New Blood & Hypocrisy

Our non American's blown his last chance by skiving off work for the past two days with "flu". On both occasions he phoned in sick he sounded very normal to me with no hint of a mere sniffle let alone full blown flu. However once I put him through to J he apparently put on a very poor crocky voice. Needless to say he won't be taken on once his placement comes to an end in September. I'm overjoyed.

I have decided to make York next week my final fling as a member of the syndicate. I brought my retirement forward because I just can't cope with the politics of it all any more. From now on if I want to have a bet, I'm going it alone. I can see a new name coming on .... The Lone Wolf perhaps?!

Things have been so dire at work the past few days I can't even bring myself to write about them though I will say all drivers got their arses kicked for behaviour which was (or is, I'm not sure on the tense to use!) approaching bullying & we have a zero tolerance approach to such things at our place. One false move by any of them & they too will be fired. God we seem to be going through staff at a rate of knots this year. Having said that, I'm not that lucky & I'm in this stricken ship for the long haul.

We have two new guys on 13 week placements starting next week as valleters. One of them is round about my age & is quite cute. No, scratch that. He's HOT! FINALLY I have a reason to get out of bed in the morning (unless he was in it) & drag my carcass to work.

I wasn't a happy bunny today as I had to grovel on the phone to someone who was completely in the wrong, purely because we get a lot of money from them. I had to do it coz I have the best "apologetic" voice apparently. Quite frankly every word I said stuck in my throat as I don't think we should accept blame for their blatant cock up just because they give us "a lot of money". It gives them the impression they can do what they damn well please & get away with it and yet we are very strict with certain other groups, I hate the hypocrisy of it all - everyone should be treat the same from those that give us thousands of pounds worth of work to those that give us a couple of hundred but maybe I'm just being too idealistic. Oh well.

Ciao for now

TJ