Early morning wibble

Today I woke up shortly after 5 a.m., and I couldn't go back to sleep. I was supposed to get up at about 7, which is way too early for me anyway, but still - 5 is ridiculous.

I'm off to a two-day course about workers' rights. We've got some of those in this country - like, you're not allowed to fire people without good cause, you have to have a reasonable working environment, things like that. It should be interesting.

I still haven't heard back from the people I interviewed with on Monday. But then they said they'd get back to me within two weeks, so it's not really surprising... but I want to know now, dammit!

Goddess, but I'm tired. And I feel a headache coming on. Thursdays is, or should be, horseriding day - only I haven't been there in three weeks, due to fever, or dizziness, or pain. I'm still not sure about today either. Maybe I should stay and have dinner with the other union people from work, or maybe I should go home and get some sleep since I didn't get much tonight. Or maybe it's better for me to go and get the exercise - except the class is at 20.45, lasts till 21.45, whereafter we have to stable and tend the horses, so I won't be home until about 23.00. Which is also too late to have a bath since we live in a flat.

I've still got four hours to decide whether to go or not, though. As long as I let them know before 12, I can take a catchup class in another group. Maybe that'd be best.

Yesterday I was at the "stress management course" at work. It's being held by a psychologist. The first thing he said was that "this is not a rehabilitation or treatment - it's a course". Funny how our HR department keeps insisting that the course is the rehabilitation treatment I need...

Afternoon wibble

Back from day one of the course. It's reasonably interesting, so far, and I spent most of the breaks talking to Carina, who works in customer support. She's a horsewoman; her daughter competes on a national level and is apparently quite good, so we had a lot of time to talk about horses and riding and so on.

There were two persons from other companies at the course, plus the three of us from Telenor. One of the other "outsiders" was a bit irritating. He claimed to have been involved in union work for almost twenty years, yet did not know anything about how a union works and what it does. I'd've thought that just about anyone raised in Sweden would know what a "kollektivavtal" ("collective contract" would be the English term, I guess - it's where a workers' union and an employer work out the contract together, and then it's valid for all employees) is - but he asked at least four times before he understood... or at least stopped asking. So we didn't get as far as we'd hoped to today.

I did get some interesting information about our insurances, though. It appears that if I do get my "burned-out-ness" accepted as being caused by my job, I should be getting 100 % remuneration instead of the usual 80 % - because my employer, by ignoring my requests for medical assistance, have actively caused the problem. This could be fun.

And I do plan on going riding tonight. It's been too long, and I've spent too much time talking about horses and not enough time actually meeting them. Besides, I miss the people there.