Good evening
@Stigmorgan its been a few weeks since I last posted on this thread .how are things going ? Has the inspection been completed yet? I hope you are both coping and moving forward..take care ..
Hey B, inspection is on the 30th so only 8 days left, Veda has made quite a bit of progress (less than I would like but I'll go with it) the 2 spare rooms are now accessible enough to get to the plug sockets, the bedroom on the other hand is an entirely different story, hopefully we will get it better than it is, I did set up a tent a few weeks ago outsidebthe back door, yesterday while she was out dogwalking I moved it into the corner of the garden, partly so I could cut the grass that was now 12 inches tall (I'm really bad at keeping it short) and partly so it was on better ground, where it was had low spots and the tarp I put down kept collecting rainwater, I then used up some old pallets to make a quick and dirty bench thing so some stuff can be up off the floor, we will cram as much as possible into it for the inspection.
Work on the other hand took a downward curve, on Wednesday 10th as I was finishing my shift at 12 the headteacher caught me and said she needed to have a chat with me when I return to work at 17:30 about something I had said on the 4th, bear in mind the 4th was polling day and the school was shut as our hall was a polling station so my afternoon was ruined trying to work out what I was supposed to have said, I had also locked every internal door i could to secure the site from a GDPR standpoint, I only spoke to 2 people that day outside of the people running the station, 1st was someone who pulled I to the rear carpark, as he got out of his car I said that polling and parking was at the front of school, he abruptly answered that he was here to meet the estates manager so he could take measurements in the hall, all I said to him was that our hall is a polling station so he wouldn't be going there at all but he was welcome to wait for the estates manager (who is also my line manager) I went back to work resealing a set of toilets that had come loose due to broken hold down screws, halfway through with silicone on my hands my phone starts ringing, I should have ignored it but I didn't, it was the managers admin assistant asking to be let into the office, at this point I was very frustrated at people coming in when EVERYONE was told not to come to work, my words were "for F sake nobody is supposed to be in" I hung up and went over, opened the office door and without a word went back to work for the rest of the day ( that day started at 05:30 and finished at 22:30)
Sooo back to the 10th, I went back to work expecting a quick informal chat, I knocked on the HT door and she asked me to take a seat while she goes to get our operations managers who would be sitting in to take notes, at this point I realised this is not an informal chat and seeing as the operations manager is also the woman responsible for my landlord reispection and threat of eviction I decided to start my phone recording so that I could reference the conversation to anything that happens after, turns out the contractor on the 4th had complained that I was rude and the admin assistant had complained I swore at her, also brought up in this "chat" was several other complaints from months ago by contractors that I am grumpy, rude and unprofessional.
I acknowledged that swearing in any way is inappropriate but I didn't swear at her I just swore in a sentence out of frustration
I have never been rude or unprofessional to anyone that has come here, grumpy at times possibly butnyou can't enforce someone to be all smiles and rainbows, that's not my natural disposition.
The whole interview took about 10 minutes and the next day my Headteacher came and told me that whilst my language was inappropriate, on this occasion she understands my frustration so won't put it to a disciplinary, if however any other complaints arise it will ge to formal proceedings. I then took the opportunity to point out to her unofficially that I was surprised the assistant made the complaint seeing as the morning before the day in question she had told me to "F off don't start on me today" in the staffroom in front of the estates manager because I had said she couldn't just help herself to some storage boxes I have in the staffroom waiting for new playground toys to be stored in and nothing at all was said or done about it.
Sorry that's so longwinded. I have now started working to rule when it comes to my hours and have been ignoring phone calls from all numbers that are work related which has caused some small issues when the contractor doing the groundwork for the newbuild needed me for something that nobody else had the knowledge to deal with, the surveyor sent in an electrician in the afternoon, nobody knew what they needed to know so they had to come back the next day while I was on duty. I have also removed the use of every single tool of mine from site which means unless it can be carried out or fixed with a cordless drill that has no bits or driver heads it doesn't get done because the only tools they own are a cordless drill, a petrol strimmer and a petrol leaf blower.
