Pet Peeves

[Eoin McLove]

Ended up finally catching COVID a few weeks ago after nearly three years of avoiding it - given that I was in New York in March 2020, being an "essential" worker all the way through the lockdowns and having travelled the globe fairly extensively post-pandemic - I thought that perhaps I was super-human but no, it got me.

Suspected of getting it after my bosses wife came back from a fashion show in France where the whole group was apparently "riddled" with it. He then ended up coming to work cos "sure, it's a big building" and as he succumbed to it managed to take a load of us down with him.

Wasn't a big deal. I'm jabbed to the nines.

My peeve is that I cannot shake this fucking cough after nearly 3 weeks. It's driving me nuts now.

I finally caught it as well. First time with it and I'm experiencing a relatively light dose. Just a racking cough and light-headedness, although I had a headache with it on Sunday and I'm getting slightly achy this morning. I'm expecting it to pass in another day or two. Fingers crossed. No idea where I picked it up.

[astfgyl]

How do ye know ye have it?

[Eoin McLove]

Rat test came up positive.

My peeve today is the way new DVDs default to having subtitles on. You have to deactivate them which seems backwards to me. Surely the majority of society are NOT hard of hearing. Or is this a sign of an aging demographic? I'm giving the benefit of the doubt here   

Edit. The pain of watching Spiderman is alleviated quite a bit by the hotness of Marissa Tomei. I don't know if she is just getting better looking with age or if plastic surgery is finally delivering on it's promise, but sha-wing!

[StoutAndAle]

Rat test came up positive.

Same as that. Felt a little unwell on a Friday a few weeks ago. Cold, aches, shivers, snot. Assumed it was a cold. Felt worse the next day. Boss texted me saying that he had C19. Did a test. Lit up like a Christmas tree. Did another the next day. Same deal. Week off.

Had to do one with HR when I said I wanted to come back to work.

[astfgyl]

I thought the automatic week off was gone otherwise I'd have tried it myself

[StoutAndAle]

I thought the automatic week off was gone otherwise I'd have tried it myself

I'm not entirely sure how it works. The boss texted me telling me that he had it. I did a test, sent it to him - our HR fella rang me on Monday before I had a chance to call in sick. I was told to take the week, that I would be paid and I'd need to test negative before coming back and submit to a test on-site upon my return.

I've worked here for nearly 17 years and I've had 2 sick-days in all that time (where they sent me home halfway through a Wednesday because apparently I looked like death) so I didn't feel too guilty about it.


There's other lads in this building who've had Covid at several very opportune times.     

[astfgyl]

I think it must be dependent on the company then. I know there's no legal thing about it so I'd assumed all the companies would squeeze the productivity out instead of letting anyone off. The first year with the rapid antigen tests was hilarious. I knew of lads buying 20 of them in the hope one would come up positive for the time off

[son of the Morrigan]

I think it must be dependent on the company then. I know there's no legal thing about it so I'd assumed all the companies would squeeze the productivity out instead of letting anyone off. The first year with the rapid antigen tests was hilarious. I knew of lads buying 20 of them in the hope one would come up positive for the time off

If they had the good sense to look up the yanky National Institute of health, Scientific magazine, a myriad other trusted medical publications or just Google, they would have found a drop of soda water, coke, red bull or a sup of vodka or whiskey will give ya a positive test.
follow ze science.

[astfgyl]

I think it must be dependent on the company then. I know there's no legal thing about it so I'd assumed all the companies would squeeze the productivity out instead of letting anyone off. The first year with the rapid antigen tests was hilarious. I knew of lads buying 20 of them in the hope one would come up positive for the time off

If they had the good sense to look up the yanky National Institute of health, Scientific magazine, a myriad other trusted medical publications or just Google, they would have found a drop of soda water, coke, red bull or a sup of vodka or whiskey will give ya a positive test.
follow ze science.

I haven't actually tried that out but I did see a lot of talk about it. Was it properly confirmed?

Edit: I'm thinking first week of January off style here

[son of the Morrigan]

  , Ya wouldn't be alone in your thinking there I'd say man.
Twas properly confirmed by all accounts, although I haven't tried it myself either. I've never even seen an antigen test to be honest.
It would be an interesting wee experiment if any lad here has a few of them lying around.

[astfgyl]

Only took one once myself. Was made do it at work because I had the sniffles. I don't really know how hit and miss they are but if I thought I could fudge one for a week off I'd be on. I don't hear of anyone having the old 'vid around here lately, which I assumed meant no-one was testing for it rather than it not being about

[Carnage]

Wrapping presents. I'm pretty good at it but by fuck is it stressful.

Could be worse, my brother spent 4 hours putting a doll house together.

[astfgyl]

Wrapping presents. I'm pretty good at it but by fuck is it stressful.

Could be worse, my brother spent 4 hours putting a doll house together.

Put together a playmobil house a couple of years ago. Some bastard

[Trev]

Got the kids an outdoor swing/slide/playhouse yoke a few years ago, supposedly takes two people no more than four hours to assemble. Finally got the cunting thing together after about three days.

Didn't help that the instructions included were for a slightly different model so spent ages tearing through all the boxes looking for two types of planks  that weren't even part of it. Should've just paid the extra 100 quid for assembly

[Eoin McLove]

Got the kids an outdoor swing/slide/playhouse yoke a few years ago, supposedly takes two people no more than four hours to assemble. Finally got the cunting thing together after about three days.

Didn't help that the instructions included were for a slightly different model so spent ages tearing through all the boxes looking for two types of planks  that weren't even part of it. Should've just paid the extra 100 quid for assembly

I thought you were going to say you should have paid the extra 100 quid to get your tubes tied.