A few months ago you may remember I started working weekday overtime for the Call Centre upstairs.

The a few weeks ago I, during the busiest time of the year (tax year end) spent 3 hours training 3 more people from this area to call score for the Call Centre. Thus, I thought, rendering myself absolete.

In the meantime, another area (MO), where I have a lot of experience are receiving so much work that they cannot cope and have been begging me everyday to sign up with them for extra hours.

Because I have trained people for the Call Centre, and because MO are in so much trouble I decided to work for them instead. Remember this is all for the same company.

So I sent the manager from the Call Centre a quick email explaining things had gone pair shaped with MO and but that hopefully I would still be able to score some calls for her in the coming week.

Things with MO steadily got worse and I found myself under additional pressure to work for them because their manager left and they are now being overseen by my manager in the interim, who has also started begging me to work for them.

So I dropped another mail explaining the situation. Previously when I couldnt work for the Call Centre they had been cool with this, and as stated I had just trained 3 new people using my own time, so I didnt realise this would be a problem.

Boy did I mis-judge this situation. The Call Centre manager went utterly ballistic at me. Via email, of course.

Wednesday I experienced a barrage of nasty emails, all with her senior manager copied in. So I decided we should meet face to face about it. Surprisingly, she now seems to be avoiding me, but keeps making out that I am avoiding her, despite the fact I keep trapsing up the stairs to see her and leaving messages to call me.

However, I am still subject to almost daily emails about how I have let her down and how I can speak to her if I want.

Stupid fucking bitch.

Phew, feel better I got that out.

Last month alone I completed an additional 50 hours of overtime. Which is an extra week and a half of work. Ok I know its not charity and Im getting paid, but seriously man....Im exhusted.

I kindly gave myself the day off today and I sat in and watched this soppy matinee movie called "Tuesdays with Morrie". The book is great, its about a guy who is dying and who is meeting with a former student (on a Tuesday) to teach him about what he considers "The meaning of life".

Love one another, do what you love etc.

At the moment, my life is about as far from "The meaning" as humanly possible and its all because of this stupid job.

Honestly I feel sorry for these people because its all such bullshit, and yet they act as if its the whole reason they exist. Sad, sad, sad. No one in management here can see the forest for the trees.

Its all good though, because I soon as I walk out the door there for the last time I will remember not to get myself into this situation ever again. Cutting through the bullshit will get much easier, and I expect everyone to hold me to that.