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Author: Subject: You ever have one of those days...?
flak monkey

posted on 12/1/11 at 08:47 PM Reply With Quote
You ever have one of those days...?

Well today is one of them....

The boss gave me (and most of the office) his cold.
Spent all day in various meetings and generally feeling crap

Get back, go in the garage to finish a couple of jobs for people.

Nothing goes to plan, welding brackets to fuel rail ends in a mess which takes ages to put right, then drilling the injector holes the drill picks up and spend an hour putting it all right again. Grrrr



Ok so its not the worst day in the world, but its just annoying when a job that should only take a couple of hours ends up taking the best part of a day.





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StevieB

posted on 12/1/11 at 09:02 PM Reply With Quote
I know those days!

I find it best to just give it up as a bad thing and go to bed early. Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day

PS - what were you doing with your boss to catch his cold so quickly

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flak monkey

posted on 12/1/11 at 09:12 PM Reply With Quote
Lol he had it last week and this week it seems to have caught up with everyone else. I am going to stick a biohaz sign on the door tomorrow!

Did manage to get the job done in the end, was on the brink of it flying across the workshop on more than one occasion... lol





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stevebubs

posted on 12/1/11 at 09:40 PM Reply With Quote
Yup. Spent the best part of 2 hours on the phone to our lovely inland revenue discussing the finer points of their inability to allocate me the correct tax code...
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Richard Quinn

posted on 12/1/11 at 09:48 PM Reply With Quote
Sounds like a fairly standard day really. 10 minute jobs always take several hours and a 1/2 day job needs a weekend setting aside. As for colds - I'm on my fourth different one since the 22nd December and this week I'm not sleeping properly and I feel completely drained. One thing I have finally learned though is that you don't feel well and are a little tetchy, don't try to do anything that could possibly go wrong because it will!
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Ninehigh

posted on 13/1/11 at 08:35 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by flak monkey
Ok so its not the worst day in the world, but its just annoying when a job that should only take a couple of hours ends up taking the best part of a day.


Sounds about right, any job takes 10x what it should take, even if you've already factored this in.






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David Jenkins

posted on 13/1/11 at 09:08 PM Reply With Quote
When I get days like that I walk away and do something entirely different - watch TV, read a book, go for a walk.

I know from past experience that if I continue on something that's going wrong I'll only make a pig's ear of it, and have to do it again later...






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