It’s just past 8am and over the last 10 months or so at this time I would have been driving Monique to school but she turned 17 yesterday and got her drivers license so I am no longer required as a chaffuer on weekdays. Which is a good thing as driving over to Queanbeyan every morning was just starting to strain my patience.
She was terribly excited of course as kids tend to be when they get their license but I can only hope that she takes it easy and uses her common sense on the busy morning roads.
She went to Tuggeranong last night to pick up her sister who had been working and had a bit of an incident at the traffic lights from what I hear through the grapevine. Approaching the lights too fast, they went amber, she went to stop, realised she wasn’t going to make it and sped up again and must have been perilously close to going through the red light.
It was enough of an incident for Megan to note on her Facebook status that it was nearly her last night on earth so it must have been a little exciting.
Of course we all made mistakes like that when we first learn to drive and sometimes we make them even when we have been driving for years but I hope it gave her a good experience of what can go wrong when you are not paying attention.
P plate drivers seem to think they are invincible and immortal and fail to realise that they are driving potential lethal weapons.
I suppose we all had to follow the steep learning curve that occurs when we first get out onto the roads by ourselves and most make it through in one piece.
I think one of the things that I learnt while Monique was on her L plates was how much kids take notice of what you do when you drive and how they then mimic you when they get behind the wheel themselves. You try to explain to them that they just made a mistake and tell them not to do it again and you get the reply, “well you do it when you drive!” Only then do you realise that you may not be as good a driver as you think you are and of course kids can be cocky and it is hard to get them to do the right thing when you are doing it wrong yourself. Such is life.
Work was stressful again yesterday but I am a bit reluctant to go into details as the managing director is releasing new guidelines this week in regards to social media and what it means for Australia Post workers under the Code of Ethics and given the amount of negative stuff I’ve written about work I imagine they would probably have enough evidence to fire me a dozen times already,even before the new guidelines are announced, if they ever checked what I have been writing.
Let me just say that the free press will not be silenced but I will take note of the new guidelines. Upsetting the management at Canberra Mail Centre doesn’t worry me much but I do need the job for a little while yet so some discretion will be required on my behalf.
I guess I can still write about my observations of the place but it gets so frustrating at times that I have to vent.
I have a Tumblr account that has a private blog. Maybe I can use that for anything I really want to get out of my system.
AP really are a closed shop and very sensitive to criticism. Perhaps blogs such as these should be used as a guide to the frustrations and impotence felt by their employees rather than be seen as a tool for trashing the company as the management seems to have interpreted such things.
In any case will watch my step in future. Until the day comes that I am no longer employed by Australia Post. I can assure you that the gloves will come off then! Have great day.
Strange Notations From a Laborious Life 