Various Updates.
This is going to be a little all over the place. I haven't had a good grasp of time lately...
So then, lets get to it.
I'll start with work, The trial is as good as over, and the conclusion was reached that aside from the few customers that were told, no one was really paying attention to the fact stuff was coming direct from over east. We've had a couple of incidents where items were taken to the wrong customer or damaged in transit, but the part that grilled my temper a little was that over the course of the trial, East was still expecting us to send bulk awkward items which presented a complete logistical nightmare.
The office girl had to break the order down to single out the items per-warehouse [ east vs west ] then enter in each order to said warehouses, and while I don't have major issues packing a box or two, East decided to axe our parcel service during the trial, so it meant hand delivering one box. 400km away. using the manager and a company car. Now I'm sorry but how did this work out as cheaper than making up a pallet of goods and sending said pallet direct to customer? remember the order was only less one box.
But hey, mine is not to ask, I am here to do so if they want to go on about loosing money on one hand, then throw it out with the other, whatever. coming into the conclusion of the trial, we were visited by a trio of bigwigs to check up and see how the place is being run, and so they can get a feel for what's over here in total. All the while they made note about a pallet being a tripping hazard, oh+s and all that. Sure, I personally choose to merely walk around it and be aware of my surroundings, but ok, I'll get it off the floor. But gentlemen, I thought to myself, If health and safety are to be cornerstones of a good workplace, will you please kindly remove yourselves from my warehouse until your attire meets minimum requirements, such as high-vis wear and steel capped enclosed shoes? oh no, it doesn't apply to them.... maybe i should of ran one over with a forklift citing that I didn't see 'em there.
But I digress. As it stands, they will continue to send the majority of orders to customers directly from over east. We will no longer offer a customer pickup service and specialty items such as sink cabinets and one-off orders will be delivered by hand from us. The plan is that come early next year, we are looking at packing up operations, and relocating to a new showroom/warehouse. where the showroom will have more space to play with, and the warehousing operation [ one wolf show! ] will be downsized to handle minor stuff like product returns and basic heavy lifting work. I am actually looking forward to seeing this happen and settling into it.
But I shouldn't complain, I'm not exactly tight on money nor have I got it really bad. In fact, just yesterday I was tasked with destroying a highly expensive granite bath-tub and having it disposed of, an hour or so with a hammer brought it down to size, and it was quite satisfying to hurl it down a 3 meter drop for a loader driver to then drive over it, crushing the wood and granite to a manageable size for shuffling. I always liked large machinery, and seeing this beat up, grotty and likely well worn loader/tractor do it's thing was, simply, fun.
Home life has been fine, I do need to stop putting off gardening the back yard ( read, attack with a whipper-snipper ) among other minor things. I think my room is due for re-arrangement too. I'm starting to find myself sleeping in and I think a re-shuffle is in order, at least it will allow me to give everything a good clean out and re-organise.
Having inherited my fathers wristwatch ( Did I mention he passed away on ANZAC day? ) I find myself thinking about him almost daily. In the sense that I need to really step up and work out what I want to do with my life, not so much to 'do him proud' but so I can look at myself and know that I'm not just throwing my time away. Not having a sense of ambition is a weird thing, looking onto the horizon I see nothing to react to, probably because the details aren't clear enough for me to make judgement.. is that an oasis, or just another mirage?
I do know that I feel a little flame of desire, and that desire is to leave this city, even for a day or two, and just take a change of scenery. I have been longing to return to my old home-town of Mingenew just because I want to see what has changed, if any names are still familiar and to see the town from the top of it's hill. Realistically there is not much to see in the town itself. it acts as a hub for the wheat belt in that farmers drop their harvest off during the right season and then it gets loaded onto trails to the coast where it is shipped for use in making things, like cereal ( non Australian readers, Consider weet-bix, a staple of my childhood )
But really, visiting my old town or even any of the other near-by ones are just an excuse, an alibi for what I really want, and what I really want is to drive to experience long roads, see some sights, to relax and watch it all happen. Ultimately, my issue appears to stem from the simple fact that I just want to escape. I can't say I'm running from problems, I keep things trouble-free where I can. but I suppose there's that little desire of 'but there's gotta be more to a day than sitting around waiting for orders to print off.'
I'm not pleased with winter coming back either. Many know all too well that I detest cold weather and even nearly half way through the year, it's gotten cooler but the rain has been holding off for the most part. sure everyone loves the rain and hope for good proper sessions of falling water, but I just don't like what comes with it. Bad drivers being a big thing that annoys me about wet weather. I won't go into it, we've all seen either me or someone else do something silly when the road is less than dry.
So really with work just happening along at its own pace, and with my home life being simple, if somewhat lacking in adventure, not too much is going on really. I am thinking of doing a writeup of Morals versus Ethics, and how I define them as separate yet intertwined things. But I'll need to work it out in my head first I suppose.
Question of the day;
Is it better to fight hard, fair and loose? or to dominate an opponent and feel frustrated at the lack of opposing challenge?
I will ignore a 'hard fought victory' and a 'no hope in hell of winning' situation as the above question is asking, is it better to fight but loose, or to just win.
I know which of the two I would prefer.
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