Am I ever glad.......

....to see the back of that week!

It was horrendous in a non life threatening kind of way, I know on the scale of world disasters my last few days were nothing but I'm in no hurry to go through them again. A bout with Mike Tyson would seem preferable.

Work was just horrible, I felt ill, we were seriously under staffed, the stress levels at times were completely unacceptable and management were not satisfied until I had been reduced to tears, a situation I am not easily forced into...oh the shame, and having reduced me to a blubbering heap those in question 'jumped ship', gave me an extremely wide berth and seemed completely unable to handle the situation that had been created, or at least handled it so badly that ultimately nothing viable was done....so on I plodded, finally escaping out of the madness and mayhem last night for four days off, and man am I glad!

It is completely beyond me how some individuals can attain such management positions and have acquired absolutely no man-management skills, let's face it, it's hardly rocket science is it, it's only very basic psychology and if one is paid to manage people then one ought to understand them just a little. One thing I learnt in the last few days was that the situation was not as a result of my weakness or inability to cope rather the lack of necessary interpersonal and management skills displayed by some of those involved....it is they that have the problem, not me just for once.

Enough of all of that, for me work will not exist for the next few days, self preservation has taken over and they can go to hell.

Things on the pc front are almost back to normal now, there is only one problem left to resolve and that is the apparent corruption of a disk holding the site building software I use, kinda awkward as I have a site I have to build this week, a paying job that I have to get completed and for which I cannot make excuses. No matter, with luck a new copy will be winging it's way to gemmak's-ville later today and everything will be hunky dory. Somebody cross their fingers here please, for on recent form said disk will likely disintegrate en route somehwere if I have anything to do with it!

Amusingly all this hoo ha on the virtual front over the last few days had an unexpected effect. Saturday night, completely computer-less I suddenly felt quite liberated. There was nothing I could do about it, it was a fait acomplis, there was no way I was able to build websites, fiddle with code, send email or any of the other myriad of things I am usually embroiled in......I could actually sit and read a book without feeling I ought to be getting something else done.....and I enjoyed it! Really quite liberating.

That said.....hell, I'm glad to be back to normal! :o)