A very hot day

Indeedy, it was. Apparently I’m working in the hottest room in our building and they’re going to use it as the baseline for regulating the air conditioning. But that won’t happen for two weeks. And how dumb is it that our building, which is very large and sprawling, has an air con system that has only one thermostat? That’s making a pretty big assumption about how even the temperature is throughout the building. Yes, I’m sure the builders knew what they were doing when they designed it.

Another thing I’ve discovered: the union that deals with such things has agreed with the management that there is a temperature BELOW which we should not be made to work. A good and wise decision. Unfortunately they couldn’t agree on a temperature ABOVE which we couldn’t work. So there’s no real incentive to get the air con fixed from an employee health and safety point of view.

browsing: Liked the illustration on the Money and Love T-shirt, it reminds me of some kind of sixties movie intro animations, Saul Bass-like, or Czech posters of the same era. I think I know someone who’d like these.

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Working tonight

We’re somewhat busy at work, so I’ve brought some home. Always a good sign.

Especially since I have next week off, and it looks like I’ll be taking more work home to do over the weekend. There is an implicit understanding that my holiday doesn’t start officially until Monday – which of course technically it doesn’t, as I can only be on holiday on days when I wouldn’t otherwise be at work, so the weekend is just a hiatus between work, not a holiday. So asking me to work this weekend is seen as acceptable.

There’s no point wingeing about it. I could have said “no”. But then there’s a lot of things I could have done:-

  • started work on time at 8.15am (rather than early at 7.45am)
  • stopped working during my lunch break (rather than worked through – not allowable as overtime)
  • left at 4.30pm (rather than stay to 5.30pm – allowable as overtime)

The rules don’t apply to work (or perhaps there are no rules).

It wouldn’t be so bad if it hasn’t been this way or worse for the whole time I’ve been at work (with rare exceptions).

The Work:

I’m putting together a new brochure for a company that produces bathroom stuff – showers, baths, sinks, toilets all that kind of thing. We’ve been through a short design process, and now it’s time to work up the whole brochure, with all their products. It’s got die-cutting and stuff – woohoo! Or at least that’s what I suggested in the designs – come to think of it, I haven’t actually had that confirmed yet. Little dreams that could be dashed at any moment . . .

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GeoTagging 3

Another interesting application of GeoTagging/GeoBlogging. The map it produces is too bulky for me to want use it on my website – very much like that weather avatar that you can get, nice idea but just too idiosyncratic. I also got half-way through setting myself up and then realised that I wasn’t that keen on people knowing exactly where I lived. I’m funny like that.

I had no qualms about finding out who were my nearest bloggers though.

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GeoTagging 2

Maybe fantastic was a bit over the top, but it is very neat.

I found, just after posting that comment, that in a later post steev had added a method to integrate with streetmap.co.uk. I’m not sure why anyone would want to do this, I’ve always thought streetmap’s maps were pretty poor and the interface sucks compared to GoogleMaps or Mappy or MultiMap. I tried it out, though. And it just confirmed my suspicions about streetmap. Certainly for the area I’m taking photos in, the neither Googles nor streetmap’s maps are very good, but Google’s look and work better and have the added functionality of the little floating speech bubbles with thumbnails. So I’ve switched back to GoogleMaps for now.

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