*phew*
I found my ticket to Vancouver, it was in my drawer downstairs, although I swear I'd looked there before already? Anyway I reckon Dad or my 'skin-and-blister' put it in there!
Work was hectic yesterday, it was non-stop all day. It doesn't help that one of the engineers who, admittedly is in his sixties and recovering from cancer, isn't exactly pulling his weight. Now don't think I'm mean, yes he is old, yes he has had cancer, but the operation was long ago, he's been deemed by the company doctors 'fit for work'. But despite having gone from only 4-hour days to full shifts over the last year, he hardly lifts a finger still. I don't hold it against him personally, anyone would do the same in his situation, but the problem is its effecting everyone else. Everyone else is working harder to make up for him because his position is no longer covered by an extra man on OT.
Anyway like I said it was busy, one moment I was fixing an escalator that turned out to have a couple of screws stuck in the pallettes and they were hitting and damaging the comb-plates which are the parts where you step onto and off the escalator, and stop you from being sucked down into it!! Ha ha we all worry about that at some point right?!
Woah that was a long one minute...... anyway...... yeah and the next minute I was out on the terminal roof without a coat being soaked by rain and battered by hail, trying desperately to unblock a gulley drain pipe. We also had a cleaner stuck in a walk-in cupboard to get out, although because we were on the roof at the point we forgot all about her. 30 minutes too long to wait?!
I found my ticket to Vancouver, it was in my drawer downstairs, although I swear I'd looked there before already? Anyway I reckon Dad or my 'skin-and-blister' put it in there!
Work was hectic yesterday, it was non-stop all day. It doesn't help that one of the engineers who, admittedly is in his sixties and recovering from cancer, isn't exactly pulling his weight. Now don't think I'm mean, yes he is old, yes he has had cancer, but the operation was long ago, he's been deemed by the company doctors 'fit for work'. But despite having gone from only 4-hour days to full shifts over the last year, he hardly lifts a finger still. I don't hold it against him personally, anyone would do the same in his situation, but the problem is its effecting everyone else. Everyone else is working harder to make up for him because his position is no longer covered by an extra man on OT.
Anyway like I said it was busy, one moment I was fixing an escalator that turned out to have a couple of screws stuck in the pallettes and they were hitting and damaging the comb-plates which are the parts where you step onto and off the escalator, and stop you from being sucked down into it!! Ha ha we all worry about that at some point right?!
Woah that was a long one minute...... anyway...... yeah and the next minute I was out on the terminal roof without a coat being soaked by rain and battered by hail, trying desperately to unblock a gulley drain pipe. We also had a cleaner stuck in a walk-in cupboard to get out, although because we were on the roof at the point we forgot all about her. 30 minutes too long to wait?!
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librarian:
Wow, it's great that you know how to fix things--I always envy that.
uptight:
