No Time, moan and update...

Updates to my blog have been thin on the ground recently, I just really can't be bothered to write anything after a day of hassle at work, then working in the house when I get home.

Will write about the house at the end of this post.

I've been fairly down the last few days, quite a lot is because of stuff in the house but also because of being short staffed at work and not having 2 minutes to think. Coming home shattered before I've even started in the house. It seams at work that I am always expected to hold the fort all the time while everyone else fucks off to meetings about nothing. Luckily Mandy changed her days to help me the beginning of this week or I would of been completely on my own. Probably get moaned at for mentioning her name but as I'm thanking her I would hope not. To be honest I couldn't give a shite if they do want to moan. I think its about time that managers throughout work spent sometime doing the jobs they expect of their staff. Often they say they know what they are doing but unless they spend sometime in their staffs shoes, they just don't know. I'm not complaining about me, but in general, too many managers spend all of their day in meetings rather than doing Real work.

I often find it funny that it is said that meetings help communication but if they are never with their staff to pass on information then what use are they. Normally the people on the ground who have to deal with the problems are the ones with the least information.

Today I am lucky if I got 10 minutes for dinner and that was only because I went to make a cup of tea and decided to talk to Wendy while I was making it. I have decided to write in my diary at work what I do through out the day. This serves a few purposes, I can actually check up on stuff that I have done, It helps when in supervision (another waste of time) and hopefully it will help with my job evaluation. If anyone says my job matches one of the standard descriptions they are living on another planet, my job description is totally out of date anyway. Hopefully the diary though will help me evidence what I do.

I think people often think I am doing nothing because I am friendly with lots of staff but I've watched this week on the rare occassions that other people have been in and I have done a lot more work than most, although I have a laugh and joke nearly every call involves work while I'm talking. I shocked myself the 1st day I started recording it all when my A4 page a day diary was full and I had done well over 20 helpdesk calls in addition.

All I ever seam to do is moan on here but I guess that's when I feel I have the most to write about. Hopefully other people in the unit are back tomorrow, so I should be able to get on with some work away from the phone for a change.

On Monday BT wer at work to install a new phone line and one of the engineers was Ross who used to work at Electrolux when I was there. Was good to see a familiar face and got me thinking that I would quite like his job. He wasn't really enjoying it because he said it was so much to learn but to me that would be a dream. You would be travelling to different places everyday fitting phone lines and fixing stuff, constantly learning :-)

Ross had only been doing it since February and said he went home every day with a headache from trying to take everything in but hell sounds good to me. Better than doing the same thing every day, almost like a robot, like when I was at Electrolux for the few weeks I was there.

Monday a mate was supposed to be coming over to help me choose some paint and go for a run, I kind of thought they might not come over because they had had a hectic weekend but I was a little annoyed when they didn't say anything until about 2 minutes before they were going home from work and that was only because I asked. Kind of messed up my night, but nevermind I expected it.

Oh, I bought another ticket for Iron Maiden, christ I got some grief from Val but I'm keeping the ticket until nearer the time, lol.

I need to organise myself better at home, I haven't updated my finances properly for nearly 2 weeks but have been keeping a rough idea. I have been regularly looking at my bank account but need to make sure I don't miss anything. I have told my dad that money is getting tight because he just keeps going off and buying things and I have to pay him £150 every few days for the parts. Said that I had to be very careful and only buy and do the things that are essential for me moving in, he understands now.

We have had quite a few setbacks the last few days, from my dad creasing my gas pipe and having to get someone in to replace it to having to take out my sink and toilet so Nigel can tile properly. I also ended up sandind down to some mains wires because the useless bastards hadn't sunk the cables in properly. Anyway the gas pipe is changed, the wires have been sunk and Nigel is on doing the tiling. It seamed like all that and more went wrong at the same time so i wasn't exactly happy.

Been going over what needs doing and the list of jobs is getting smaller and trying to prioritise them. Obviously the bathroom is a big priority. Once Nigel has finished the tiling, I will put the flooring down while the sink is out, which should make it easier. After that the main messy jobs will be the plastering that needs doing in the main bedroom and some patching up in the sitting room. Then hopefully I can get those papered ready for painting. I will need some carpet for the sitting room and an aerial run. I would like to get a new carpet in main bedroom but not sure I can afford it at the moment. I am leaving the dining room until last, it is a dump and needs the artex taking off the walls and quite a lot of work doing. I will work on this once I've moved in and robbed a bank or something.

I was going to go to bed an hour ago, so think I should stop typing. Can't be bothered to spell check this, just like I never do!!