Back to work this week and it hasn’t been so bad. Not a lot of pressure but a few changes in the wind which is keeping us all wondering, but apart from that, it’s been fairly relaxed although the crushing boredom is still apparent.
I’ve tried to live up to my new creed for 2012 and be a bit friendlier and sociable although I suppose others would have to judge whether that has been a success or not.
What has become very obvious to me is that Australia Post and more specifically, Canberra Mail Centre has worn me out and for the first time I am well and truly over it.
I was trying to think of a way to describe how I feel and I guess it’s just that I am sick of the mail centre and the people who run it and my patience with the rubbish that goes on there has shrivelled away.
It’s a bad way to be because I have always believed that even if you don’t like the way someone is doing their job or even if you don’t like the person doing it you should at least hold some respect for their position. And even that belief is starting to fail me.
If I was younger and not so cycnical and used up by twenty five years of working for the same corporation I could probably just grin and bear it and my reserves of perserverance would be able to deal with it and keep me on the straight course but the situation as it stands is getting untenable for me.
I was thinking about it last night and was trying to contemplate the fact that I had twenty five years service this year and would have to serve another twenty five, or close to it before I closed out my employment with Australia Post.
It was a very sobering realisation that came upon me!
When I think back of the trials and tribulations that have prevailed in my professional life so far it’s remarkable to think that there is possibly the same amount of time to deal with yet before I am through and I can only imagine the changes in store for us in that time to come.
It would be nice to find a new challenge although summoning the courage to get out and try something new will be hard enough. I need to find some self confidence from somwhere!
So, the week is nearly done and I hope and expect to get through the rest of the work day without any problems and have a relaxing weekend. I hope everyone who may read this blog today can do the same. Have a nice day.
I’ve tried to live up to my new creed for 2012 and be a bit friendlier and sociable although I suppose others would have to judge whether that has been a success or not.
What has become very obvious to me is that Australia Post and more specifically, Canberra Mail Centre has worn me out and for the first time I am well and truly over it.
I was trying to think of a way to describe how I feel and I guess it’s just that I am sick of the mail centre and the people who run it and my patience with the rubbish that goes on there has shrivelled away.
It’s a bad way to be because I have always believed that even if you don’t like the way someone is doing their job or even if you don’t like the person doing it you should at least hold some respect for their position. And even that belief is starting to fail me.
If I was younger and not so cycnical and used up by twenty five years of working for the same corporation I could probably just grin and bear it and my reserves of perserverance would be able to deal with it and keep me on the straight course but the situation as it stands is getting untenable for me.
I was thinking about it last night and was trying to contemplate the fact that I had twenty five years service this year and would have to serve another twenty five, or close to it before I closed out my employment with Australia Post.
It was a very sobering realisation that came upon me!
When I think back of the trials and tribulations that have prevailed in my professional life so far it’s remarkable to think that there is possibly the same amount of time to deal with yet before I am through and I can only imagine the changes in store for us in that time to come.
It would be nice to find a new challenge although summoning the courage to get out and try something new will be hard enough. I need to find some self confidence from somwhere!
So, the week is nearly done and I hope and expect to get through the rest of the work day without any problems and have a relaxing weekend. I hope everyone who may read this blog today can do the same. Have a nice day.
Strange Notations From a Laborious Life 