Well it’s been a strange week. Anyone who reads my journal regularly (hmm, are there actually such people? Surely they’re not so bored?) I digress. I’ve been trying to get the works network and broadband up and running (with little success) I’ve finally got each to work independently, but neither system will talk to the other. So Tuesday we got network specialists in to try and fix it. I’m kind of pleased that it was all set up properly and they couldn’t see why it wouldn’t work either (My first network and I did it right…Yeah me!)

I went in on Tuesday just for a couple of hours to have the meeting about the network, but several hours later I was still there (Ended up doing 10 hours, so much for my day off!) But in the end it was decided that the network is already outdated for our needs, so they are coming back to set up a full scale, cable and wireless cross network (Can I get an Ooooohhhh?) Anyway, it sounds complicated, but it should be fun to watch.

Wednesday, my immediate boss was working from home, and the other two were in the office. Turns out they both ran home at night to telephone her and tell her that I wasn’t working. Strange, I would have thought doing the paperwork, reinstalling a computer, updating a second computer and formatting a third whilst placing job adverts, answering the phone, sorting out pay queries and training another member of staff would be classed as work. Apparently not.

So I had a nice big set-to with my boss yesterday about my work; that I’m not PAID to train staff (nobody else does it, but I shouldn’t either. Not sure how anyone is supposed to learn anything.) So that was a fun filled day. I’m already being punished for being off sick a couple of weeks ago by not being sent on any of the free training courses that everyone else is going on (in their own time of course!)

Now it turns out that I don’t even need to be involved in any of the new network installation (Erm, but aren’t I supposed to be the technical administrator who will be having to fix it when it all goes wrong, or add to it as we expand?)

I’m pretty sure this all means that I have served my purpose, and they want to make my life miserable until I quit so they can get somebody in to just do the paperwork for two thirds of the price of me, then my boss will do the technical stuff from home via VPN.

I might be more surprised at it all if this hadn’t happened before. The first time I worked here and handed my notice in because of my health, my weeks notice was spent doing all the scrappy, nasty little jobs nobody else wanted and my boss virtually refused to talk to me for the whole week. So that was fun. But it looks like it’s going to be a case of batten down the hatches; I’m in for a stormy ride! Don’t plan on going without a fight though, or at the very least without giving them a few home truths along the way.

But in the mean time it looks like I’m going to have to get down to some serious job hunting. Then I need to decide whether I go on the sick for a while to let my health recover a bit, or whether I can manage to go straight into another job. Urgh, I hate job hunting. I can never find the ideal job for me and when I do (like this one) there’s always a slap in the face to go along with it.

*sigh*

On the upside, I’ve just got an email (30 seconds ago) to tell me that from 13th August the phone exchange will be enabled so I can get broadband. Wheee!