Sooooo dull!

At the present time I am quite staggeringly, mind numbingly, incredibly and totally bored.

I have checked all my e-mails, written various reports and documents that I needed to do, had all my meetings for the day and put a few pointless entries into my calendar. I’ve written a ‘To Do’ list which has several entries on it that I have already completed, just so I can cross them out straight away and feel good about it. I’ve rung a few people with dull, unimportant and routine enquiries and received incredulous answers that I am even bothering. Yes, you’ve got it, I’m VERY bored!

Despite the fact that I have several projects on the go and am supervising a vast amount of work which will have a major impact when it is completed, I haven’t myself been terribly busy for a while now. I put that down to the fact that I am a superb delegator and set myself realistic deadlines for achievement which mean I am not constantly rushing, and also that I manage efficient teams well so that they are on top of their work so there isn’t a crisis. Or it could just be that there isn’t much to do. My vote is on the first option!

Some respite is gained by the fact that I sit by the window, and so am able to glance out with increasing frequency and watch the world go by, or at least the portion of it that is permitted within the hallowed boundaries of the Royal Borough. Generally, that portion is well dressed, well mannered and well behaved. No oiks here, you know! We do get the occasional occurrence of road rage where someone is taking too long to park their Chelsea Tractor into a space marginally too small for it and a jam has built up behind them, but that’s about it.

There isn’t even any drama in reception; it seems even poor people in Kensington are well behaved even if some of them do smell a bit. When I worked in Crawley someone punching the glass out was a reasonably frequent occurrence, especially if they had just been told they didn’t qualify for benefit or a council house, but nothing like that ever happens here. We did once have a fraudster who was a bloke dressed as a woman trying to get housing benefit out that wasn’t his; the cashier got suspicious and he legged it, frock, high heels and all, through reception and a security door into the main offices. The fact that we are still talking about it four years on shows you that nothing else much has happened since!

There’s a limit to how inventive you can be sitting at your desk to find work to do. I do browse Facebook or the web sometimes, but my boss sits behind me so I can’t do that too often. It’s OK to write this because I do it in Word so it looks like it’s work and official, but even then I have to access the web to post it onto the blog site so can’t do that too often either. Internet shopping is out too, as it’s obvious that isn’t work! It would almost be easier if we didn’t have unlimited access to the web (provided it’s not porn, gambling or something else dodgy we can pretty much view what we like) as then the temptation wouldn’t be there.

There’s nothing else for it. I started writing this at 3.30pm and I am simply going to have to go home at four.

Oops hang on, there’s something happening outside the window…..