Looking before I leap. Even without knowing where I'm leaping. Episode Two... A New Hope.

A long, long, time ago… in a factory far, far away…

To re-cap…

“To be honest I am overwhelmed by the amount of work involved in this role. The number of tasks involved is pretty high and I feel it might have been better getting someone who was already familiar with the job, for example one of the existing trainers and replacing them with someone from the production area, or spread the work load between the other trainers, to slot into the job rather than bringing someone fresh into the role with little or no knowledge of the way things are done.”

On Friday afternoon I had a meeting with my manager.

Although my work has been good so far she feels that they are putting me under too much of a work load, especially with all the new starts coming in over the next few months and the new procedure updates.

So the plan is that they will be spreading the work load between the other trainers.  She thinks it would be better for me and fairer on me if I returned to my original work area next week, but has asked if I would help out Monday and Tuesday (1000 to 1800) of this week. I will then return to ‘my team’ on Wednesday, working Thursday, Friday and Saturday (0600 - 1600).

To be honest, I have no problem with doing this. 

And to be more honest, it is a bit of a relief.

Thank you for listening.

Looking before I leap. Even without knowing where I'm leaping.

About a week ago I was asked to go along to an interview at my work. An in-house position had come up and they wanted to know if I was interested. 

Why not. What had I to lose?

As it turns out, I got the job. 

The full aspects of the job had not been explained to me, because if they had I would probably not have applied.

To be honest I am overwhelmed by the amount of work involved in this role. The number of tasks involved is pretty high and I feel it might have been better getting someone who was already familiar with the job, for example one of the existing trainers and replacing them with someone from the production area, or spread the work load between the other trainers, to slot into the job rather than bringing someone fresh into the role with little or no knowledge of the way things are done.

I actually feel it was unfair on both me and the company to put me into this position.  I also believe there are a very large number of new starts coming into the company, which increases the pressure on who is taking on this role.

Also, the person training me was only available for 8 ½ days before she went off on maternity leave. She has been in the role for over three years. I feel that the time scale was ridiculously short to learn even half of what was required.

I expected a number of administrative tasks, yes, but not to the extent that I have discovered I have to carry out.

Next week I will tell you more about what happened today. But until then…

Now Pay attention... 007

A few weeks ago I heard on the radio news, it was BBC Radio 4 news so it must be true, that Russia and Ukraine were having a bit of an argument over, of all things… cheese.

Now, the Russian ‘Bear’ has every right to disrespect another countries dairy based food products, but I don’t think it’s worth getting hot and bothered about. Also, I think it would be a rubbish plot for a James Bond movie.

I mean, can you imagine ‘M’ sending 007 on his mission to infiltrate the cheese production facilities of the Eastern Bloc in order to save English Cheddar? Nah… it would never work. Then I started thinking, ‘What if key words in Bond movies were replaced by a cheese related word?’

So, in order to unburden my mind of the idea, I have put them in the following list as per the movies in order to let you see the kind of random thoughts that occur in my random mind.

• Doctor Cheese
• From Russia With Cheese
• Cheesefinger (which sounds rather icky)
• Cheeseball (or perhaps) Thundercheese
• You Only Cheese Twice (or perhaps) You Only Live Cheese
• On Her Majesty’s Cheesy Service
• Cheeses Are Forever
• Live and Let Cheese
• The Man With the Golden Cheese
• The Cheese Who Loved Me (which sounds wrong on several levels)
• Cheeseraker
• For Your Cheese Only
• Octocheesy (there is another option on that, but it just sounded rude)
• Never Say Cheese Again (okay, it’s not in the official Bond canon, but…)
• A View to a Cheese
• The Living Cheeselights
• Licence to Cheese
• Golden Cheese
• Cheese Never Dies (or perhaps) Tomorrow Never Cheese
• The Cheese is Not Enough
• Cheese Another Day (or perhaps) Die Another Cheese
• Cheese Royale
• A Quantum of Cheese

And last but not least, as it is still in production

• Cheese Fall