found out

am back in mayfair at the hedge fund this week. officially i am supposed to be there all week but i might try and swing it so that i do my usual thursday and friday back at the head office. i stayed behind a little bit longer this evening and finished off some work that is due in a couple of days time. have not told chancer pm that i have finished early but i gave it to the application teams to check it over. hopefully its all ok and i can have a relatively easy couple of days, unlike the last couple of months. my plan of sidelining the chancer pm is working well. have found myself getting less stressed out and annoyed. i talk directly with all the teams now and keep him well and truly out of the loop. 


am not working this friday night as we have a break week in our datacenter migration project. better enjoy it because it looks like it will be 6 days a week after that until just before christmas. LA trip will be close by then so even when i am on my knees it will pick me up. 


one of the guys in my team has heard from the chancers in the head office and said they are all pissed off. they usually bill for saturday and sunday because they say they do a lot of 'work' over the weekend. basically its a piss take because i have seen them do fuck all during the week on a regular work day and probably less when they are at home on a saturday afternoon. they were just taking advantage of having a weak manager (chancer pm) who knows very little. anyways, this week they were told that they were not to do any work this weekend, which actually means, we are not paying you for weekends any more, so dont even bother lying about working. looks like their gravy train has hit the buffers. 


one of the chancers also said that he was almost certainly going to be leaving in the next few weeks when his contract was up. dude, you should have been gone long ago. you are shit at your job. i cant believe you have been IT for 10 years. you are proper shit at it and you know fuck all. the other day one of the guys had to explain to one of the chancers after they had moved a server to a new vLAN and changed its IP adress, why they were now not able to access it immediately with its name. the concept of mapping IPs to names (DNS) was news to them. £450-500/day!!!. 


actually it kind of makes sense why they were giving me dirty looks at the end of last week. they had clearly been told not to do the weekend and were losing out on that money. i let it be known i thought the work they were producing was horseshit, and the fact i am in mayfair 3 days a week is testament to that. i dont speak to any of them at all and i pretty much told them a while back to their faces that i thought they were doing it all wrong. if it hadnt been for me they might still be secure and hitting it for 14grand a month. oh well. its a good think i dont give a fuck. if they do get let go it does also reinforce what i have always thought. everyone gets found out in the end.  


cycled to the gym and did it in 15.37, which is 21 seconds outside of my record. i got held up badly in a couple of places. shit, a new record was on and i missed it. if it stays dry this weekend i will cycle both days. saturday is a good warm up and then sunday is when records can be set. will check the forecast and hope for a clear day with no wind. if it is, then its on. 


bought a new book to read. its about the dirty war in argentina and the legacy of it and am currently reading the fidel castro autobiogaphy. its fascinating. he is an intellectual and humanitarian and political giant. 


today i have mostly been listening to noam chomsky.