That citrus feeling

Recently I've been blocking time out of my calendar just so I can actually do some work and not sit in meetings all day long. It's a bit sad really.

But don't you just hate it when you get invited to a meeting and 10 minutes into it you think "What am I doing here?" because you have nothing of value to add to the conversation. So you then spend the remaining hour sitting there feeling like a complete lemon.

Need to remember to be a lot less promiscuous when accepting meeting requests from now on.

For the record, I prefer to be a lemon than take the more popular option of rambling on in areas that I have no clue about, or simply repeating what has been said in a tone that suggests that it hasn't already been said, just for the sake of being heard!

Not quite your local chippie

I just went into Panera Bread for my usual soup, baguette and packet of crisps (also known as chips to my American compadres).

As usual the lady behind the counter put me down as having baked crisps when I had ordered the fat ones (I think I confuse them by asking for "a bag o' chips"). When I mentioned I hadn't ordered baked ones they of course handed me a packet of fat crisps. But then the woman said I had to take the baked ones too.

When I asked why, I was told that because she had already touched the packet of baked crisps (with her gloves on) she couldn't take them back.

Wonder what the local kebab van would make of that.

The worm turns

I've been feeling a little fed up lately, mostly with having to deal with people who forget the golden rule of business - treat your customers well because without them you are nothing. You'd think that companies would be even more mindful of this fact given everything that's going on in the economy right now. But no.

Take property management companies, for example. After three years of being a model tenant I had enough of being ignored, and enough of being treated like crap when I wasn't being ignored!

At the end of the day people make choices. They chose to be total numpties, so I chose to hand in my notice. I am now moving into a lovely new apartment and directing my monthly cheques elsewhere.