Skip The Budgie

Oh, would you like me to go in the other room? I say, as I appear to have stumbled in on some timetable moaning. Oh no, they say, we're just talking about that thing, you know - with they guy Obviously I'm not going to name names on the internet.

Well you see, this guy successfully convinces everyone that everyone else has said it's okay and after all, who am I to argue? I tell him that one student won't be able to make it. Fsck them, he says. SO I put the wheels in motion and then the course leader turns up and enquires as to why all the students are complaining that their lecture has been moved. Now I'm not supposed to let people move around, but they wouldn't come to me if it wasn't important right? WRONG.

So the big boss comes to see me. She is very upset. She says I should have told her, that it is unacceptable, that if I do it again she will tell me IN WRITING (I don't know, by email or something?) and I am to put everything back how it was.

So here they are in the staff room, whining and moaning about the timetable, about the fact that I allowed someone to move a lecture, that I had the audacity to make changes without consulting them, that I...

The reality of course, is that after they all came and shouted at me they have now decided that this guy is Nasty Nick from Big Brother and has been playing everyone off against each other. Like I have the time for this. I'm too busy writing a mini essay on why I want the new secondment that has come up in the office. Everone wants me to get it so I'm convinced that I won't.

We all receive an email:

Once upon a time there was a kingdom called 2Q25. This was a magical kingdom because every week it was visited by the desk fairy who rearranged all the desks into pretty patterns. Every week the grumpy troll, (me, actually) came along and rearranged all the desks back again into boring rows, so that he could inhabit the kingdom of 2Q25 again. This happened for what seemed like ages. One day the grumpy troll will get hold of the desk fairy, who will then have to go to fairy hospital to have their wand surgically extracted!!

Another member of staff comes to see me and says that he is quite offended by it and has complained to the highest authority. I tell him to stop being such a whiny hippy and laugh at the funny joke. I wonder who it is who leaves the room in such a mess? Hmmm.