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Weirdness

A Weird Day for sure. I was awake around five am. I couldn’t sleep and I went into work early.

When I got there I found that Sam was leaving. I have always had a good working relationship with Sam and I am genuinely sad to see her leave.. Still we all have to follow the path we think is best for us.

I think that the company is treating us very shabbily with regard to the Coronavirus. I voiced out my opinions to the General Manger, not that it really made much difference.

I left work around 3pm and headed to the Queen’s Head. I had a few drinks in there for what might be the last time in good while.

Had a few pints, and then walked home. I love life, and I’m gonna live it.

Kathy made dinner, some pork chops and some veggies to go with it. Very tasty.

Relaxed with a few tunes and another beer,

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Friday The 13th

I’m not superstitious. No really, I’m not. I truly believe that some people allow their stress and anxiety levels to rise quite unnecessarily over such things. The same as with astrology; I don’t believe in that stuff either!

Today turned out to be a quiet day on a personal basis. Got into the office around eight am. Although I’m getting told there is less traffic on the roads and less people in the shops and less folks moving around outside generally, the bus was certainly busy in the rush hour with commuters and school kids.

There was little going on with stuff at work. I was hoping for a meeting with the General Manager but he wasn’t around so that didn’t happen. I emailed him anyway. I always email because then I have an auditable trail I can follow.

In the office.

I didn’t stay at work late as I was not in demand and I had done several extra hours on Wednesday in any case.

On the way home I stopped by the Queen’s Head for a couple of pints and a chicken tikka baguette. I didn’t stay too long; about an hour and a half. I walked home and got some dinner ready. I found some wiser pounder burgers in the freezer and they went nicely with some sauerkraut and salad.

After dinner we watched some programmes on BBC2 and retired to bed around 9.30pm.

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Thursday Stuff

Got to the office quite smart as I had meetings starting at nine a.m. and I wanted to be prepared. Actually, I was the first there, and I had to wait for everyone else!

After our monthly JCC meeting between Union and Management, we followed this with our Health & Safety meeting. Much of the meeting was taken up with Coronavirus of course.

Is the company doing enough? It’s felt by many that they don’t really care too much. I tried to point out that it wasn’t only the welfare of employees at stake here, but the stability of the business itself if this pandemic truly takes a hold and we end up on some kind of national lockdown.

Ian in the office
Getting Stuff Done…

After the meetings I got some admin work done. Then I headed home. I made burgers and sauerkraut and salad for dinner. Watched a little TV and then headed off to bed around 8.30pm.

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Ballot & Phone

I was up earlier this morning, around 5.45am

Got to work before seven. Today was the day for the pay ballot. It was a long day. Got wrapped up and left around 5.45pm.

The result locally and also across the company was an overwhelming rejection so the talks go on.

Met Kathy from work at Cranford Supermarket and got my new phone to replace Monday’s unfortunate incident.

Picked up some fried chicken at Munchiez and went home.

Started with the phone exiting but it wasn’t going to be that simple as I was running a beta on the XS Max so I couldn’t simply install an iCloud backup. I had to set the 11 Pro Max up manually and then install the beta profile, download the beta and install it. Then I had to back up the XS Max to iCloud and then restore that to the 11. It took a few hours but I got there in the end.

And so to bed!

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Tuesday Not Monday

The alarm went off at 6.45am. I was still feeling a bit sleepy but I got up and got ready for work. Made sure I had everything with me as it’s my first day back after a long weekend, so it’s getting everything together in pockets and bags. Everything has its place so I don’t forget stuff.

I grabbed a hefty swig of apple juice from the bottle in the refrigerator and headed out the door around 7.25. I got to work and had quite a busy couple of hours with some LTS interviews to do.

I’ve got a risk of redundancy interview to do on Monday at Hounslow Heath, and I’ve been in contact with the person concerned to deal with that and arrange to meet them there.

This afternoon, I’ve been dealing with the phone damage from yesterday. I have contacted my bank to raise a claim via my phone insurance pack that I pay for each month. They need a ‘proof of usage’ form from my provider so another call had to be made, this time to Three. I need this sent to me by email, and then I need to send that to the claim people along with £75 for the deductible. Then I have to send the phone to them for repair or replacement.

Left work around 3.40pm and got home just after 4pm. I went straight home and got sorted out, changed and dinner cooking. Decided that a small ham joint with sauerkraut would be the order of the day.

Baked ham with sauerkraut and salad

After dinner, a beer to wash it down; a little work on the the computer, then a wander off to bed for a fairly early night. 8.30pm found me climbing into bed for a quiet read.