New working hours, again.

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A bit difficult to see but there’s a Blackbird sitting on a branch in the photo.

The weather report on tv yesterday said sunshine over almost the entire south of Sweden today, so I wasn’t the least surprised that it snowed when I woke up πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ No big flakes, just tiny ones so it created a thin dusting on the ground. Just enough to make it feel a bit christmassy and not so much that it annoyed me enough to hate winter even more πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ It also made the hunters out in the forest to give up quite early in the day so that made it even better πŸ™‚

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I’ve been at home this week because I had fever and was tired all the time. Turns out that 21 more at work (I think we’re slightly more than 50 people working there) had the same thing, most likely the covid. Some had high fever, runny noses and lots of coughing and the rest of us were hit with milder symptoms. I didn’t have any fever yesterday and since I knew there weren’t lots of people working I thought I just as well would go to work. Good thing because without me there would only have been three people working πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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We did what we could with only four people but then we came to the things we need lots more people around (masking and de-masking things), when we normally would have to be at least seven people there we couldn’t continue and since there was nothing else to do we all took the rest of the day off πŸ™‚ So it wasn’t that bad to go to work when having the long Friday to work πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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A work friend called me the same morning and told me that seven people have to go after the new year has started and they’ll stop having a night shift as well. I still have a job and will be a resource person. Jumping in at any place if someone is sick or do jobs on the side of the line. Don’t mind that but I can’t say I’m happy about the new working hours, I’ll start working at 3:25 pm and continue to work until 1:55 am. I will not work a single Friday though so I guess that’s ok but I also know that if I don’t sleep for as long as I must I will sleep all Friday instead. I guess I’ll get used to that as well but it doesn’t sound fun. The dogs will be fine though since they most likely just will continue to sleep since it is dark and the world will be quiet.

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The new working hours will start at week 50 so I’ll start with one week before christmas vacation starts. I do hope this only lasts for a short while since inflation has sunk and the Riksbank will most likely not make the interest rates higher so most likely people will feel a bit of hope again and start building new homes and buy new things so that we soon will be needing those people who can’t stay. It’s a horrible world really when we need people to spend all their money so that other people can get jobs and by doing so also make the climate crisis even worse.

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I wanted to post a video here with the fox passing by but now days I can’t since I need to pay for Premium to be able to post videos so I say to WordPress Up Yours!

Lots of birds at the new feeder and I also got a few nice photos of the fox that visits us almost every night. I accidentally had made the camera take videos the first nights so there’s one video as well showing the fox. I also have some photos of Albin pooping and Alma running around like crazy mostly looking like a blurr πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ The fox looks healthy and I was thinking of placing some dog food in front of the camera so I could get more nice photos of the fox and possibly the badger if it comes again and hasn’t started its winter sleep. I’ve learned that badgers doesn’t hibernate but instead just sleeps, oh how I wish I was a badger πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

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Greater Woodpecker.
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House sparrow.
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Field sparrow.
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The rest of them show Great tits.
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Have a great day!

4 thoughts on “New working hours, again.

  1. Wow. Four people out of 50 were able to show up for work? And double Wow on the new shift hours. Ew. On the plus side, I guess, you’ll get to see the sun, if it shows up. And no Fridays. That’s good.
    Grey, warm, and raining this morning. After lunch the wind came up and the temperature dropped but the sun came.

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    1. Hi Caryn!

      Slight misunderstanding there. 22 out of 50 were home sick. We were only four out of eight in the evening shift. The new hours are shit to be honest and I’m not sure how nice that free Friday will be and since none of us are young and one is the father of seven children this will not be appreciated at all πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ But yes I will see daylight a lot more but I doubt that I ever will see the sun again πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

      Cold here this morning and I almost saw the sun there for a few seconds πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚
      Have a great day!

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  2. Christer,
    The world looks lovely with snow, especially only a little snow. I’m sorry about your new hours. Working until nearly 2 in the morning sucks. I hope it won’t last too long.

    Sickness seems to be always around now, but luckily the covid vaccines keep the illness short and manageable.

    It is cold today and tonight will be downright chilly. We’re entering a cold spell, days of winter weather. I guess I shouldn’t complain as it is mid-November after all.

    Enjoy your day!

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    1. Hi Kat!

      It didn’t last long though but to be honest I think it is more beautiful when we only have a thick layer of rime on the vegetation, it is even more white and at least an inch thick. That however also means it’s nasty cold outside πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

      It was odd though that it hit so many people at the same time! but You’re right, sickness are around all the time now days.
      We’ll get warmer weather for two days now and then it’ll drop down to way too low temperatures during the weekend and perhaps beyond as well. I’m not happy πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚ πŸ™‚

      Have a great day!

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