I climbed aboard the tube, yes I had swapped my Mercedes Benz with leather seats and alloy wheels for this! Grubby chairs, tin wheels and an annoying announcer telling me the entire way ‘this tube terminates at Stratford’ I sat looking aimlessly around, ok I was people watching! Some smart, some not so smart, I was surrounded by people coughing and sneezing……. It freaked me out!
I have lived in London all my life! I was born in Hampstead, Grew up in West Hampstead and Cricklewood……. I’ve never said anything bad about the city, its my home! I rarely travel by public transport, I may get on a bus about 2/3 times a year, but I am a girl if I can drive I will! Yes lazy maybe, but realistically if I have a car outside my door, with petrol, just waiting to go, then I am hardly going to decide oh lets go by bus/tube because its easier? Cause really it isn’t!
So Monday went a little bit like this (following the tube journey)
I arrived at the office at 6:55am…… I walk in and thankfully there was no one there! I claimed my new desk which I can say is smaller than the room I had on the tube! Anyways the keyboard was minging, the mouse didn’t work and the phones were beeping at me? Arghhhhhh I wanted to run screaming out the place! Now previous to my move, I was indeed treated rather badly, by the people whom I had worked with for 6 years! I had made friends, they knew me, they accepted me or so I thought! The situation was that bad before the move that even if I had a private office overlooking hot builders, with surround sound and a movie screen inside, I still wouldn’t have been happy (it’s a comfort zone thing). I wanted to see the girls walk in, Instead I was unhappy wondering whether accepting the move was the actual right thing to do!
So I took to emailing my girls, my sister, in fact anyone that would listen and respond!
My plea email went like this:
Its 7:20am.
Im not happy!
Ive been left with literally the crap!
I hate it already! The keyboard is broken, the chair is dirty and all my stuff that I had couriered over I cant find!
Tell me why I am doing this again?
They all said the same thing! That I needed to give it time and that I wasn’t going to like it straight away. I accepted that! Nothing right then was going to make me happy! NOTHING!
So anyways after getting a new keyboard, mouse and stationary, I finally managed to track down my box! It was lurking in reception! To which all my prize desk stuff was in there, which wont fit now anyways cause the desk is TINY! But hey I have a few comforts!
I then got to thinking I can work here! Ok im not dressed the best, Maybe don’t even look the part…… But I am me! who cares if I don’t have the shortest skirt or the funkiest clothes! WHO CARES! (ok me a little bit but im working on that honest) I just have to keep my head down, do my work and go home… That’s it! Simple! Then I had an idea! If I get into the office at 7am every day then officially I could change my hours from 7:30am-3:30pm (with an hour lunch) to 7:00am – 2:30pm with a half hour break! Im a frigging genius me!!!! I set to emailing the boss! I waited and waited for a response!
Then he called and said that it was fine! whooooooooooohoooooooooooo it was already 10:30am at this point! Yay! Ok the 30 mins lunch break sucks! But when its raining and just cold what would I be doing anyways!? Sitting at my desk I suppose working! Which is what normally happens!
The day indeed was getting better! So off I trot at 2.30pm, Blissful it was the tube was empty, the sun was shining and to be honest I was home 30 mins before I would normally be home!
This suited me fine!
Some pictures of the view from my office! Ok I admit all very special!
View from one window
Just behind my building
Another from just behind my building
What I can see from my desk
Im also 5 stops away from Westfield Stratford, 5/6 stops from oxford street and this does make me smile! I can “pop” down the shops at my leisure now which is great! I don’t normally venture far from home but now I can if I want!
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