News in brief

We've now switched over to the new system at work, and my first Press Day - last Wednesday - lasted till very nearly midnight.

This was for many reasons, but it boiled down to my team being unable to start work on the bulk of the ads for that magazine till Press Day, and the fact that one of my team was on holiday... Then another one took the morning off (and actually hasn't been back to work since, having resigned at the end of the week. Apparently because I've been harassing her.

Needless to say, Human Resources looked at the evidence, and concluded that she's trying to kick up a fuss because I've been trying to clamp down on her absenteeism. She'll be offered the opportunity of returning to work, just not on my team (essentially taking on the 'floater' role)... but it's highly unlikely she'll go for it.

Probably a good thing.

I'm tired, cranky, and more determined than ever to go looking for another job.

In other news, my niece continues to grow healthily... but is having an MRI later in the week to check that everything really is as good as it seems. I had a power failure at home last night (while I was watching Chuck, annoyingly... but I believe it's repeated at the weekend), which cut short an internet chat with my boss. Turned out to be a local fault both at the power station (where a fuse was changed) and somewhere closer to home (where engineers on site restored power gradually from about 10am onward, with my power coming back at about midday). By the time power had been restored, there was no point in me going to work - my boss was letting everyone off at 2pm - so I spent the whole day at home.

There were things I needed to do at work, but I guess they can wait till tomorrow... The most annoying thing is that there was actually no need for me to stay home, since the engineers didn't need to enter my flat.

I kinda needed the rest, though... Somehow I managed to sleep through the hour of 8am-9am, roused only by a phone call from one of my staff, announcing that she was going to be late.

The down side to this unexpected day off is that I don't actually feel like going back to work tomorrow.

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