Thank god it's stopped raining

Oh my lord what happened to the weather yesterday?

I seemed to spend all day yesterday directing deliveries in the rain. Of course all the deliveries would come on a day like that wouldn't they.

One delivery the driver wanted to park on the very busy road, instead of using the perfectly adequate car park to the rear of the show room.

Another delivery person (man) wanted to deliver in to the show room, when we have a perfectly more than adequate delivery unit.

The worst delivery was made by a lovely old grandad who wanted to talk for hours, but couldn't get the delivery off because it was too heavy for him, so I had to help him, and of course the rain was lashing down.


Why oh why is there not a fellow co. worker (idiot?) available when you you need one?

The only delivery that didn't come was the one I was waiting for that should have been delivered the day before, when I phoned to see if it was coming I was told it hadn't been ordered!

Time sheets

It's that time of the month when I need the time sheets so we can pay the guys. For most of them this is not a problem. But for one fellow co. worker (idiot?) this seems to be a major challenge.You have to start reminding him a week before you need them so he can come up with the goods. This morning out he wanders with his diary, now you would think he would have it all written in there but NO. What date did this month start on? Which Saturdays have I worked, Did I do any extra time? is this a four or five week month? It really isn't that difficult is it? even if you don't fill it in every day the time sheet is a simple piece of paper. None of the other guys have a diary to write in, they do differant hours every day/week, but the fellow co. worker (idot?) who has the most problelm with the time sheets works 9-5 four days a week and one saturday in every three HOW CAN HE NOT WORK IT OUT?

Just another Monday

Today has definateley been just another Monday. No surprises today. All my fellow co. workers (idiots?) turned up for work.

whether or not they wanted to work was another matter, a particular fellow co. worker (idiot?) has really wound me up today. He has "had one of his heads" this transpires in to lots of sighing and swaying about with a furrowed brow. Now this really winds me up, for gods sake if you are ill (genuineley) then just stay at home, but if you are up and walking then I'm not interested that you have "one of your heads". I've got a head but no body wants to know how my head is feeling, and if he's not careful I will be forced to knock his stupid head off his stupid shoulders, then at least I know I wont have to listen to him moan about it again.
Another fellow co. worker (idiot) was walking through the show room today and fell down flat on her face. Down she went like a sack of spuds, "OH I FELL OVER A HUMP IN THE FLOOR" now we do have one or two undulations in our floor, but none where she fell over. Could it be the fact that she was wearing her ankle boots not zipped up? when she's not so embarrassed at the end of the week I think I'll ask her.

Nearly at the finishing post

As I have previously blogged I hate working Saturday mornings but I do like the control over the following week it gives me because I Know what's what.


This morning did not start well I have had my breakfast at my desk not a good start to any day. But I am working on my own so I don't have to worry about any other fellow co. workers (idiots) not doing things my way.



I have decided I am definately a control freak, worked my socks off for four hours serving answering the phone and doing invoices, bit in my heart of hearts I'm happy. I know all the customers have left the shop with the right product for the job, and on the whole everyone was made happy, only lost one customer who didn't even make eye contact with me so I could tell him I would be with him as soon as humanly possible, so not a bad morning.



I am going home safe in the knowledge that at least Monday morning first thing should be better than last week, and hopefuly that will be the start of a good week to come?

P.S
As well as a control freak I am an optimist.

keep on paddling

We got through yesterday and achieved the impossible once again. The sick have returned to work today, the injured are still resting until next week.

I think we (that's me and some of the idiots) all deserve a gold medal this week, it really has been a challenge to get through each day. It's been one of those weeks where nothing at all has gone right, but I'm proud to say we have come through it all and all the customers are happy. We are very weary and some are very sore but hey what doesn't kill you makes you stronger!

It's weeks like this week that sorts the men out from the idiots, the men get on with the job in hand and work their way through the problems, the idiots run around complaining about how overworked the men are!
Any fellow co. workers who follow my blog will be able to work out if they are a man or an idiot!

Up the creek without a paddle

It's official it's only Thursday and this week can't get any worse, I am definatley up the creek without a paddle.

Walked in this morning 1 message on answerphone "I know this is not what you want to hear, BUT I will not be in work today because I am not well" OH MY GOD! we were already so overstretched today it was going to be a HORRIBLE day, But now it seems impossible.

Unload one van into another send two here two there and one somewhere else, maybe we can achieve the impossible once again.

NOW WHAT DO I DO? I have decided to wait until lunch time and then ring around all the sick and injured to see when they think they will be fit for work. I can't move anything foward until I know I've got the man power to cover it (so decided to write blog whilst I wait - therapy is good for me -)

In the mean time different set of fitters set out to move the fridge freezer the size of everest, this they accomplish only to find the floor is rough and this will need latexing, of course the replacement floor covering will have to be fitted at the end of the day as well, I am starting to think this day will never end. Then the phone goes "put the kettle on" three fitters come back, one for latex for "everest freezer job" two because they have forgotton to load the gripper for the next job - good job they realised, the next job was twenty four miles away! -

I am now going to make myself a cup of tea before I phone around the sick and injured, I have decided if they are not coming to work tomorrow neither am I!

Improved Karma

I can breathe a sigh of relief, some how today seems to be going better. Not a lot has changed really so it must just be how I'm dealing with things.

Positive mental attitude that must be the answer, and I'm definatley mental and always positive (that I'm right) so I've cracked it.

I had a bit of good news today, my fellow co. worker with the injured back can now walk, he can't sit down, lift or fit any carpet so it might be a while until he's any use at all, but with my new positive mental attitude I can see it's all good. Even the sun has peeped out from behind the clouds a little bit.

As they say tomorrows another day, the challenge to move the fridge freezer the size of mount everest is on again tomorrow, so my poitive mental attitude might just defrost along with the freezer!