We've developed a new bad debts procedure at work I think. It involves everyone I need to sign off being interstate or overseas at the crucial moment. Then the accountants have to have a panic attack because things aren't signed. I process my end anyway on the basis that people had bloody better sign off, and the head accountant eventually agrees to 'bung it through somehow.' Next, the CEO gets back two days after the cut off and I see him walk past. I start pointing and going 'Hey!' while looking for the paperwork. The CEO exclaims that he knows what I want, and he's not signing anything. I tell him he is, as he starts walking off. CEO yells 'No!' Lynne yells 'Yes!' CEO starts to run, while shouting 'NO NO NO!' and I run after him shouting 'YES YES YES!' CEO runs into office, slams the door and shuts the blinds. Lynne shoves paperwork under the door, while he's still yelling NO!  read more »

A director of a large public company hung up on me today. That really pisses me off. It always happens right right at the conversation's peak. It makes me want to ring back and scream "Closure! I need closure!"

My stupid cat has decided he only wants to sleep on my pillow. Right about where my head goes. He's been sleeping in my bed for maybe six years now..... and suddenly he must have the pillow. He growls and digs his claws in when I try to move him. I can use him as a pillow and he doesn't mind, but then I still can't sleep 'cause he purrs. His purring is pretty hard to sleep through.... loud, but he also whistles a bit because I had to have one of his teeth pulled after a car dislocated his jaw.  read more »

I lived through my second evacuation drill today. Thirty-five storeys. I'm fit enough that I don't break a sweat, but you get really dizzy doing that. Two flights of stairs per floor... down a flight, u-turn, down, u-turn, another half dozen flights and you're dizzy. That's the bit that sucks.

There was an obnoxious IT duo behind me for ten or twelve floors. One of the guys I've seen around, he looks like a half nerd, half Fabio git. He was crapping on and on to his mate in a pompous, übernerdly way. Mixing little nerdy in-jokes with loud comments designed to upset anyone who wasn't enjoying the stairs. I was not enjoying the stairs. I think the Fabio half of him was feeling pretty manly. But then I noticed his voice dropping farther and farther back, then his mate asked him..... Hey - are you okay? And I have to admit that I was cheered considerably.  read more »

Got a call from the Yob. They've just had a state manager's meeting. He reckons all the branches were complaining about how badly they're doing, but he got up and told them how well he's going (and he is,) - which no-one reacted to. Not even the CEO. He wanted to know how to get recognition, so I told him that next time he should come on in a chicken suit to read out his figures. If anyone's going to do it... it'll be him. I've told him that if he does, I want photos, not just of him but everyone's face - CEO in particular.

(excerpted from old journal)

I don't really understand how you can be a solicitor and not understand the word 'nothing.' So before the pre-hearing conference two or three weeks ago - when I tell him we have nothing in the way of a file, and after the pre hearing when I said nothing, and a couple of times since... he's somehow not got the gist of it. And I get a frantic call from his assistant demanding all kinds of things. She was insistent enough that I explained: When I say 'We have nothing' - that means nothing. No thing. Not the things you are asking for - nor any other thing. Not a thing. Nothing.

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