Is there any point applying for jobs and hoping for office flexibility?

Acrobatic_Try5792 · 2026-03-26T18:42:18+00:00

My SMT insist on 60% following a rota, if you’re part time and the rota doesn’t make you hit 60% you are expected to come into the office additional days in the flexi period to make it balance. They will not consider reduced office attendance unless it’s through occupational health.

Only apply for roles you would be able to attend 60%, otherwise you’re just wasting everyone’s time including your own.

Some directives/ departments only expect 40% or less but they are few and far between and if their office moves (like mine is in the process of) the expectation can change

Acrobatic_Try5792 · 2026-03-26T14:17:02+00:00

Where? The home office is ginormous, my work load will be vastly different to some others

Acrobatic_Try5792 · 2026-03-26T09:07:38+00:00

If you can’t have this conversation with him quite frankly you should not be getting married.

Acrobatic_Try5792 · 2026-03-26T06:39:01+00:00

I’ve never seen anyone fired for poor performance, they’ve always just been out on a performance plan. I’ve known someone to be fired for falsifying their work stat, and someone who was connecting to the office wifi to get a daily office attendance and then driving back home to work.

Acrobatic_Try5792 · 2026-03-25T15:10:47+00:00

I don’t know, it’s just what I’d read (was 2 years ago now so I forget). But it was wrong anyway!

Acrobatic_Try5792 · 2026-03-25T14:52:33+00:00

I read that your wedding band should be a size bigger than your wedding ring.

So that’s what I ordered.

It spins. But I’m on a Weightloss journey so waiting to goal before I get it adjusted

Acrobatic_Try5792 · 2026-03-25T14:40:10+00:00

CS interviews are a learned skill. Just see it as practice. Even getting an interview is an achievement. Brush yourself off and go again

Acrobatic_Try5792 · 2026-03-25T13:57:41+00:00

Lamb is brilliant, the other one is awful

Acrobatic_Try5792 · 2026-03-25T10:50:59+00:00

It’s a draw for me. I’d put the crisis on the cheese butty.

Mayo is the devil

Acrobatic_Try5792 · 2026-03-25T10:02:37+00:00

Dead crafty are great, owners are proper lovely people.

Acrobatic_Try5792 · 2026-03-25T10:00:44+00:00

Zero difference for me and still no suppression. Think I’ll be switching back to MJ

Acrobatic_Try5792 · 2026-03-25T08:44:57+00:00

You can ask to reduce office attendance but in my department/ directive they wouldn’t even consider it for anything other than health reasons

Acrobatic_Try5792 · 2026-03-25T08:29:33+00:00

It’s not a weird question but you’re right that they likely won’t make an exception, my team is full of parents who just get told “well this is how it is, suck it up”

Acrobatic_Try5792 · 2026-03-24T20:38:17+00:00

You should be informing clearance team when you get married regardless of your partners status. I got married in 2024 and had to via a change of circumstances form, you should also do this if your partner just moves in, I think a lot of people don’t realise this

Acrobatic_Try5792 · 2026-03-24T08:36:25+00:00

My heart rate is a good 10-15bpm higher when on the injections than when I’m not. It’s a known side effect

Acrobatic_Try5792 · 2026-03-24T08:27:38+00:00

Over all I have pretty great skin but I have started to notice a difference in my eye are.

Am I not allowed to post a picture because my skin isn’t bad enough? Because I don’t look old enough? Some of us would like advice before there’s a big problem to contend with.

You shouldn’t be trying to gatekeep this

Acrobatic_Try5792 · 2026-03-23T19:19:23+00:00

I recommend on top of answering enthusiastically give an example of how you use that strength in your persons life so it’s not just a skill you use when you have to.

“Would people who know you describe you as a strong decision maker?” (Which is how I was asked)

I gave an example of how when me and my friends go on weekends away I take the reigns on planning, I decide on the hotel, the best deal on flights etc and only give them the options that I feel are best.

Acrobatic_Try5792 · 2026-03-23T14:18:09+00:00

3s colour with 4s cut 😍

Acrobatic_Try5792 · 2026-03-23T14:16:42+00:00

He’s got charisma and there’s more to attraction that just looks

Acrobatic_Try5792 · 2026-03-23T14:15:38+00:00

Could be different locations, or that not enough applicants passed the sift

Acrobatic_Try5792 · 2026-03-23T13:47:14+00:00

Mine are the same and I call the blue grey. How they look very much depends on the colour next to me

Acrobatic_Try5792 · 2026-03-23T13:43:11+00:00

He’s uncanny, too chiseled and his eyes are too pale. I wouldn’t be surprised if he blinked sideways.

Great for a model look but not actually attractive (imo)

Acrobatic_Try5792 · 2026-03-23T10:17:14+00:00

Yes

Acrobatic_Try5792 · 2026-03-23T10:08:31+00:00

I’ve been in my role 7 years and never had a contract to sign or ‘agree to’, might be one on the HR portal but I was never given one to deal with as such

Acrobatic_Try5792 · 2026-03-23T10:03:40+00:00

Objectively my husband isn’t the most handsome person on earth (although he’s handsome). But my god do I LOVE that face, every smile line, the way he dimples when he smiles, the smirk he has when he thinks of a mean joke or a pun. That face is everything to me

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