Writing Through Grim Times.
Unfortunately I’ve been busy. An office closing means working with people who may be faced with losing their jobs. I’ve been doing this from the Trade Union side.
It is grim work. Especially at the moment with this scary economic climate.
They have also just run a permanency exercise and a lot of people who applied are appealing decisions not to keep them on. In the area where I work this has affected a lot of staff, and they only have ten days to appeal.
So, we’ve been helping with that too.
I still have to fit in my day job.
Last week was exhausting. And this week will be more of the same.
So, for the next week I may not have the time or energy to write.
It is always entirely depressing when you see the reality of institutions simply seeing people as numbers. It is in the nature of institutions but depressing nevertheless.
I have to be careful when I write about things. I can’t be as forthright as I’d wish to, or even say where I work. I’m not even sure I should be writing this.
What I do know is that it is a thin line that the trade unions hold nowadays. A thin line indeed.
So I’ve been experiencing a bit of burnout. Mental fatigue and overwhelm. I’m just plain old…
