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Update

2021-02-28T10:38:10Z

Well, I’ve started the new job and I’m finding it hard work. I don’t learn very fast and my line manager teaches at breakneck speed. Which means I’m stressed out.

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Update

2020-05-28T09:23:24Z

Smokey scared the pants off me yesterday. It was entirely my fault, but I’m now very wary of windows.

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Update

2020-04-22T13:44:10Z

Back at work this morning, had a busy morning because of all the things I hadn’t done while I was on leave on Monday and Tuesday. Now in a slough. If a slough is what I think it is. I’m expecting my boss to ring me today or tomorrow because we have a meeting scheduled for next week that needs an agenda sending out. I’ve gone as far as I can in preparing the agenda and need her input for the final bits and extra items for discussion.

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Update

2020-04-01T11:59:06Z

Well, we’re pootling along. “We” here meaning Smokey and I since I don’t have any visitors due to the ongoing Covid-19 business.

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Update

2020-03-26T10:57:47Z

I took my second set of minutes over MS Teams this morning. This one didn’t go as well as the first because we kept on losing connection and there was about ten minutes that I didn’t get at all. I’m hoping they didn’t discuss anything important.

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Update

2020-03-16T20:20:08Z

I’m half hoping to be told tomorrow that I’ve to work from home for the foreseeable – perhaps as long as 12 weeks.

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Update

2020-01-20T17:48:30Z

As I write this (I'm posting it much later as I don't have DW access at work) I’m snacking on a biscuit kindly brought in by a colleague. Unfortunately, it tastes vaguely of fish. But I don’t like to stop eating it as I don’t want to upset my colleague.

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Annoying thing

2019-04-05T14:31:22Z

(Whey I say 'this morning' I mean yesterday, Thursday. I wrote this then sent it to myself for posting, then forgot about it.)

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Happy Christmas, Everybody!

2018-12-24T13:57:26Z

The fridge is stuffed with goodies, and there are more good things on the side in the kitchen. We have mountains of chicken, oodles of pigs in blankets, lashings of champagne and pillows of marshmallows.

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News of the non-newsy type - mostly about cats

2017-11-30T14:35:07Z

No news I can give you on the job front, things continue to grind on in a grindy sort of way.

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Such a pain

2015-08-02T16:42:25Z

I've finally got my computer to talk to my TV, something which before I 'upgraded' happened natively and now doesn't.

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Seeking the perfect job

2014-09-16T14:43:29Z

Having written out for information on the current position on filing and listened to colleagues telling me that “we don’t have time for this”, I’m rather nervously waiting for replies as long as “War and Peace”. This is not what I want. All I want is a few well chosen (and truthful) words on where we are with our filing in case the filing fairies (otherwise known as an audit team) come dancing in demanding to know why our files aren’t up to date. It’s very simple. Colleagues, eh?

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Job I don't mind doing

2014-06-16T12:01:40Z

I've spent part of the morning today trying to support a member who's lost her cat. She's devastated, and probably shouldn't be at work. No doubt management would regard this as a waste of time, but people love their animals, and some total bastard – a person with no conscience whatsoever – poisoned my member's cat with strychnine.

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Yippee!

2014-03-29T11:56:10Z

Same sex marriage started in England and Wales at midnight, so a total "Yippee!" for that.

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However good you are, you are not good enough

2013-10-07T14:56:49Z

This is very much the case where I work - does it sound familiar to you?

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Cat update and other news

2013-09-23T12:26:52Z

I know you’re all still on the edge of your seats to hear how I’m doing with Smokey.

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Curse

2013-09-05T09:59:47Z

My work laptop's not working, meaning I shall have to take today off as leave and get it into the office to be fixed tomorrow.

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I hate this government, spending review edition

2013-06-26T15:01:24Z

I hate this government so very, very much. They would look good on a lamppost, like Mussolini.

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Olympic woes

2012-07-25T12:27:00Z

London is a frustrating place to be right now. I met some friends for dinner and a catch-up yesterday and found that just getting from my workplace to the place we were meeting (three streets away) was an exercise in itself.

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Question for all

2011-08-04T15:16:44Z

I've also asked around the managers of my office about this, but this came up in my union work recently and I thought I'd find out what everyone thinks.

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The hazards of fake smiles

2011-03-14T11:00:30Z

The 'have a nice day' fixed grin required of many hospitality and other service staff could be seriously bad for their health.

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Cloth ears r us

2010-05-04T12:08:27Z

It's amazing what you overhear in the Ministry of Magic's canteen – or rather, what becomes mangled between someone saying it and my ear. I was minding my own business trying to cope with spaghetti bolognese when I overheard two blokes at the next table, one of whom was saying to the other, "He was in a band call the Gelatinous Poodles."

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Eruptions

2010-04-20T14:22:06Z

It is strange not to have vapour trails going across the sky and to not have the sound of aircraft. When they're there, you don't even realise that they make that much noise.

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Strike day

2010-03-24T18:37:58Z

I picketed, I demonstrated, I went home, I went to sleep.

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I had no idea the figures were so stark

2010-02-17T16:04:52Z

Yes, yet another political entry.

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