Two weeks on and I’m enjoying my semi retirement. I’ve done nothing today. I got up at 5 am because I was awake, had breakfast and then returned to the couch for a snooze. At the back of 8, I went for a shower and then wandered down to Aldi. Its hot today, the UV is extreme.

I feel as if the plug has been pulled, I’m absolutely knackered. The last few days digging that drainage trench and then yesterday I walked for a few hours in the blazing sun has taken its toll.  I had every intention of going out on the bike this morn, hence the early rise, but I felt as flat as a pancake.

The sum total of today goes like this; breakfast…..snooze…..shopping…..coffee….early lunch….TV then snooze…..more TV and then a bit of time in the hammock + coffee……beef vindaloo (Hot) followed by yoghurt. Now I feel like a fat sloth…….but there might still be room for chocolate.

I then put the bike rack on the car and got the bike in place for the morn. I’m going to try and get up early and head to the city for a run around the river…it’s been a while.

After I left the job I decided to send my feedback to the management, well to be honest they do invite you to do so; however I did it slightly differently. The email that is sent to you thanks you for your service to the company and then they ask a number of multiple choice questions where the options don’t really suit the answer you may wish to give. The last part is where you can let loose and have a vent, unfortunately the word count was too small for my rant and so I wrote a few pages and returned it to HR as requested and then I sent it to the national and regional managers. I thought it was time the national manager got to hear from one of the plebs because I know that the regional manager, Kirk, would have stopped it dead in its tracks.

I returned to the Tradelink store a few days later and got a very frosty response from the Luke the store manager. Initially I thought he was taking the piss when he charged me full price for the items I needed, so much for the staff pricing I was promised. I returned a few items and then I bought three drain stop ends even although I thought it was rather expensive but I needed them.

On the way home I went to Bunnings (Hardware store) and bought cheaper stop ends and returned to Tradelink to get a refund. This time manager Luke asked me to come into the office to discuss our previous conversation. Turns out that Kirk (regional Manager) told Luke many things that I never said in the email. I apparently said that everyone in the store was useless, especially Luke and I was glad that I was leaving. Looks like Kirk has been telling porky pies and so I forwarded my email to everyone in the store so that they could see what I really said. I now get staff pricing once more 🙂

The behaviour of both Luke and Kirk has surprised me somewhat. I never expected to be treated by Luke in this manner, at least confront me about what he had heard. In regards to Kirk I can’t believe he has been so stupid to think that I would not share my email with my former colleagues, what a dickhead.

It turns out that the National manager has instructed Kirk to respond to my email, still waiting for a response. I’ll give him till next weekend to reply and then I push him under the bus by confronting him about his lies, in fact even if he does reply I will still drop him in it with his boss….I feel that this is the right thing to do.

I’m looking forward to receiving that email and composing my response.