Starting the week

[caddyman]

Good morning, everybody.

I half expected a slight echo when I typed that. London is very quiet this morning, the tube ride in was very pleasant; hardly anyone on it, and my morning trip into Sainsbury’s for milk and other morning victuals was hampered not by the existence of queues, but by the small selection of sandwiches.

Is there a holiday and someone forgot to inform me? I know it’s Lex Luthor King Day (or something) in the US, but as far as I am aware, the sixteenth of January is just another working day to be endured by the lumpen proletariat here in the UK. I shall be most miffed if I find that there is a good reason for not having to go to work today and am here anyway.

I am toying with the thought of going to get my eyes checked today. I am always on about it, but never stir up the courage. If I need reading glasses that will a couple of hundred quid less spending money for yours truly. At the moment my arms a re still long enough for me to be able to focus on the small print at a comfortable distance. That said, it mustn’t be quite as small as say, ten years ago. Back then I could see a tattoo on a gnat’s arse.

It would have to be a pretty fat gnat now.

Comments

[queenortart.livejournal.com]

Is today the day that Lex Luthor Arkwright tromps the Superman Tupperware Bowl then?

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

I think the Dogbowl is at the beginning of February this year.

[jfs.livejournal.com]

If you use a computer regularly at work, your company (in this case, my tax dollars!) are legally obligated to provide a free eye test each year.

With a small company, this usually involves them giving you a voucher that an optician will use to pay for the eye test. With a large entity like HMG, there may well be an occupational health person who does the test instead.

And if you need to wear glasses specifically to use the computer, then you'll get some help towards the cost of the lenses also.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

The Department, in its beneficence, will only pay for that part of an eye test which deals with the effects of computers (which, I suppose is fair). Claiming your costs back, including any contribution towards glasses is a bureaucratic nightmare.

You have to pay up front and claim the money back afterwards. They've made it such an arse to do, that last time I had an eye test, I paid for it myself.

[fencingsculptor.livejournal.com]

Oh dear oh dear the lazy gene has kicked in again.

Dear Reader - you have been somewhat mislead ! we fill in a form - the Optitian signs it and then we pass it to a line manager who signs it - the mutli signed form is than passed by the Line manager - to the nearest Finance Dwarf whose sole job it is to ensure that we are reimbursed in our next salary statement.

Bad Mr L BAD Mr L !

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

They've changed the system then.

What's a mutli signed form? Is it covered in little green dogs that laugh?

[fencingsculptor.livejournal.com]

You can't deflect attention from your accute laziness by maligning my pass poor spilling !

...oh apparentlt you kan !

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

I don't mind the eye exams, myself. It's fun trying to read the letters (especially freaking out the oculist by getting the little 'uns right, and the big 'uns wrong!). It's the usurious price for the glasses that bothers me.

"A tattoo on a gnat's arse." Bryan, you charmer... One wonders just what might be tattooed on there. "If you can read this you're too close"?