another 'work sucks' type blog...

[Tubathingy]

yes, I know I've done a few 'oh, boohoo... work sucks, call a waaaahmbulance' type blogs before, in the past... so why change the habit of a lifetime! work sucked some more, and I'm here to bore you with all of the details from the past few days... yes, it is really incredibly long and boring, fear ye all who read on...! :P
no, seriously, it's really long. I guarantee you'll get to about halfway through (if even that) and then you'll really want those last few minutes of your life back...

Sunday evening: boss goes abroad on holiday for 2 weeks, leaving little old me in charge of the business (recording/rehearsal studio). yay! (the fool!)

Monday: reasonable day at work - until around 5pm... 'what's this? the toilet won't clear when flushed?! in fact.. omg! run! it's going to blow!' (Well, it nearly overflowed anyway). So I do the usual attempts to clear it, as per my bosses instructions... which is 'ram a mop down it and see if that works...' (it didn't)... then I call my boss to tell him we need a plumber - but he's really not keen on calling out an emergency one due to the amount they charge, so I just stick a 'Toilet R broked, do nut yoos!' notice on the door and leave the calling of the plumber to the next day.

Tuesday: due to some incredibly bad news I had monday night, I'm in no mood to get up early to call a stupid plumber... besides, I'm sure I can just go into the 'B&Q' hardware supplies store on the way to work and buy a big plunger and some drainage rods and sort it all myself... but of course, they're sold out of the 2 particular items that I need when I get there, so I have to call a plumber after all (it's now 3pm), and they can't come out today, unless I pay them an extra huge call out fee then they'll come out in the evening, so I just tell them to come tomorrow instead. So, it's back to hanging a 'omg! toilet R still b0rked - and no, you can't use the sink instead' sign on the door for that evening's customers to hopefully obey (one didn't, gah!)...

Wednesday 6.30am: Awake, horribly wide awake ( I did sleep first though...) Have to head in to work for 8.30am, due to stupid plumber not being able to tell me the exact time of arrival... just, 'some time between 8.30 and 12.30'. So he arrives at 11am. But it did give me a chance to sweep the floors a bit, and watch some lovely morning television shows... *cough*.

So long story short(er), plumber just doesn't really seem to know what he's doing - looks like he's just out of school. I tell him where I think it's blocked, he ignores me, knocks a big hole in the pipe outside because HE thought that's where it was blocked, but of course it wasn't... then he only has 2 draining rods with him, which is barely even long enough to fit down the first section of pipe, let alone long enough to clear any blockage... he goes back to base to get more rods, comes back with no extra rods, does a temporary patch on the hole he made, goes away again, says he'll 'get someone to call'.
Next, (and I never usually do this...) I phone up the plumbing company and complain! omg! I even got slightly angry... noo, you darn plumbers, you don't want to make me angr... hulk smash!!!

So I decide to take a look outside myself, and I find the blockage in 5 minutes... the plumber was there an hour and a bit and I find what he couldn't find, and in 5 mins! So I can't clear it myself (even though I did stick my arm way down the pipe to the sewer and cleared a bit of it (eww! stinkeh!) - I call the plumbers place back and tell them again I'm not happy and they better get back here and finish the job... that is if they can actually find the tools to do the job this time, so they say they'll come out again tomorrow. So by the end of the day when I finally get home (10pm) it's about 15 hours since I left for work in the morning.

Thursday 6.30am (i.e. tomorrow morning): me has to get up again and go into the studio for 8.30am and see if this darn plumber can fix the thing this time, and I'm working there till midnight too... *sigh* lovely long day. I bet my boss knew the toilet was blocked and went off on holiday so he wouldn't have to deal with it.. lol


For any of you that actually read all of this blog I award you the Medal of Supreme Patience, and I say to you, "are you mad! you actually read all of that? you fool!!" :P

[Kathy]

ewwww.

Sorry I missed all the fun. :P

[Erica Langworthy]

You shoulda sent them some of the nasty ass sewage and said "Luok, Eim nawt a plumb-er but I shure az phuck fownd some shit, you doods SUCK"!