Dust Cloud

There may well be a humungous cloud of dust covering most of Europe at the moment after a volcano in EekillingstadfroedeestadtforiBirdsEyepodlisnski erupted in the south of Icelend earlier and Ok, some flights have been cancelled, (in fact I believe all have), but my worries at the moment are a bit closer to home.

A couple of nights back, I thought I had double-charged a customer, (a customer I happen to know), however I checked and it said on the computer I hadn't. I laid my mind to rest and forgot all about it. However, today I was told by the person I served I did in fact charge him twice and he went and told them... Now, for those of you who don't know, the managers at this place are power-crazy and will find even the smallest thing to bollock you over.. Ok, that doesn't sound right, but you know what I mean...

Last week, the management bollocked a colleague of mine because he put 4 butter croissants on a tray instead of 3.. He still wears a hearing-aid now after being made deaf by the roar... Another colleague claims to have been given an ear-bashing for not facing products the right way although she claimed they were only "at a slightly jaunty angle". The perfectionist and power-hungry ways of this management are the number one topic of conversation amongst us "normal workers", so the bollocking I'm going to get this evening when I walk in at 10pm tonight is something I am completely dreading... In fact, I have never dreaded anything so much in my entire life..

Not as if this is my first encounter of daft and ridiculous management. Last night, at the end of my shift, the manager who came in said I hadn't cleaned the zone I "supposed to have cleaned wasn't up to BP standards". So, I had to get the cleaning detergent and paper towels and take off all the stock of FairTrade Colombian Coffee, Cow & Gate baby food and strangely shaped toothbrushes and clean what I had already cleaned. Prick. For one, I had actually cleaned it and, two, I knew he was just getting his early-morning fix of power to get him through the morning. Most people choose coffee or heroin, but not BP management. BP management go for torturing their employees and it isn't very popular amongst us.. Oh man... I'm gonna die.

Also, to rub salt in the wounds, I got a payslip in the post yesterday morning from BP. Could I actually have been paid? No. It was a payslip for £0.00. How pointless is that? It was just like they were taking the mickey so now I know I have to wait until the 15th May for any money at all... I have no money, literally, till the end of April, unless that money I'm STILL waiting for from Beds FA for those games I did way back in February...

The whole world is a joke. The only comfort I can take is that no one can see the joke in Europe.... There's too much dust.

Ciao x