Isn’t it just the irony of life that when I had no wish to stop blogging, when I had so many exciting things coming up like Christmas, trip home, weddings, babies, bachelorette parties, etc. to blog about circumstances forced me to take a break…
Update: Everyone scared me slightly about how much detail I put up so I have taken down most of the bitching. Here is a gist for anyone who missed out ;)
My boss was fired. Him getting fired set off a crazy chain of events… No one did any work for two weeks… everyone just stared blankly at their monitors, most people took 2 hour lunches everyday and at least thrice a week there was alcohol involved at these sessions, people fucked off whenever they felt like it and took it in turns to call in sick, people picked up fights with people they believed had been involved in getting him fired, people threatened to quit, people did quit, and of course every Friday night was a major regroup and re-strategise campaign at the pub …
I had a little work drama of my own in all this… but now that has been sorted too and the person I was really pissed off at got exactly what he deserved!
So now we’re trying to pick up the pieces and move on from everything that happened in the last three weeks. People will be missed, like my ex-boss and a couple of other friends who also left… I think that we all had a really good time in the last two years and now the party is really over! Well, nothing lasts forever…
Also on that note, my friend from Madras who came to Australia the same time I did and who shared my first apartment with me and S and who washed and ironed his own clothes and cooked his own meals for the first time ever at the same time as me, is returning to Madras for good in a couple of days. I will miss him… his turn of phrase is really quite like no one else’s… we could publish a book on all the funny things he has said in the crudest manner possible… The three of us lived together for 1.5 years and it seems like such a hazy dream now… None of us had lived away from home before, we were all spoiled rotten with never having done chores before, we missed our friends (and family) terribly and tried to recreate our alcoholic party Madras lifestyle in Melbourne and realised it wasn’t quite the same…
But we had our fun and games and wild nights on the town and quiet, reflective nights in. We also had our share of fighting and hating each other, there were car troubles and university troubles and financial difficulties and struggling to make ends meet. Everything was so new and strange… like smoking in our apartment, whenever we wanted, wherever we wanted (I’m so glad we stopped that dirty habit)… That whole first experience of living away from home is really quite something and its impossible not to form this incredible bond with the people you shared it with. And its also impossible not to pick up some embarrassing stories about each other along the way… I’ll hold my tongue though, don’t want embarrassing stories about me to get out!! So anyway, we hung out this weekend one last time in Australia and it was good. The cool thing is he’ll be there in Madras when we visit and he’ll be as jobless as us so we have someone to hang out with during the day like we used to…
I’ll come around and visit everyone real soon, ok? Must get back to work now!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
10 comments:
Real dirty mess there!
A word of caution. You are never really anonymous on the net and its not really possible to access the internet from work without leaving traces. Please be a little careful when you refer to dickheads at work as dickheads, on your blog! I know people who have got into trouble with such outspokenness.
Take care
Yeah pls be careful. Believe word does get around. An ex colleague of mine read two lines of what I had written about her. I might have been justified but it didn't help later.
Wow that's certainly some turbulence at your work place!
Hmm well, I talk about my awful colleagues on my blog all the time, but who bloody cares.
Nopt sure if I want to be identified as the porn-viewing pervert though.
Hope things settle down at work soon.
penny!!! not nice to read what you had to write, but nice nevertheless to see a new post from you!! :) you take care and have fun and all that jazz!! hope to see you when yuo get into town! be good till then! :)
awww I can't believe he's leaving.will be quite funny to see him in madras now.
ready plot for office novel! hey btw, read 'e' by matt beaumont. it's all about office politics in an ad agency, written entirely in the form of intra-office emails. damn hilarious.
ok so i missed the 'original' post...but nevertheless its all good things are settling down. I know exactly what you're talking about with your housemate/roomate leaving...i know the feeling only too well. But i'm happy to finally see a post from you :)
heya PL, your post made me think of ALL the people I've lived with in ALL the houses we've shifted, and ALL the last weekends together :o)!! look forward to seeing you in Goa! tootles!
so you're back. and soon you'll jazz off to india....
I think it's quite okay to write about your work people on blog.. Even if they read it, they should how miserable they can make someone else...Some reality check maybe.
Anyways, quite eventful for you..but good to see a new post.
Cheers!
Post a Comment