Invisible

I don't know how or why but we have a rep. that thinks I don't exist. I've told him before not to do this but in he came again today and said "oh is no one here n***" and once again I said " No J*** I'm bloody invisible" what he means is are any of the fellas here but once again he p***ed me off. Then in came a customer for nosings, now I knew exactly what he wanted and the right questions to ask. But oh no J*** answered all the questions for me. I let him have his head and then said to the customer "I answered all that without opening my mouth." Still this bloody arrogant man chuntered on as if I didn't exist. And then he wondered why I didn't want to exchange pleasantries with him. My god some times I think we're still in the dark ages in  the flooring industry.

paws for thought

My Sunday peace and quiet has been shattered. A fellow co.worker "idiot?" came banging on my door just as I was cooking my Sunday roast. In he walked doing a brilliant impression of someone who has had or is having a major crisis. OH NO thought I. Not this week, as I know this week is going to be SHIT. We are short staffed and over worked. He sat down and said "I'm telling you now because I don't want to tell you tomorrow. I'm having problems this week." OH NO thought I he's suffered a loss of some kind or a major kind of family problem. He sighed and puffed and then said "my cats ill it's been in a fight." Now I don't want to seem unsympathetic BUT this "idiot?" has a responsible job he has commitments he has fulfil I need a better reason than a poorly cat for him not to be in work tomorrow giving his all. He better get his ass in gear and his head out of the clouds we got some serious shit to sort this week!

Today is a disaster.

You can tell it's Monday. Today is a disaster. First thing, in I meandered to put my lunch in the fridge. One of the "idiots?" oops fellow co. worker had already put his lunch in. I don't know how he didn't notice the fridge was full of water. A fellow co. worker had turned the fridge off on Saturday and not switched it back on. Off to Tesco I went to purchase fresh milk. On my return I was informed one of the fitters now had one job on today instead of three. He was not a happy bunny! another fellow co. worker went to place an order for a job that's going down this week NO STOCK stock production expected mid September!! as this day has worn on things have not improved. At ten o'clock I had only consumed one cuppa this is unheard of I need at least three before ten thirty. Now to top it all an "idiot?" oops again. Has cut his hand and been for a hospital visit and we have a bed delivery this afternoon that requires two able bodied males. I am hoping against all hope tomorrow is a better day.

Electricity update

Yesterday the admin assistant to the landlord bowled in. She was carrying an electric bill for the units used before the electricity metre fiasco.She presented it with great aplomb. I looked at husband boss "idiot?" he didn't get why I was giving him the look. The admin assistant left."How did she get that bill together?" I asked husband. He didn't know what I was talking about. No one had taken a metre reading. The landlord and or his assistant had plucked a figure from the air and decided that's how much electricity we must have used. We read the metre like a normal person would do. We had used half the units he had billed us for. The bill had been returned UNPAID!!

Why would we?

Friday in bowled the landlord. As bold as brass. "Hello Ni***" he said "did *** tell you we're putting a new electric metre in today?" "No" I replied. Any how the installation went ahead. As soon as the electric was turned off down came a scrote from the flats upstairs. "I don't got any electric" he said. OH NO I thought something's not right. The electrician wouldn't tell me anything. But at the end of his installation and with the persuasion of a cuppa he informed me "I think this metre is feeding upstairs." Alarm bells rang very loudly. Of course the landlord was unavailable for comment. It turned out he put a credit on the metre of £100. This morning we came in and the metre was empty. I phoned him URGENTLY! he popped in and said "well Ni*** I don't want to invoice you any more. So I had the metre put in. You put the credit on and invoice me for the electric you haven't used." How the hell is that going to work? There is no way in this world I'm feeding that metre for the scrotes upstairs and invoicing him because I know and he knows if he's honest with himself he 'aint going to pay. Frantic phone calls ensued. Husband boss "idiot?" nearly came to blows with the landlord. An electrician was called he came and tapped into the electric in our units these units are not billed by the landlord. The metre is still empty, it still feeds the flats upstairs. Because it's on business premises it wont stop the electricity until business hours are over. Oh dear I wouldn't want to live in the flats upstairs. Because they wont have any electric tonight.

Not the only "idiots?"

Today I have discovered that it's not just my boys that are "idiots?". This week we're having a feature in the local free paper. Great you may think what fabulous coverage. Well it's not been quite like that. Friday up popped the chappie to do the editorial. We had a chat and off he went with his information. I had told him whilst we were chatting we didn't want any bull s***. What did he come back with? a load of old bull ****! On Friday we arranged for some photographs to be taken today. I'm photo phobic so I told him "it's imperative that people are around to go in this photo.Because I'm not doing it on my own." Straight forward and to the point. This morning at 8.45 the time we had arranged to meet, the 'phone rang. "Hi it's **** I've forgotten my camera today can we do the photo's tomorrow?" "NO" was my response "today I have people tomorrow it's just me. I'm sorry but you'll have to sort something out. Oh and by the way I've written some editorial that's nearer the truth and I'll e-mail to you." That went down well as you can imagine. Later in the morning I had a phone call a photographer had been arranged and was on his way. And I was informed although my grammar was not quite correct the paper would be using the editorial material I had written. He e-mailed it back for me to check. He had added a few dots and dashes!!

Where am I?

Pay day is always an interesting event with my fellow co. workers "idiots?" you have to remind them days ahead about their time sheets. And then when you finally get them they can be an interesting read. This month they all duly filled in the sheets nearly as required. One fellow co. worker "idiot?" had filled the hours in lovely. The section where it said "site" they are supposed to fill in where they had worked on said day. This particular "idiot?" had filled in "I forget where I was!" I'm thinking he doesn't fill his time sheet in daily.