So it's my birthday, we gonna have a party!
Got a lovely card from my other half! And the young-uns also really gave me something nice. I know it wasn't expensive but they chose it and it is what they wanted to give me. My other half has promised me a surprise next weekend! Hmmmmmm???
My parents gave me a handbag and lottery tickets. That was nice! Same as last year, just I got my present in February and not in July. BUt I am grateful for that, at least they have made the
effort this year to get me something on my birthday. I feel loved!
My sister does not talk to me so I don't know whether I will get an acknowledgement from her! That is a whole blog of it's own, so we won't get into that! I've moved on so I hope that one day
she will! It would be nice but hey, I really couldn't be bothered if she calls me or not. I have my family to think about and they are the most important thing to me and they will always come first!
It's nice getting all the text messages and emails and phone calls wishing me Happy Birthday!
I plan on enjoying the day.......And the rest of my life!
Thursday 22 February 2007
Wednesday 21 February 2007
I've been Bitching!
Well, it's my birthday soon! I share my birthday with one of my work colleagues so we have decided to have a lunch and invite the team to come! One of the team is out to see one of our suppliers for the day that we planned to have the lunch, so he asked if we could change the date so he could come too!
So we have moved the lunch forward to today so we can accommodate everyone that wants to come. I was fine with this, but yesterday, there was a hint that we go to a pub that's known for imitating a popular Asian cuisine. I have eaten there before, and their version of food is not the sentiments that I share about food. But anyway, it's my birthday, we go, we go, we go we go!
Yesterday was all work. I've decided to start doing my work first instead of prioritising everyone else. Well, I'm already the black sheep of the team, so it can get any worse. Maybe I'll start getting a little more respect! My senior colleague has someone that types up his letters from dictaphone but he prefers me to type out his letters while he dictates rather than use the person whose job it is to type out the letters? I know that he prefers me to do them because he likes the why I write and format the letters. But if I do this, which usually takes about 30 minutes per letter, then I fall behind with my work and have to stay late to catch up. So today no, he needs to use his dictaphone!
The Manager asked me if I had asked him permission to have a birthday lunch. But I told him why should I, everyone else takes 2 hour lunches when it is their birthday, so what makes me different? Well, I was really bitchy to him, which really wasn't fair on him when I think about it! I will apologise to him tomorrow. I'll buy him a chocolate to make up! But it's the truth!
I noticed something yesterday again. The Colleague that made a complaint against me, offered me a cup of tea which I politely declined. I will revisit this tea offer later when I explain my second meeting with HR. I was very chatty with my Manager and those that sit close to him. This person did not say a word all the time I was talking. I walked out of the office and she immediately picked up the conversation where I had left it. Don't worry darling, you are allowed to talk when I am around. You spend most of your life at work so it's only fair that you feel comfortable in your work environment!
Well guess what, hot news just in! The team have decided to go down to the pub that I don't like because someone that is leaving the company is having drinks there because today is his last day. Well, I suppose that me trying to organise a lunch for my birthday was really not what everyone was interested in doing. No probs, I'll sort myself out and go out with family and friends. I'm beginning to think that I am a person that no one likes.
So we have moved the lunch forward to today so we can accommodate everyone that wants to come. I was fine with this, but yesterday, there was a hint that we go to a pub that's known for imitating a popular Asian cuisine. I have eaten there before, and their version of food is not the sentiments that I share about food. But anyway, it's my birthday, we go, we go, we go we go!
Yesterday was all work. I've decided to start doing my work first instead of prioritising everyone else. Well, I'm already the black sheep of the team, so it can get any worse. Maybe I'll start getting a little more respect! My senior colleague has someone that types up his letters from dictaphone but he prefers me to type out his letters while he dictates rather than use the person whose job it is to type out the letters? I know that he prefers me to do them because he likes the why I write and format the letters. But if I do this, which usually takes about 30 minutes per letter, then I fall behind with my work and have to stay late to catch up. So today no, he needs to use his dictaphone!
The Manager asked me if I had asked him permission to have a birthday lunch. But I told him why should I, everyone else takes 2 hour lunches when it is their birthday, so what makes me different? Well, I was really bitchy to him, which really wasn't fair on him when I think about it! I will apologise to him tomorrow. I'll buy him a chocolate to make up! But it's the truth!
I noticed something yesterday again. The Colleague that made a complaint against me, offered me a cup of tea which I politely declined. I will revisit this tea offer later when I explain my second meeting with HR. I was very chatty with my Manager and those that sit close to him. This person did not say a word all the time I was talking. I walked out of the office and she immediately picked up the conversation where I had left it. Don't worry darling, you are allowed to talk when I am around. You spend most of your life at work so it's only fair that you feel comfortable in your work environment!
Well guess what, hot news just in! The team have decided to go down to the pub that I don't like because someone that is leaving the company is having drinks there because today is his last day. Well, I suppose that me trying to organise a lunch for my birthday was really not what everyone was interested in doing. No probs, I'll sort myself out and go out with family and friends. I'm beginning to think that I am a person that no one likes.
Tuesday 20 February 2007
The Signing in Book Again!
Well, today, I was going to start with how nice it is to get to work quickly and without any hassle, but I won't!
Today, I am really boiling! I was speaking to a colleague of mine and I asked her about whether she was signing in the book when she was leaving early or coming in late, which due to family commitments, she has been doing for the last few weeks. When you come in late or leave early, you have to get the permission from my manager for this. Of course, when I ask for permission, I am told to sign the book to reflect this. But, my colleague has not been told to do this. So I guess that company policy has now changed for me. I have the proof in an email from my boss. I am really unhappy about this! How can there be one rule for me and another rule for someone else? So who do I complain to? My boss? The one who is imposing all these restrictions on me? If I complain to anyone, then I will be looked upon as the person that complains about everything!
Have a look at my post "New Job?".
Don't get me wrong, my company is quite flexible in accommodating the odd time you have to come in late, but I always make sure that I work my time in whether it be during lunch or after normal working hours. I am, after all a working mother, and I think the government would by law be happy with companies that have this policy, rather than having mothers stay at home and leech of the system because companies cannot accommodate them for being mothers.
Yesterday started really well. I had this really tasty canned soup, Baxter's to be exact. My other half refuses to buy any other canned soup, and I'm sure he would have it everyday if it was served to him on a platter! Everyone in the team were having a really jovial discussion when my senior colleague interjected and sternly asked me if I was doing my work? What? I am not the one that will cause the company to get fined by the FSA for not following procedure! I'm not the one that goes out for 2 hour lunches and comes back drunk! I'm not the one that sits the whole day sorting out family matters on company time.
But, I am not a man and I obviously don't drink or socialise with the right people! I suppose it's who you know, not what you know!
Today, I am really boiling! I was speaking to a colleague of mine and I asked her about whether she was signing in the book when she was leaving early or coming in late, which due to family commitments, she has been doing for the last few weeks. When you come in late or leave early, you have to get the permission from my manager for this. Of course, when I ask for permission, I am told to sign the book to reflect this. But, my colleague has not been told to do this. So I guess that company policy has now changed for me. I have the proof in an email from my boss. I am really unhappy about this! How can there be one rule for me and another rule for someone else? So who do I complain to? My boss? The one who is imposing all these restrictions on me? If I complain to anyone, then I will be looked upon as the person that complains about everything!
Have a look at my post "New Job?".
Don't get me wrong, my company is quite flexible in accommodating the odd time you have to come in late, but I always make sure that I work my time in whether it be during lunch or after normal working hours. I am, after all a working mother, and I think the government would by law be happy with companies that have this policy, rather than having mothers stay at home and leech of the system because companies cannot accommodate them for being mothers.
Yesterday started really well. I had this really tasty canned soup, Baxter's to be exact. My other half refuses to buy any other canned soup, and I'm sure he would have it everyday if it was served to him on a platter! Everyone in the team were having a really jovial discussion when my senior colleague interjected and sternly asked me if I was doing my work? What? I am not the one that will cause the company to get fined by the FSA for not following procedure! I'm not the one that goes out for 2 hour lunches and comes back drunk! I'm not the one that sits the whole day sorting out family matters on company time.
But, I am not a man and I obviously don't drink or socialise with the right people! I suppose it's who you know, not what you know!
Monday 19 February 2007
The Boss is Off, the Office is Off too!"
Well, it's Monday again, I had a nice quiet weekend!
Back to work, but I have a new outlook, and I am seriously looking to move from here.
I didn't really get a chance on Friday to update my blog, but it was all fun and games at the office!
The receptionist has this week off, so they have brought a temp in. The temp was sitting with her on Friday and when I walked in, the receptionist introduced me to the new temp and used the male pronunciation of my name. Well, I could have kicked off but I thought to myself, it's really not worth it. She doesn't say anything to me at all and when she does, she insults me. She can't even say that she made a mistake, because she pronounces her words well and she has never called me the male equivalent of my name, ever!
Now, if ever there was discrimination, that is it! But what to do, she is doing her damn best to break me down.
I really feel for her, because one of her family relatives is not well at all, and she has time to continue a so unnecessary vendetta against me, one that she started. Let it go, you have more important things to worry about girl!
Anyway, the Manager had a day off on Friday, and all the little kids did what little kids do! 2 Guys from the office went out for a 2 hour lunch, the golden children! It reminds me of the time that I went out for about 50 minutes, and came back with a sandwich. I decided to toast it but I had to clean the toaster before and I made sure I cleaned it after as well. So I was 15 minutes outside my lunch hour, and then I got the awakening of my life! My Manager came in to the staff room and said, "People are complaining that you are taking more than 1 hour lunch!" Yes, I know, if those people left the toaster in a decent state, then I wouldn't be stuck in here with now cold toast, and still the toaster is dirty!
Anyway, he is the manager, so I can only assume that those people that have a problem with me are higher then him, or have something on him! In fact, no I think that he just needs a little people management course. If he was sitting in my shoes, then he would get a good people management course. How not to rectify comments that I perseve to be racist! Because then, it just mutates into another form of abuse, then they say,"You see, I'm not being racist!"
It's Monday morning and I am at work for 8:30am, the time the colleague that made an informal complaint against me is meant to start. My other half gives me a call at 8:49, and guess what, she is not yet in. I suppose it suits, her, start earlier than everyone else and say you got here earlier than you actually did. This is not the first time that this has happened when I have come in early and she has not been here. Yes, I will harp on about it, when I am late in, I have to put it down in the book, my Manager went as far as doing it for me. I haven't seen him do this for anyone else or say anything to anyone else about taking time off during office hours.
I feel so special, everyone watching me and everyone wanting me to prove myself!
Back to work, but I have a new outlook, and I am seriously looking to move from here.
I didn't really get a chance on Friday to update my blog, but it was all fun and games at the office!
The receptionist has this week off, so they have brought a temp in. The temp was sitting with her on Friday and when I walked in, the receptionist introduced me to the new temp and used the male pronunciation of my name. Well, I could have kicked off but I thought to myself, it's really not worth it. She doesn't say anything to me at all and when she does, she insults me. She can't even say that she made a mistake, because she pronounces her words well and she has never called me the male equivalent of my name, ever!
Now, if ever there was discrimination, that is it! But what to do, she is doing her damn best to break me down.
I really feel for her, because one of her family relatives is not well at all, and she has time to continue a so unnecessary vendetta against me, one that she started. Let it go, you have more important things to worry about girl!
Anyway, the Manager had a day off on Friday, and all the little kids did what little kids do! 2 Guys from the office went out for a 2 hour lunch, the golden children! It reminds me of the time that I went out for about 50 minutes, and came back with a sandwich. I decided to toast it but I had to clean the toaster before and I made sure I cleaned it after as well. So I was 15 minutes outside my lunch hour, and then I got the awakening of my life! My Manager came in to the staff room and said, "People are complaining that you are taking more than 1 hour lunch!" Yes, I know, if those people left the toaster in a decent state, then I wouldn't be stuck in here with now cold toast, and still the toaster is dirty!
Anyway, he is the manager, so I can only assume that those people that have a problem with me are higher then him, or have something on him! In fact, no I think that he just needs a little people management course. If he was sitting in my shoes, then he would get a good people management course. How not to rectify comments that I perseve to be racist! Because then, it just mutates into another form of abuse, then they say,"You see, I'm not being racist!"
It's Monday morning and I am at work for 8:30am, the time the colleague that made an informal complaint against me is meant to start. My other half gives me a call at 8:49, and guess what, she is not yet in. I suppose it suits, her, start earlier than everyone else and say you got here earlier than you actually did. This is not the first time that this has happened when I have come in early and she has not been here. Yes, I will harp on about it, when I am late in, I have to put it down in the book, my Manager went as far as doing it for me. I haven't seen him do this for anyone else or say anything to anyone else about taking time off during office hours.
I feel so special, everyone watching me and everyone wanting me to prove myself!
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