The Importance of Being Idle

The Devils Playthings

Another day at work, another day of hilarity. It's actually got to the stage where I'm not surprised by it any more, the only thing which does surprise me is how wide-spread people's negative reaction is! Not sure if I mentioned this, but yesterday they decided that they needed more coverage in the evenings and offered us double-time if we'd commit to and work ten hours of overtime before the end of the month. It took mere seconds for the flaw in this plan to become evident; namely that there are only eight working days left in the month and that it would therefore be impossible to qualify for the special double-time rate. Needless to say the management were a little unhappy that we'd spotted that, and nobody at ALL has taken them up on this generous offer, or indeed offered to do any over time at all. Almost every conversation we have at work these days is about how dreadful the company has become and rather than being depressing it's oddly uplifting to know that everybody else isn't coping with this and that nobody thinks it's okay.
Not done a whole lot else really; played some WoW yesterday which was fun, although the ping on the server was miserable, which I suppose VirginMedia will blame on the bad weather or something. Then we watched a little Buffy (well, it makes Shaz happy!) and that was pretty much our evening! I was vaguely thinking of a trip to the cinema tonight to catch the new Fantastic Four movie, but I don't think funds will stretch that far this late in the month. Ah well, I'm sure it'll be out for a while longer yet.
As for this evening, who knows what lies ahead? Something pleasing and relaxing I've no doubt, possibly a movie if we can decide on one.

posted by BadMonkey @ 6:14 PM