Well, all told the work day was a total fuck-knuckle. Abso-pigging-lutely pointless.
By my reckoning, I actually worked for 30 minutes today – at most.
I know, I shouldn’t complain at getting paid to do chuff-all (or very close to chuff-all, anyway) but it does my head in – I far prefer to be busy, rather than be bored and doing feck all.
I need to find something new to do, that’s for sure.
For some reason – I suspect primarily a reaction to the clocks messing about over the weekend – last night I was just not at all sleepy. In fact, I finally dropped off at around 3am, and then was up again at 6am to go to work.
All of which conspires to mean I’m utterly knackered today, and not really in the mood to do much at all. Mind you, that’s probably no bad thing, as I’ve got absolutely cock-all to do today except sit around and see if the latest thing I’ve written and launched for the company has any problems now it’s gone live and is being used by people.
So far in the 22 hours since it went live, we’ve found one tiny bug, one significant one that wasn’t caused by me, and one blip of weirdness that no-one can explain. And neither of the two fixes has taken me more than five minutes to do.
The problem is, with being this whacked, I’d rather be being busy, and having stuff to do. Sitting around doing fuck all is likely to result in me falling asleep at my desk…
As I may have mentioned before, sometimes a phrase or quote from someone just leaves me bemused, and wondering what the hell they were thinking at the time.
This happened to me again yesterday, reading the story about how a communications officer for British Transport Police lied about a significant fact, which then caused a delay in finding the body of a missing woman.
He wrongly claimed to Essex Police that trains were fitted with sensors that would detect any collision on the line. This affected the police’s “perception of the likelihood of Natasha being on the railway lines”, the report said.
“The communications officer admitted he lied to an Essex police officer, initially telling IPCC officers that he did so to end the call which would allow him to get on with his job, and that he actually had no knowledge of train sensors,” the report said.
Now really, you’ve just got to wonder about the motivation there, haven’t you?
I guess it could be paraphrased as “I told a lie so I could get rid of the call, and go back to doing something else. Sure, the call was about a missing 17-year-old girl, but that wasn’t my problem or my job.”
I just think the entire thing’s weird, let alone the motivation for using that as an explanation of why he made that mistake…
