Hello to all my grumpy pals!
Had a mixed couple of weeks here. Things with my line manager are good again - although I will always be wary, but i'm enjoying the peace that brings. The only reason that they are good though I suspect is because she has now seen our management for what they are because she is being dumped on by them. The nasty part of me thinks karma is at work, but I don't really like to see it happening, although, she is copping what she was passing on to me before.
It was my birthday on Thursday and although I had to work a 10 hour day (my shifts totally suck at times) and I had to do it as a split shift (can things get worse on your birthday?) - I still ended up having generally a really nice day. My line manager came in on her day off to give me a birthday present, the assistant manager wished me happy birthday over the PA, then a while later I got a flowers and a big bag of goodies from all the girls in one of the other departments that I don't even work for to say thanks for all the help I give them which was really nice and according to the manager totally unprecedented. It was good for him to see that as he threatened me with a written warning a few days previously ... all part of the ups and downs of my last couple of weeks
He obviously doesn't hate me though, because he sung happy birthday over the PA much to the amusement of customers and to the detriment to my ears! I'm traumatised I tells ya!
At home, YoungPlum continues to amuse me and we laugh way more than probably 2 sane individuals should do at totally stupid things. She had a cooking exam this week and had to cook a scottish meal ... she was going to do Finnan Haddie but you can't get smoked haddock here (how rude!) so she ended up doing stovies and Crannachan for dessert but without the whisky, we didn't think school would approve of that. Anyway, it turned out well in spite of our best efforts to self-sabotage. Seeing her peeling spuds was hilarious, she's never going to make it on to MasterChef!
Destructo is being moderately well behaved, just stealing the usual stuff and generally just because she fancies a dog treat, she's trained us well, she steals something and she gets a reward so she'll give it back! Dammit, that's another stream of employment closed to YoungPlum, she'll never make it as a dog trainer either! The Demento Twins are probably now full sized and cause chaos and mayhem. Climbing the screen windows or the curtains regularly, trying to push the tv over, knocking everything flying when they're doing mad spazzes round the house! Luna likes to slide on the tiles and Tonks now has found her inner gymnast after having been such a lazy kitten which earned her the nickname "fat kid in the gym" which is how YoungPlum always described herself (although she is actually tall and lanky, she is hopeless in the gym at school).
We're supposed to be going out to dinner for my birthday tonight since we couldn't do anything Thursday, but I'm too tired today so we'll do it tomorrow night, today I'm going to slob around being a chair potato!
I always enjoy catching up on the Grumpy posts and what's going on with you all - one of these days I'll get facebook... maybe
Keeping my fingers crossed for you LL that things pick up for you. Love and hugs to all of you xx
Had a mixed couple of weeks here. Things with my line manager are good again - although I will always be wary, but i'm enjoying the peace that brings. The only reason that they are good though I suspect is because she has now seen our management for what they are because she is being dumped on by them. The nasty part of me thinks karma is at work, but I don't really like to see it happening, although, she is copping what she was passing on to me before.
It was my birthday on Thursday and although I had to work a 10 hour day (my shifts totally suck at times) and I had to do it as a split shift (can things get worse on your birthday?) - I still ended up having generally a really nice day. My line manager came in on her day off to give me a birthday present, the assistant manager wished me happy birthday over the PA, then a while later I got a flowers and a big bag of goodies from all the girls in one of the other departments that I don't even work for to say thanks for all the help I give them which was really nice and according to the manager totally unprecedented. It was good for him to see that as he threatened me with a written warning a few days previously ... all part of the ups and downs of my last couple of weeks
He obviously doesn't hate me though, because he sung happy birthday over the PA much to the amusement of customers and to the detriment to my ears! I'm traumatised I tells ya! At home, YoungPlum continues to amuse me and we laugh way more than probably 2 sane individuals should do at totally stupid things. She had a cooking exam this week and had to cook a scottish meal ... she was going to do Finnan Haddie but you can't get smoked haddock here (how rude!) so she ended up doing stovies and Crannachan for dessert but without the whisky, we didn't think school would approve of that. Anyway, it turned out well in spite of our best efforts to self-sabotage. Seeing her peeling spuds was hilarious, she's never going to make it on to MasterChef!
Destructo is being moderately well behaved, just stealing the usual stuff and generally just because she fancies a dog treat, she's trained us well, she steals something and she gets a reward so she'll give it back! Dammit, that's another stream of employment closed to YoungPlum, she'll never make it as a dog trainer either! The Demento Twins are probably now full sized and cause chaos and mayhem. Climbing the screen windows or the curtains regularly, trying to push the tv over, knocking everything flying when they're doing mad spazzes round the house! Luna likes to slide on the tiles and Tonks now has found her inner gymnast after having been such a lazy kitten which earned her the nickname "fat kid in the gym" which is how YoungPlum always described herself (although she is actually tall and lanky, she is hopeless in the gym at school).
We're supposed to be going out to dinner for my birthday tonight since we couldn't do anything Thursday, but I'm too tired today so we'll do it tomorrow night, today I'm going to slob around being a chair potato!
I always enjoy catching up on the Grumpy posts and what's going on with you all - one of these days I'll get facebook... maybe
Keeping my fingers crossed for you LL that things pick up for you. Love and hugs to all of you xx




