Meet

Hopefully in the not to distant future, ok November, there should be a blog meeting somewhere in London.

I'll let you know when and where as soon as we set a date.

Hope to see you there, managers need not attend.

What do you do with a drunken Policeman.

I was called the the ticket hall area by my Customer Service Assistant (CSA), because he had let in a Met Copper who was pissed as a parrot, drunk as a skunk, jober as a sudge.

To say the bloke couldn't stand was a bit of an understatement.

I appreciate that we have to let off steam every now and again, and being shot in the head with a BB Gun comes to mind.

He's a regular Copper who comes through the station most days. We tried for over 30 minutes to get him home but to no avail.

Finally after 45 minutes of this drunken copper, i finally had enough and had to call the British Transport Police (BTP) which is something i didn't want to do.

I spoke to the BTP on the phone and explained about the incident, who put out the call out as a drunken male at my station refusing to leave.

Within 5 minutes a BTP officer arrived on scene, and i explained that the drunken male was a Met Copper.

He spoke to the Met Copper, and he then had to call for backup himself, as the Met Copper wasn't going anywhere.

Backup arrived.

So finally an hour later the BTP escorted the Met Copper off site, sat him down outside the station, and still could get no sense from him.

All of a sudden i noticed that there was a set of pips present, ie; a Police Inspector was now dealing with the incident.

In the end, 9 BTP officers dealt with this one drunken Met Copper.

I spoke with the Inspector after i noticed a BTP Police Van arrive and they carted the Met Copper off in the back of the van in handcuffs.

Apparently the Met Copper threatened the BTP Officers and told one he was going to break his legs, not a clever thing to do, so he was arrested.

So much for being on the same side.

Music Faced

Manager spoken to. Written warning received. End of story.

Unlike some of my colleagues, if i get in trouble at work and I'm in the wrong I'll hold my hands up and admit it.

Which is a policy that has stood me well in over 17 years on this job.

So i was in front of my manager yesterday, and we spoke about the incident that got me in trouble a few weeks back.

I was in the wrong as I'd left work with out telling my managers that i was going home, but there was a serious reason why i went home, it wasn't just sneaking off. I truly was unwell on that Monday.

Also we spoke about the row on the Tuesday, he apologized for his behavior as he realized afterwards, that he should have sent me home, because he has known me for over 10 years, we used to be Railmen (customer service assistants) together at a different station, and he has never seen me act like i did on the Tuesday.

So now were all back to normal again, and now I'm just going to carry on doing my job to the best of my ability, that's all i can do.

Time to face the Music

Well i have an interview this afternoon with my manager about the incident a few weeks back.

So I'm not really looking forward to going in. I might go sick again (joking)

The thing is with me even if i do fall out with a manager, unlike them i don't hold a grudge.

I'm generally a happy go lucky bloke who likes to laugh a lot, don't get me wrong I take the piss an awful lot, but when shit happens at work I'm a different person to deal with.

So time to get ready for work, and have it out with the manager.

Weighing day part 4

Well the time for the weigh in has come and gone.

Another 3 and a half lbs has bit the dust (hopefully) so in total i have now lose a total of 18.5lbs of weight.

So thats me now under the 17 stone mark for the first time in years. And i feel better for it already.

I'll need a new wardrobe soon :).

I sometimes hate restdays

Well i'm on day 2 of rest, and so much for resting.

All i've done today is house work. You name it i cleaned it.

I actually got a fasirly decent sleep last night, almost a full 8 hours. which is a big shock to the system.

So hopefully my medication is finally starting to kick in and i'll start sleeping properly again.

Also today is weight watchers day so hopefully i haven't done to bad this week.

I'll tell you later today how i did.

Peaceful Night even better Morning

Well I was blessed with no contractors last night, so absolutely nothing happened.

However this morning i had to go over to my ex girlfriends place and collect some stuff that was stored in her back shed.

Well I've been pining a bit for her as i think i made a mistake calling it off, however after the blazing row i had today, I made the right choice.

So i am most definitely single and happy about it.

Good Night

As you may have read, I've had trouble sleeping properly.

Well yesterday was no exception. I slept for about 4 hours but the difference was by the time i got to work i had fallen asleep on the sofa at home from 5:30 until 7:00 so i actually felt refreshed.

I was fairly chirpy all night at work even the Station Master noticed that i was sounding happier.

I got to work and as per usual I had a ton of contractors working on my station.

They were contractors in and out of my office all night long up until they went home at 4:10 just in time for me to open the station.

So hopefully as i feel better in myself I'll be able to sleep today.

Wow breaking news.

Its amazing what some people steal.

Whilst looking through the local area news on the beeb, i came across this.

Sad really, when you think about it.

I've never yawned so much

Well as you know i didn't sleep well yesterday, I arrived at work feeling shattered, during the course of the night I just couldn't stop yawning.

You name it i yawned.

Even chatting with the Station Master couldn't stop me.

So i got home this morning and the phrase "I'm bolloxed" comes to mind. So hopefully I'll sleep today.

I was even jealous of the contractors last night, as one set had a job and knock (get the work done as quick as possible and go home) for the night, so they booked on with me at 00:00 and there on there way home at 01:50.

However the one good thing is that, the electricians have a lovely young woman of 33 in there group and i think she's single :).

Ah well i might or i might not see if she wants to go for a drink.

Sleep pattern

Today has been one of my worst sleeping days for ages.

I went to bed at 11ish and finished reading a book about 12ish, then tried to get some sleep.

2 hours later and I'm still awake, oh joy.

I finally fell asleep after 2 and I'm awake and hour and a half later, I fall asleep again and get woken by my mobile: "Hi Dave" WRONG NUMBER bugger.

I finally awake at 6ish and think i can't be bothered no more and get up.

So i will next see my bed tomorrow morning about 11ish.

Time for work

The manager arrives

I'm off to work at 20:55 to get the 21:09 train to London, Only to find the train has been cancelled and the next one is at 21:45, at 21:25 a P.A. from the station staff kindly announces that the 21:09 is cancelled. Great real time info there.

I arrived at work with 10 minutes to spare and as I'm normally at work by 22:20 this has thrown my night completely out of sync.

As i walk through the door I'm greeted by a friendly manager (sarcasm i think) who is here to carry out my back to work interview, (trying to find out why i was off sick last week).

So the interview went well, I told him i was on medication, but he already knew this from last week, as i told him over the phone so he could check it out with Occupational Health, I have to do this as a legal requirement as i might not be fit to carry out my duties as a Supervisor.

I asked him if he found out if it was ok and he replied I think it is i can't remember if i rang them, oh joy.

So the interview finished with us just chatting, when he then springs on me that i have a formal interview about last Mondays incident where i left work early. And joy beyond joy, it's with the same manager who caused me to go sick last week.

So now I'm sitting at work slightly aggrieved and wondering weather i can be bothered to work for this company any more. The only thing that kept me at work and will get me to go in tonight is my friend and colleague the Station Master. Who after much drivvel between the two of us actually ended up laughing at some pretty silly stuff. (it's amazing what you chat about on nights).

I finally got home this morning at 8:40 had some breakfast and a coffee, and thought thank god I'm home.

Tonight is night 4 of 7 so after that it's all down hill until Tuesday morning.

A BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE STATION MASTER.

Its nice to be home

After a peaceful shift, with only the company of 30 odd contractors and 7 PICER (Person In Charge Evacuation Register) forms to keep me a wake, oh and the Station Master to chat to. I'm finally home.

The only thing to do before bed time will be to do a dark wash and hang them out. What a sad life really.

So bed time will be around 11 am and I'm looking forward to hitting the sack.

Tonight is night 3 and for some reason Thursday nights are now worse then Friday nights for drunk people. So I'm hoping for another peaceful shift apart from the contractors.

Weight watching

I'm feeling happy now, I just went to weight watchers tonight and lost more weight.

I have so far lost a grand total of 15lbs which is just over my first stone. So time to get some proper eating in again whilst I'm on nights.

Steak, Mushrooms and Super Noodles come to mind.

First night of seven

Well since i last blogged, I've been on medication and i went out over the weekend twice and got bladdered (drunk), it helped a lot but i wont be going down the road of alcohol as, i don't really go out drinking all that often, so no need to worry there.

Well, last night it was my first night back since i walked out, and i felt crap all day from having little panic attacks.

I went into work thinking, I wonder if i will see a manager tonight, and as I'm on anti depressants, would i still be allowed to do my job as a Station Supervisor. i had informed my managers last Tuesday i was now on meds, but i have had no contact from them for almost a week, (bliss).

So back to last night I got into work about 22:15 and the phone rings, first thing i thought was, oh shit it's a manager, but no my luck was in it was friend the Station Master hooray.

So I'm working nights this week, at least i will have someone to verbally abuse as it makes the week go quicker. (Only joking)

Apart from having 32 contractors on site over night, its been a relatively peaceful night.

So here looking forward to night 2.

Feeling like shit

As i blogged earlier, i haven't been feeling myself of late, so i went to my doctors today and I've been given medication for depression, this was after the fact that i booked off duty sick with diarrhea.

I went home early yesterday not feeling well , and was booked missing from duty.

I went to work this morning feeling like death, when i was summons down to see my manager,

I sat in front of him and i was shaking with the cold, my stomach was doing back flips and all my manager asks is why i didn't tell anyone i went home.

After about 30 minutes of interrogation he went off to fill in his report, As i sat in the office waiting to be seen again i actually turned on the heating to get warm as i was shivering that much, I'm still shivering even now whilst I'm typing this.

I got fed up with waiting so i thought "fuck this I'm going home".

I went and saw my manager and told him I'm booking off sick. You can't do that you have to sign your paperwork. So like a prick i waited and he advised me not to book off. I said to him

Well as you can see I'm not well are you going to send me home.

No he replies.

I said.

So much for having a caring management team.

So fuck you I'm off home, I booked off sick and went home.

Feeling strange

God knows what's going on at the moment, as you can see I haven't really been bothered blogging as I've had a few things on my plate.

But it's Sunday night and I'm at work now doing a double shift, ie 16 until home time.

Over the past couple of days works been a bit of a pig, falling over, recovering, falling over again.

Take Friday morning, in a space of 30 minutes I had updated the DVA (digital voice announcer) in the office 7 times, but that's the underground life for you. no rest for the wicked.

In case your wondering why I would be silly enough to do a 16 hour shift, its because I live out side London and my cars of the road, so I couldn't drive in.

Well the contractors have already made themselves known tonight, so no rest for the wicked.

All gone quiet

I know i haven't been blogging a lot lately, as i was just busy pottering around doing nothing much :).

So this week has been pretty no eventful at work, apart from a few glitches with the service having minor delays.

The only real thing I've been concentrating on is my diet.

I joined weight watchers last week and topped the scales at a lovely weight of 18Stone 2lb or 252lb or 114kg.

After my first full week on the diet i'm now down to 17 Stone 8lbs or 246lb or 111kg.

So not bad for my first week,

Well time to get some nice breakfast.

Sleeping trouble

It's sods law.

I've had trouble lately sleeping past 7 am, so when i woke this morning at 6:50 as usual i was surprised that i fell back to sleep.

So what happens, my friend rings me at 7:20 to see what shift i'm doing and asks if i'm ok.

Bloody typical.

What a BORING weekend

I have had some boring weekends but this one takes the biscuit.

Apart from Most Haunted being on TV, I,ve just been completely bored.

I'm looking forward to Tuesday as i have a restday, and I have the builders in and also i'm havingf my washing machine fixed.

Its only 2 weeks old and its dead. So hopefully it should be working on Tuesday ready to clean my white shirts for the new week.

How bored am I, i'm even talking about my bloody washing machine.

I've been a bit down this week

But now i'm back, from out of space ....

Whoa, Whoa almost started singing there.

Well I had a lousy weekend with my ex girlfriend, i tried to win her back as i realised i made a mistake, but no joy.

And now to court, It went lousy too, I asked the judge if i could see my kids every week but unfortunately as i work shifts and i don't have a set day off during the week, the judge said it would be better if the kids didn't have thier routine upset.

I also asked that my ex wife should do half the travelling, as my kids live in Southend and i live in Northants, so it's a 6 hour round trip.

Once again, as i only get to see my kids every 6 weeks the judge said no it would be unfair, however if you wanted to see the children every 3 weeks instead he would agree. as i have a car and also can use public transport too. However if i wanted to have my kids every3 weeks instead he would agree, As i only have 2 weekends off in 6 i said to the Judge when am i supposed to have any down time, away from work and things in general.

His suggestion was the second week could be a short weekend, which in my opinion wouldn't work either as i like good quality time with my kids and that wouldn't work. Short weekends are just that too short I'd only have them for one night.

Well time for dinner!!!