Time and a quarter thank you very much.
My immediate bosses vary and we have some very good duty shift managers who know what they are doing and one total waste of space who everyone dreads working with. I went to another section yesterday to see if we could borrow someone who used to do my job to cover a vacant shift and found that they have incorporated the shift managers' roster into their own so they can avoid him.
The "suit" responsible for our office usually leaves us alone but a few weeks ago didn't impress me. A new director visited (never see him again). For once when someone visits it was total chaos. All phones ringing, lots of shouting, things changing by the moment. The suit comes over to me with a piece of paper and asks me to put the director on the paging system. Something done very infrequently and a time consuming operation. I put it to one side to do when things calm down, prioritising, when he says "Now." I look at him in disbelief and then get on with it. On the bright side I got an hours overtime out of it.
(jvz, Wed 24 Jun 2009, 10:34, Reply)