- Missing friends and family when I”m overseas.
- Spending 5+ hours a day commuting to work.
- Getting up at 6am every morning.
- Having to goto bed at 2200 every night.
- ‘That’ feeling on Sunday mornings.
- Outlooks, ‘ping’ every 5 mins when new mail drops into my inbox.
- People calling 20 minute meetings when a 3 minute phone call would have worked instead
- Working with people who put furthering their career over everything else.
- Roadworks, traffic jams and delays being a part of my day to day life.
- Not being able to have a beer on a work night.
- Work coffee.
- Having to put up with management behaving unreasonably.
- Cheap hotels.
- Trying to work out if senior managers are in a good or bad mood, before telling them something they won’t want to hear.
- Having to remove empty, coffee cups, crisp packets and other rubbish from my car before anyone else gets in.
- Customers thinking that they can ring you at any time of the day.
- Having pre-packed sandwiches for lunch and eating at my desk.
- Frantically running around the supermarket during lunch.
- Making small talk
- 12 hour days onsite.
- Having to make sure there’s a stockpile of ironed shirts.
- Covering the phones when everyone is out of the office.
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Welcome to my journey through redundancy 