Dark cloud rises

These past couple of weeks have been a [Insert profanity here] nightmare.
Complete lack of management and staff as seen my workload jump by 300%.

Still means to an end... Hopefully this time next week I'll be in charge and making some changes!

On a lighter note, off to the cinema tonight to watch the Dark Knight Rises!!!

Utter Madness

Work has been completely insane recently.
Our team of 5 is now a team of 3, with a drop down to 2 in the coming weeks.
My own workload is very low, with no issues outstanding. The other location we cover has 150+ calls.
How it's managed to get so bad is beyond me, how management has allowed it to get so bad is even further out of my comprehension!
I spent yesterday in the second location helping get the call queues down. Not an easy feat, but managed to cut about 20% from the overall list.
Ridiculous that it's at a point that where I need to wander out of my own building and into another!
Still, their may be a promotion opportunity out of it all. So must stay positive.

Free time... What's that?

Today should be a day of lounging about, followed by a session in the Gym.

Instead, I'm giving up my early afternoon for scouting.
Time to put a teacher hat on and help these kids get their stage 1&2 IT badges, with a possible Stage 3 to finish.

Thank Crunchie!

Friday!!!
Working week done, just scouting to get out of the way and I can relax in front of the box for the day!
This Sunday should be a challenge. I'm helping some scouts pass their staged IT badges, 2 time slots to cover and I've got to try and fit in a gym visit... It's going to be tight!

Doctor is in

Got my first Qwertee shirt yesterday, arrived when I was in work so was a nice treat for when I got home.

An awesome design of Futurama heads in jars, all of famous doctors!

Hopefully this will be the first of many Qwertee's!!

Media meltdown

I seem to be having an issue with external storage lately. I'm now on my 3rd dead device in as many weeks. Not sure what I'm doing but I'm killing them outright, I've tried my hardest on all three drives to access the data and got nothing back! I think it's time i switched to solid-state devices, there's less chance of me killing them when they have no moving parts!

Managerial misconduct!

Apparently someone once said "it's better to be unmanaged, than mismanaged". I beg to differ I've been in my job for a year, and can count the amount of times I've met my manager on one hand and the amount of time spent with my team leader using an egg-timer. Most people wouldn't complain of this, in fact they would probably wish for that type of management interaction. i on the other hand am annoyed by it! Why do I need them I have been self-sufficient in my role for a year now, with no sign of that changing. In fact I am taking on more responsibility to add value to my role. I'm finding it very hard to find reasons why i need them. I could contract myself out separate from this company and earn more money surely? I begridge anyone who gets paid to do nothing, unless of course that person is me?!?