Life, Work and ?
It has been ages since I last posted, guess that is due to the unremitting workload I have at the moment. I'm knackered when I come home in the evenings and it's as much as I can do to cook a meal, open up the computer check the e-mails and try and relax. At work it has gone to 'Hell in a Handcart' I'm a commercial officer purchasing equipment for the Military, that's okay as is, letting contracts etc. Only problem is a couple of years or so back, the powers that be said "oh, we will eventually move to Abbeywood, Bristol(aka Shabbywood)and there will be only 45 people required, at the time there was 260 people employed.
So guess what people have decided to leave in droves and find other jobs that will stay in deepest Cambridgeshire. Trouble was we are involved in a couple of 'actions' in sandy places that need supporting. Other thing was our lovely boss died in a tragic accident in July 2006 and the whole commercial area was hit hard, grief, collectively we all went onto automatic and remained so for the next three months or more.
They found someone to take our late boss's job on, things were fine for a while, but have gone downhill ever since. This person is a bully and vindictive if challenged over anything, even the smallest matter. She is heavily into alternative spiritual things - Angels,Crystal therapies, nothing wrong in that at all, but it appears to be well, 'dipping' in/dabbling.
Then she discovered the section I work for (at the time) had a white witch who belonged to a coven, a sensitive, a very strong woman and a born again Christian- a mix I know but we jogged along nicely, and got on well considering. Somewhere along the line she alienated us all, think it may have been the Christmas social in 2006 that did it. She tried to read the cards for us (Angel ones?), upset our Christian member who walked out as 'she doesn't believe in that kind of thing'. The Witch and the Sensitive, both got a very bad vibe off what was happening, both have used the Tarot in the past and know what is what, the feeling was that she was 'playing' as when the cards were laid out she was reading the 'meaning' from a book.
Think she realised she had bitten off more that she could chew workwise too. Its not always the sexy stuff we do, but it is important, managed to really upset the people we work for/with Engineers/ suppliers/ companies. And is never here either, Holiday fine, then when something she did went belly up, disappeared off for two months leaving the rest of us trying to repair the breech and so its continued. Most of the commercial staff have decided to take early retirement/redundancy packages due to her attitude or are off with stress.
I work in a section that had six people, now has two and one them my boss suffers from Obsessive Complusive Disorder- The boss when she is here puts a lot of pressure on him- and it only makes the OCD worst, with him it takes the form of checking and rechecking,again and again and again-basically going round in circles. In fact work is grouding to a halt, he can't get anything done because he so wound up, incapable of doing anything, but one of the side effects is he 'thinks' he is doing a wonderful job, my colleague has gone off with Stress, he managed to drive her up the wall, me? I tend to tell him straight when he is driving me mad. But you can only take so much and I'm beginning to think that I need some respite from it all.
The only thing that has kept me sane is I work part-time and have every other Friday off, or else I would have cracked long ago, the reason I keep going in to work, the stuff I buy is essential and if I go off sick my boss couldn't deal with it. He can't use half the databases and keeps asking how to do stuff and then he doesn't remember what you have showed him so has to ask again and again.
Another section has given us help, but only to March, when there is another reorganisation. Everyone has their head in the sand thinking this will be the saving grace, it is not going to be as they are splitting the contracts between two areas and we are going to get more work to boot. We have five commercial people,down from twenty six and one is going in March so four will be left, they keep trying to recruit and have failed badly so far, commercial staff are very thin on the ground.
Looking at this it's turned into a rant- on the upside I have booked my leave for May-ROS convention in Nottingham, plus time afterwards off and booked most of August too- I intend to take all my leave I'm entitled to and the Fridays as well. Also most of the people I work with are really nice and they know the situation and have a mug of tea and a chair for me to sit on when it really gets bad.
I just feel so drained, I'm only typing this because I've had the morning off to await the delivery of a new tumble dryer, the Sun is shining and the sky is blue makes a change from the rain of the last few days. I guess as the days lengthen I might feel better too we will see.
So guess what people have decided to leave in droves and find other jobs that will stay in deepest Cambridgeshire. Trouble was we are involved in a couple of 'actions' in sandy places that need supporting. Other thing was our lovely boss died in a tragic accident in July 2006 and the whole commercial area was hit hard, grief, collectively we all went onto automatic and remained so for the next three months or more.
They found someone to take our late boss's job on, things were fine for a while, but have gone downhill ever since. This person is a bully and vindictive if challenged over anything, even the smallest matter. She is heavily into alternative spiritual things - Angels,Crystal therapies, nothing wrong in that at all, but it appears to be well, 'dipping' in/dabbling.
Then she discovered the section I work for (at the time) had a white witch who belonged to a coven, a sensitive, a very strong woman and a born again Christian- a mix I know but we jogged along nicely, and got on well considering. Somewhere along the line she alienated us all, think it may have been the Christmas social in 2006 that did it. She tried to read the cards for us (Angel ones?), upset our Christian member who walked out as 'she doesn't believe in that kind of thing'. The Witch and the Sensitive, both got a very bad vibe off what was happening, both have used the Tarot in the past and know what is what, the feeling was that she was 'playing' as when the cards were laid out she was reading the 'meaning' from a book.
Think she realised she had bitten off more that she could chew workwise too. Its not always the sexy stuff we do, but it is important, managed to really upset the people we work for/with Engineers/ suppliers/ companies. And is never here either, Holiday fine, then when something she did went belly up, disappeared off for two months leaving the rest of us trying to repair the breech and so its continued. Most of the commercial staff have decided to take early retirement/redundancy packages due to her attitude or are off with stress.
I work in a section that had six people, now has two and one them my boss suffers from Obsessive Complusive Disorder- The boss when she is here puts a lot of pressure on him- and it only makes the OCD worst, with him it takes the form of checking and rechecking,again and again and again-basically going round in circles. In fact work is grouding to a halt, he can't get anything done because he so wound up, incapable of doing anything, but one of the side effects is he 'thinks' he is doing a wonderful job, my colleague has gone off with Stress, he managed to drive her up the wall, me? I tend to tell him straight when he is driving me mad. But you can only take so much and I'm beginning to think that I need some respite from it all.
The only thing that has kept me sane is I work part-time and have every other Friday off, or else I would have cracked long ago, the reason I keep going in to work, the stuff I buy is essential and if I go off sick my boss couldn't deal with it. He can't use half the databases and keeps asking how to do stuff and then he doesn't remember what you have showed him so has to ask again and again.
Another section has given us help, but only to March, when there is another reorganisation. Everyone has their head in the sand thinking this will be the saving grace, it is not going to be as they are splitting the contracts between two areas and we are going to get more work to boot. We have five commercial people,down from twenty six and one is going in March so four will be left, they keep trying to recruit and have failed badly so far, commercial staff are very thin on the ground.
Looking at this it's turned into a rant- on the upside I have booked my leave for May-ROS convention in Nottingham, plus time afterwards off and booked most of August too- I intend to take all my leave I'm entitled to and the Fridays as well. Also most of the people I work with are really nice and they know the situation and have a mug of tea and a chair for me to sit on when it really gets bad.
I just feel so drained, I'm only typing this because I've had the morning off to await the delivery of a new tumble dryer, the Sun is shining and the sky is blue makes a change from the rain of the last few days. I guess as the days lengthen I might feel better too we will see.