Too hot

[caddyman]

Finally, the wind down toward the Christmas break has begun; somebody has turned the heating up in the office and I am getting a little bit drowsy.

This is in rather startling contrast to yesterday when I toyed briefly with the idea of going on a machete rampage. Yesterday was the culmination of a great deal of work, some of which has been bemoaned loudly on this very forum (usually behind friends’ only screening to protect the innocent (ie. me from such joys as the sack and/or being sued for libel).

I had anticipated a busy morning, but it just got ridiculous. When, after twenty minutes, five people had come along with variations on the phrase, ”stop what you’re doing, this needs to be done immediately”, I decided that the only course of action open to me was aggressive tetchiness. This had the desired effect and I was blissfully undisturbed after that for most of the day. And the ‘immediate’ work was delegated elsewhere. The intrusion was particularly unwelcome as at least half of it was down to THAT WOMAN^{© and™} clearing her desk for the Christmas break, having held the papers un-actioned since late October.

Anyways up. It’s all done now despite the best attempts of our own email system to sabotage the process. I logged on this morning to find that our own firewall had vetoed the delivery of anything to any address beginning with ‘a’ or ‘b’. Still, it all seems to have gone at the second attempt.

I may write some Christmas cards.

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[bluesman.livejournal.com]

Yes, our office is messed up too, as the computer prog we do most of our work on is unusable again, and I'd like to get my desk cleared by the time we knock off tomorrow for the hols. I'll be absent for nine glorious days, while the stuff sits here and the few people who are here next week will say "Why hasn't this been done?" I'll be up a mountain playing with my new toys so I won't be here to tell them "Because you didn't bring it to me until the last minute, just in time for the prog to petulantly crash."

The perfectly legit excuse that I can not do the work if the computer prog is down sounds really lame, but there it is. I do sympathise with you regarding That Woman, as we have all had to deal with such uncaringly obstructive oiks, and I am very glad there is no-one like that in charge here. Our boss thinks I am a waste of space but is decent enough not to treat me like that, and sets a good example.