Task in hand...what it's for sale??!

Today was my day of revenge for the person mentioned in my previous entry....

I managed to get them to do a rather menial tedious task which kept them away from their desk and their pc for most of the day! LoL!!!

However it did mean that the times they were by the PC was once again occupied with...that's right..the web...! Still, I will have that word with our manager soon...just today was busy...

Speaking of work...man what a complete sh!tty day that was. It's never good when most of the day was filled with bad news and general f*ck ups. Everything was 'swings and roundabouts'...most of the day was spent wasting energy...

So work was crappy and stressed me out, even though I got the web obsessed person doing a tedious task. Ahh speaking of the job I tasked them with...they did half a job again and actually broke a procedure too. naughty naughty. Then they disappeared for a while...really should have kept an eye on them...but ahh well, I have my own work to do.

Anyway, work day ended, sorted a few things out...drive home...someone in another car waved at me as we passed (no idea who the hell it was but oh well)...park the car in the garage to find...a For Sale Sign nailed to the house.

No-one has told me that the landlady was selling the house and I come home to THAT!

Who the hell could have been in the house??!! How many people have viewed it without my knowledge??! Outrageous and utterly disgusting attitude from the landlady.

Really p!ssed off over that.

Be a few phone calls tomorrow (as estate agents are closed at 6pm!)!!

A well cheesed off, angry, mentallistic Sleepy! AAARRRGGGHHHH!!!!!

Observational tictacs

Today I decided to watch what my fellow colleagues get up to during the day. Infact i was really watching just one particular person.

We've (our department) has been warned for the abuse of the internet while at work (yes I was also part of the guilty party) and susequently I've cleaned up my act.

However during my little observational day today, the amount of times I saw one particular person on the internet, using it for personal and not work was not very surprising. Their attitude has not changed.

It really got on my tits that this one bad apple could cause us to loose or have VERY restricted net access. At the moment I enjoy having almost complete freedom of the net during break and lunch.

It's almost as if they are addicted to the net and can't do without it.

It's so sad really, can they not concentrate for more than 5 minutes without having to read the latest bit of gossip on the net??!

I'm an internet addict but I know how thin this line we are treading right now.

Do they not REALISE that their pc IS being watched?!?! It's an open plan office so it doesn't take a genious to go, "oh that's a web browser open, oh...it seems to be a non-work related website" and the managers are not stupid (to things like this).

To top it off, they fecked off early today and only when I reminded them they needed to fill out a form, did they do so. They were gonna leave early and abuse our manager's trust??! Our manager is a really nice guy and you could very easily take advantage of him, but what's they point in that? You should treat people how you would like to be treated.

...oh and to top it off, there is an audit currently running and our manager asked this particular person (same person as above) to move the archive files from one room to the next. Today I was asked to find a particular folder...which i found out was in the old archive room...which is suppose to be "non-accessable" as it's not "safe". Talk about only doing HALF A JOB!!!

I'm contemplating talking to HR or our manager over this, but I don't want to be seen as doing my manager's job.

Oh and the audit...well it's not going too well...sod's f*cking law is hey find ONE HOLE in the sodding system. It's a shambles. AARRGGGHHHH!!!!!

One cheesed off Sleepy.

Two butt holes better than one?!

Well today was a fun day!

Morning passed by uneventfully, the usual lurking on forums while at work technique to kill the pain of Tooling Index update/revision and setting up a KPI (Key performance Indicator) for our relatively new software system. So lunch comes, lunch goes...and then the afternoon hits with a bang.

The QA manager who thinks he is "Mr. Big Boots" comes upto me, a lowly peon in the scheme of things, and starts asking me questions...he is doing an audit of closed work packs. Auditing closed work packs is a normal routine thing to happen but it's usually discussed with my manager not a lowly scum bag like me!

***NOTE: A workpack is a package of documents that informs the grease monkies what to do and sign for the job they have done. ***

Anyhow, he drags me off to the archive room to "point out" some mistakes. I'm like, "WTF?! That work was over two years ago, and we've done the corrective measures to stop stuff like that happening again.". Anyhow, didn't actually say that, just nodded away. He says he isn't having a go but it sure is, I can see someone telling me off in a politically safe manner, and that was it. One of the things he points out is that not all the header details are filled in. I tell him that it is almost impossible to get all the information required for the header from the customer in time for when we need to produce the workpack for the shop so the grease monkies can start the job and we can all get paid. Suffice to say, that didn't go down too well and he still wrote that up as a failure.

To top it all off, he asks me if I'm authorised to close work packs!!! IT'S PART OF MY JOB DESCRIPTION YOU MORON!!!! It's like asking the buyer from the materials department if they have been trained and authorised to buy things or to put it even simpler, a waiter if he/she is allowed to pick up plates!!! This guy just goes into panic mode EVERYTIME there is an audit and it's always on the day before!!

***NOTE: We have an external audit starting monday next week.***

Suffice to say, at the end of the day he is only a stand-in as our own quality team decided to up sticks for an easier life elsewhere. This guy actually works for our sister company...who are a right royal pain in the a$$.

The idea and concept of the site is great but it's run by some morons.

It's friday for f*cks sake, don't come ripping me a new butt hole in the afternoon.

Anyhow at the end of the audit, he tells me to "sign here" which I duly did as I couldn't give a crap.

Oh and to really top it off, there are some utterly awkward grease monkies on the shop floor. They are moving an engine into a transportation stand. These engines weigh around 5 tonnes. All of a sudden, one of them goes, "ahh it's clocking off time, I'm gonna go home even though the engine is only held in place by three pins to the stand." Where is your sense of common sense and duty?? OK so you won't get paid overtime for it but do YOU want to be responsible if someone believes the engine is pinned properly into the stand, moves it and suddenly "BANG!" it falls? Hell no, I wouldn't want that on my shoulder. Potentially destroying $1.5million worth of assets in one go. What an utter awkward moron.

I also found out today that some of the grease monkies came in over one weekend and did quite a few hours work expecting to be paid overtime for it all. They were told, "thanks for doing the work but we aren't paying you." They are up in arms now and looking for another job wanting to leave!!lol! Utter idiots. If no-one has given you authorisation to work the weekend on overtime then why come into work and try and force the company to pay??! That so made me laugh!

Ahh all of this in one action packed day!

Oh I also observed my colleague in the same department spend at least 50% of their time doing none work things. So I made him produce one document...which he still cocked up and...ahhh...to cut a long story short, we guided him to the answer. lol.
I know I'm not much better but at least I'm producing end results...

Sleepy

Knowing Me, Knowing Death

I feel like I am carrying around an aura of misfortune. it all started off with the guy doing the repair on my car (small little drifting incident leading onto onto a dented rear quarter panel) and he had to cancel on me due to his grandmother passing away. Just recently the guy who I arranged to have my car polished/waxed had to cancel on me due to his best mate passing away in hospital. Now, a couple of days back, a guy who works in the sister company to where I work (and also lives two doors down) passed away.

Went to a local MX5 meet and bumped into someone I never wanted to see again. They are a little unhinged/insecure and wildly emotional...tis crazy and never wanted to see them again. Nutcase I'd call them. The meet at the pub was p*ss poor for me, utterly boring mindless chat. Scenary was excellent though, barmaid was gorgeous but my stupid brain went blank everytime I had an opportunity to strike up a conversation. *sigh* I'm such a loser! lol!

Anyhow, this meet got better right at the end of the night when 99% of the people f*cked off home. Me and two other blokes just talked about cars for the rest of the night...ahh petrol head talk is brilliant. To quote The New Guy, "Does that sound gay?". lol.

So in summary if you know me, then stop knowing me, I seem to have a Shinigami following me...is Death Note becoming reality!!??!???!!!

Sleepster the Shinigami

Slacking off

yes that's right, I be slacking off on blogging...my brain is overloaded with two forums and this blog...I've had to abandon a third forum for now and the fourth, well I just stopped visiting! lol!

Anyhow this weekend went to the chavtastic show called Donny2007. Only went to watch the TA and EDC. Bladey didn't make the final 16 so he never was on track on Sunday :( Boo. Organisation of the day was just pants. Very badly organised. That and the whole dayjust had sound-offs going meant that no matter where you were you could hear bass. I quite like big bass noise but not when I want to watch some drifting action or seriously fast grip driving. The two just don't meld for me.

Best bit has to be the convoy up! Started off with Me and an EVO5 at one petrol station. Then we collected an R33 Skyline, r32 Skyline, MR2 (MK2), Civic (type R I think), and possibly another car (brain is on meltdown).

Stopped off at another petrol station and somehow collected another EVO!!

Then whilst on the Dual carriageway and all the way up the Motorway, load of scoobies and EVOs appeared out of nowhere and joined up with us (well sort of...lol).

That was the most mental convoy trip I've been in...soo much fun! None of it was planned bar the first petrol station stop which made it even more enjoyable!

Gray-boy came up for the weekend with his PS3...that thing is HUGe but really quite and the graphics even on a normal telly were superb! Anyhow, he couldn't be ar$ed to bring a camera along to Donny so we couldn't take any.

But back to the PS3, instead of playing with the new PS3 games we went back to play Tekken 3 (man it's been so long since we played that game!) and then onto Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. MGS3 is a brilliant game, just a shame we didn't get very far into it. I hope gray-boy doesn't progress any further with it...currently we need to go muller "The End", an MGS3 version of Sniperwolf from MGS..only much harder as he uses camouflage and supposedly he is hard to spot with the Thermal goggles...a challenge!

Disappointingly I have work tomorrow...I just got used to having 4 days with no worries regarding work..back to the grind stone!

Sleepy