I’m starting to think that people have forgotten how to listen.

For those that don’t know me well, I work for a small company, I am the primary employee and there is a part-time worker.  I just had the following conversation (bits between the greater than and less than symbols have been edited for anonymity):

Me: <Company Name>, Michael speaking.
Caller: Hi, it’s Matthew <Last Name> here.
Me: Hi Matthew, how’s it going?
Caller: I was just wondering if you could tell me when I am rostered on next?
Me: Ummm, sorry? I think you have the wrong number.
Caller: Oh, is this the Base Hospital?
Me: No, sorry.
Caller: Ok, seeya.
Me: Seeya

If this person knew how to listen properly I would have expected the conversation to go either of the following two ways.

Option one, if the caller was really listening to what I was saying:

Me: <Company Name>, Michael speaking.
Caller: Sorry, i think I have the wrong number.

Option two, if the caller was listening, but was expecting the hospital and was caught off guard:

Me: <Company Name>, Michael speaking.
Caller: Sorry, what company was this?
Me: <Company Name>
Caller: Sorry, I must have the wrong number.

Seriously, people should learn to listen; and to think, this guy works in a hospital where people’s lives may be at stake.  I hope he’s a cleaner or something and isn’t a doctor or a nurse.

I bought a Crowntail Betta for at work today. Lets see how he likes it there.

I’ve just talked to the Office of Industrial Relations and clarified the terminology of the Award I am on.

Apparently the award does not expressly cover local public holidays.  This means that the conferring of the benefit of a local public holiday to be is solely at the discretion of my employer.  So basically, even though nearly every shop and business in the area will be closed, I will still have to work and I will not get any extra pay.

I hope my boss doesn’t realise this and gives me the half day off anyway.

Damn I hate this job!

Ok, so tomorrow afternoon is a gazetted public holiday for the Lismore area.  This means I should only have to work from 9am until midday and then I get the rest of the day off.

The boss hasn’t mentioned anything about the day, so I figured I’d ask him.  Here’s an outline of the conversation:

As we all know, the Pope is not Jewish, so I assume that means that I am working.

Now I’m trying to work out what Award I am on.  I assume I’m on the “Clerical and Administrative Employees (State) Award” as a “Grade 3″ employee.  If this is the case then I should get paid double time and a half for working on a public holiday.Here’s the bit of the award that I am using to determine this:

So, either my boss doesn’t understand the award wage system or he is completely nuts because he will be paying me enough wages to cover 12.5 hours of my work for 5 hours of me being here.

Sometimes getting information about my employment is like drawing blood from a stone.

OMG! I must have been so bored at work today.  I can’t believe how many posts I put up

OMFG, today is a crap day to be stuck in an office.  I’d much rather be down at the beach.

The forecast for Lismore today is:

At 11:00am it was already 28.5 degrees; this is a perfect day to be taking a “sickie” (because it makes me sick to have to work on a day like today) and to take the Moke down to the beach.  Instead here I am stuck in an office (alone as per usual) and looking out the window on such a glorious day.  I guess the air-conditioner is some consolation, but it’s crap at its job and barely cools the office down.

Oh well, the things we do for money.  Bring on the day that I can breed fish at home and make a living from it; at least then on a day like today I could bludge and go to the beach.