Any other requests?

A couple of readers have asked me to blog more about work.... I must admit I'm a bit nervous about doing this, as you never know who is reading. But, if I don't mention anyone's name or the name of the company, and I don't mention anything too slanderous, I think I'll be ok.

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I wrote a few paragraphs about work, read them back to myself and even I was bored. To cut a long story short, I work hard, I work alone, I don't have any gossip, the inane chat I hear coming from the accounts department on my left and the factory floor on my right drives me nuts, and I'm still skint at the end of the month.

I'm committed to installing a third party system that has been incompletely specified, poorly written, and is hard to use. All the staff that will have to use it will hate it from the word go. The only redeeming part of it from my point of view is that I had nothing to do with the setup of this project in the first place. We've started training a handful of staff on how to use the new system; one of them has already left, and another is on maternity leave. I have a new boss starting in a couple of weeks, maybe that'll liven things up, but until then I'll keep work stuff between the hours of nine and five. And since I don't blog during work hours (much), then work is pretty much off-limits here too.

Unless you really really really want to hear it. If you're having trouble sleeping, or want to find that perfect excuse to go and top yourself, then I'll tell you. But I don't want to be responsible for "I couldn't take it any more, Dan's incessant posting about his tedious dull dreary job has driven me to end it all. Just reading about it has sapped me of the will to live, I shudder to think what it's doing to that poor bloke pictured at the top of the screen..."

Save yourselves from a fate worse than mind-numbing boredom. Don't ask me to blog about work again.