This week in Whitchurch
Feb. 3rd, 2007 11:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bookzombieGood things:
1. The central heating now seems to be fixed! At least it hasn't failed since Tuesday so I think we are okay. It turned out to be the gas tap - they replaced that and it was fine. What equally amuses and annoys me about this is that the cut-out light is supposed to show a problem with the gas supply (in other words that the pilot light is not getting enough gas to stay on). So the gas engineers seemed to assume, after a quick check, that it couldn't possibly be the gas supply to the boiler so it had to be that the cut-out light was the problem. It didn't seem to occur to them until they had tried everything else that the cut-out light was actually reporting the situation correctly!.
2. We have had the hedgerow in our back garden trimmed down and cut back, so we now have about 3 feet more width of garden than we had a week ago.
3. We went to see Wicked on Wednesday (cheap tickets from Yell's Sports & Social Club). That was great fun and an interesting deconstruction of the book. The music is okay, but there is nothing there that anyone is going to be including on a 'Greatest Songs from the Musicals' CD any time soon. A typical Stephen Schwartz score, in fact.
4. My quarterly review at work was nowhere near as bad as I was expecting - mainly positive in fact.
Bad things:
Mainly work, really. The week was punctuated by people on my project generally acting like a bunch of prima donnas. Also, Thursday included my manager doing one of her ritual humiliations of her staff in public. Yes, it was me. I really can't bear to go into the details again. If you really want to know, see my reply to this post of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sdn's: http://sdn.livejournal.com/213594.html
Let's say it is a timely reminder of quite why I'm looking for another job!
1. The central heating now seems to be fixed! At least it hasn't failed since Tuesday so I think we are okay. It turned out to be the gas tap - they replaced that and it was fine. What equally amuses and annoys me about this is that the cut-out light is supposed to show a problem with the gas supply (in other words that the pilot light is not getting enough gas to stay on). So the gas engineers seemed to assume, after a quick check, that it couldn't possibly be the gas supply to the boiler so it had to be that the cut-out light was the problem. It didn't seem to occur to them until they had tried everything else that the cut-out light was actually reporting the situation correctly!.
2. We have had the hedgerow in our back garden trimmed down and cut back, so we now have about 3 feet more width of garden than we had a week ago.
3. We went to see Wicked on Wednesday (cheap tickets from Yell's Sports & Social Club). That was great fun and an interesting deconstruction of the book. The music is okay, but there is nothing there that anyone is going to be including on a 'Greatest Songs from the Musicals' CD any time soon. A typical Stephen Schwartz score, in fact.
4. My quarterly review at work was nowhere near as bad as I was expecting - mainly positive in fact.
Bad things:
Mainly work, really. The week was punctuated by people on my project generally acting like a bunch of prima donnas. Also, Thursday included my manager doing one of her ritual humiliations of her staff in public. Yes, it was me. I really can't bear to go into the details again. If you really want to know, see my reply to this post of
sdn's: http://sdn.livejournal.com/213594.htmlLet's say it is a timely reminder of quite why I'm looking for another job!
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Date: 2007-02-05 08:52 pm (UTC)The thing is my manager is not deliberately nasty; it is her own insecurity that makes her act that way. Not that it makes her behaviour any better of course. In fact I was still pretty cross about it for a chunk of the weekend. Never mind, the remains of the project team (she has moved on to another project now) had a good whinge about everything today which always makes you feel better, if shallow!