Sunday, August 28, 2005
Adventure 34: 28th August 2005
"So it's your car, and you drove over the yellow paint, but somehow it's my job to clean it off....."
lo all, another week over another £7 made...yipply do...Not a great deal to report this week..
No. Of Job applications: 327
No. Of Job interviews: 0
No. Of Inane Agencies wanting to "update their details": 4
No. Of agencies wanting to put me forward for a job I've turned down 20 times before: 7
No. Of Rants by Nunob: 1
Now then where were we.....ah yes we'd got as far as tuesday...I did neglect to mention that I had a dentist appointment on tuesday...for my lost filling....apparently I need another one doing and he wants to file down an old filling which seems to be moving sideways and to "cap" excuse the pun it all he says..."I want to clean your teeth", strange people these dentists...note to self, remember to eat something with bucket loads of garlic in the day before that appointment !!
I feel it's my duty really...to lead the fight back against the dentistry profession who in truth really haven't progressed to 'PAIN-LESS' treatment and are still performing the same basic procedures as their colleagues in the dark ages...pulling teeth out, drilling teeth..not being able to answer the question, "why do my teeth have nerves ?" etc etc...the best bit is that after having suffered all this pain, made to feel like you're an insect that lives amongst dung and crawls out from under rocks, "here look at my lovely teeth aren't I smug and superior" (I've noticed I'm ranting too don't worry), after all of that, they make you pay for it too !!!
I may be doing dentist receptionists a real dis-service, but I don't care, so it's alright...they're one of the most stroppy people I've ever come across, I don't know if it's because they're trying to understand what it is most people are saying when they come out, since talking is now impossible as most patients who've had treatment, either have a broken jaw, or blood gushing out through their nostrils, it's either that or the fact that they constantly think that you're looking at their deformed nose or wonky eye, which for some reason seems to be a requirement...
Daft thing is I quite like my dentist, and I do snarl at him when he says things like "I want to clean your teeth", a process that's just glorified torture, he's not interested in cleaning my teeth, just inflicting pain...he's even got a characture of himself on his door holding a tooth in a pair of pliers that he's obviously just pulled out of the poor patient lying on the chair / bed, blood gushing from the patients mouth, I mean he's not even trying to hide it any more...
Wednesday 24th August 2005
11:00: Every body but everybody is here, Brentboy, Quiet Rob, Basra Holohead, EvenQuieter Paul, Martin Satsuma with his ever so chic hair, that you just want to take a pair of clippers too (you know, two curtains style...aaagh..instant hatred)...yup it's let's have a rant at the staff time...or a "meeting" as it says in my calendar....
12:00: Nunob is in full flow...we're crap at this, terrible at that, you said this that and the other last month etc etc....then we're asked "how do you feel..." in turn... by the time they get to me, most of the others have just said "well we're disappointed to be in this position etc etc" like they knew all about it before...well I'm leading the fight back pointing out that it's actually very easy to pick and choose all the bad things but I do point out that there were a lot of positives coming from the team that's only been a team for 30 days and perhaps focussing a little on the good things that we've done wouldn't be a bad idea....then another 30 minutes of Nunob waffling on about all types of crap...he really can't shut up, so....
12:30: "Ok it's up to you, do you want me to stay while you discuss what you're going to do or should I go and come back....", silence, I'm just about to speak, when Basra Holohead, chips in "well I think you can stay Nunob, there's nothing we cant say in front of you...." hmmm not sure that's actually true...there's nothing we can't say, that'll stop him from going off on another rant and rave...the guy is an absolute knob, can't keep his gob shut and wants to be the centre of attention, do you honestly think we're going to get a word in edge ways..nup not a chance....
13:30: Having resolved absolutely nothing, but having listened to how Nunob has dimissed people for less and me taking him to task on most things...we trudge wearily back...I trudge wearily back, pick up my coat and go to lunch...
14:00: It's curious (back at my desk, shortened lunch break), everyone is treading on egg shells...and really trying to be enthusiastic and doing the opposite of what Nunob was complaining about...it's actually quite funny, every time you speak to someone there's the "I know he's listening" look in everyone's eye....ahh well.......sigh.....
17:00:The day just winds down....5pm comes, since I'm being rebelious, I get my coat...there's almost a silent gasp from everyone since one of Nunob's complaints was that no-one seems to want to work after 5pm...good spot that, perhaps it's something to do with not being paid to work after 5pm I don't know...just a guess.....Tosser!
Thursday 25th August 2005:
More of the same from yesterday...I won't bore you with it....
Firday 26th August 2005:
ooh goody another meeting....
09:00: Right this is the meeting we should have had after Nunob had had his rant...Mandy Tyrant (our boss, she's not really a tyrant, couldn't think of a better name that's all), has called it...lots of discussions about how Solar Winds will solve all our problems...not convinced me...I think some better organisation might be an idea, and siezing control of the servers that people just think they can do what the hell they want to with might be a better approach....
That's it, the sum total of the day...Nunob, left about 4pm me having waited until 3:59 to present him with the proposals for the backup upgrades...heart failure on the plane back to Portugal...when he sees how much ;-))))) Well I can hope.......
lo all, another week over another £7 made...yipply do...Not a great deal to report this week..
No. Of Job applications: 327
No. Of Job interviews: 0
No. Of Inane Agencies wanting to "update their details": 4
No. Of agencies wanting to put me forward for a job I've turned down 20 times before: 7
No. Of Rants by Nunob: 1
Now then where were we.....ah yes we'd got as far as tuesday...I did neglect to mention that I had a dentist appointment on tuesday...for my lost filling....apparently I need another one doing and he wants to file down an old filling which seems to be moving sideways and to "cap" excuse the pun it all he says..."I want to clean your teeth", strange people these dentists...note to self, remember to eat something with bucket loads of garlic in the day before that appointment !!
I feel it's my duty really...to lead the fight back against the dentistry profession who in truth really haven't progressed to 'PAIN-LESS' treatment and are still performing the same basic procedures as their colleagues in the dark ages...pulling teeth out, drilling teeth..not being able to answer the question, "why do my teeth have nerves ?" etc etc...the best bit is that after having suffered all this pain, made to feel like you're an insect that lives amongst dung and crawls out from under rocks, "here look at my lovely teeth aren't I smug and superior" (I've noticed I'm ranting too don't worry), after all of that, they make you pay for it too !!!
I may be doing dentist receptionists a real dis-service, but I don't care, so it's alright...they're one of the most stroppy people I've ever come across, I don't know if it's because they're trying to understand what it is most people are saying when they come out, since talking is now impossible as most patients who've had treatment, either have a broken jaw, or blood gushing out through their nostrils, it's either that or the fact that they constantly think that you're looking at their deformed nose or wonky eye, which for some reason seems to be a requirement...
Daft thing is I quite like my dentist, and I do snarl at him when he says things like "I want to clean your teeth", a process that's just glorified torture, he's not interested in cleaning my teeth, just inflicting pain...he's even got a characture of himself on his door holding a tooth in a pair of pliers that he's obviously just pulled out of the poor patient lying on the chair / bed, blood gushing from the patients mouth, I mean he's not even trying to hide it any more...
Wednesday 24th August 2005
11:00: Every body but everybody is here, Brentboy, Quiet Rob, Basra Holohead, EvenQuieter Paul, Martin Satsuma with his ever so chic hair, that you just want to take a pair of clippers too (you know, two curtains style...aaagh..instant hatred)...yup it's let's have a rant at the staff time...or a "meeting" as it says in my calendar....
12:00: Nunob is in full flow...we're crap at this, terrible at that, you said this that and the other last month etc etc....then we're asked "how do you feel..." in turn... by the time they get to me, most of the others have just said "well we're disappointed to be in this position etc etc" like they knew all about it before...well I'm leading the fight back pointing out that it's actually very easy to pick and choose all the bad things but I do point out that there were a lot of positives coming from the team that's only been a team for 30 days and perhaps focussing a little on the good things that we've done wouldn't be a bad idea....then another 30 minutes of Nunob waffling on about all types of crap...he really can't shut up, so....
12:30: "Ok it's up to you, do you want me to stay while you discuss what you're going to do or should I go and come back....", silence, I'm just about to speak, when Basra Holohead, chips in "well I think you can stay Nunob, there's nothing we cant say in front of you...." hmmm not sure that's actually true...there's nothing we can't say, that'll stop him from going off on another rant and rave...the guy is an absolute knob, can't keep his gob shut and wants to be the centre of attention, do you honestly think we're going to get a word in edge ways..nup not a chance....
13:30: Having resolved absolutely nothing, but having listened to how Nunob has dimissed people for less and me taking him to task on most things...we trudge wearily back...I trudge wearily back, pick up my coat and go to lunch...
14:00: It's curious (back at my desk, shortened lunch break), everyone is treading on egg shells...and really trying to be enthusiastic and doing the opposite of what Nunob was complaining about...it's actually quite funny, every time you speak to someone there's the "I know he's listening" look in everyone's eye....ahh well.......sigh.....
17:00:The day just winds down....5pm comes, since I'm being rebelious, I get my coat...there's almost a silent gasp from everyone since one of Nunob's complaints was that no-one seems to want to work after 5pm...good spot that, perhaps it's something to do with not being paid to work after 5pm I don't know...just a guess.....Tosser!
Thursday 25th August 2005:
More of the same from yesterday...I won't bore you with it....
Firday 26th August 2005:
ooh goody another meeting....
09:00: Right this is the meeting we should have had after Nunob had had his rant...Mandy Tyrant (our boss, she's not really a tyrant, couldn't think of a better name that's all), has called it...lots of discussions about how Solar Winds will solve all our problems...not convinced me...I think some better organisation might be an idea, and siezing control of the servers that people just think they can do what the hell they want to with might be a better approach....
That's it, the sum total of the day...Nunob, left about 4pm me having waited until 3:59 to present him with the proposals for the backup upgrades...heart failure on the plane back to Portugal...when he sees how much ;-))))) Well I can hope.......
# posted by cre8 @ 3:00 AM 
