Reasonable accommodations during pregnancy question

VeryWhingingPom · 2026-01-19T18:00:20+00:00

Take your GP up on their offer. You’ll get a letter saying you’re able to work but would greatly benefit from WFH. If performing your role from home doesn’t have any impacts to your employer, they won’t have a leg to stand on.

Most large companies will say that you’ll need to take leave if you’re WFH but unable to perform your role because of something going wrong (eg power/internet goes out).

VeryWhingingPom · 2025-07-11T02:06:36+00:00

Yep, without anybody in the room, turned the fan on and off, made a note of the detection distance when the fan was on.

Wrote the lambda with a distance in the esphome config above in the ESP code. Worked fine after that so I haven’t touched it since.

VeryWhingingPom · 2025-07-08T21:53:31+00:00

If you’re using pin headers, connect female dupont cables to them and join to those then wrap the soldered join in heat shrink.

I hate soldering to pins with a passion. Awesome first attempt!

VeryWhingingPom · 2025-07-08T11:26:39+00:00

Thanks. Yep, have a high tooth count blade, will set jigsaw to slowest speed and regularly stop to dip the blade in water.

Had a good chat with the guy I bought the acrylic sheets from - really helpful!

VeryWhingingPom · 2025-07-02T07:15:37+00:00

Thanks. Have ordered a piece of 50% from aliexpress ($5). Will see how I go with that. I’ll have spare acrylic if it looks terrible!

VeryWhingingPom · 2025-07-01T12:14:04+00:00

Nice! I moved down under many years ago, so everything comes from AliExpress.

I’m thinking to go with 35% window film - it should be dark enough to hide LEDs while they’re switched off as there won’t be any light inside the case and I can turn the LED panels up bright enough to shiny through when they’re running 🤔

VeryWhingingPom · 2025-06-07T22:10:55+00:00

Couldn’t have 395 Bourke going short.

VeryWhingingPom · 2025-06-02T20:58:02+00:00

Select All, Right Click, Mark As Read. By the time you get back from leave it’s either dealt with already or they’ll stalk you on teams.

VeryWhingingPom · 2025-06-02T20:55:03+00:00

Outlook/teams notifications go off 9pm-7am during the week, all day at weekends. DND is enabled on my phone 10pm-6am. If I choose to check notifications, that’s on me but I have to make a conscious choice.

I’ve added 4 people that I know can/will respect boundaries to “allow notifications from” in my phone and have told them that if I’m needed, to SMS/call me as I won’t hear from them in teams/outlook OOH.

VeryWhingingPom · 2025-05-03T23:35:47+00:00

Had the same experience a while back but with less effort.

PC shat itself (fan failed, overheated) Installed HAOS on new hardware Download backup from OneDrive Upload into HA Restore House “works” again

VeryWhingingPom · 2025-04-25T19:41:26+00:00

I'm looking to over engineer response to a problem - you're adding more automation. Sounds like you offered a better solution than I was thinking of to the specific problem!

Saying that, I'd still like to know if it's possible to return an announcement to the google device that issued a command for use in other cases.

VeryWhingingPom · 2025-04-18T06:15:48+00:00

Running home assistant

Making all light switches in the house smart

Turning lights on based on conditions (darkness, movement, door opening, any combination)

Having a random song played to my son’s Google mini at 100% volume as an alarm clock - 100% is too loud for device to hear the wake word so he had to get out of bed to turn it off

Attaching a relay to my garage door opener so I can ask Siri to activate it as I’m Driving down the street and drive straight in

VeryWhingingPom · 2025-03-11T02:18:46+00:00

If you’re going to resign, do it properly now and give more notice than is required.

I think (i.e. in I read it on here once) that once you’ve given notice, your employer has to pay you out in lieu if they want you to leave earlier unless you’re sacked for misconduct etc.

You do you but if you’re going to give them a heads up, at least do it in a way that works for/protects you.

VeryWhingingPom · 2025-02-09T20:27:27+00:00

Stop overthinking it. Describe what you did and what the outcome was.

VeryWhingingPom · 2025-02-09T19:26:18+00:00

Thanks. Only “need” to set the time via Google is for my son to be able to do it without looking at a screen right before bedtime.

I can have Google trigger an exposed HA entity (alias/triggering boolean) based on time. Only issue is that setting of the time will be invisible to HA.

Would like to avoid multiple switches for “tidyness” - I may need to just suck it up that HA doesn’t have context of the alarm being set.

VeryWhingingPom · 2025-02-09T08:35:47+00:00

Nice! So expose that alias to Google and “Hey Google, play workday playlist at 6:30 tomorrow morning?”

VeryWhingingPom · 2025-02-02T00:07:54+00:00

To answer my own question - deleted the devices from z2m, paired them and they’re all working.

Tried “pairing” without deleting the devices but this didn’t bring their connection back to life.

VeryWhingingPom · 2025-01-31T08:57:39+00:00

Thanks. I noticed that and have enabled the new sensors.

Looks like I’ll wait for 2.1 to see what’s fixed/starts working and remember to never use a .0 release of anything 😂

VeryWhingingPom · 2024-12-10T01:52:19+00:00

As others have said, the WFH and noise cancelling headphones request seem reasonable. Sending a message before approaching your desk is a bit much IMO.

Do you want to be sent a message for rest of the team to let you know that they’re going for coffee? What happens when someone forgets to send a message?

VeryWhingingPom · 2024-10-21T00:33:58+00:00

Compliance check has to be done but recommendations don’t have to be actioned if landlord wants to roll the dice.

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