Friday 9 March 2007

Another day

Drove from my home to my dads house to drop off the little one, sang old McDonald most of the way until my son got the hump because he didn't understand why he couldn't choose the animal "tiger"
"But son you cant say tiger because you don't get tigers in a farm"
"yes you do"
"No, you don't"
"yes you do"
"Nooo, you don't!"
"YYYYYEEEESSS YOU DOOOOO!
"ok, ok, for gods sake....with a roaaar, roooaar there and a roooaar roooar here....."
"he he funny!"
Eventually we arrived at my mum and dads, the little un jumped out, grabbed his bag and shot out of the car and waited at the front door of my old manor, jumping up and down like a flipping energiser bunny!
"open door abu"
"give me a min"
"Noooowwwwwwwwwww"
"OKKKKKK!!!!!!!"
I shouldn't have but i teased him a little before i let him in.
"zoo here today" (his cousin),
"Noooooo, zoo come Friday"
"Today IS Friday!"
He stayed silent and then went
"Yeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssss and flung his hands up in the air!"
Walked in and i tell you what, i think me watching all the WWE (formerly WWF) wrestling may have given him idea's, he ran up to Zoo and literally bear hugged the poor fucker! It didn't help that Zoo saw me and shat himself! He took one look at me and clawed his way up my dads leg and buried his head into my dads chest!
My dad did his impersonation of Santa
"Ho Ho Ho!, i don't know why he scared of you?"
"god knows dad"
"Puthr, you getting fat! you look pregnant"
"thanks dad, nice to see you too, by the way can you stop giving my son cakes and shit for breakfast, its not good for him"
"I Don't DO IT, SPEAK TO YOUR MOTHER"
"MUUUUMMMM,??!!!"
"Mai, kushnai kitha"
"Just don't give him any of that crap, give him fruit or something"
"Acha" she said as she slyly took the cup cake out of the plate she was about to give my son!"
"Toasthie???"
Anyway to be honest there's no getting away from it, my parents are and always have been FEEDERS!
Left my mums and got into my car, my dad for some reason finds it funny if he makes my son watch me leave and make him cry! Some sort of sick Pakistani macho thing to make him tougher! Made my way into work on the dreaded M25 and have just walked into the office and guess what? Mr security dude is apparently ill! Was met by a lovely young lady who didn't even look at me or check for my badge, and even better I found a parking space just outside the office! yessssssssssssssss! Still have to walk up two flights of stairs though, am tempted to catch the lift but if i do it once ill always do it!
Tell you what though, this bloody laptop of mine is heavy, my biceps getting bigger by the day!
Walked in and was greeted by some more news, Mr BL is NOT in! Yeah baby! Apparently there's been a complication so he's taken the day off! I frankly do not care, although I'm going to miss the banter!
Anyway......................oh FUCKING HELL, you never guess what? As i write this, he's fucking walked in, what the fuck?!!!
I don't know what it is but as soon as the guy says hello to me in his droopy voice my blood starts boiling and my dads temper kicks in!
hahahahah, I've nicked his power supply and he don't know it yet......
Chat to you guys later when the late shift starts!

Update on Friday, March 9, 2007 at 04:30PM by TheRealOffice
Just thought id add this on because i thought this one was one of the best written articles i have read so far:
An extract is below and a full link for the article is here:
http://www.johnpilger.com/page.asp?partid=426

Extract
The United States is planning what will be a catastrophic attack on Iran. For the Bush cabal, the attack will be a way of “buying time” for its disaster in Iraq. In announcing what he called a “surge” of American troops in Iraq, George W Bush identified Iran as his real target. “We will interrupt the flow of support [to the insurgency in Iraq] from Iran and Syria”, he said. “And we will seek out and destroy the networks providing advanced weaponry and training to our enemies in Iraq.”

Second Night Shift

It has come to my attention that someone who's been working here for over 3 years has absolutely no f ing idea what he is doing?!!
How in fucks name he has got away with that one is a piss take but commendable as i thought i was a good bullshitter, this guys getting paid bucks for doing jack didly, what a fucking legend! Thought id tell him as well but he didn't take too kindly to that and then tried to blag me!
"Listen, i know that you know, that you know fuck all and i ain't got a problem with that but don't bullshit me, I'm from Brent mate!"
"oh north west London??!"
"Yeah"
"oh i thought you lived around here"
"Like fuck!"
"How long you been working here?"
"3 years mon"
"3 years and no ones clocked??!"
"nope, i just pass on the calls to 4th line support"
Fair play i thought, ain't my business if the companies too stupid to realise they have a cock working in their midst.
Anyway after our little spat i sat down and now i cant shake this guy off my back, he's become Mr BL2!
"do you want any water?"
"No I'm alright thanks"
"do you want any coffee?"
"No I'm alright thanks"
"What you doing for lunch?"
"going to the bakery's"
"oh that's where I'm going, ill come along"
Jesus Christ, why cant my day just be normal.

Anyway after a little while i realised he's actually ok, a bit of a bullshitter but then everyone is to some extent aren't they, look at Blair and Bush??!! Anyway just sitting in the office, winding down, got some family shit.. i mean shin dig to go to, NOT looking forward to it at all.
Mr BL1 is sitting beside me shitting himself cause he's just dialled into a server and managed to fuck it right up the arse hole. I would help him but i haven't got a clue what he's done, i told him...
"oi xx, don't dial in and start tinkering if you don't know what you're doing?!"
"i know what to do, i used to do this at last work yaar"
"yeah"
"yes and i have my Cisco, MCP, i know all this things"
"ok, go for it"
He's still on the phone with someone trying to blag his way out of it, rubbing his bald head back and forth, he's proper riled up! Might help him, feel sorry for him now............ That's my problem i care too much!
See you lot tomorrow!

Thursday 8 March 2007

My First Night Shift

Its my second month here at XXXXXXX and I'm starting my first day of the dreaded graveyard shift. Its not too bad, Day starts at about 11:30am (depending on the traffic on the M25) and finishes at 8:00pm. After 5pm there's not much to do so i thought id write a blog, i got the idea from my sister really, she's always on the blasted thing, writing down her "comments of the day", i hate to admit it but she's rather a god writer whereas me, I'm a bit of a joker, well i like to think i am.
Anyway walked into the office after parking my blasted hire vehicle (company car) about 2 miles away in some nasty NCP parking lot, walked down the stairs past all the piss in the corners of the stair wells. Isn't it weird how you get used to that smell?! Was absolutely fucking knackered by the time i got to the office because it sits on the biggest hill you have ever seen! So i pushed the massive doors open to be met by this dick splod security guard who's been on my back ever since i joined for some reason. Anyway unfortunately i forgot my id badge so i try to cover my belly with a scarf thinking he wont notice, walked past his smirking face, got to the stairs, get up a few steps and i hear
"excuse me sir" I'm thinking, this guy is taking the piss.
"Where's your ID badge?"
"Ummmm, i kinda forget it?!"
"oooohhhhhhhh, I'm not sure if i can let you in sir"
"well I'm kinda in already"
"well you're not actually in the office technically are you?"
"Are you serious?"
"Oh yes sir we take security really serious here at xxxxx"
"if that's the case then why aren't you checking the 4 people who have just walked in"
"Well i recognize them, don't i!"
"how do you know you recognize them if you haven't even turned round to see if you recognize them?"
"i know"
"Anyway you don't recognize me? You flipping made my security card when i started!?"
"there's no need to speak like that"
At that point i remembered my son was mucking around with it last night cause its got this pull string thing on it and he loves to see how far it can go before it slaps into his face at 100mph. So i remember shoving it in my bag to keep him safe!
"ooohh actually, its in my bag"
"that's ok then you can go up"
"WHAT?!! you don't want to see it?
"No, as long as you have it on you, that's ok for me!
"So if i came in and said i had it in my bag you wouldn't have said anything?"
"Nope" And off that fucker went! Into his fag smelling room where he most probably sat till some other poor fucker he didn't like turned up for work!
After taking a quick pee i walked into the office and see this ass hole, an absolute prick, the biggest bum licker i have ever seen in my life that i have been working with for 2 months, you know the kind of guy that starts bum licking everyone so that he gets favours, like gets to go home early , does over time etc but what he doesn't know is that everyone thinks he's a right prick!
Anyway i walk in and its
" you're supposed to be in 11:30 aren't you?
"oh yeah i am but i was speaking to the MD"
The look on his face was soo funny, i nearly pee'd.
It was like i just had sex with is wife, hahahah, i knew he was dying to ask me what i was doing talking to him and i knew he'd ask me later in the day, so i was thinking off all these mad reasons. Anyway plugged my lappie into the docking station and booted up my lappie. Started to troubleshoot some calls. I work in IT , 3rd line support. Anyway came to about 3pm, thought id go for some food and i heard,
"alright xxxxx, so you going for lunch?"
"yep" (i knew he was going to ask me about the conversation i supposedly had so i kept it brief, don't give him anything to work with)
"sooo...."
"yes"
"what u getting?"
"food, I'm hungry, you want something?"
"no, I'm ok thanks"
"ok then see ya"
"oi xxxx, what errrr....."
"yes?"
"what were chatting with the MD about?"
"ohhhh, cant say mate, he told me not to tell anyone!"
I couldn't help it but i thought this asshole has given me loads of reasons to make a idjit out of him, so i winked and walked off. I walked down to Marks & Sparks (I shouldn't have cause of the whole Israel and Palestine thing but they do do some fucking nice food man!) Grabbed some fruit and then changed my mind half way and grabbed these "chocolate refrigerator cakes" which i must say are truly orgasmic! Anyway munched my way through them and walked back.
Went into the office and carried on working, and then mr bumlicker started to do the one thing i hate above all, he started to watch what i was doing. You'd think that even after i'd moved my lappie in an angle that he'd get the point but he just moved further out to get a better view of my screen, so i turned round and said:
"alright xx"
"oh yeah, yeah, was just seeing..."
"seeing what?........."
"nothing man, you know......"
"no i don't , what's up with you man?......."
"nothing , god, you're in a bad mood aren't you, don't take it out on me?"
"I'm not in a bad mood, its just you been like a peeping tom since i came back in the office, at first i kind of liked the attention but now its getting kinda rude, you know?"
"i wasn't looking at you, in not a gay" I giggled, i found it funny, this guys a proper freshie right off the boat from Lahore, Pakistan and sometimes, he fucks his words up which i find just wicked cause my mum does it all the time.
The favourites are:
TESCo becomes TESHTO
FOOD GIANT becomes Food Joint
Happy Birthday becomes Happy Bird day.
Anyway i let him off and carried on working till...well now actually, MR BL (Bum licker) for short is still sitting next to me pretending to do work (but he's looking at the auto trader website, got another colleague, Nigerian guy who's fucking well dodgy. Made the mistake of telling him i want to get sky.
"SKY, i know a guy who will do sky for you my friend"
"Oh yeah?"
"yes £16 a month for everything"
"yeah?"
"yeah, just give him your credit........"
"fuck you mate, i don't even give my mum my CC card let alone a Nigerian"
No thanks, so i ordered it myself and grabbed a bargain, skyworld package (that's everything for £40 including unlimited broadband).Anyway a few hours to go and then i can go home and see my Mrs and my little boy, cant wait! Lets hope i don't strangle Mr BL!
See you all tomorrow