J is for Job Pt IV

[the_siobhan]

Because my work has been running training classes for everybody in my department on some of the new technology they're buying, I've had to come in early for the last two weeks. Plus nobody did a sodding thing while I was down with pork flu so I've been busting my ass on overtime to try and get caught up. Plus a six-day week last week. And now my cow-orker just annoounced today that he's planning on taking Monday off, so I'll have to start at 7 again on that day. I managed not to strangle him to death with his own shoelaces. But only just.

The English language does not have words for how much I hate the early morning shift. I feel like somebody threw sand in my eyes. And then ran me over with a tractor. And rubbed salt all over what was left. And then put it in a burlap bag and left it hanging in the sun for a couple of days. And then cats peed on it.

Fuck it. It's Friday. I am having a couple of beers tonight. And then I am turning my phone off when I go to bed. I don't care what blows up, falls down or sinks into the swamp, tomorrow I am sleeping the hell in.

Comments

[tristam08.livejournal.com]

'And then cats peed on it'
Classic finish! ;)

Hopefully you'll get some recovery time this weekend!
Pints will help immensely!
D

[greylock.livejournal.com]

You're on call?
Sucky.

[sharkskitten.livejournal.com]

wow. Sleep. Relax. Plan for letting your peer know when you're taking off on short notice and he has to pick up the slack. Something along the lines of answering the phone, going 'oh, my gosh, i'll leave immediately!' then grabbing your coat, breathlessly telling him there's an emergency that requires your attention and leaving the office just an hour before a major issue hits his desk.

[the_axel]

Unfortunately he's a useless lazy fucker who if he noticed the building burning down would nonchalently walk out. Were you to ask why he didn't set off the fire alarm look at you like you'd just suggested the Earth was made out of cheese.

[sharkskitten.livejournal.com]

Dang. Well, if i was local, we could invite him over to my house for dinner. Cooked by me.

As i really can't cook...heh...he probably would be off work for a few days and very, very sorry...

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

He wouldn't do it. Or worse, he would do half of it and screw it up so badly it would take me days to figure it out and fix it.

When I went to Amsterdam and the UK I carefully tagged some tasks with their deadline and specific instructions as to how they should be done. When I got back I asked him why he hadn't made the instructed changes and he told me he thought the person who started a task was responsible for finishing it. "Dude, I was three thousand miles away!"

[sharkskitten.livejournal.com]

Wow. You would think that someone like that would have been managed out of the business a while ago.

Boss's son?

[gruamach.livejournal.com]

For what it's worth....was good beer with good company to send you off to bed time. :D

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Yay!