Stress

I'm under stress at work :-(

It's very quiet right now in the retail business. My boss has started lecturing all of us about how we've got to "get back to basics". Every single day, we get lectured about it. He listens in on our conversations with customers and tells us that if it sounds like we're going to lose a customer, he'll jump in.

It's very unnerving. When you want to just be sociable and talk, you've got to talk about something completely unrelated to work. If you try to make conversation like "Gee, those Kenwood stereos we got in last week have some good features", it always turns into a lecture about something.

The computer I built for my workmate is still having trouble, even after a BIOS update. Now that it's back here, it's working fine, of course. I have no idea what's going wrong, much less how to fix it. If this goes on much longer I'll just build her a replica of my computer, albeit with more basic graphics and a slower processor.

And finally, yesterday my Dad went into hospital, complaining of chest pains. He's okay, the doctors say he didn't have a heart attack; but it was worrying nonetheless. And he's depressed because now he's not allowed to go to Melbourne, and he'd been planning that trip for months.