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A flash of pink

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Friday, 19 January 2007
These boots were made for walking
Wednesday was a day full of fun (can't you just feel the sarcasm)
It started when I parked on the verge of the company pond (normally known as the car park), although it was slightly flooded and since I wasn't early I was the one with wet feet, and I mean literally, my usual casual office shoes were no match for the pond and my feet were wet as soon as I got out of the car.
So I'm walking around the office bare foot and finding that the carpet on the edge of the walkways (where few people walk) is lovely and soft, I was fairly happy and had forgotten about the treacherous weather outside and the fact I was barefoot, that was until a delivery guy in his big man boots stood on my feet, not once but twice! the first time he apologised but the second he just covered his assets, that might have been due to the look I gave him, ha.
My shoes had dried out by mid morning so I decided to put them back on, they were a bit stiff and god did my feet hurt when I eventually got home, late as usual.
Thursday, mindful of the previous days events I decided to wear boots, I have a lovely pair of Stella McCartney boots that if I must say look fab on me, but if I'm going to wear fashionable boots I couldn't wear the usual office getup so I pulled out a designer suit to match.
My cautionary tactics proved to be well thought out as our pond was now a lake and the water was only just below the door of my car (thats a normal saloon not a 4x4) ok I'm exaggerating a bit but it was deep enough to submerge my feet, so I wade through the water watching some of the guys trying to convince the security guards to park their cars so they wouldn't get their feet wet, judging from the number of guys with rolled up trousers they didn't succeed.
Now wearing boots means I have to wear socks, I'm not much of a sock lover but have a supply for such occasions, the only problem being my toe nails are nice and sharp so when I got home I had a hole in each one where my big toe was, I like my toe nails, they are good for stabbing people with in night clubs when they annoy me :)
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Sunday, 14 January 2007
Fight club - temp girls - Part 2
There was me saying I was aiming for 1 post a day and I go and miss 2 days!! thats life I guess.
Anyway so onto the temp girls.
So things flared up mid week, I nearly fired Amy because she used Joanne's email to send a message to people, the message was worded as an apology from Joanne, but it backfired in Amy's face, especially when I got wind of it.
To cut a long story short, mainly because I'm tired and want to go to sleep, Joanne handed her notice in, I probably spent more time talking to her about what she planned to do than I had during the whole time she worked for me, turns out she's a really smart girl, much more than people give her credit for.
For those of you thinking I'm a bad boss for not knowing much about her, yes I should spend more time getting to know the people who work for me but her direct supervisor is off sick which is why all this ended up on my plate, we all learn from things and I've decided to make some changes to how things function, some perhaps some good came of it after all
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Monday, 8 January 2007
Fight club - temp girls
First off I got some major tooth ache last night, sleep was something I didn't get so I wasn't in the best of moods and I got into work later than I would have liked this morning, I work flexible hours so that's not a problem, but it was nearly 10am by the time I got in.
This is about two temp girls I have working for me, for the purpose of this article I'll refer to them as Joanne & Amy.
So Joanne's been working for me for about a year, she's a quiet girl who keeps to her self mostly but has made friends with most of the other people she works with, in December she had to go into hospital for an operation, nothing too serious but she would be off for about a month, she asked if one of her friends who was looking for xmas work could do the job while she was off, I didn't see a problem with this so said ok, her friend Amy came in about a week before Joanne was off and they worked happily together and got lot done, Amy is less reserved and made friends quickly, she also got more done in the day than Joanne did, Amy asked if she could stay on after Joanne came back to work, she was such a good worker and I needed a temp for maternity cover so gladly agreed.
Well today Joanne came back to work, my god! you would have thought these girls were each others worst nightmares, they were cursing and blinding at one another, Joanne was accusing Amy of stealing her friends and Amy was getting pissed off when people were being nice to Joanne, Amy then said she was going to quit, I had to split them up to get some order back, lets hope a new day brings with it some sense.
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