Key Worker.
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It's a bit daft, because if I was teaching after curfew hours, I could have a letter to excuse me. 
Just had my letter from the college and I am now officially classed as a Key Worker if stopped by the police.
You work at Timpsons?
You have no idea how close to the mark that remark is!
I have spent the last 2 WFH sessions by logging on a spreadsheet, the barrel numbers of over 600 lockers, sorting the keys into groups so we can remove the spare one, tag it with it's number, floor and room location and will be hanging them in key safes when I am next in the building on Thursday.
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Zzzzzzzzzzz.....
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Soul destroying
You have no idea how close to the mark that remark is!
I have spent the last 2 WFH sessions by logging on a spreadsheet, the barrel numbers of over 600 lockers, sorting the keys into groups so we can remove the spare one, tag it with it's number, floor and room location and will be hanging them in key safes when I am next in the building on Thursday.
Still, it needs doing, and if it's not done properly, a fegging nightmare to sort.
It's that sort of stuff that some bosses think take as long to do as to tell someone to do , complain "you haven't finished that yet?", but complain like fook if the bit that wasn't done right inconveniences them.....
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My boss is staying well away from the keys job. He hasn't got the patience, (or the common sense how best to sort them), so has left me to do it in my own good time. Didn't help after I had marked up the lockers in phase 1 that, unknown to me, someone sited a group of new lockers at the far end of the floor on one of the floors I had already done.
Buggered if I am going to re-number the lockers I've already done or chop and change to fit these in. They will get letters instead.
We had (and still have ) some ocd managers, who are pathologically opposed to using the actual serial numbers that our critical equipment comes with.
Instead, they like to have stuff renumbered with consecutive references.
Even reusing references, "just to keep things neat".
Apart from it being extra and superfluous work, it creates traceability issues (some of which could have critical consequences).
"I am after item ref. A123".
"Which one?"
FFS......
Instead, they like to have stuff renumbered with consecutive references.
Even reusing references, "just to keep things neat".
Apart from it being extra and superfluous work, it creates traceability issues (some of which could have critical consequences).
"I am after item ref. A123".
"Which one?"
FFS......
Hair pulling at times. The builders fitted them in phase 2, took all the keys out and put a piece of sticky tape on a key to each set then threw them in a plastic box. They numbered them horizontally, starting from number 1 on each floor. Seems reasonable enough but the problem with going that way is you cant add any more to the end without renumbering the others. I should say, they are box type lockers in stacks of 3 or 4 so as they work along a stack of 4 they sometimes throw a stack of 3 in and then back to 4
They then threw ALL the keys for all floors in the same box! What made it worse, (as if it was possible), was some of the numbers were totally illegible or incorrect. One number looked liked 25, (floor unknown), but turned the other way it looked like 52. So off I go to all 4 floors trying this set of keys in all the ones numbered 25 and 52 They didn't fit any of them. After figuring out what most of the other key numbers were, (assuming they had been written correctly), I was left with a number of keys and a number of blank spaces on the spreadsheet. I then systematically went round each floor trying each key in each blank locker on the sheet till I found the relevant key/locker. Number 25/52 turned out to be number 10 on the second floor!
I was unaware at the time they were installing them in phase 2 as I had numbered phase 1 vertically. If any more got added the new numbers could then follow sequentially, so imagine my horror when I found out what they had done.
If done correctly by one person it would have taken no more than 1 week. So far it has taken at least 3 weeks of my time and I reckon there is still another 2 days work.
Thankfully I have not been at it constantly or I would have had a breakdown. Managing to break the monotony by doing other things in-between doing these.
We had (and still have ) some ocd managers, who are pathologically opposed to using the actual serial numbers that our critical equipment comes with.
Instead, they like to have stuff renumbered with consecutive references.
Even reusing references, "just to keep things neat".
Apart from it being extra and superfluous work, it creates traceability issues (some of which could have critical consequences).
"I am after item ref. A123".
"Which one?"
FFS......
Like one of my old managers who would leave the 'workshop item number' in the reference books but use the same number for a new piece of equipment which was completely different. E.G. Item. Fluke Test Meter Number 123 (No other details would be recorded such as model No, serial No, Date of Purchase, Calibration etc). This gets damaged and a new one is ordered. Before it arrives a new piece of equipment arrives, (could be anything from a new kettle to an oscilloscope, doesn't matter), and he allocates that number to the new piece because "he knows" the original equipment has been scrapped. He was a nightmare but he did all the paperwork as he was the manager.
