12 May 2010

if i go to qatar i take it all

it is one of this mornings were you should already stay in bed before you start doing anything else.
actually it started yesterday already.
i am now back in qatar a have to do some support work for our customer on site. it is kind of natural that there are some things which needs to be repaired like there is one pcb that needs to be changed.
it is normally a thing from 15 minutes to change this print, but if your colleagues have been so nice to separate all tools from the only left complete tool box makes it more "challenging" to finish that task in 15 minutes.
well actually it is impossible, first you see that the tools that you need are not in the tool box, than you point out some words in the direction of id****, f**k, bu*****t and so on (takes also a moment to finish with all those word hehehe) than you go back to the container with the rest of the tools, find that container completely unorganized but after 30 minutes of searching you will find the tool that you need, not in good shape but at least you find it.
than you go back again to change the print and find out that someone fixed the screws soooooo tight that you need so much force to loose the screws that the tool that you just found is in that bad shape that you cant loosen the screws. than comes thees words again........
of course you don't give up that easy on that screws so you try and try and try but it wont work in the end.
after 1:30 hours it decided to go home and try it on the next day (also cooled down) again.
my thinking, go there early than it is not so hot and you are awake too.

well i was so wrong, because i was not thinking far enough, mot only that my colleagues did not care about tools or other equipment, they also did not care about or car here on site.
normally you do an oil exchange after approx. 3000 km here in qatar because of the heat and when you know that you leave the country and after maybe three week an other colleague come to take the car, it is a given that you do the oil exchange even before so that the next one does not have to worry about this things an can star directly with his work.
apparently it seems that i am the only one who is thinking like that, because it happens today for the second time after i took the car over, that the warning light of to less oil was appearing in my face when i was on the way to work.
the good thing was i did not drive to far so i could turn around and park the car at the house. now i have to wait until the car garage has open to buy oil.

this thing really suck, because first of all you cant work like you want to, second it creates even more work for you plus anger. and last but not least it goes to your pocket again because you have to pay for it. even if you get the money back it still can't be that i have to pay everything and the others don't care.
so as things are going here in qatar until the garage has open it will be 9 or 10 am. after there will be so much traffic that it will take me around 1.5 hours to go to work and than i have to stay late to finish all the tasks that were on for today.

but tan the day is not over, we have a house here in qatar which our company rented out, and of curse this house needs to be cleaned from time to time.
we always had a cleaner but since he left qatar we were forced to search for a new one. our partner here in doha shall do that for us, the only thing we have to do is follow up if they are searching. but not even this is done, i handed to my colleagues all the contact numbers but when i asked now the person in charge she told me that no one approached her for that matter.
so this is also coming back to me.

next thing, while i am writing this blog entry here i was copying  data from my computer to the company external hard disk. we set up this hard disk in the company with a prepared folder system so that anyone who users this disk from our department knows where to search for files.
of course the first two guys who used the drive did not care about it, they did their own folder structure on the drive so that i can now search for the files manually.

it is getting better and better.......
it could be so easy but not when you work with people who make your life "interesting"

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