Last Man Standing

Long time no post, and all that.

Work this week has been pretty much as it has been the last few weeks... frustrating. There is only so many times you can explain simple concepts to someone before you go quite mad. I'm generally a very patient person, but by the middle of the week I had already pretty much run out of patience with a couple of people at work.

Pete left today, and a few others signalled their intentions to follow in the very near future, bringing the attrition in the team to near fatal levels. Despite Pete's constant piss-taking of everyone (and myself being a favoured target) I think we'll miss his complete disrespect for everything. At least he made things interesting. Considering that we were worried about having enough desk space only a couple of months ago, there are going to be an awful lot of empty desks about come mid September. It would be easy to point the finger, and attribute everything to a single cause, but I don't think that’s the case. Everyone has their own reasons... they probably all share common roots, but it wouldn't be fair to single out a single thing as the cause. Rushing to take on new staff with no experience in the run up to the ever important "Year End" isn't exactly desirable, but I don't think trying to do it with the staffing levels we'll have then if we don't is either.

I’m usually cautiously optimistic about things… a strangely cynical "things will work out ok... eventually", but I can’t see things getting any better for months.