Yo TGIFers

Brace yourself for an update which will you leave you either a) begging for more b) begging for your server to crash or c) begging for idioms to be banned from Blogs or boring weekly e-mails.....

That was a bit clever wasn't it for a Friday?

Well, I'm now about two months into my new 'albeit temporary' job, and have left behind the World of 'Risk' for a while...though I'm still a risk to be around, so I haven't left that World altogether.

The new job is a bit like a baby rollercoaster ride at the moment - for every good day I have, the next is a bummer, though only leaves me with a slight lurch in my stomach. It has now got to the stage where I know today was good so Monday will be a bit of a pig...which brings me to why it's a bit of a rollercoaster ride.

Pig = swine flu - as I mentioned in my July blog, I was well excited two days into my new job.... but then get 'volunteered' for pig duties... sadly not the kind I have enjoyed in the past - where I've spent a fabulous day learning how to look after little piggies and get down and get mucky, but instead sent to an NHS Direct/Concentration Camp/Vodafone Call Centre styley Tamiflu EBay sales pitch. Never got sent though - I think my Brummie tones were deemed to be unsuitable for the Call Centre duties...

Shame though - at least I would get to talk to someone.... I'm not saying my new office colleagues are unfriendly....we're at the 'Norming stage' now... I did enjoy the 'Storming' stage - oh their little faces when they discovered I'd turned their fridge instead of the Urn off overnight, then the wry comments when I sent my rather large documents to the communal printer on 'manual double sided print' - meaning I have to get up and turn them over, but if they send something at the same time as my tedious garbage... it gets printed on the back of their very important 'one-line' e-mails that they feel compelled to print off to read?????? Then when I courteously run over to their desks to pick up their phones when they are out of the office and write them a story for their return, do I get a 'Thank you'? No - I get a question,
"Why are you going to the desks when the phone rings?"
"So I can pick up and take a message"
"We don't take calls for each other"
"I don't mind doing it - saves listening to the constant ringing"
Little smirk....."Well, you know you can use 'Call pick up' on your own phone...."
"Why no, I hadn't realised.... else why would I spin like a top, change into my Wonderwoman knickers and fly across the office every 10 minutes......"
(I didn't really say that)
LAAAAAAAUGH!!!!!!!

We haven't really gone through the forming stage - and doubt we ever will - as we all do very different jobs. We have no real need to become a 'team', as ever I am a team of one. It does shorten the team meetings I have though and the minutes are a doddle to write up!

Today, I was a bit sad as my colleagues appear to have 'normed' - I notice the Urn is now being switched off overnight, a couple more are up and down doing double sided printing, and I've even had a couple of telephone messages taken.... things will never be the same - I'm going to have to find my laughs somewhere else .......

There is light at the end of the tunnel - as I don't spend much time in the office - my job is now about working on the wards - and both teams I am currently working with remind me of why I loved the humour and clever wit on the wards. I have of course retorted to bribery - BOGOF biscuits and chocolates are frequently delivered - as part of my project management style - so both teams are getting slowly more rotund, which makes me look more efficient as I bustle amongst them checking my pedometer every 10 minutes.....

Is that OK for now you TGIFers?
Any requests? (polite ones only.....)

Kimmie x
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