Fabled Fourth Page

29 January – First day back after the long weekend didn’t bode too well because I knew we were going to be down riders and down dispatchers – three of us doing what is normally done by six or seven and Butters off to Qantas to throw bags meant being stuck with a couple of car dispatchers who don’t really know the city as intimately as one would hope.  Assigned to the late shift again despite starting at quarter to eight – probably moved more items than any day since I’ve started with Toll but far too messy to enjoy it, some bad routing, lots of burned jobs and even a couple lifted by one particular biker (who was only trying to help ... Yeah right, help out his bank balance maybe).  Got through the day with all parts intact and presume the rest of the week is only going to get better with a slightly better compliment of riders but this week is going to be tough.  Evening was spent over in Willoughby sorting out some technical issues for the boutique plastic corporation – most of it seemed to go pretty well this time and that will bode well for the future I’m sure.