Fast approaching burnout tbh.

I work for an American firm in the tech sector. They've become enamoured with LLMs, and fired most technical staff around me (both UK and US based)... Now they ask what the holdup is regarding everything everyone else used to do. Eventually they realised they may have fired too many people, and so brought on a contracting firm to supply me with personnel needed. Meaning I need to train up 30 or so Indians remotely on systems I never really used in the first place.

Got a week off planned in Shropshire next week though. So just counting down the hours before I can escape the chaos.

The horrors persist, but so do I!

yeah alright cheers mate, how about yours?

It’s been rather hot and I needed to get some painting done. That was not ideal. Otherwise good.

What about you?

Late replying to this thread but frankly I need a vent!

Returned from a 2 week holiday to a bin fire of work. Nice to know I'm a useful cog in the machine but horrified to realise how key I am in the day to day operation of the firm as well. Trying to parse the inner workings of HMRC's PAYE systems which have decided I owe them £700 odd quid (not my first run in with PAYE being fucking weird, but that's a longer more depressing story).

Only been at work for 4 days and it feels like I've been there months again. Can't focus on anything in the office much, stressed out, and too broke to pay for counselling again!

I've basically already forgotten how chilled I felt on my hols. What's the point?!

Still, I'm standing up and not crying, so there's that at least.

I've known for a few years that Jerk Chicken just isn't my thing. I like the seasoning, and I like the chicken, but somehow together they just don't mesh for me. Plus all the extras (Yam, Rice&Peas, Celebration) just don't really taste that great.

On Sunday, I thought, "why the hell not" and ordered some Jerk, but this time I went for Jerk Pork. Just Jerk Pork by itself, no extras nothing. Costs about 7 quid, with delivery 9 quid.

My world has been torn wide open. I cannot go back to how things were. Everything pales in comparison.

So here's a fun thing.

Northern power grid sent me a letter last week to tell me that on Wednesday they are going to cut off the power so they can perform essential maintenance. Because I work remotely in a call centre I won't be able to get any work done. So I booked the day off.

Anyway they've just cut my power off today. On Tuesday. Lovely.

Good so far