When Football Goes Bad ....

.... OK, a little OTT there - could be watching Werder Bremen vs Shaktar Donetsk (1-1 after 50 minutes BTW) - but we need to look elsewhere for our fun (?!?). Why not start with a railway rant (not had too many of them for a while !). The new timetable kicked in on Saturday 16th - this photograph was taken on Stalybridge Station this very morn ...



"We apologise for the delay ...... etc etc" - marvellous eh what ? Oh and tonight .. signalling problems in the Urmston/Flixton area meant train to Stalybridge severely delayed ...

No doubt regular readers thrilled at the excitement of the "redundancy/sack race" at my place of employ a couple of months ago - I managed to stay in work but even then, many were saying "Who are the lucky ones ?". Now today we've uncovered this on t'internet - no official missive to "us the leftovers", just a few words from a press conference several thousand miles away. You might have noticed that during that period I never once mentioned the "company name" - maybe for fear of retribution - I like to feel a certain amount of "professionalism/discretion" myself - but when stuff like the following appears on the internet you feel "What's the point ?" - so I give you .... our leader, Atul Punj .....

Going down the pan ?

... meanwhile we attempt to furnish his opulent Mayfair office with decent computer kit ... but are told/ordered by other senior PL staff "not to buy new" - he's gonna love it when he turns up on Saturday to see the "Steptoe & Son" gear - our fault naturally (!)

Strange really - the redundancy kerfuffle began just before my "25th Anniversary Week Off" - this little beauty now turns up just before my "Long Weekend in Shropshire", viz I take Friday off and no doubt miss loads of official-type sh*t.

What next ... taking Friday off invariably means working late on Thursday to satisfy the desire of self-important b*st*rds (usually the obscenely-paid agency scum) who use words like "need" and "urgent" - usually to cover for their complete and utter inefficiency earlier in the project ... lack of foresight /proactiveness - and complete ignorance of company procedure (that REALLY p*sses me off) - together with so much other stuff that - being the rookie Lotus Notes "guru" (HA !) - I have started to unearth .............

Like Johnny says ... "It's getting scary" - not scary scary, but totally lunatic crazy scary - and that's even scarier ...

Watch this space - at least there's something to rabbit on about - oh and I bought a new flashgun off EBay last night, as part of my "make it look professional if nowt else" way forward .... now just missing the 85mm f1.8 !!!
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