privateTortoise

Boat, sea, splash.

Allegedly ex PM Edward Heath pushed a few overboard if you believe his bodyguard.

Keep calm, remember to breath and don't stand out.

Sounds perfect to me, happily I'm good at self motivation but the bosses I keep finding tend to then expect more than the 100% I already give.

I'm not someone that volunteers for everything just enjoy doing my job (electronic security engineer) right. But once the boss repeatedly pushes I just walk away.

You'll enjoy this then.

Last boss would ask me if I wanted to go and have a fight in the carpark, completely out of the blue and for no discernible reason I could fathom. This would happen when we worked on the same job and after the 3rd time of asking I said why. His reply was he is making a joke.

I know its not due to my performance, dealing with customers or way I converse with fellow employees but don't see the humour. I would say any ideas but the boss already found the van returned to the office the following morning after the straw that broke my camels back so to speak.

He had said to me 'I won't be happy if I have to go to the job'. The job being a faulty automatic gate, in a puddle of water, in the rain and I need the power on (240v AC) to be able to test the controller and input sensors. I laughed at him over the phone then hung up.

I know it's me somehow I am a bit touched in the head. I'll never want to be a boss but I'll track doen your book as it'll probably show me ways on how to improve a boss without them thinking they can take advantage.

A guy vaguely related to me in the US got excited after discovering his Scottish ancestry and upon hearing of a ruined castle started with ideas of saving it. He was rich but this was before the intertnet so only realised his idea was but a folly that could never come to pass after flying over. Its still a few walls but thankfully any mad enough to hike there are sane enough to realise a bird landing could bring it all down.

It is quite an achievement tracing family back, it gets murkey surprisingly fast. Also helps giving a grasp of life expectancy rates of 30-35 years old from my oldest ancestors shows how dam lucky each of us is on being here. A fair few of mine 400 years ago made it into their 50 and 60s but a heck of a lot died young.