the hairiest and oldest parts of the system; and secondly, I’ve just rewritten from scratch. In its non-rewritten form it was almost entirely impossible to test, due to its reliance on static code without any sort of injection.
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Keyword noise: coding, work, unit tests, refactoring.
Or, doing more than I should
Published at 8:26 pm on January 8th, 2016
Filed under: Dear Diary, The Family.
Yesterday, I did a full day at the office, went home, then an hour later went back to the office and did another 6-7 hours. Bed at 1am.
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Keyword noise: overtime, work, The Children.
In which we get a reluctant refund
Published at 9:35 am on May 23rd, 2008
Filed under: The Old Office.
A couple of people have, for reasons best known to themselves, asked how I’m getting on with the office milk lady since we fell out. Well, I don’t think I’m any more popular with her than I was. Fed up of there being no milk, and fed up of the woman in question – Administrator Of The Tea Fund – refusing to accept that tea supplies were anything to do with her, I told her that in that case she could give me back the balance of what I’d put into the fund, and I’d make my own arrangements from now on. Which might have been a bit petty, the balance being only 20p, but there you go.
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Keyword noise: colleagues, money, office politics, tea fund, work.
Or, someone has a plan to improve my love live
Published at 10:16 am on November 19th, 2005
Filed under: Dear Diary, The Old Office.
In which we’re reminded why we don’t go out much
Published at 10:31 pm on November 12th, 2005
Filed under: Dear Diary, The Old Office.
It’s not often that I go for nights out around here. Sometimes, though, you have to, just to remind yourself why.
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Keyword noise: bar, club, colleagues, drinking, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire, nightlife, work, Big Dave.
In which we annoy someone
Published at 5:51 pm on November 10th, 2005
Filed under: The Old Office.
Sometimes it's a surprise when things go well
Published at 1:21 pm on July 22nd, 2002
Filed under: The Old Blog.
Monday morning, back in the office, and nothing seems to have gone wrong over the weekend! Everything is still working!
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Keyword noise: work.
… but the boss has decided to go away for a few days, and he’s the only one with the keys. So, the office itself is empty, and I have to just keep an eye on things from afar.
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Keyword noise: work, hayfever, Edinburgh, people watching.
Today, work is just fixing my own stupid mistakes again. All morning, so far. Why is it always on Mondays, too? Grrr.
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Keyword noise: work.
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