worktime learning

Tuesday: the supposedly quieter day thus staff are reluctantly manhandled upstairs for the weekly 'work time learning' session. An opportunity for us to 'have our say' and hear the latest management doctrine. It's usually a nervous line manager reading from a head office email: "we are investing millions of pounds towards a better future" "be sure to wear shoes in the winter" and so forth. Staff shuffle uneasily, glancing furtively at the clock. "any questions?" followed by a pregnant silence. We rush back downstairs like kids at the school bell.
The latest mantra from head Office is "mail volumes have dropped 10%" thus justifying various cutbacks/savings. It's hard to believe. Voume may have dropped but weight cerainly hasn't. People love their tat catalogues.

mush

Autumn rewards the weary soul with fruits of it's labour; Winter can lay a sparkling blanket of silver frost; Spring rejuvenate the coldest heart with bursting green promises of Summer; and then Summer, it gently pours buckets of cold water down your back and into your shoes.
It rained today, and rained a bit more. Saturday of all days. The dreaded early rise whilst the world slumbers..passing pissed up revellers on your way to the office and facing a drunken gauntlet of "hey postie/wanker!!" Scaring the scavenging seagulls (keeping the streets clean of vomit/kebabs), a mild sense of achievement before work.