Had a bit of bad luck this week when the HSE turned up on one of our sites and closed it because the scaffolding was dangerous. If they’d let me know they were coming I could have sorted it out but they just turned up. I showed the woman from the HSE my site file and she was really interested. She said I should consider writing fiction as Stephen King couldn’t have made up a more horrible site than ours. Mum was really pleased that an official could see I had some real talent and said I should have asked if there were any jobs going with them. The boss asked me if I knew about the scaffolding and called me an “eighth-wit” when I said I’d helped the boys move it so they could get to the window openings. Mum said I was twice as clever as that and should ignore him if he was going to be nasty.
Week 6
Carol didn’t come into work as she was in hospital with food poisoning. She can’t blame me this time as last week I gave the office the once over when I was doing the cleaning. I made sure to bleach inside the kettle, as I know she drinks a lot of coffee.
We did our first moneymaking seminar this week as the boss is friendly with some man from the council who insists all subbies come on our safety course. I got them all to do a health and safety plan and showed them how to print off their own health and safety document from my disc without having to know anything about it. The man from the council was happy with his certificate though I had to give it to him in the pub after the course and the boss had folded it up into a brown envelope. C.D.M.
Source
Construction Manager
Postscript
All characters and companies are purely fictitious. Any resemblance to an actual company or person is quite frightening and purely coincidental
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