Today was one of those day, when I had a hundred and one things to do, but nothing would go quite as i had planned it. It is funny how somehow my "bad" days are linked to with my "bad" hair days, this morning when i had finished my hair i realised with horror that i had not put on any gell, and so i had flat hair all day, and as much as i did not want to think about it, deep down.................. i knew it would be one of those days.....................
The two ladies from my filing room did not arrive at work, one was sick " again" , and one missed her lift the fact that i know that she gets picked up at home did not occur to you, how do you miss your lift from your own front
door.......................................... maybe someone changed it over night.............. maybe those little monkeys came when she was asleep and moved her to a big field in the middle of the woods........................... or maybe she ended up on sock island looking for her missing sock....................... or maybe she was abducted by aliens and they dropped her off at someone else's house by mistake....................................
I did have a good laugh at one point, the only guy who works for me, slithered into my office, i showed him i was on the phone, but he could not wait, he said he needed to go home,. because he had messed, no problem he lives like 5 minutes away, when he came back i asked him what he had messed assuming that it would be a cup of coffee or some water or some coke in fact i assumed he had messed anything except what he had messed, i have to get his words exactly right.................." I was taking a leak, and i realised i wanted to have a fart, i was alone in the bathroom so let one rip.............. except it was not only air that came out.................. i realised i had a problem when i felt something warm running down my leg" well that was certainly more information than i needed but i laughed for about 10 minutes, and now everytime i look at him i have to try and keep the images out of my head.................... yes i know it is going to take a while to win that one.
My biggest frustration of the day was the care givers that the organisation i work with is sending for training. I have for two weeks, been making all the arrangements for 12 ladies to get into a taxi and go to Alberton every day for 3 weeks, the taxi was organised no problem, he phoned the ladies to discuss pick up points no problem............ the fact that the transport is costing us more per day than the actual training is a problem which i am still trying to sort out.
Monday was day one................. of the 12 ladies only 9 arrived the others had something else they needed to do, this is after 4 frustrating phone calls, making sure that they would be available, making sure they had id documents making sure they had grade 10 certificates, making sure they could understand English............... the verdict is still out on that one.......................
Today was day 2 this afternoon i was phoned by the people who are running the course to say that two more ladies had come this morning whose names were not on the list.............. I got hold of the taxi driver and his words were and again i need to get his words exactly right................ " I had place on the taxi and they had nothing to do so we took them with us"............................... What happened to asking, what happened to finding out if it was okay, what happened to manners................ what happened.................. did they even consider who was going to pay for it, which is what the people doing the training were worried about.
I don't think that we need to worry about the missing link as much as we should be worrying about the missed link.............................
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