Work stuff

[graculus]

To the great delight of the managers in particular, the local authority for which I work just got given a 3-star rating. So that means of all the local authorities auditted so far, we're one of the best and that's a bit boggling. Still, despite all the petty annoyances that working for local government can cause, this comes off the back of loads of work on the part of a load of people and my job even gets a specific mention in the report! ;)

In not-so-good news, I've somehow managed to lose my ID card/entry pass. Which is annoying, because of the aggravation I went through to get it in the first place. The last time I know I had it was Monday, because my current peripatetic state means I don't go to the main office too often and the entry pass is for there - we're supposed to wear our ID all the time but I've never done that (such a rebel!) and all the other buildings I go to have number locks. I only discovered today that it wasn't in my bag where it usually is, and it's not in my car or at home either.

My only hope is that it fell out at the other office I'm currently working at two days a week and it dropped under the desk without me noticing it. If that's the case, the worst case scenario becomes the cleaners laughing at my photo instead...

E.T.A. by a process of elimination, I remembered that I wore my suit on Monday, because I went to the main office after spending almost the whole day in court, and so I went to check and there it was! Yay! Neither mockery nor trying to get a new ID card out of people for me! :) *changes mood*

And it's Friday! Yay for Fridays! :)

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[stop_thinking]

(So I went to check and there it was! Yay!)

Oh good! I hate losing my work pass. If you lay it down and forget it in my office, you often can't remember, sneak back and retrieve it because the staff are so indoctrinated that the next person walking by will spot it and take it to Security, from where you have to embarassingly retrieve it.

Last month, I left my pass in the vending machine on purpose as I carried two coffees around the corner to colleagues, intending to come back and recommence the next batch of the round (we have a cashless office and our passes are also charge cards). In the minute I was gone, someone who doesn't know me removed the pass from the vending machine card reader and trundled it off to security. Thanks. At least they didn't buy a round with it first. *g*

[graculus.livejournal.com]

We're not up to that level of vigilance, but the main office also has public access since it's where people can go to pay their council tax and so on, so it would have been quite embarrassing to phone up and report it missing, get it deactivated and then go through the song and dance act of getting a new one...

[sazandra.livejournal.com]

the local authority for which I work just got given a 3-star rating

Doing pretty good then. I can't even remember if/what where I work has got.

we're supposed to wear our ID all the time but I've never done that (such a rebel!)

I can't remember the last time I wore mine. I keep it in my pocket while I'm at work just in case I get challenged but that's never happened. It's also quite a few years old, as in it dates from when my department was called Education and my section was called Lifelong Learning - since then Education became Learning & Culture then from 1st January this year we moved to what is now called Social & Community Services. Senior managers create merry hell every so often about people not having ID badges or them not being up to date but nobody can get new ones.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

At least this ID looks likely to have a longer lifespan than my previous one - that authority issued laminated cards, and I used to shove them in my back pocket which meant a trip through the washing machine more than once and then they fall apart. ;)