As far as i'm concerned the days of favours in work have now long gone. Dozen's of times i've left the work shop floor at ten past the hour giving the company and management at least an hour a month.

I had a meeting to attend Saturday morning and Wednesday night was practically told i had to go by a couple of people going, as my vote would be counted on, it was an AGM and there would be election of officers, so Wednesday night i trundled into work to try and get a swap, and everybody who didn't work Friday wouldn't or couldn't, i did the same Thursday night,

There were two functions on, one was, one of the girls working there, was getting married, her son working there told me, she had kept that quite as i wasn't aware of this till he told me Thursday night.

The other event crew were going to was, a long time friend of some of the crew was doing a show Friday night and staff had bought tickets to his show? ohh i would have loved to have gone to his show?

here's the local news article

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http://www.simplyredtribute.co.uk/index.htm

So i decided, or i should say i had no choice but to go in, however in all fairness to one of the lads Paul,

"Cheers Paul you are a star " 

Paul did volunteer on friday morning by text to my mobile? but i couldn't do the shift he wanted, because my girlfriend has to go to hospital for a day operation, on the date he requested and i have to drive her in, in the morning and pick her up in the evening.

Anyway getting back to the point, i went into work Friday night and asked could i finish an hour or half hour early, so i could get a little bit extra sleep and the management laughed at me.

One of them, had the balls to tell me, even though only three weeks ago he had stated,

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i've got a values award for you in the office,

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which i add i've not yet recieved?

A values award is a little piece of paper saying that Tesco appreciate your effort, to live the values of the company and thanks you for that every little bit of effort, and they take a photo of you recieving this certificate,

well i'm now of the mind, to tell them to stick it where the sun don't shine, when they actually get round to actually giving it out, from now on no more Mr nice guy, working till ten past and quarter past.   

Anyway i going off the topic 

I left bang on 7.00am and shot home and was in bed by 7.10am normally after a night shift, i surf the web read my emails and go to bed about 10am, but today i had this AGM to attend with a 10.30am start, so i set my alarm at 9.45am and text Amanda to ring my urgent at 9.50am and stuck my mobile by my ear. The phone rings and i didn't know what planet i was on it was my sister and it was 8.55am which i found out after that initial moment when your mind is somewhere out there between space and the other world. She wanted me to pop up and help another member of the family to move a bed down the stairs?

My sisters husband to be Brett was still in bed, she said he had been out on a works party till 3.30am and she couldn't disturb him? I must admitt I lost the plot and shouted get him out of bed, I would be there in ten minutes, I knew if I didn't get up I would end up falling back to sleep and would miss my meeting. I had to help this female member of the family because, she's from Newcastle and when married into the family she had moved down here and nobody else would have helped her for fear of getting a smack in the mouth,

but the marriage didn't work and after about twelve months seperated down here she's decided to move back to Newcastle, last week and had come back to get some furniture in a van, and Newcastle is like a 7 hour drive from here and she had left there 3am that morning? 

Me and Brett turned up at 9.15am and i don't know who had the worse head?    Me or Brett he had a massive hang over and looked rough  {LOL} and literally as we carrying the 1st wardrobe down the stairs, a female friend of her's and her husband turned up and gave us a hand, the van was full by 9.30am and the three male members all left, leaving the two women and the kids to put the small boxes of clothes and curtains etc into the van.

I get down to the AGM by 10.20am and i got lumbered into doing the door check and credentials to make sure who attended, there were 13 with voting powers and about the same number of members without voting powers. The elections took place and i was re-elected back into the position of Trade Union Liason Officer, i was sitting by the four tellers table and heard my name being called out at least ten times as one of the tellers was reading out the names on the ballet papers,

the other candidate must have had a vote by the branch that nominated him, but i was pleased to get such a big magority.

It was gone 2pm by the time i got home and my phone was going at 5.30pm   so i was like a bear with a soar head. Anyway i'm dayshift now for the rest of the week, got a divisional reps meeting in Cardiff which will probably see an analysis and feedback from our meeting with the company last week in Chepstow, and i need to check my dairy as i have holidays booked but can't remember the exact date, i told them any date that was free in sept/oct and i can't remember the exact date that they booked for me, so that will be a job for later today?

Sunday evening i recieved my weekly email for my column about the walking clubs their sunday extersion 

http://www.pontarddulaiswalkingclub.com/

So here's an early bit of my weekly news

It's been on all the press yesterday and today

well i think i've rambled enough for today, i'm off to mow my lawn and to hunt for my dairy to check when my holidays from work actually start