work, wine and wine fairs

So, after playing musical chairs with bosses for the last year, the music seems to have come to a halt. Course, it kind of helps if someone (like, I don't know, say HR!) actually informs said boss of their direct reports. Not like that would be useful information or anything. After a month, I happened to be in the same office as my boss for the first time. I know she has been extremely busy for a while so wasn't too worried about the lack of contact and only slightly suspected that perhaps she didn't know about me. I asked if she would sign off holiday leave for me. She asked me to repeat myself. On doing so, she was rendered speechless. She had no idea I reported into her, and whats more, her boss, the same person I sit in project meetings with on a fortnightly basis, also didn't know I reported into her.

The fact that I found this funny and not terribly surprising says it all about the company I work for. Idiots.

However, for compensation, the oddbins wine fair information is finally up (not that I've been haunting their website for weeks waiting for it, or anything) We went last year and had a great time, and I discovered a number of wonderful wines. This year, I'm not going to take notes on the order form, because then when you've placed your order on said order form, and they ring you a week later to ask for confirmation, you have nothing left to help remember through the drunken haze exactly what it was that you ordered. Last year, for some unknown reason, I ordered three bottles of champagne. I quite like champagne, but we drink it very rarely and get given it more often than we drink it, so buying it just fills the wine racks. I'm really looking forward to trying lots of different wines, and this year, when I like one, I'm going to buy more than a few bottles.

Interesting icon for cynical. I'm not sure its representative really. Guess I better get used to it though, I think its going to be one of those years.