My Manifesto: The Incoherent Ramblings of a Madman

Ah it's been a long week.

The RTA want another copy of tender documents (yes the saga continues) for a quote that was only valid to October 4. They are trying to go through it all and knock the price down. They have had over 3 months to look over it. I have sent out 4 copies of the documents to 2 different people from the RTA. I don't know what the hell they do with their copies - but they keep asking for them. it wouldn't annoy me so much if it wasn't the same damn people asking for the copies over and over again! It is all really strange. I'd like to see how they can justify trying to cut costs in a quote that is no longer valid. The company has been knocking back other offers - infact the company is well within their rights to ask for compensation from the RTA. This whole thing is one big joke.

To many chiefs and not enough indians.

To top it all off - my boss insisted I restart my hydrology report again because he suddenly decided the catchment boundaries were different today to what he decided they were yesterday - ah having a memory like a fish must be fun.

Ignorance is bliss.

I've also got the whole problem of designing a job for the buckets way - they want 200 mm of overlay and I can't for the life of me make a road design that complies and keep to their minimum of 200 mm overlay and maximum of around 300 mm overlay. We're going out this weekend to celebrate getting another contract to do some more of the buckets way - I'm dreading every minute of doing another section of road along it.

R.I.P - here lies my sanity.

At least I have some REFs/EIS and structural designs to keep me going.

*picks self up off floor - dusts self off*