Oops

In work today again since I'd offered to do an extra day. So there I am minding my own business (after finally getting a PC to work on) and for the first couple of hours everything is dandy. However by the afternoon it's suddenly gone very quiet on the old email front. I haven't had a mail from anyone, including Phil, which is odd, especially not to even get a one liner from Phil to let me know how he's getting on.

I don't think much of it really, because there are often days at work where I don't get any mail, or at least very few - and by 5pm I've happily wasted the afternoon brushing up on my photoshop skills since it appeared that no one had any work to give me to do.

It so happens that as I'm leaving work I also give Phil a call to make sure he's ok, since I'd not heard from him all day despite me sending him an email - he's fine and I even make a comment somewhere along the lines of "I ain't heard from you all day, everything ok?". Nothing too odd about that...

It's only when Phil gets home and after our usual banter, I causally say something like "I've had a really quiet day, quite pointless me even being there, I didn't even get an email off you" to which he replies "yes you did, I sent you mail at around noon!".

Hmmmm me starts to think, Phil checks his mail and indeed he did sent me mail to my work address at, you guessed it, around noon.

Suddenly then like a curiously loud bong made by an even more curiously small cymbal an idea strikes me like a fly lacking any sense of direction, and the "what if.." moved swiftly in behind.

You see I had to have this new PC set up from scratch just about, mail and everything, and to add on top of that I had to leave myself logged in on my old PC whilst the bod was sorting out the new PC too, so he could get settings and everything. So, WHAT IF, I'm now wondering, if my mail wasn't set up like I was used to it (IE, automatic send / receive every 5 mins) and DOUBLY WHAT IF the bod didn't log me out of the old PC and left my mail program running on it.

What if indeed, so with Phil as company I scuttle off to work to see if in fact my quiet afternoon was in fact fraught with tasks aplenty to which I was blissfully unaware of.

It wasn't so bad, as it turns out. There was mail there which I'd not seen which had arrived in the afternoon, and so I quickly get on and do the work which seemed most urgent, and then make a phone call to the boss to explain the situation, and why he was getting "work done" emails from me at 7pm rather than at 2pm when he'd originally sent it.

And so it appears that my mail wasn't set up as I was used to, and indeed I had been logged on to the old PC all day with my email running, and helpfully downloading items without me even knowing or in fact seeing.

I really, really, really do not like change, I am therefore a certified creature of habit.

Posted by Abi on the November 28, 2005 10:15 PM