yesterday i got a chord to an intercom system stuck down the lift shaft at work,getting the lift stuck and preventing the lift door from opening! it started out as a pretty genius idea for communicating with whoever is downstairs and it quickly escalated to a very high stress nightmare! not only was there a group of men drinking at the bar directly in front of the lift-watching my every move-but there where customers to be served and toasties to be made!!
after the conclusion that the lift doors could not be opened by sheer force,or even the FORCE the depression kicked in! knowing i would have to call a maintenance man in the first 10 days as manager was just too much!! how much would that cost? my world was crashing down,how many other things had gone wrong since i "took over"?the CCTV broke and we got a £70 call out charge for them to tell me the monitor was broken,the Internet is down AGAIN,the retractable awning wont extend out.....the beer cooler isn't cooling? the draught soda wasn't bubbly?!!!
why me i thought? I'm not cut out for this!!! i will surely end up a prescription drug addict from this job!!!
but i held tight and mustered up the confidence that i could figure something out and with a little tip from one of the guys that's been there about as long as the lift its self(and a screwdriver) i took apart the control panel on both the top and bottom floor doors of the lift!
i tried several different things and poked screwdrivers into a few different shaped holes to try and release something...finally i found a kind of spring like thing that totally released the door!!! i then was in the lift!! i quickly identified the problem,the inner doors had opened preventing the lift from moving further! with the help of an extra long handled feather duster and a huge torch(flash light) i was able to get the chord out,keep the intercom in the lift and close the doors, then sending the lift back up!!!
it was solved,the suspense was over!!!! i did it!!!! i had beaten my job,yet again!! maybe i could do it after all!!!??
i took this opportunity to rescue 6 kitchen knives and one cutting board,countless tea spoons,a mini disk recorder,a newspaper and a bag of shrimp scampi fried snacks from the bottom of the lift shaft!!!!
it was on to the next crisis for me!! in my head there was applause and champagne bursts,confetti and balloons!!! in reality there was my husband looking proud and knowing all along that i could do it,which is way better than all those other things!!
in short,i won again!
Thursday, 21 January 2010
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
going out...
this is my very first post on my very first blog ever!!
today it seems sunny outside but i don't have any reason to go out there now.
i was going to go to the post office but not anymore! I'm glad too since the closest post office here isn't very good,its in a little supermarket and all that it consists of is an aisle type thing,some bad stained carpet and a few very angry people! it smells bad and is generally unpleasant what with the security guard that follows you around!
in fact any time i have been to the post office in edinburgh it has been trying for me.
call me american but last time i checked postal workers are here to help!!
last time i went i thought i had everything i needed,scissors,the addresses,stuff i needed to send-i was planning on purchasing the envelopes there,i got to the end of the block and realized i had forgotten my sharpie so i had to return home,i was tempted to just stay there!!
be advised that you need to bring everything with you,they don't have supplies like tape and pens for you to use,at least not free of charge!
considering the amount of foreign people in the UK one might think that the postal workers would be a bit patient and willing to explain how things work but as a first timer at one of the post offices in leith i found out the hard way!i felt i had to defend myself and explain what a post office is like where i come from,what they have to offer! here if your stuff does not fit in the shabby boxes they have for sale you are shit out of luck,no packing tape on hand to help you out!!if it gets there in one piece consider yourself lucky!
so I'm glad i dont have to go to the post office today,instead I'm staying in with today's shipment of husband straight home from canada!
its a good day,its an even better day than i thought it was!
today it seems sunny outside but i don't have any reason to go out there now.
i was going to go to the post office but not anymore! I'm glad too since the closest post office here isn't very good,its in a little supermarket and all that it consists of is an aisle type thing,some bad stained carpet and a few very angry people! it smells bad and is generally unpleasant what with the security guard that follows you around!
in fact any time i have been to the post office in edinburgh it has been trying for me.
call me american but last time i checked postal workers are here to help!!
last time i went i thought i had everything i needed,scissors,the addresses,stuff i needed to send-i was planning on purchasing the envelopes there,i got to the end of the block and realized i had forgotten my sharpie so i had to return home,i was tempted to just stay there!!
be advised that you need to bring everything with you,they don't have supplies like tape and pens for you to use,at least not free of charge!
considering the amount of foreign people in the UK one might think that the postal workers would be a bit patient and willing to explain how things work but as a first timer at one of the post offices in leith i found out the hard way!i felt i had to defend myself and explain what a post office is like where i come from,what they have to offer! here if your stuff does not fit in the shabby boxes they have for sale you are shit out of luck,no packing tape on hand to help you out!!if it gets there in one piece consider yourself lucky!
so I'm glad i dont have to go to the post office today,instead I'm staying in with today's shipment of husband straight home from canada!
its a good day,its an even better day than i thought it was!
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