Beyond a Joke

Beyond a joke!

Yesterday (Apr 29th) I spent the day trying to sort out a new supplier order because I am the only person capable of doing it. It took me all day as I kept getting asked this and that by Tom, Dick and Harry.

Today I have spent in the Workshop trying to clear the backlog of equipment repairs that haven’t been done by our 2 Engineers. In between that I have our Driver complaining that I think they are skiving, so I have to type notes again so that I don’t forget what was said, and I also have a member of staff who’s relationship is on the rocks and they might have taken up drinking copious amounts of alcohol to combat the pain and anguish. I’m sure I could smell it on them yesterday. Due to this I have to contact HR as it is a Health and Safety issue...but remember I’m supposed to be sorting in the Workshop all day...making my backlog of ‘normal’ work even greater!!!

The Gaffer goes out and almost immediately the Sales Rep is on a personal call to his other half discussing holidays in June/July, after getting in late this morning! Yeah yeah, they might have had an early start yesterday, but they also left the place for THREE WHOLE FUCKING HOURS over lunch, and then left at 15:30 to go home...

Now, here’s where this little rant became a large concern. The Sales Rep came out into the Workshop and said ‘Come here’ (beckoning to the office). He whispered in my ear ‘pretend it’s a piece of kit and you know what I mean’.

I thought he was leading me to the Showroom to show me a Customers piece of kit that maybe they were being daft about. Oh no...he’s leading me to his computer where he’s watching a YouTube video of some Air Rifle shooting (the only slight thing we have in common).

I’m working my fucking knackers off here trying to catch up on stuff that I can’t catch up on because I keep wiping everybody else' arses for them, yet those who toss the fuck off like this get the same recognition!!!

Collegue Rant!

I don't often do it as it's against 'company policy', but this is a rant about one of my colleagues, and in no way reflects on my employer, or gives away their identity.

I only work for a small company. I look after the staff, across a few different departments.
The person I'm going to unleash a torrent of abuse against looks after himself and his sales. He had his only 'subordinate' taken away from him because he was unmanagable. When said member of staff handed his notice in it was a day worth celebrating.

But that's by the by.

Today this sales person of ours took my blood to boiling temperature in an attempt to inflate their ego even more than usual.

I walked into the office while he had his hand stretched out to our Administrator. The sales person of ours appeared to be moaning about how little money they had in their pocket.
I said, 'you're lucky, I've only got this until the end of the week haha'.
(2 quid by the way, unless I can get more spending money from the trouble and strife haha)

They then produced a wad of notes, we're talking maybe 300 quid.

I said that it must be bonus week and carried on about my business.

Now this is what really boiled my blood into a froth.
The sales person later came to see me, asking how come I was so skint when I was paid at the same time as they were.
Well, mortgage, council tax, bills, food, school fees, childcare, own car to run etc etc.
They said the best thing they ever did was move in with their partner, all they are paying out now is 400 quid a month.
My reply was that it was wholly inappropriate what they did, especially infront of our Administrator. (Who they were telling only a few weeks ago that they were in a dead end job!)
I know for sure (from the horses mouth) they wangled a pay rise to cover an increase in their rent within the last year or so.
I know the scams they are pulling...and the time they are wasting at work...yet THEY had the cheek to say I always find the bad in things.
It's not that, it's more that everything the present is bad.

Their work is substandard. Yeah, they're making the sales, but to have the majority of the workforce dislike them is becoming a massive drain on morale.

There isn't a day goes by that this person doesn't irritate somebody.
It's usually me, but that is because when I am at work I am 100% work focussed, this person is probably about 60% work focussed.
Personal calls, personal emails, leaving work early as they 'have to be somewhere'. This somewhere is usually at a neighbouring business chewing the fat.

Should all this piss me off?
HELL YEAH!
Our business is making this person successful, surely it should be the other way round?

Here's the little twist though...(and this is subject to change at any time) my Wife and I have worked through any problems we have encountered to make sure we're happy, and that we have a stable family. Although we don't have over a grand in spare cash a month...we have our own house...
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...and I don't think I'm hated within the company!

If anybody actually reads this, I would love to know your thoughts. Leave a comment, drop m an email, it's up to you.