Friday, March 12, 2004

How can any human being have become so twisted that they would knowingly plant a bomb designed to cause maximum carnage on a group of ordinary people? You can't apply any logic to that whatsoever.

If it was ETA then whatever cause they had is surely lost in mass revulsion. I met a group of young Basques in the summer, all handsome/beautiful, bright articulate people, proud of their Basque culture and language. I could never imagine these people having anything other than utter revulsion for this atrocity.

This would have me erring on the likelihood of Al Quaeda being the perpetrators, and frankly if anyone thinks they are heaven bound as a result of causing this they more than deserve the disappointment coming their way.

A few weeks ago theboss asked me to attend a meeting in Easterhouse on Wednesday afternoon. On Wednesday morning I got an email advising that the meeting was cancelled because colleagues at a certain place (our place) hadn't confirmed the meeting. It asked if we could make a meeting on Thursday at lunchtime instead. I mentioned this to theboss who was quite livid because she had stated to the boss of the person who wrote the email that I would attend. So she's right in there emailing back, copying all recipients into it that she didn't understand how confirmation of my attendance hadn't been made. Also that we couldn't make the lunchtime meeting.

The person then emailed back to ask if the subject of the meeting could be tagged on to another meeting that was being held today with people from our team. I checked and no-one from our team knew anything about the meeting he was referring to, so I email him back to this effect. I tried to phone him but he was in another meeting, so I left a message for him to call back in this morning.

This morning I was going into another meeting and he hadn't called so I emailed, saying that no-one knew about the meeting but that I was available if need be. I went to my meeting and came back to find an email saying that some people from another organisation were meeting with my boss in the afternoon. I spoke to theboss who said that she had cancelled that meeting earlier in the week, but hadn't realised that an other was going as well.

So several telephone calls circled around with no-one actually speaking to anybody, just leaving messages. At 11.00am the situation was I was going to have a meeting with folks from Easterhouse, confirmed with a human being on the phone, and folks from a voluntary organisation. Except come 2.00 (The meeting is at 2.30) person from Vol Org phones to say that they have had a message to cancel meeting and a message to say its on so they are confused. THEY ARE CONFUSED! My head is hurting! So I phone Easterhouse to discover the person who originated the whole email thing isn't coming but their boss is, but is coming directly there from another meeting, so can't be contacted but a voicemail message is left to say call me before coming. So I phone Vol Org person back who thinks we should cancel and I think okay, but I don't really want person coming from other meeting to arrive and we finish at 4.00 on Fridays and I need a drink I really need a drink. Other person wasn't going to get to our place until 3.00 and by ten past I think that maybe the admin person got in touch, but oh no at 3.15 they phone, having just parked the car and noticed the message. So what the hell we have the meeting. Communication in the 21st Century. Fucking Fabulous!
posted by timesnewroman at 8:26 PM  

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