Just a work rant tonight ...

... which I've not done for a day or five !!! Try this ...

Yesterday an "informal" chat with HR (hope she enjoyed her holiday - I didn't ask) - my boss had seen her earlier and - to my subsequent discomfort - had mentioned my "health problems" - so there was much "concern" (ha !) in said meeting. The phrase "I know you're going through a lot at the moment and with this as well ......." etc etc etc - the caring side of HR (ha !) To cut a (boring) story short - "You will be receiving a phone call later today (as in yesterday)"... I didn't.

HOWEVER today said person (who should have rung me yesterday) was in the office - he had a meet with my boss - and he's now sorted (finishes tomorrow - in the "Penny Black" pub at lunchtime as they say). Boss tells me "They'll be in touch before lunch as they know you're going to the hospital (for chest x-ray) in the afternoon". Yes you've guessed it - absolutely, precisely ... nothing ...

So I left work and "trained/bussed it" to Tameside Hospital - they took snaps (one portrait and one landscape believe it or not - 11 stone weakling and they can't fit my chest on one pic !) before .. home - and thanks to Gaz for passing over a rather "rare" Mossley badge - I believe it goes back to the 1940s/1950s - needs checking out. I also picked up a book "off the pile" at Stalybridge Buffet Bar - "Arguments for Socialism" by Tony Benn - written in 1979 - should show up the "New Labour" crap for the latent Toryism/Fascism that it really is - top man Tony - shame there's only him and Dennis Skinner left in the socialist world - I can remember Harriet Harman as a fiery "leftie" when I was at Sheffield Poly back in the 80s - look at her now - and don't get me on Jack Straw for Frith's sake .......

What's the odds that the guy who should have spoken to me today is "on site" tomorrow - and therefore unavailable for comment - my fiver is already on that scenario. So the "caring sharing" side of things yesterday reverted to type today ... i.e. usual crap/incompetence/etc - you choose - I've already chosen !

Some football news ("at last" you all say !!) - there might be some new wallpaper on the Stalybridge Celtic Social Club walls in the not too distant future (sshh .. just a rumour ! ). Next - what do I do on Saturday ?? Mossley v Bedworth in the FA Trophy or Farsley Celtic v Hyde United (the meeting of the two "close to bust" clubs - ironic really that Hyde's first game after their reprieve is against Farsley - who "went bust" for 24 hours not that long ago) - tis a tricky one ...

Has anyone noticed a couple of changes on the blog by the way ? - a new banner (I WILL improve it - honest - it's "work in progress !") and a few links to good blogs (OK mates !) at the top. A change is as good as a rest as they say ...
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