Well, it has been a busy week. Well, I am sure someone has been busy. We managed to make something work after many weeks of faffing about. Well, I say work, OUR bit works, but due to multiple small faults, half the system doesn't work. This is now out of our hands, so now we have to await a third parties input. Which could be a long time. Meanwhile the customer has umpteen hundreds of pounds of kit that is virtually useless.
Another customer has had to have a building demolished. We were going to recover as much of the equipment from the building as we could, as the bulk of it was reusable as spares or to be re fitted into other sites. However, as the building was deemed unsafe (annoying, as I had only been in it a couple of days before and nothing had changed) only structural engineers were allowed in. The customer gave the person in charge of the demolition a list of things that had to be saved (a total cost in excess of £50k.) Imagine my horror seeing the building being torn apart. As far as we can ascertain, none of the kit has been recovered. (though I suspect someone has trousered it)
The strike was, as they say, a bit of a none event. Now for once, I do sympathise with many of the public sector workers who went out on strike. I work very closely with some of them, and they were sorely torn between striking or duty to the public. Unfortunately, as those of us in the private sector know, the strike will not make a jot of difference, and the workers at the bottom of the heap will have their conditions changed to their detriment. Those at the top will not be affected, and of course, the union leaders will get their 'earnings' no matter what the outcome is. So all in all, a waste of time and money for all workers concerned. Disruption for all those dependent on the said workers doing their job. Not so for the union leaders and the government. Perhaps Jeremy is wanting to shoot the wrong people. I can hear the lawyers rubbing their hands together from here.
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