Notices by Jenny Andrew (drandrewv2@freeradical.zone)

Oh my God… the sites that make you uncheck 87 accept-cookies toggles JUST TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM A MAILING LIST ?!?! 🤯

If you like this, you’re going to love my other hits:

A dismissal is a dismissal is a dismissal

If you think they’re going to terminate your employment at the agreed end of a fixed term appointment, it’s still a dismissal.

If they move you onto another contract with disadvantageous terms, such as “take this fixed term contract to get out of the redundancy pool”, that also is a type of dismissal.

Talk to your union at the first imaginings of a dismissal in your future.

“List accomplishments or resign.”

I think the answer is NO.

Look, I don’t know how this stuff works in the US, but this takes me to a SERIOUSLY important point in UK employment law, that a lot of people seem to have missed…

UK friends: When you resign, you make it your own choice to leave. There is no redundancy due, you have no claim for unfair dismissal… no claim on the employer at all, really.

If they’re threatening to fire you on spurious grounds, sit tight and make the fuckers fire you!

Finally, UK friends: straitened times are on the cards for us too. UK public servants are relatively better protected legally, culturally, and by strong collective bargaining, but every day we’re hearing about threats of redundancy…

You need a trade union right now. Every UK worker has a right to join one, whether or not your employer recognises it.

If you need help finding the union best suited to you/your workplace, check out the TUC, or feel free to ask.

Join before you think you need it.

If you’re going to legislate with scientific words, you’d better know the science…

…or prepare to be laughed at by scientists.
https://www.iflscience.com/trumps-executive-order-against-trans-people-technically-makes-every-american-female-77710

There… fixed it for you. By #executiveOrder

Finishing 2024 on #LinkedIn in style 🫣

It’s like toothache I just can’t stop poking at 🤦♀️

#WeekendSewingClub holiday special… this is the face of a woman thinking “fuck you I won”.

I jettisoned the coat I started last week (energy too scarce to waste on a project that doesn’t excite me), and redirected attention to the water-resistant, bonded houndstooth wool, but with a ‘simple’ cape pattern (new look, N6768).

It was like sewing a tarpaulin. Should have been doable in two days, but took 5. My hands are TRASHED. I love the result. #sewing #tailoring #iMadeItMyself #ItHasPockets

@bremner Oh. My. God. YES!!!

“Would you recommend Microsoft Excel to a friend or colleague?”

Are you actually kidding me? If there’s a single person left on the planet who doesn’t know, for their own purposes, exactly what to think of Excel/Teams/outlook/allTheOtherShit, then I am not going to be responsible for shattering their peace.

3.5 hours of #autism assessment this afternoon. They’d estimated 3 hours, but I guess they got more than they bargained for when they asked: “How do you feel about rules?”

Holy shit… it turns out I have A LOT of feelings about rules.

Dear every company I ever buy anything from:

I give you money in return for the goods/services you provide.

That is the whole deal. All of it. Nothing left owing.

I do not give ratings. I sure AF don’t write reviews.

The more you ask, the less likely I will ever buy from you again.

And if you follow up with a ‘personal’ email, we’re going to have a talk about my right to erasure.

“…a cat is not likely to turn its nose up at a Christmas tree-shaped scratch tree…”

Err… has this writer met many cats? 🧐

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/nov/27/uk-sales-of-seasonal-pet-treats-toys-and-food-rocketing

Emailing the NHS #autism assessment team… “I know this could still be a while, but are we thinking months or years?”

I do realise they’re swamped, but maybe they could do an automated email like once a quarter: “We haven’t forgotten; you’re still on the list; it’s currently about 47 years…”

Seriously: know your audience, people. The knowledge-vacuum is intolerable!

This is the maddest discovery since…

Honestly, right now I can’t think of a madder discovery.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/sep/05/common-food-dye-found-to-make-skin-and-muscle-temporarily-transparent

Mechanical keyboard nerds… what would happen if I put my key caps through the dishwasher?

If this isn’t a terrible idea from the start, I could do with some sort of fine-ish mesh tray, with a mesh cover, to keep them flat and together.

And I suppose if I’m taking them all off anyway I could probably just give them a good clean one by one…

…but UGH, it looks like a miserable job.

“I don’t want it to be a distraction from the campaign, I should have thought how it looks.”

Lolz. I’d bet at least a tenner that the Tories leaked this deliberately, precisely because they DO want a distraction from the campaign, and at this point any distraction will do.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/12/rishi-sunaks-closest-aide-placed-bet-on-election-date-days-before-announcement

Apropos of oh-holy-shit-I’ve-got-3-working-days-to-do-ALL-THE-THINGS, I’m reading self-help articles about how to deal with the #SundayScaries…

My God, some of the advice is SHOCKING:

“Make your weekend more enjoyable by doing work at a café, or in your pyjamas”

🫠

However bad things might be, at least I know that working (at 3am) on my days off is a shit idea, and both unsustainable and counterproductive as a habit.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from living with #MECFS, it’s that “a change is as good as a rest” is just not true.

In the absence of rest, a change *might* be better than nothing, but you still need rest - and REGULARLY.

Eg: 1hr physical exertion + 1h mental exertion is better than 2hrs mental exertion, but neither gives any rest at all. You might not know it, but your cortisol levels and your nervous system absolutely do.

You can’t cheat at resting.

You. Absolute. Bastards.

If anyone knows of a crowdfunder to support this man’s legal challenge, I would like to contribute to it.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-69016539

Here it is, damned nearly finished… the asymmetrical neckline dress, with self-drafted skirt in blue/black microcheck.

There are things I could criticise about this, but it has been all kinds of an experiment from the start, so the fact that it’s turned out wearable is a bonus.

Note the combo of internal corset and heavy-gauge concealed zip. It’s not very constrictive, but the zip is under a bit of tension with the lining.

#WeekendSewingClub #sewing #dressmaking #iMadeItMyself #ItHasPockets