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KajiKita

Ran up and down the M5 again today, another day’s training. It was okay but not riveting, mainly to align us all to the ‘group-think’ of the parent Group … Still, it’s done now. 

Got very frustrated before I left work to travel this morning - apparently the previous incumbent in my role was ‘a really good quality manager’ … well if they were, WHY do we have such a dreadfully poor understanding and culture around the control and care of measuring equipment? My poor quality engineer is blaming himself for the 3 out of 6 items I randomly checked on Monday being ‘out of control’ after two months of work to sort it (I coached him out of that and got him facing forwards again) and I am beyond infuriated by a colleague manager who should know better’s attitude … Grrr …

I managed to get home at more or less the usual time 😊 and Mr KK was in the garden cutting slabs for the next section of path, so I cooked tea for us (it was meant to be his cooking night, but we swopped as the forecast for tomorrow is poor so he wanted to make the most of today). I cut rosemary from the garden and used it to roast up some limp baby spuds in the bottom of the fridge into something tasty to,
 go with Mr KK’s gammon  😊

KK

debtfreewannabe321

Ran up and down the M5 again today, another day’s training

I read this SO literally. 😬👀 Had to re -read twice 🤣🤦🏻‍♀️.
Sorry about the work issues hope they resolve themselves quickly.

I've been using rosemary from the garden too. It tastes so much better than the dried one I had before 😀 

edinburgher

I also read that literally 😂 

KajiKita

debtfreewannabe321 said:

Ran up and down the M5 again today, another day’s training

I read this SO literally. 😬👀 Had to re -read twice 🤣🤦🏻‍♀️.
Sorry about the work issues hope they resolve themselves quickly.

I've been using rosemary from the garden too. It tastes so much better than the dried one I had before 😀 

edinburgher said:

I also read that literally 😂 

I aim to entertain 😉😊

I’ve been tracking the cost of the produce from my garden this year and I think herbs will be the biggest value category 😊

KK

Humdinger1

Are you planning to point out the discrepancies re the previous incumbent in your role @KajiKita?!  A reality check seems indicated.  As ever, you're doing brilliantly.   Love Humdinger xx 

Merlin's_Beard

Oh, the issue when X was wonderful but also you can see that they weren't!

KajiKita

It’s been a bit of a day ….

Builders turned for a fourth day of digging for two leaks on the site. They fixed the small leak they found yesterday with more robust fittings. 👏😊 I got photos to send off to the water company.  They then spent the whole day digging where the leak detection expert told them to, but it wasn’t until the end of the afternoon when I stopped listening to the expert and we went right up to the meters, under the trees, on the grass verge by the road where our site boundary is, that we found the big leak (3,000 litres per day). We had a geyser, undermined ground (one of the builders sank into it somewhat 😳) and a snapped shovel at this point! 😂😂

Sparkies turned up in the morning for a long planned work programme involving a cherry picker. As they were signing in I asked to see their cherry picker licence and everybody looked anxious … We couldn’t get the licence from the training company before the afternoon so they turned the low loader around at the end of the M## and sent it off to another job. Apparently most people don’t check but they sheepishly acknowledged that they should have realised that I would … 🙄😂

Whilst all this was going on I was trying to update a spreadsheet of someone else’s design on the H&S training records for all employees for a Group level review tomorrow. This was incredibly fiddly, boring  and took a lot of concentration. 

Also, my quality engineer is still trying to unpick the … what’s the diplomatic way of saying this …? 🤔 The festering, dragging, land mined and risky swamp of chaos the previous quality manager left as a calibration system … so I spent quite a lot of the day acting as a sounding board on how to tackle issues and how to make sure our corrections and changes to processes were robust. 

Sales guy wandered through my office for a cheerful and enthusiastic chat about a huge potential customer order that would require us achieving the automotive standard (IATF 16949) We could do this (we are a loooong way away atm), but not in top of cyber essentials and 14001 next year!! I need a chat with my boss about priorities …! 

When I finally got home, I very deliberately went into the garden and did some dead heading to ‘land’ a little bit … 😉

KK

Cheery_Daff

That sounds like a very busy day indeed!! Very sensible to do some grounding deadheading to recover 

KajiKita

Cheery_Daff said:

That sounds like a very busy day indeed!! Very sensible to do some grounding deadheading to recover 

😊

Madame has nicked my chaise shorte and is showing me how chillaxing is done …



🙄😉❤️

KK

Brewerspride

You definitely need to follow Madame Chloe's example after the day you've had.