Recent Bobbins

Last weekend I trundled down to Devon for a friend's wedding. It was great day and a chance to catch up with many old friends I don't see often enough. The reception was held at a big house near Brixham that commanded a wonderful view of the River Dart below or, to be more specific, this view of the River Dart below:

Isn't that lovely? I almost miss living in Devon... well, no I don't. I was bored out of my tiny mind most of the time. But it is good to go back every once in a while to unwind. Even better to go back to guzzle champagne with mates at a wedding.

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Yeah, all very well trying to stay out of office politics but now psycho part-time permanent-member-of-staff is making accusations to the senior management that I am deliberately fiddling my timesheets and claiming more hours than I have actually worked.

Her evidence for this was one timesheet that I had left on the fax machine where I had forgotten to note that I left early one afternoon for an appointment. Genuine mistake - it simply slipped my mind when I filled the sheet in. Of course, psycho part-time permanent-member-of-staff tried to make out that it was more than it was and made a formal complaint against me. The senior management didn;t give the accusation much credence as I have been temping for them since last October and doing a bloody good job too; but they apologetically explained that they had to be seen to be doing the right thing and so I had to be formally questioned about the timesheet by my line manager and an HR person.

Now, slightly concerned that my good reputation with my recruitment agency is compromised by this whole stupid situation, I went to see them to explain what is going on. They didn't give psycho part-time-permanent-member-of-staff's accusations any credence at all and reassured me thay have had nothing but excellent feedback about my work from everyone and, don'y worry, if things don't improve then they'll happily take me out and find me another assignment.

But never mind: I have a job interview with an academic publisher on Monday so fuck psycho part-time permanent-member-of-staff and her bitter smear campaign against... well... just about everybody it would seem.

Someone really does need to ask her exactly why she is going to such lengths to discredit everyone because nobody can figure out what she is actually trying to achieve.

Not that I care. One way or another, I ain't gonna' be dealing with this shit for much longer.