drive

forgot to set my alarm and so was about 25 minutes late for work this morning. no bother, as i did a few hours over the weekend and i had stayed back most evenings last week as well to try and finish off the work the chancers should have done but hadn't. i put in my timesheet an extra day to be billed for the week. i should have put down more, but i didnt want to take the piss. as compensation for working the weekend i decided to treat myself and bought some nice new g-star jeans. i have a company that i trade through. its the way freelancers do it and my company has one employee, which is me. i have to give my employee some perks for putting in the hours because with out his work i wouldn't get paid. :-)


feel much better after a pretty boring weekend but never underestimate how much better it can make you feel when you get a good sweat on from exercise. i think thats one of the reasons why i was in such an angry mood all last week and why i had so little patience. i didnt go to the gym on the sunday before last week and also football got cancelled. i had no outlet and it was nothing but a torrent of shit coming my way. i feel so much better today and it was all from a couple of good work outs and bike rides.


work was same as always. i am still in the most shambolic project ever. its run by idiots and being implemented by chancers. oh, and i found out how the chancers managed to get their jobs. i had been wondering about it because the interview i had at the firm was a pretty decent technical grilling from the head of the windows team. it was only about 45 minutes worth of questions but he asked about lots of stuff across virtualisation and citrix and windows and clustering. it did make me wonder that the chancers surely could not have had an interview like that as they would have failed miserably.


turns it, that all the chancers have known each other for quite a few years and all worked together at their last bank. the leader of the chancers got a job at the hedge fund through being friends with a senior project manager (who was subsequently sacked a few months ago), and he then got the other 2 chancers in when they needed resource. no real interview and all done through personal recommendations, and even if there had been interviews, it was they who did the interviewing and they were obviously going to pick their friends.


there is a lot of that going on at various banks i have been at. lots of people kissing ass and trying to get jobs through friends. i am not a big believer in it, because as much as you might know some great people, its just as likely they are horse shit, and interviews should always be conducted by other people in the firm with no connections to that person, and that clearly doesn't happen.


whenever your position is dependent on someone else and not your own skills, you are going to get found out, and thats what is happening now. a few project managers that were involved in this project got sacked a few months ago before i started. another project manager had his contract not renewed and was let go a few weeks ago. this has left the chancers exposed with no protection or buffer and now they have to stand on the quality of the work they produce, and the quality is not good enough to keep them standing.


its going to be a long had week, but i will get through it. i also have to work next weekend but its stuff to do with my own project, so it should be all good and i get paid extra. even with buying a pair of g-stars, these 2 extra days will have paid for a return to ticket to los angeles. it feels better when i think of it like that. all i need after that is money for a cool car.


today i have been mostly watching the trailer for drive. it looks wicked.