Are you one of them and just don’t know it?

I think perhaps we all are, but this came to me today after trying to resolve someone’s email issues. I went through a lot of possible solutions and the one I offered meant they had to learn how to use Gmail which of course they had avoided as much as possible in the past because it was not set out how they liked… So I then spend ages trying to find information for them to look over into how it works.. Only for them to complain it doesn’t do what the web based portal does and that it doesn’t check the account every 5 minutes. So I’m sitting here and thinking, huh?

It’s true though I still use Nero for burning cd’s because it’s damn easy for me to use, I use the command line in Linux because I refuse to learn forty ways of doing the same thing at the command line. I listen to streamed radio on Winamp whenever possible because “Winamp kicks the lamers arse”.. And here I am keeping old retro (at least in my mind) pieces of equipment from old consoles and computers to arcade machines and records..

So I guess we all avoid change, but in very different ways 😀

Got up this morning mega early as well can’t sleep properly as so stressed out right now, anyway banged out a massive moaning email to the big cheese and then got a reply back saying give him a shout next week when I have had time to think about things… No pressure as well he doesn’t really care… Anyway poor old Angel is seeing me all moody “not much of a change there then”.

Got through the latest job profile.. Hmm.. really .. they expect this for that price.. Hmm maybe I have to think about this some more eh?

Went into town today too.. blimey I’m tired though!

Oh and my favourite forum is about to implode, so where to hang out now?

Been checking out Jamma+ and places like that .. seem pretty good too! Anyone recommend a good forum for a sad git like me?

So my shift started yesterday and managed to do most of my washing during the night, then packed and got ready to leave couple of things that stood out –

The person on days demanded to get off first thing in the morning meaning I would have to “hang about” until the other guy arrived (even after doing a whole night shift, not to mention I was woken early too).

When the other rep arrived I was basically told I couldn’t get off for another couple of hours and THEN the cheeky gits only complained I was still on-board!! Well let me see.. you won’t let me off because of operations and yet?

Anyway finally got off at 4pm and got alongside in Liverpool just after 5pm only to have to arrange a taxi across to pick up my van.. which was in a secure area.. SOOO secure I just walked up to it and drove off without anyway batting an eyelid!! Finally got home about 10pm.. WELL over 24 hours up and about.. I should have gotten a hotel but I was so mad I wouldn’t have been able to sleep anyway!

After a chat last night with the current big cheese I phoned today to arrange to get off the vessel this week, only to find that yes I’m off and tomorrow too! Seems the other person is available to come in and take my place without too much hassle.. So now I have a choice to make which way to go.. Hmm..

Anyway things are starting to get tense on here with the other reps, I’m feeling a bit put upon as I keep generating all the damn work.. Because as they put it “you can do it quicker”, in fact they sit there and start doing it in front of me so I get driven so mad that I end up doing it instead. Perhaps time someone else had all the hassle as most of it is probably pointless anyway.

So going to have to do the washing tomorrow night while popping another cable in.. fantastic 😯

Seems strange to think that even after all this time and the amount of different roles I have had I’m still worried about leaving and moving on. However at times I have to sit back and think clearly about things and a couple of points stick out –

• This role will continue to mean working nights for another year at the least.
• I feel obliged to produce most of the documentation overnight, and let the person on days submit it.
• Meetings happen towards the end of my shift meaning I’m not in a fit state of mind (fatigued), as I’m then expected to update people in the field before going to bed I find it damn hard to remember issues, which I don’t consider important (who knows they may well be but to me and operationally they are not, then again I’m not sitting in an office trying to build empires).

So with that in mind I think I’m going to be forced to move on, which is rather frustrating as I wanted to at least get someway towards getting another place before I had to do this. Oh well no one ever said anything was easy, or fair… On the bright side I *could be off very soon as they now have an extra person as they have finished on the other job..