u/NailWitch1

Basically it's what the title says, I'm a volunteer at a medium sized museum in the uk that is entirely run by volunteers, we all joined because the museum was being run by two paid professionals on a temporary contract for a reorganization project, those paid people left when their contracts ran out (understandably) and they did everything they could to help us carry on the cataloguing project because they knew we wouldn't get much guidance from the trustees.

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It's been a few months since the professionals left and everything has gone downhill very quickly, communication from the trustees is basically non-existent, except for one trustee who will come up to my packaging team every few months with a half explained job that confuses everyone.

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For example we spent months nominating the museum's wooden plane collection for disposal except for a few from local families, this job took weeks so we were quite happy with ourselves when we finished just to be told we should have kept a few of the more interesting planes, apparently the trustee never said get rid of the majority of them which is funny because all three of us definitely remember being told the opposite.

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Then the next week we get told halfway through a shift as we were starting to repackage some objects that actually, the museum was finally going to be using modes for our online database, apparently this same trustee had gone through the training slides and it wasn't that hard (according to her), she didn't train anyone and the few other people who are trained don't go into the museum on days we are in, so currently we can't do the one job we are trained to do.

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It's gotten to the point of most of my team wanting to quit because every time we try to just ask basic questions we get shut down, I tried emailing the volunteer coordinator (who is a volunteer) about sending an email around about a group chat I had set up for volunteers and she didn't just ignore my email, she actually only replied to the ps question I asked about a volunteer pass, even though the subject of the email was "volunteer groupchat".

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I don't even know if I have explained everything well because I genuinely can't wrap my head around what's happening LMAO

I'm normally a femme lurker on here but I genuinely don't know what to do with myself, I didn't realise that the reason I never fully cared for romance TV shows/books is because of how hetero everything is, even the lesbian books tend to be to skinny femmes who hold hands after ten seasons, so having a book that had a relationship I'm actually interested in was fab! While I'm definitely gonna catch up on the work I've let pile up to finish this book, I wouldn't say no to more recommendations (I read stone butch blues already, it made me very sad LMAO)

Basically as the title says, I spend a lot of time researching domestic objects (cigarette tins, cameras, post cards etc etc) and one thing I struggle with is the fact that a lot of the time the only information on these objects is from a blog run by a retiree and the website hasn't been updated since the 90s LMAO.

I think my problem is that I'm researching things that are old, but not so old they have archeological papers on them, but they are old enough to be forgotten, plus who even bothers to write down information about the toothbrush they use daily, so I'm stuck with sources that in any other setting would be seen as a bit weird but I can't seem to stop researching these objects, there's just something so wonderful about an object someone used every day, it's as close to time travelling as you could possibly get and you really want to do the objects justice. It's not even like anyone in the museum is complaining, my research is perfectly good considering we are part of the majority of rural museums founded in the 60s (no Providence at alllll)

It's also annoying because I do use places like museum online collections Google scholar etc but it's always a 50/50 shot at being useful (except for museum collections they are life savers for date of manufacture)

(Also if anyone has any good resources on the original box brownies place in society during ww2 I would be eternally grateful)

((Also also apologies for the rant/grammar it's 1am and I'm contemplating utility radio sources again))

I have been getting infliximab infusions on an eight weekly basis with a blood test a week before since 2024, for the past few infusions I have had to delay them for minor infections, ranging from eczema getting infected on the back of my ear to utis, every time I have to take antibiotics until the infection has cleared (which can vary anywhere from three days to two weeks) then wait a week before booking the infusion again and it's really starting to grind me down honestly, I'm not sure what's even changed internally but I just keep on getting little infections.

I know the ou has a resource on it but I honestly can't make head nor tail of it, I have done three tmas for Y031 and every time either there isn't enough paragraphs or there are too many, I think I'm going insane and it's genuinely funny to me that this is what I find myself struggling with over everything else 😅 if anyone has an easily remembered guide or a YouTube video I would be eternally grateful

I don't know how to word this question to search for it so I'm sorry if it's already been answered but I didn't see it!

Basically I'm in a domestic violence situation at home, my younger sister is abusive both verbally and financially towards me and my mother and at one point also physical abuse but that has calmed down, I need to move out because surprisingly I don't enjoy being in an abusive environment especially one that is not remotely accessible to me, I'm on the council house waiting list but I'm nervous to try and bid for properties without all my ducks in a row (idas is involved and I don't need advice in regards to the abuse).

With that context I can explain my problem, I filled in the fitness to work paperwork fully, it took two hours but I filled in all the important stuff about my physical limitations, how I already have pip yada yada, literally all I need from my mum is a bit of backup over my support needs from her perspective as a carer, I cannot for the life of me get her to do this paperwork, every time I bring it up she tells me she's to stressed or that her brain isn't braining, but that deadline is getting far to close for my comfort levels, could I just leave her contact information on the other information section with a note to call her for more information? She would absolutely answer a phone call or email because there's social pressure involved but otherwise I will either miss the deadline or we will get an extension that will run out again.

(I am also not in a great position mentally and struggle a huge amount with paperwork like this so if everyone could try to be nice and not frustrated with me that would be great, I can assure you I get plenty of frustration and anger directed at me without being bollocked on Reddit LMAO)

I have a squirrel brain (some may label as ADHD and they wouldn't be incorrect) part of the reason I don't rest enough is because I need to be doing something all the time, if I'm not I go insane and start losing the will to live. Cue me buying a cheap second hand nook, I've had this weird guilt about using a nook for the longest time because it's not "a book", but I finally got over it because I can't read paper books due to my hand pain and I miss reading even if it's harder for me due to my dyslexia.

When I tell you this cheap ancient nook had me actually properly lying down and resting for over an hour without me dragging myself up to do something, it was amazing I actually rested without doom scrolling!! Anyway if you needed a sign to give yourself an adaptation for something people usually have a superiority complex over then this is it.