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I really like my job. I like what I do and I enjoy the challenges that it provides.

But sometimes I really hate where I work.

Like today for example. There are renovations being done on our level at the moment. They are up to the painting stage of the renovations, and because it absolutely has to be completed by friday they are painting while we are working.

Yesterday was very bad, the smell of the paint was very chemically and you could smell it everywhere. I work on level 6 and I could smell it in the foyer on the ground floor. 5 minutes after getting to work I had a headache. An hour and a half later I went home. The paint that they were using was a special quick dry formula primer that is supposedly the worst for fumes according to the painters.

Todays paint doesn’t smell any where near as bad but I’m being affected far worse today. I have had to resort to using my inhaler twice as I felt athsma attacks starting. I’m not impressed at all that I had to do that, as it has been over a year since my last attack. Needless to say I’m no longer at work. I’ve gone home and am working remotely for the rest of today, and most likely the rest of the week. It is not worth the risk to my health to hang around in the fumes when I am perfectly capable of doing my job from any remote location with an internet connection.

My inlaws got broadband yesterday. They’ve been using telstra bigpond dial up for close to a year now and have enjoyed having all their services (Foxtel, internet, home & mobile phones) on the one bill.

I try not to talk much computer stuff with them, as for I always end up spending time helping out. An example is the new computer they got recently that I was asked to help them “put it together”.

Any way, back to the broadband connection. I haven’t got the full details but basically a sales drone called the inlaws house and spoke to my father in law. And in less then an hour they had an installer at their house hooking them up. That just screams inappropriate to me. I’ll have to head around there some time soon to ensure that they have the appropriate software to avoid their machine getting trojaned to hell and back.

Well, we were worried that it might happen, but I had hoped that it would take longer than this. One of the new developers that we hired at work has quit. He only started 2 weeks ago, but apparently got a better offer from another application that he had in when he applied with us.

Oh, well. It was good while it lasted.

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