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[Phil10]

Only you can decide on that one. But it will have to undergo certain health and safety checks before anybody is allowed work in it again. So after the repair work is done someone will come along and check the place over. It has to pass all tests. Keep that in mind.

We have staff working already stocking shelves though even before the big clean up. Maybe I won’t be there to see the safety checks?

 

[Cuchculan]

After any fire there has to be safety checks. Normally they would be done with no workers about. Before anybody is allowed near the building again. I think once you are aware a fire happened in that building you will always think you can smell it. Even long after it is gone. You will be looking for that smell. Trust me they would not let anybody work in the building again if it was not safe.

 

[Phil10]

Do you think smell of smoke will leave and if so how long?

 

[Phil10]

My concern is I don’t think I can stick the smell

 

[Phil10]

I have been feeling anxious as I have been able to make a choice. I realise maybe I don’t need to make a choice yet warehouse is cleaned tomorrow but if the smell lingers for say 2 months or maybe longer I may struggle with that as there isn’t many doors in shop to get fresh air. I keep going over the fire in my head and if I have to move I keep asking why it happened but know it’s something I can’t help. Had it got a refit or new shop i would have been ok. I tried to chat to existing staff about it and they are not happy either but none want to move shops yet. I have been making myself anxious over it as I can’t come to a choice?

I guess if I decided to leave I could get use to getting bus again. Problem is this week I am in other store but they have not told me my shifts it’s all the uncertainty. And also fact nobody can be sure smell will go. They are getting dehumidifiers but I am unsure how effective they will be. Like I say I went in and shop smells so bad I doubt customers will be happy. I
enjoyed staying local to shop but people said I may always smell the smoke even when smell goes and I am unsure if I wanna wait around waiting for smell to vanish?

But yes it’s the change and uncertainty bad for my anxiety but like covid no easy answers. I am not expecting someone to decide for me but maybe there is an easier way to decide or somebody can suggest something?

 

[Cuchculan]

If it is going to bother you that much, then move. Why work in a place that will always make you question staying there. Moving will at least put your mind at ease.

 

[Phil10]

Update I agreed to go to fire damaged shop today as they said I could see how it goes but said I can work on other shop if I don’t like it which seems fair enough

 

[Phil10]

I went and done the shift the store stinks very strong and it’s very dirty still. I asked to move to other shop this week and got landed all late finishes 5 days rather than my contract 4 despite the manager at other shop promising early finishes. Any suggestions? I really am stuck in a hard place?

 

[Phil10]

I have positive news to share I moved shops working 1 less day so open to 2nd job and got telephone interview tomorrow.

the negative is I am out my comfort zone had to do a hand shake to sign new contract and also share a lift with a colleague which is new for me with this shop compared to my old store. I am hoping I don’t get COVID but I do touch my wife’s hand so I guess I have to be realistic and step out my comfort zone a little?

 

[Otherside]

Well that's good news. And good luck with the interview tomorrow.

I think it will take us all awhile to get used to the things we did before again. Come out of a pretty strict lockdown here in the UK. Have been following those rules and distancing and no touching for a year.

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[Phil10]

So I moved shops that’s been sorted I tried to add some on Facebook one accepted and deleted me the rest declined been working there 3 weeks but feel a little flat as they don’t seem very friendly? I think they hire staff regularly so maybe I can make new friends in time?

 

[Cuchculan]

Always hard in a new place. Just be yourself. Don't try too hard. I am sure in time they will get used to you.

 

[Phil10]

In my job at work I sent a customer to another till as I don’t like using tannoy but got a row it makes me anxious I never use to use it and was allowed to make a ding noise twice for a manager. Anyway in my last store I used the tannoy once I was a bit nervous but did use it that once as it was quick. However I still worry about using it and don’t want to explain about how uneasy I find it to new manager as I don’t want a fuss. Anybody got any tips? I am very rarely on tills and been there since the summer so it’s unlikely I would have to use it often. But with Xmas coming up I worry I may be on tills more? I just work 3 days now rather than 4.

 

[Doug97]

I wrestled with a severe public speaking phobia all through my teens and twenties. I remember chickening out of a lot of talks I was supposed to do at school and university. I'd turn up to class, but wouldn't be able to bring myself to enter the room; instead I'd scuttle off home, feeling waves of self-loathing, and send a grovelling email to the lecturer apologising for my no-show.

Then I became a university lecturer. It was a nightmare at first, standing up in front of 100 young adults (judgemental much?) and talking to them for 2 hours. Nightmare is an understatement. But I forced myself to do it because it was part of my job. Sure, I wouldn't sleep the 2 nights before. I'd be in the bathroom vomiting before I went on. After my lecture was over, I'd have explosive diarrhoea.

But the more I did it, the easier it got. It works the same as exposure therapy for any phobia. You gradually learn that the thing your brain was sure would kill you, doesn't kill you. In fact, it doesn't even hurt you. The only thing that makes it hard is the fear itself.

Nothing bad can happen to you if you use that tannoy. You know this already, of course, because you've used it. Did anything bad happen, apart from your fear? No.

This is where courage and self belief and sheer bloody mindedness are your friends. Do you really want the fear of using a tannoy to beat you? When you already know it can't hurt you? You should get mad about that. Anger can be a powerful motivating force, if harnessed correctly.

Use the tannoy again, just for a short announcement. Then again. Then again, for a longer one. Keep doing it, and I GUARANTEE that very soon you will wonder why it ever made you so frightened.

It will be hard, so steel yourself. But you know you can do it, because you've already done it. Just keep going.

 

[Phil10]

The former shop I worked in are not doing late finishes however this new one is. 11pm every shift sure just 3 nights a week but it’s 3 consecutive nights meaning I get home at midnight. Management said they would maybe let me away at ten pm but no sign of that only more lates. Felt like quitting the job not sure what I can do? Seems moving was bad idea!

 

[Cuchculan]

In the other thread you are worried about losing your job because of the vaccine. In this thread you want to quit your job. Be hard to find another job in the middle of a pandemic.

 

[Phil10]

In the other thread you are worried about losing your job because of the vaccine. In this thread you want to quit your job. Be hard to find another job in the middle of a pandemic.

Yes I was working to 9pm but it’s 11pm for Xmas so I have been feeling stressed and tempted to ask to move back to the old shop I was in..I’m not sure if there’s much I can do about the 11pm finish but I never agreed to to work to 11 when I took the job in july