shocking

WHT

So I got off to a slow start today.

Alarm went off at 7.45

Neighbour knocked at 8am.

Rolled around in bed at 9am.

Finally got out of bed at 9.30am.

Left the house and got to South Windsor at 11am.

I spent 7 hours counting paper rolls, pallets and cartons.*

Got home at 7pm.

*Note: no lunch = poor me

Started documenting everything once I got home incase I forget to do it later. 

It is now 8pm. 

I took a little break just earlier and logged into fb. :( Everyone's having so much fun on holidays. I photostalked for a bit and got too jealous and went back to work.  Checked a couple of emails- nasty surprises, felt infuriated, went back to photostalking, felt even horrible than I did before and so I decided to blog.  Blogging about my day makes me feel liberated.  Too much on my mind.

I've had a pretty crap time at work since the end of my studyleave.  I mean, yes, I expected it to be bad, but not like this.  It feels like everything happened during the weeks I wasn't at work, and everything was just piling up in my inbox during my exam days. Ridiculous.  I was booked on 5 stocktakes in 5 days.  During these 5 days I would have to trek through different types of terrain:

• Warehouses/Storerooms
• Retail outlets
• Chemical plants
• Production lines
• Sydney airport

Where?

• Mascot
• Kotara
• Smithfield
• Newcastle
• South Windsor

Man. It sounds exciting, but there is a TONNE of follow up work to be done after each stocktake.  And travel is tiring.  I'm being a whiney pain in the ass, and I know I brought it on myself, BUT I NEED TO COMPLAIN! TO VENT! TO SMASH A VASE INTO A BILLION LITTLE SHARDS OF GLASS!

There is a senior I'm working with for.  I've never met her before, because she's based in Melbourne, but I'm so freggin' pissed at her because she's treating me like an inanimate object that will spit out the answers she needs to do her work. HONESTLY, I think she needs to go get some common sense and realise that I am just a clueless teen and I need some guidance and that not replying to my emails is not going to make me give her answers to her questions.

OK. It will take me SEVEN HOURS to travel to and from there.  It will take me THREE HOURS to do the stocktake HOW ON EARTH am I only supposed to spend 4.5 hours on the job?  You are kidding right.

Every few days for the past weeks, I've sent an email to her saying "Hi V, Hope you had a nice weekend. Would you be able to give me more info on the XXXXXXXXX stocktake on XX/XX/XX?  Cheers, B".  And I check my email everyday for a reply, and I finally got one today.

It said "It is your responsibility to get in contact with the store prior to confirm your attendance and find out when/where to be there".  No mention of what I'm counting, a phone number of the client, the client's retail name, ANYTHING.

WELL V, THANKS FOR NOTHING.

There is more, but I feel the need to bitch about another person.  The scheduler in the next division. I'll keep it simple. TAKE INTO ACCOUNT WHERE PEOPLE LIVE BEFORE BOOKING PEOPLE!  Ie. If the client is at Bankstown airport and a client at North Ryde, do not book staff that live in Ryde to work at the airport, and Bankstown folk at North Ryde. BECAUSE THERE IS SOMETHING CALLED TRAFFIC AND LACK-OF-PUBLIC-TRANSPORT. And you should also have some common sense.  I emailed her last week asking if I could do the swap and she says something along the line of "Nope. Can't help you."  So I emailed the mgr on the job asking the same thing, and she answers "Sure, I don't see a problem". She flicks an email over to scheduling and the scheduler replies with "Done."  SEE? HOW HARD WAS THAT?!  This incredibly trivial issue took FOREVER to resolve. I'm shocked.  Where is the efficiency?  I can't imagine what audit would have been like 20 years ago without the internet.

Anyway. Enough bitching. Some planning now.

I'm considering cancelling my overseas trip. It is NOT too late because we haven't got tickets yet, or organised accom yet. Phew. Why? Because I have plans to buy a car!
A what?
A CAR!
WHY?

It will make my life a hell lot easier. Esp when I need to get to places like South Windsor and Kotara.  And I'll be visiting HK in October anyway :) for my cousin's wedding.  Seriously can't wait.  If I end up staying in Aus for xmas, I can go to Qld for some rollercoaster fun and drive down to Melb on a weekend to see the Aussie Opens. :O :O :O

That is, when I learn the rules of tennis and buy a bottle of sunscreen first.

Anyway. Hope you guys have a lovely week.  I hope my trip to Kotara will be an enjoyable one.