Grf

Dear defacto population of Victoria,

Please stop beating your partners up when you get home from the pub. I know it makes you feel all manly and powerful, but besides being a shitty cowardly thing to do, you're making huge amounts of work for me and breaking my concentration by making the pager go off every twenty minutes. It's very annoying.

No love,

"Jodie on-call registar".

(It's actually Jo, the on-call registrar, but I've given up correcting the cops.)

Hah.

Fear me and my Grim Reaper Inna Bag. But only if you're the government undertakers.

Second verse, same as the first...

Woke up at 1pm, and I'm off to the gym to get some blood flowing before heading off to work for the second night shift. I hope to god it's quieter than yesterday.

Oh, the Grim Reaper comment? Was something the government undertakers were saying to me - it's apparently always a busy night for them when I'm on the nightshift. Even if I didn't take most of the reports, only a few... *wry*

Another box packed as well. My, aren't I productive? And I'm planning to buy my tickets on Friday, given I've got that day off work 'cause of the night shift thing.

And here I am...

At work, and it looks like it could be quiet, if for the sole reason our phone switchboard has blown up.

Erk.

Usually what happens is when the day reception staff leave at 5, they switch over the phones to our side of things in the back office - every call comes through our phones. Only, tonight they didn't, and when the handy "I do everything" guy Kenny was there trying to fix it, everything just went down totally. They're trying to fix it now.

This could be a real problem, given people still need to report deaths to us, and the only number they have is the main one that goes through the switch. Still, I'm not a technician, and this is so not my problem, although I'll be dealing with the rather annoyed people when they do manage to get through...

Hmm, might call the Alfred and give them a direct number - I'm waiting on a call for the undertakers in two matters.

Edit: Phones fixed now, yay. Means less stress in the long run...