“To be honest, they're coming in so thick and fast now that I had to set up a website!“ - Your Mum (and also Sam Roberts)
Whether I mildly inconvenienced you, challenged your thinking, disappeared for three working days, overanalysed something, or made the atmosphere unnecessarily intense by holding the silence for a very long time, this platform exists to support your recovery journey.
Over the years it has become clear that my behaviour, timing, sarcasm, and competence insistence may have caused frustration.
This platform exists as a structured mechanism for emotional documentation.
Every complaint contributes to evidence that I am, at minimum, occasionally exhausting.
Not all complaints are workplace related. Some are social. Some are emotional. Some originate from situations that, frankly, should have been forgotten hours ago.
This section exists for complaints involving delayed replies, failure to answer the phone after your 5th ring, strong opinions or instructions delivered with suspicious confidence, accidentally argumentative conversations, or transforming a simple topic into an unnecessarily detailed analysis.
You may also use this section if you’ve experienced selective hearing, deeply unhelpful sarcasm, a refusal to pick a restaurant quickly, “just one more point” during conversations, or the unique psychological exhaustion caused by hearing:
“No but logically that doesn’t make sense.”
Additional accepted categories include emotionally detached problem-solving, overcomplicating holidays, and correcting factual or grammatical inaccuracies nobody cared about.
Especially if you're a child of mine: being gaslit into thinking it's bedtime when in fact I've just rolled the clock back an hour. Also: irritating vocal-fry, suspicious inflection changes, or exceptionally long “you may complain about this” lists.
Includes over-structure, questioning ideas, bullet-point abuse, and identifying future problems too early.
Workplace tensions are natural. Especially when I'm involved, apparently. Deadlines shift. Priorities change. Somebody proposes an alarming idea with complete confidence while suffering from the illusion of explanatory depth, and somebody else makes the mistake of asking whether it’s actually sensible.
If you have ever left a meeting feeling personally attacked after hearing:
“What's the organisation's actual objective?”
“I’m not convinced this is gonna work, guys”
“It's a capability problem”
There is a strong possibility I was involved.
Common professional grievances include asking too many or too few questions, introducing unnecessary structure, refusing to immediately approve questionable ideas, writing messages that somehow feel both polite and confrontational, or visibly reacting to chaos in a way that damages morale.
Please understand: none of this behaviour is intended maliciously. It is simply the unfortunate consequence of accumulated experience, prolonged exposure to corporate environments, and surviving enough catastrophic decisions to develop trust issues around the words “Capability” and “Model”.
Following extended exposure to structured governance, mild confrontation, and socially inconvenient levels of competence, some people experience temporary emotional instability, including overthinking, anxiety, and sudden re-evaluation of life choices.
The following real-world products may assist in restoring equilibrium. Maybe?
This book says “just keep going” on the front, which I liked.
Just think about how productive you'll be →
Go beyond the grave and ask for advice on your quandary from Victorian children.
Maybe the spirits can help you? →All complaints are reviewed with professionalism, maturity, and a completely reasonable level of defensiveness.
While every submission is valued, outcomes may vary depending on supporting evidence, emotional exaggeration, historical revisionism, and whether you were objectively wrong at the time.