Having drunkenly spoken to the new CEO regards not having work boots fit for purpose last Tuesday night at the conference, things have been gathering apace. What is usually normal is for senior management, directors, high fliers, whomever to lisen with a half tilt of the head, say reassuringly and patronisingly that yes, thisngs are being fixed, its just a matter of time, etc etc and then nothing ever happens and the staff (me and the like) just get bored of waiting for anything to change and so it goes. A hideous downwards spiralling whirlpool, a race to the bottom and an expectation of absolutely nothing. They don’t give us anything and so why should we reciprocate? This is a status quo which seems tough to escape, when theres no money, theres no hope, but where the job is still enjoyable theres a whole bunch of us, without hope and trapped by some sort of weird duty or an inability to escape, as said on the Shawshank Redemption, we are institutionalised.

But weirdly out of nowhere last Friday I had an email from the new CEO, and a call from my boss telling me that I can get some boots, and may even have dry feet over the bad part of winter which we are now having thrust upon us, rain, snow and ice. Filthy not at all  showy weather. So on Friday afternoon I drove into Worcester to try and try on some boots with a view to getting them ordered first thing Monday morning. Drove in to town over the “Christmas Fair” weekend, what the hell was I thinking I thought to myself as I was forced upwards spiralling to the top of the car park only to drive back down anticlockwise in order to get out. No spaces in the car park and no sign to tell us so, and a waste of 30 minutes within a car park not achieving what those spaces are for ultimately. From this experience, and its happened a few times over my driving career, I decided that there are no spaces in Worcester for me, and I went home and back to bed. 

Monday morning and I open my work emails and another Director has emailed me, apologising about my boots and telling me that yes they were trying to fix it, and yes things will get better and yes he understands our frustrations but blah blah blah. Lets see what this week brings.