Diary Wednesday 30th November 2016

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The end of the penultimate month of 2016 and Advent Eve as well as being Saint Andrew’s Day in Scotland. Work-wise it was quite routine though work was visibly running out with far too many of us assigned to each duty before we were all sent home two hours early. One big mystery was solved. If you read my diary entry for yesterday you’ll see that management reported an ongoing investigation into one staff-member’s stolen phone. Today we found out the phone owner had the phone all the time, having failed to notice it had ended up in his sandwich box instead of its usual location in his pocket – it was all a nasty wild goose chase. No apologies were offered to the staff for treating us all like criminals. I headed to my bank to send my rent off to my landlord/landlady and I again queried why my internet banking system isn’t working and why a new password I was promised hasn’t materialized. After over an hour of going through my account details my bank-assistant discovered the bank has mis-registered my year of birth as 1952 instead of 1962, an error they have maintained for over a decade, but which seemed to be the key to my internet access problems as that depends on my adding my date of birth every use and I was putting in the right year, not the wrong one. This has now been amended. With my final welfare payment now received just days before my first week’s wages I bought the first Xmas presents I’ll be giving out this year and treated myself to a cheap bread-toaster which I put to work as soon as I arrived home. No doubt I’ll be toasting bread for some time before the novelty wears off. Arthur Chappell