Work - you know you want to!

Well, after a whole two posts on Tuesday, I have been rather remiss as it is now Thursday evening. Please accept my apologies, however there is a very good reason indeed.

Work.

Yes, several months of careful shutting down or selling off nearly every product I have anything to do with at work has had two rather important side efffects:

1. I am being made redundant (although they still won't tell us when - aaaargh! gimme the money!)

and

2. I have absolutely nothing to do. Apart from on Friday when I do the work I've saved up all week, just to pretend I actually still have a 'job'.

On the whole, this hasn't been too bad. On the good side I have started blogging, which is nice, and I have the chance to do everything on the internet I could ever think of. On the bad side, I have severely battered the plastic by spending too much time looking at nice shiny websites that sell things and I have the chance to do everything on the internet I could ever think of.

That's all changed though. Oh yes. The powers that be who thought up this 'business re-alignment' have finally realised that a lot of the stuff that was being done before is now being done, or rather not, by people who have transferred to a company we sold some stuff to. Plus, they are also trying to transfer large chunks of a large sales/publishing operation from Dorset to that there London.

They have now realised, this equals 'oh shit, we really actually have to think about how we're going to do this don't we?'

Here is where I come in. Being the handy chap I am, I am now getting work - yes actual work - foisted on to me. Bugger.

Today somebody e-mailed me asking if I knew how to do something, signing with just his name. I checked his e-mail address and it wasn't a 'company' one. So I e-mailed back and asked him who, if I might be so bold, he actually was. He replied, saying he was the 'Group New Media Director'. Oh, how I laughed. Not put off (and knowing everyone else copied in on the e-mail would find it even funnier), I explained to him people normally had an e-mail signature. In fact, not having one is a clear contravention of the company IT policy. Group New Media Director. Oh, how I laughed!

Highly paid people are popping up and disappearing daily at the moment. Lines of communication have taken a bit of a beating to be honest. In fact, if I wasn't so honest it would be an ideal time to make up my own highly paid job and commandeer an office and a large salary somewhere, I really don't think anyone would notice.

So, the upshot is, I still have a job although hopefully that will all end soon - however, if I cannot post quite as often as I have done recently, please be sure that I have not deserted our fledgling collective, your Recruiting Officer is still here, he is just currently having to put his mind back into work mode and it might take some time...