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Hello there I am really disappointed. Whilst at work on Friday I had composed an entry and emailed it to my home address, promptly deleting the diary entry and email from my work computer. I logged on to my emails at home only to discover that I hadn't received the email at all so it had been completely lost. Today at work I read that the email was undeliverable and then discovered no emails at all would go through to my home address. It is so annoying, but will try to recreate it once more. On Friday my boss and the Contracts Manager had a meeting with the MD and one of the Directors of the company. This was to continue discussing the problems our firm was having. The Friday before they had spent the whole day discussing these problems too. Basically our boss is making us price the concrete slabs and staircases that we make to cheaply and are therefore not making any profit when we get a job, and because we are also making lots of mistakes whilst fitting them or have broken slabs it is costing us even more money. The MD has now asked for us to price at a higher rate, and although it is only a couple of pound difference per slab the overall amount changes considerably. From this we doubt we will actually get any new jobs due to us being overly expensive. It's just one big horrible circle. Of course this is making us wary about our jobs and that we may eventually lose people from our office as we can't afford the wages. Most likely to go out of the estimators will be me because I'm not studying anything through the firm. I am spending each day waiting to be called in to the office and told I no longer have a job. The previous Monday we were also told we would receive our bonus from back in the summer and we would get it in our September wages. We didn't. There was no mention of it at all. So now we have been waiting a good few months to receive it, and although now I have resigned myself to the fact I won't be getting anything, it is still the principle of the whole thing, they should honour their word and pay us what we worked so hard to achieve. The boss and Contracts Manager were to discuss a new bonus system for the office and show it to the MD on Friday for it to be approved. We have no idea if this has gone ahead. I doubt it did. I am not getting my hopes up for any kind of bonus from now on. It is much easier to not expect it; at least I will know how much money I do/don't have and won't be surprised when I don't receive the bonus we have been promised. The receptionist and new girl are still getting on my nerves. I have mentioned before (I think) about them coming in an hour earlier on alternate days to do this new bit of work. Well it turns out they can't actually complete all of it and half of it is left to the estimators. Fine. Fair enough. But will get to come in earlier and then have the time off? No. Yet those two are expecting somewhere in the region of 4 days off each, but I can't see the boss giving them that much extra holiday, it wouldn't be fair on the other employees, would it? They are only making this work take such a long time to get the extra time off, but if it were me I wouldn't keep playing the boss for too long. He's not thick and he will wise up to the fact the are playing hm for a fool. Plus I would rather have an extra 60 minutes in bed than keep getting up early and working a longer day just to have a little more time off. I'm also getting annoyed with the fact I'm the only person to answer the phone other than the receptionist and the new girl. They are not meant to have lunch at the same time, yet they still do and I'm the one left starving hungry only to repeatedly tell everyone who rings up that the entire office is on lunch except for myself. t's not fair on me, I'm the only one to ever work at that time. I know I won't receive a medal or gold star for putting myself through it but if I stand up for myself and say I won't answer the phone no one else in the office will do it and it is still left for me. I know I am making a rod for my own back but someone has got to do it. I'm just getting fed up with work. Everyone is only ever out to help themselves and never anyone else unless they fancy them (i.e. new girl). I'm just sick and tired of it all. One of the men who I used to work with upstairs is leaving. I guess it just goes to show how much these problems are affecting us all. Now to my weekend. It was good eventhough we didn't go anywhere. My computer was fixed on Friday so now I can play my game on both the laptop and desktop. Yay. Mark and I spent majority of Friday night (early Saturday morning) playing the game at his house before going to bed. Saturday we woke up late and played some more ot the game - yes, we are obsessed! Saturday evening we went to Tesco and bought lots of food and drink before buying a couple of Dominoes pizzas on the way home. Whilst munching our way through what we could we watched Catwoman. Sunday I woke up with a terrible headache, one which would just not go away despite any tablets I took for it. In the end I gave in to it and just let the headache thump away, although during the afternoon it cleared up a little. We headed home late Sunday evening and for once didn't order any takeaway. How good are we? I had hoped to watch Hostel on Sunday I'm happy we didn't. I don't think I would have been able to concentrate on the film much with my headache. Perhaps next week we will finally get to see it. It's only been about 6 weeks since we bought the DVD! Today I popped out of work to go to the doctors for my flu injection. Ouch. It hurt. It felt like I was having a javelin thrown in to my arm and was extremely sore. After leaving the doctors my shoulder and elbow started aching badly, they still are now, and my arm just feels like a dead weight. I also threw up when I returned to work. I assume these are all just reactions to the injection, although I have never reacted like this before. I don't feel sick anymore I just have the aches in my arm to contend with. Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day. |