Sly Digs, Doctored Reports & A Protege Or A Subtle Replacement???

This picture is of a Planters Punch cocktail in case you were wondering, another of my fave tipples while cruising round the Med last September. It comprises of dark rum (preferably Morgan's as its stronger!) orange juice, grenadine & a dash of lemon. The ones on holiday looked fuck all like the one above but I like the pic anyway. Its put me nicely in the holiday spirit; which brings me onto my first rant point.

Did you see how I cleverly linked the two together?? My talents as a writer are wasted. Anyhoo We all got letters on official company letter headed paper today laying down the law on how we go about asking for holidays (of course E & J haven't received these letters. I wonder why not). We have a cunning plan though - still book the holiday before putting in the request form but when we do put in the form, instead of saying "I need these days off" we shall say one of the following, " Can I / May I / Is it ok if / Is is possible to have these days off please?" because so long as our jobs are covered by someone else in our absense & the days we want dont overlap with a person doing the same job, then we should be ok, according to this letter.

Slight update on this consultant report. Ourselves and the Directors received a report 22 pages long, however the original report the consultants sent to this particular underhand Director (as mentioned yesterday) was 38 pages long. Wonder what secrets those "missing pages" contain & isn't it illegal to go round changing official reports paid for by the Government??

And finally:- We are getting a 18yo female volunteer starting on Monday to do a bit of data entry that I refused to do in protest of the above mentioned report. She'd the daughter of our driver AT. I have to take her under my wing & help train her - as if I don't have enough to do. I hate doing this kind of thing. J said it would be good experience to have a protege to nurture. AT said I could get her to do all the stuff I hate. R siad she may well end up replacing me if certain Directors get their way.

So what started out as me feeling excited at getting another female in to re-dress the balance of male power (yeah right) within the office, has now got me preparing for a potential battle for my job. JK, all the way from Newcastle on his PCV training told me not to forget the mud. When asked to elaborate he replied, "For the naked mud wrestling fight to see who gets the job."

Isn't that kind of talk classed as sexist & is something I can actually sue for?!

Ciao for now.

TJ