things that go bump and chase in the night

Flamingo pair

The Flamingo Dancer phone rang at 1.30 this morning. Of course the first word out of my mouth was"oh shit" being the optimistic little lass that I am not. My mind flew to Mr FD's father who at 90 is at the top of the "God's waiting room" list. Not this time. It was the security firm informing Mr FD that an alarm had gone off in the warehouse. It was just one alarm so it was decided that if another alarm went off they would call back. Yep they did. So Mr FD drove over to the complex at 2 am to check things out. I hate him going over there solo, but solo he did. I worried about him and almost jumped out of my skin when the phone rang a 3 rd time - the security firm telling me multiple alarms were going off now. GREAT.

By this time the brave Mr FD was fighting a huge RAT. A large rat was having the time of its life in a warehouse full of seed and as it merrily tripped from bag to bag it was setting off alarms all over the place. Mr FD grabbed a shovel and started chasing the rat about the warehouse and managed to hit it but then the rat took revenge and raced back at  MR FD. Mr FD was man enough to admit that he may have uttered a girlie scream. To cut a long crime scene short, Mr FD won the battle and arrived home triumphant about 3am.

I was really thrilled when my alarm went off at 5.30. Twice while driving to work I had to really fight not to blink off to sleep. I had a coffee right up as my day unravelled.

MegaBoss likes to play with the boys and prove that she has more balls than they do. Hence she burns a lot of bridges behind her. Today one of the bridges happened to be the very one that I need to cross and is perhaps the most critical element required by the organisation to function. Not functioning and the usual bridge fixer is now alienated and so I am forced to call in a lesser bridge fixer who makes lots of noise and twirls in really lovely circles but never actually accomplishes anything. I sent Boss and MegaBoss a memo that said I need this fixed and if it isn't I will just go and lie in traffic for awhile. A flurry of emails went to inferior bridge fixer and fingers crossed also to superior bridge fixer who will be called in tomorrow. The whole thing happened because someone, MegaBoss, has an ego the size of a small planet, and because my department is low maintenance and just gets the job done, they forget we actually have procedures and need tools and made some very stupid decisions that erased the very tools critical to the business.

Remember the Peter Principle - the theory that everyone rises to the level of their incompetence? Alive and well at the "Basement of Our Discontent" [workplace].

I came home and fell asleep about 4 minutes into the 6pm television news. In old lady territory tonight. Tired and emotional.

Sigh...and tomorrow is another day.