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I've been asked to write a report on a colleague who often lies about us saying we don't clean certain things when we do. He was saying it to me and I did get upset at the time and told my supervisor. But then the next day the supervisor came to me and asked me to put it in writing so that he can be dealt with properly. This colleague is the sort to be rude to people but then turn nasty towards them if they report him, and do I really need to make another enemy here? I have enough of bullying here from a contractor who gets too involved in our business and snitches on people he doesn't like. I've already reported him in writing, I don't really want to keep doing it every time someone says or does something to me that I don't like. I don't feel guilty for writing a written report about him though, because he caused me to have a nervous breakdown before Christmas and it's kind of made my ADHD worse, as in I keep forgetting things more than I normally would.
But I feel a bit guilty about writing a report about this colleague, as my trust in him isn't quite destroyed really, unless he says it again and again to the point where I feel belittled, inadequate or undermined. He's nothing like the contractor, who is a true bully.

If you don't write a report, it might be perceived that you don't want to write a report about the liar, because his lies are not lies and what he is saying is true?

If I was asked specifically by a boss, I would write a report as instructed, personally.

Anxiety

The arts and craft items I wanted from the Range are STILL out of stock.
They don't do the ones I like anywhere else, and I don't want to order them online because I need to be able to feel the card before buying. Some card is that sort that you can't draw or colour on because it's too shiny or something, do you know what I mean?

I'm so addicted to this arts and craft project I like creating and I so badly want to do it. But the Range had to let me down. So unorganised in there, always short-staffed. Maybe the staff get treated badly so nobody wants to work there. Why do some bosses treat their staff poorly then wonder why they can't get the right amount of staff?

Yeah I know what you mean about shiny card

Are you making something special

Not special as such. I just love drawing little schoolchildren in different uniform designs and then cutting them out to make classes. It's really addictive, and I've done it before but I have an urge to do some more, loads more, as I've gone and bought a lot of colouring pens off Amazon for a bargain and it's just given me the urge to do more cut-outs lol.
I just love doing it. But I need the sort of card that's coloured on one side and white on the other, and I need lots of different colours so that I can know which child belongs in which class.

My mum used to make lots of little cut-outs of schoolchildren when I was a child, although we stupidly threw them out when I got older. But that creative project has stuck with me.

Yeah I can see why you're unhappy about not being able to get your supplies
Especially when you want to get stuck into something that makes you feel happy

Sounds like it would make a nice little collage type thing

That's an idea actually lol.

yay

Lol

I felt like throwing a tantrum like a toddler when I couldn't see my card there.
But my adult mind stopped me. Lol

But I felt irritated though, and felt like yelling "hurry up!!" when I was waiting in the queue to pay for the other items I got, because there was only one till open and a huge queue of customers waiting.

Then I had to go straight on to work after that, but I cheered up once I got chatting to my two good friends at work.

Yeah, retail has a high turnover rate for staff. I think it has gotten worse since the pandemic as well, since retailers in general sought to cut down the amount of staff they had and started to pile all of the work onto existing staff and then when people leave they don't replace them so that the business can save money. But then staff get miserable at being overworked and leave in increasing numbers.

Well they're losing money really because when delivered items aren't restocked on the shelves then customers aren't going to be able to buy them.

I feel depressed because it seems businesses have gotten so much greedier these days. In the olden days, yes businesses needed to make money but I think they still cared about their customers. Now it seems businesses don't really give a s**t about anybody and are just interested in lining their pockets and nothing else, even though it's the customers that bring the profits to the businesses.

^ I agree completely.

Retail used to be a better place to work in many years ago, also. Pretty much everyone I know who works in retail (some from old workplaces) think that the whole experience of being a retail employee has gotten a lot harder in line with the pay rises for minimum wage workers. Retailers want blood, sweat and tears out of employees, but at the end of the day they are still paying close to the minimum wage, which doesn't inspire maximum efforts.

I left my chocolate in the car and now its liquid and I really want some chocolate.

Oh man I feel your agony on that one