What was yours? Mine was on Wednesday

I work on 100 % commission and on Wednesday I had one guy turn down an offer for a 25% pay rise. Another guy fail to turn up at his meeting (which would have led to an offer) and another guy fail at his final interview. Well I went home safe in the knowledge that I will have days which are much worse than that (and hopefully better ones). But what constitutes a bad day for you? (And don't say Mondays Gav)

-- Anonymous, October 20, 2000

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My bad days at the moment usually seem to revolve around having difficulty getting into work....Tuesday morning I'd woken up a little late (15 mins and not a problem), went to ring taxi to take me to the train station only to find that the home phone wasn't working and that I'd ran out of credit on my poxy mobile! went to the back door to go and get my bike so I could cycle only to break the key in the lock so I couldn't get out, had to walk all the way around the block of houses to get said bike, cycled up to the tube station only to find my tube had been cancelled and the next one wasn't for 20 mins, got on the tube which decided to go horrendously slow and eventually turned up for work 1.5hrs late and stressed big style....

Last night was bad as well......took me 1.5 hrs to get from Euston to Watford which would normally take 22 mins......I wanna move back to Switzerland where they've got a decent public transport system!!

-- Anonymous, October 20, 2000

I thought I was going to have one on Wednesday. Wedenesday night was planned to be the grand opening of the Peugeot dealership in Derby that we had been working on for the past year and a bit. The MD from Peugeot UK was going to be there and opening it was none other than Cat Deeley!

Anyway on Tuesday afternoon the signage was only just being fitted and the power for the signage only being routed. When the signage was tested the circuits tripped which meant there was no external lighting either! The circuit was meant to have been upgraded but the Electricians had upgraded the wrong circuit!!

At 6.20 pm on Wednesday evening the circuit wasa finally upgraded and the signage and the lighting worked. The event started at 6.30pm. I'd challenge Anneka to pull that one off (no rude comments please!).

-- Anonymous, October 20, 2000

We were having a tough time at work, and a girl who I'd recruited from our shop floor into her perfect job as support in the IT department had to be told she was going back into production. Now this girl had balls. Little, hard, bundle of fun. She ook it superbly. Asked if she would be able to come back when things turned up, asked about training while she was back on the shop floor, was just so unbelievable positive.

Within 6 weeks we had a pile of new orders and I was allowed to get her back. She was so grateful. If anything she was even more positive, enthusiastic, great to have around.

6 months later, without me knowing the senior management decided that again we were over staffed and we needed to move people around. Yet again it fell on my wee girl. Yet again my boss was off-site for the day (never forgave him for that).

I was called into HR and told what was happening. The factory had been full of rumours that 9 people were effected and everyone had worked out who 8 of them were. When I walked into our open plan office the banter between the 4 girls was electric, they were on a little high trying to work out who was number 9. I couldn't get a word in to break the chat, as their joking got more and more excitable. Eventually there was a break in proceedings and I has to say 'can you come with me to HR'. I've never seen such a change in an atmosphere.

The poor girl came with me, but had instantly filled up. This time she was just broken. As HR went through the motions ('very sorry', 'unfortunate situation' bllox) she just sat and sobbed. This would have been bad enough any normal circumstances but having seen her positive stance 6 months earlier it was just heart breaking.

In a totally uncool, and very un-HR (and probably dodgily un PC sort of way) when we left the room I gave her a cuddle, but it was as much for my comfort as hers.

-- Anonymous, October 20, 2000

All of them.

I may have mentioned before that I subscribe to Little Bobby Thompson's philosophy on this issue, namely, "It's unlucky to gan back to work the day after you've been off". (-;

-- Anonymous, October 20, 2000

Every Thursday, is a bad day in North Shields. It's Nutter day and pension day and all the crazy inhabitants (and the senile) are let loose onto the streets on Tynseide to collect their benefits and pester the life of the local shop keepers. I can't cope wiht it any more. I fear I am going insane due to having to put up with all these smelly, incontenent, total friutcakes that decend on my little shop every Thusrday.

-- Anonymous, October 20, 2000

A bad day for me is a lot more mundane than most on here. Usually associated with computers - or the weather damaging my experiments. I tried to load Norton anti-virus without completely removing McAffee anti-virus (our IT whiz?? said it would be Okay) and what was left of McAffee took control of the CPU, swor a vow of silence, and retreated into a Monastery. It took the IT guys 2 weeks to get it back! A tornado took about half of an experiment I planted. Managed to salvage something but it will all have to be repeated next year damn it.

-- Anonymous, October 21, 2000

I've noticed that North Shields does seem to have more than its fair share of weirdos, and planet Earth's 'off-cuts', Rik.
I'm only pleased I didn't pop in yesterday for some batteries after all!

-- Anonymous, October 21, 2000