Well the good news was that when I got into work, my email was working. Yippee!!! Ok, not normally something that we celebrate greatly, but I have had no access to work email since Friday, after some fool decided to cut through an electricity cable at HQ, so causing most of our essential systems to crash. I guess no power effects things like computers! Anyway, 80 minutes later the ones we really needed (like the one that all the 'jobs' go on) were up a running again, but I have to say that 1. I don't think I have ever heard the radio so quiet (not sure if that went down too, or just as we had no idea was was going on, nothing could go out over the radio) and 2. I am glad I don't work in the PEC or the control room. Cannot have been fun trying to run a police force by pencil and paper!!!!!
So email was finally back (not considered essential to the running of life, so they had to prioritise getting things fixed), and surprisingly I had very few emails to read - though I guess as over 50% of the force also had no email, not really a huge surprise. Anyway, we email a lot, so communication was back!!
After that is all went rather rapidly down hill. Morning was ok, not too busy, but about midday and all hell broke loose!! Nothing mega problematic, but first one then the other of us would get something to deal with that was not simple, took time. And then at the same time, loads of other people would come in all at the same time. So while one person was tied up with something, the other would get hammered, and vice versa, and so it continued for about four hours. I didn't get to eat my lunch until about half four (normally I would have it between 12 and 2), and at one point I must have had about half a dozen half completed tasks on my desk or scattered around the office!!!!
It's times like these that you love the stupid questions like - 'Where is the court, the directions said opposite the police station' - yeah the directions didn't lie, it is the building opposite with court written on it in fuck off big letters; and -'When I reported my purse/phone/will to live lost several weeks ago, and you said that you would call me it it/they were handed in, well I thought I would just check' - As we said at the time we took the report (ie whole point of taking the fucking thing!), we will be in contact if your items come in. Grrrrr, but we smile sweetly even though we were about to drop to floor limp with hunger pangs and our bladders were starting to feel like we had consumed the entire contents of the Thames, and assist our lovely customers with a cheerful joy. Ok, being slightly sarcastic here, but we do try to be helpful.
And can I just point out for like the four billionth time we are the police, not the council, the parking shop, directory enquiries, or the bus company so we cannot help you with you council tax, your parking ticket, the phone number for Tesco or what time the next bus goes to Timbuktu!!!!!!!!!
God I was glad to go home, but I do love my job, and today was certainly not boring!!!! :)
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