A very strange day
First some good news. Hubby's employer have been pretty obnoxious for the past year - telling him that they were going to rate him for the past year as below average performance because of something that happened with the team he is assigned to despite the fact they also acknowledged he played no role in events leading up to the 'something' and went above and beyond the call of duty in firefighting once the 'something' had happened. Being rated as below average would mean no bonus - pretty crappy since they've also had a virtual ban on pay rises for the past few years. However ...
... yesterday he heard that not only is he getting a bonus after all, he is also getting a pay rise *faints*. OK the pay rise is teeny tiny, but since we were expecting zip on all fronts, this news was totally unexpected and very welcome.
In other news - work is just strange sometimes. Yesterday my working day began in Tesco, buying frying pans. From there the day included a co-worker having a melt-down due to losing two key volunteers in the past fortnight; one of my volunteers sitting in the office in tears because he is coping with an invalid wife, an enforced house move and paid employment that has gone pear-shaped on him; a meeting with a bride and her caterer to check that her plans to cook in giant woks was okay from a safety pov; and first sight of the plans to revamp a third of the building in a major project that has snowballed from a couple of months of refurbishing to six months of major building works. Crazy. (Oh yes, the frying pans are for an event on Sunday - feeding 200 people with hot dogs, and I still need to figure out how we're going to get the massive marquee up) But at least there is never a dull moment!
After all that I then came home and dealt with a flurry of emails from an OU editor and two OU authors. This is the project I agreed to do in January, which has run later and later and is now clashing with another project ... *head desk*
Can I haz holiday now?