Work stuff
There have been issues recently with parking at work. The car park where we have parking passes suddenly cordoned off a whole section of the car park, and have reserved it for ‘parking permits’. The first day it happened I pointed to the pass in my windscreen. Oh no. That’s the wrong type. Apparently that is charged to the company per day, in arrears at the end of the month. The special part of the car park is for those who pay in advance for a years parking.
Now, excuse me, but why do they get a guaranteed space? I have never had a parking permit yet which guarantees me a space, even when I paid British Rail through the nose for an annual parking pass. It is always a strictly first come, first served basis.
This morning I went to the doctors. I got to the region of work around 20 past 10.
I got into the office just gone 11 o’clock, after driving round for half an hour. I ended up having to pay £3 (and risked a fine because you can only park there for 3 hours at a time, so had to go back to pay for another 3 hours, and I was half an hour late).
I wouldn’t mind, but there were loads of spaces in the usual car park, but they were all in the cordoned off place.
On a better note, I spoke briefly with one of the people who work ‘upstairs’. They are sort of the technical part to my role - we do similar jobs, but I am responsible for the actual data, while they are responsible for all the techy stuff behind it. There are 6 of them up there.
She said to me, “Me and J (one of the other guys who works up there) were talking after the meeting on Friday. You have achieved more in the last 3 weeks in that job than has been done in the last I don’t know how long. I was pleased when I heard you had got the job, I am even more pleased now you are in it.”
I was so chuffed. It was really only the end of last week that things were starting to come together, after 3 weeks of sponge-like activity, where I was just absorbing a whole lots of facts, but not knowing where they all fitted, I am starting to piece things together to get the whole picture.
Of course, most of the credit has to go to the two guys who work for me - I have divvied up my list of task given my by my boss for the team between the three of us, and they are both just beavering away at them all. Ihave had meetings with both of them the last 2 days, and I am astonished at how much they have done already. And they are both so enthusiastic. And helpful.
I am really, really loving the job.