Skiving Colleagues.... Again

Another wonderful day at the office when everything that could go wrong on the drivers/transport side of the company did. Needless to say my colleagues weren't around to see it and when they do get back to the office they see everything running smoothly and don't believe me when I tell them about all the dramas I've had.

Personally I think they know everythings going to go tits up which is why they scarper, leaving me to drag them all out of the shit because they don't know how to fix problems themselves. First job of the day was to allocate regular work to drivers (JK's job). SOunds easy but by God if you saw the state of some of our drivers you'd know what an uphill struggle I faced; although H & P are old pros and just get on with it... except when P gets lost and he has such a canny knack of getting lost that its a running joke in the office.

Once I'd seen to them the Hospice work had finally been faxed through (R's job). I had an idea in my head how best to allocate the work to the two hospice drivers AT & B but low and behold every single person that wanted picking up wasn't even on the sheet R had left me. I was foaming. With R's words of advice from yesterday ringing in my ears "Just give AT all the Washington / Houghton pick ups, B the local ones and divvy up the rest" - (great advice R, cheers for that) - I looked at the list... all work was "the rest" and it totally confused me. So I thought bollocks he can sort it out. I interupted his meeting and luckily he'd had a feeling something would go wrong and he'd taken a copy of the entire hospice sheets with him. It took him ten minutes to crack the puzzle but he eventually managed it. I love R, he's just so helpful and nice to me. Bless him.

Then in the afternoon I got a call from BA, the receptionist at the garage to say that parts for a bus JK had ordered had arrived.
"Great," I said. "We can get the bus back on the road ASAP as we are desperate for it."
"Hold on there," she said. "The parts arrived, yes. The replacement door was fine however the motorised step was damaaged so we had to send it back."
"Oh dear. When will the replacement step get here?"
"Friday," she replied with what I'm sure was a smirk on her face.
"Friday?" I repeated. "As in 3pm on Friday when you all knock off & go home and don't work weekends and are fully booked on MOnday and Tuesday with regular work so its Wednesday before you even look at our bus let alone try & fix it?"
"Thats right. You know our mechanics too well. Do you want to come to Frankie & Benny's on Thursday?"
"Too right I know their games. What with a load of loutish, lazy, sexist guys?"
"Yeah I'm the only female there and wanted re-inforcements."
"Can I bollock them re our bus?"
"Do what you like."
"I'll think about it."
"Ok. I'll phone you when the step comes in."

Aah just one of the many weird convo's I have in this place. I like BA though, she's a scream.

Would also like to point out its D-day tomorrow as the consultants are in. We have to be at work for 8.30 (Grr) to get everything "just so" for the devil men. We've been told to act normal (hehehe) and to look busy at all times. Not a problem for the guys as they do that every day anyway while the rest of us legitimately do all the work.

I would also like to apologise to anyone that found the comment left on my previous entry regarding the wonderful Darren B in any way offensive. Incidently I an totally livid he ended up in the bottom two when he & Emma only had 12 hours to learn a routine and everyone else had at least 25. And it was because of a good cause - Children In Need. But I've wandered off again. I was going to say sadly while all efforts are made to ensure this kind of small mindedness doesn't find its way onto the site, there will always be a hanful of ignorant folk in the world that believe, just because a guy can dance then he must be gay. However we should all pity such people instead of hating them.

Ciao for now.

TJ