I thought it had been over a week since I had last written on this blog but I just checked and it is the other way around-not quite a week.
I did start a new entry a couple of times but I wasn’t inspired and would have ended up writing dribble. In fact I am not feeling too poetic now so I hope anyone who reads this doesn’t get put off if this post doesn’t go over well.
It’s been a fairly hard week. Work has been intense. A fair bit of work and morale that has hit rock bottom. I don’t understand Australia Post. They use to have people who had some idea what is going on but now they are really turning into a second rate public service department. They were never great at Canberra Mail Centre but I never thought it could go this low. The legacy of the last regional manager is going to be felt for a long time and I don’t think the new one has enough of an idea to be able to improve things.
They are pushing on with trying to establish a parcel centre. They want to have the new parcel organisation running at our mail centre by August and bedded in at the old Phillip Delivery Centre by December. I put my name down as an expression of interest over a year ago but no one ever said anything to me about it although I expect that to change soon.
They have appointed a Parcel Centre manager, albeit without a parcel centre to manage and this guy is going to organise the whole thing within 3 months apparently. Pigs might fly too! He is a young guy who has no experience in mail processing and I daresay will need to lean heavily on supervisors to be able to do his job.
Add to that the fact that to anyone with half a brain the old Phillip Delivery Centre is about as unsuitable as it can get for a parcel centre and you have a recipe for a potential disaster and I want no part of that!
It actually looks to me like these decisions are being made in Sydney by people who haven’t actually seen or understand the infrastructure of Canberra yet they are trying to push a square peg into a round whole. If they had experienced managers here in Canberra to oversee things they might yet avert catastrophe but I must say I have no confidence in this management at all. They expect people to go to parcels but have released no details. They have no insight or people skill at all. They are playing with our future and don’t care bout their staff at all.
On a more personal level I spent the weekend at Young with some close friends of Linda’s. They have pay TV and the teenage boys who live there are constantly flicking between channels so you better not get too engrossed by anything you are watching because it won’t be on for long, haha. I think over a matter of half an hour or so I was watching the Sheffield Shield cricket final, V8 Supercars, multiple Super 14 Rugby matches and Rugby League. Lucky the Aussie Rules hasn’t started or I daresay I would have got a dose of that too! It was a good relaxing weekend but I must say watching TV all day Sunday eventually gets boring. Was glad to get home.
I’m someone who likes to know what is going on in the world and when I stay with someone I feel cut off from happenings around the place so it was nice to get home and fiddle around on my own computer and catch up on things. And there has been plenty going on too hasn’t there!?
Another weekend away next weekend. Going to Sydney to watch Neil Diamond in concert then to Bowral on Sunday evening to Lionel Ritchie at “A Day on the Green”. I could have done without it as I have plenty of other things I need to do and I hate Sydney with a passion but Linda insisted that I go and I understand that. With her new job causing her to work long hours and myself not getting home till 10pm or so the week can go by in a blur. Nice to slow down and cach up with each other on the weekends.
Before I go I just wanted to mention Matt Goss from Tassie. He won the Milan to San Remo cycling race on Saturday. This is one of the first races I ever heard of when I was a boy and possibly sits alongside Paris to Roubaix as the cycling world’s most famous one day race. Eddy Merckx won it 7 times! So as you cna see it was a prestigious victory, the first ever by an Australian. Yet no mainstream media outlet bothered to report it. Sad. Cadel Evans has built up the sort of profile that makes it hard for the media to ignore him when he does something special but surely Matt Goss deserved a mention on the nightly news too?
Anyway, time for me to go cycling too. Bye.
I did start a new entry a couple of times but I wasn’t inspired and would have ended up writing dribble. In fact I am not feeling too poetic now so I hope anyone who reads this doesn’t get put off if this post doesn’t go over well.
It’s been a fairly hard week. Work has been intense. A fair bit of work and morale that has hit rock bottom. I don’t understand Australia Post. They use to have people who had some idea what is going on but now they are really turning into a second rate public service department. They were never great at Canberra Mail Centre but I never thought it could go this low. The legacy of the last regional manager is going to be felt for a long time and I don’t think the new one has enough of an idea to be able to improve things.
They are pushing on with trying to establish a parcel centre. They want to have the new parcel organisation running at our mail centre by August and bedded in at the old Phillip Delivery Centre by December. I put my name down as an expression of interest over a year ago but no one ever said anything to me about it although I expect that to change soon.
They have appointed a Parcel Centre manager, albeit without a parcel centre to manage and this guy is going to organise the whole thing within 3 months apparently. Pigs might fly too! He is a young guy who has no experience in mail processing and I daresay will need to lean heavily on supervisors to be able to do his job.
Add to that the fact that to anyone with half a brain the old Phillip Delivery Centre is about as unsuitable as it can get for a parcel centre and you have a recipe for a potential disaster and I want no part of that!
It actually looks to me like these decisions are being made in Sydney by people who haven’t actually seen or understand the infrastructure of Canberra yet they are trying to push a square peg into a round whole. If they had experienced managers here in Canberra to oversee things they might yet avert catastrophe but I must say I have no confidence in this management at all. They expect people to go to parcels but have released no details. They have no insight or people skill at all. They are playing with our future and don’t care bout their staff at all.
On a more personal level I spent the weekend at Young with some close friends of Linda’s. They have pay TV and the teenage boys who live there are constantly flicking between channels so you better not get too engrossed by anything you are watching because it won’t be on for long, haha. I think over a matter of half an hour or so I was watching the Sheffield Shield cricket final, V8 Supercars, multiple Super 14 Rugby matches and Rugby League. Lucky the Aussie Rules hasn’t started or I daresay I would have got a dose of that too! It was a good relaxing weekend but I must say watching TV all day Sunday eventually gets boring. Was glad to get home.
I’m someone who likes to know what is going on in the world and when I stay with someone I feel cut off from happenings around the place so it was nice to get home and fiddle around on my own computer and catch up on things. And there has been plenty going on too hasn’t there!?
Another weekend away next weekend. Going to Sydney to watch Neil Diamond in concert then to Bowral on Sunday evening to Lionel Ritchie at “A Day on the Green”. I could have done without it as I have plenty of other things I need to do and I hate Sydney with a passion but Linda insisted that I go and I understand that. With her new job causing her to work long hours and myself not getting home till 10pm or so the week can go by in a blur. Nice to slow down and cach up with each other on the weekends.
Before I go I just wanted to mention Matt Goss from Tassie. He won the Milan to San Remo cycling race on Saturday. This is one of the first races I ever heard of when I was a boy and possibly sits alongside Paris to Roubaix as the cycling world’s most famous one day race. Eddy Merckx won it 7 times! So as you cna see it was a prestigious victory, the first ever by an Australian. Yet no mainstream media outlet bothered to report it. Sad. Cadel Evans has built up the sort of profile that makes it hard for the media to ignore him when he does something special but surely Matt Goss deserved a mention on the nightly news too?
Anyway, time for me to go cycling too. Bye.
Strange Notations From a Laborious Life 