Oh no I'm not...

The penultimate day at work today and it's a small relief that none of the managers are in the office meaning it's a quiet day all around in terms of being pestered and leaves plenty of time to get on with what needs to be done.

There was somewhat of a surprise towards the end of the day when one of the developers comes up to me and starts to tell me what I need to do tomorrow in terms of work, and he looked even more surprised when I told him that I wasn't in work tomorrow and no body had even asked if I could work tomorrow either. From what I can gather he was given the impression that I was by one of the managers, who had neither broached me about the subject or even asked outright for that matter. Not that it matters much because I can't work tomorrow even if I wanted to since I've got the car booked in for it's oil service at 12 noon, for which I need to go to Oxford.

After work I head off down the gym and whilst it's quite pleasant to start with by the time I get down to the weights room it has yet again been filled with a load of yobs who are generally hogging all the machines, sitting around in big groups and making life very difficult for those people who are not part of their gang and wish to use the machines they are currently using as loitering posts. I do finally managed to do my routine but only after being badly put out by people who when questioned about using the machine they have placed their arse on and subsequently are doing nothing with quite categorically state that in fact they are using the machine and then promptly launch themselves into a display of adolescent manliness by frantically trying to build muscles.

Matters reached a head when my Personal Trainer couldn't get into his office because another group had decided to set up an impromptu boxercise ring outside his door, and which point I departed leaving one very fuming trainer about ready to show the amateurs exactly how to punch and where it hurts most.

Unfortunately the above seems to be increasing in regularity which leads me to think that I'm either going to have to change the times I go to the gym or change my gym entirely. We'll have to see how things go, after all the word on the grapevine is that the behaviour of these fellas has been noted after numerous complaints from other members to the owner of the gym and it's staff.

Posted by Abi on the April 5, 2006 10:11 PM

sjon at April 10, 2006 6:54 AM