Day 102 – Unfinished Business

Welcome to Day 102!

It was the first day at work, albeit working from home.  Fortunately, the study-come-spare-bedroom was empty throughout the day as its participant was entrenched in playing on the PlayStation located in the dining-come-daytime-rumpus room.  This left the living room for adults but not too far away from the nephew to have the family be included.

Where was I?  Oh, that’s right! Back at work.  Sometimes when you’re delivering a project, the pass over point from project to everyday existence (operations) leaves some support characteristics forgotten or unfinished.  These elements are usually taken for granted during a project and assumed to have existing operational support arrangements in place.  t’s not until time passes with the elements in operation where the odd issue arises from unfinished business.

Unfinished business is what cropped up in the first hour of my day.  The issue arose when there was a reshuffle of positions and roles and a role to finalise these steps disappeared. This meant the hand over activity didn’t get completed. When the issue does arise, questions go to the last person who touched it; you got it, me.  Fortunately, it was a simple component and involved a product instruction sheet to be stored centrally.  Creating the document was a time consuming but putting it in place was incredibly satisfying.  All that needs to happen now is approval, and it will no longer come back to me.  Just a matter of patience.  Perfect!

On the home front, lunch was spent with my sister watching “her” show of Married at First Sight (MAFS).  The problem I discovered is that it was the second last episode which was part one of two parts with the second being shown on the night my sister returns home.  The question is, do I watch the last episode?  Watching the episode would give my sister someone she can “analyse” the show with after it aired.  Or do I go back to my normal routine.

The most frustrating aspect of the show is the way that you do not get enough information to form your own opinion.  The show is presented in such a way that there are really limited options on what you can think and know.  Essentially, the producers provide an allocution or “Voice of God” view (McQuail D p.136).  As an example, the “Voice of God” was the power radio and TV had over the information provided to its viewers before the Internet’s existence.  If the news reported something, there was no easy way of verifying or seeking information.  Therefore, if the news reported that something was a fact, it was generally accepted to be so.

Following the airing of the episode, my sister was able to seek out a podcast on the events and source a little more detail.  One of the participants shown to be wearing a “halo”, figuratively speaking, in reality isn’t the saint that’s portrayed.  So too was the portrayal of the “villain”.  It’s very difficult for me to get invested in the show, although a definite “glee” comes out when discussing the portrayal of participants given the provided facts.  There is a side of me that is disappointed in me for getting involved; mainly because there are people behind what is being portrayed in a certain light. 

The argument could be made the participants put themselves in the position in the first place.  There still seems something wrong about commenting on someone else’s life without knowing all the facts – and yet I do 🙁.   

After the “Monday morning quartering backing” between my sister and I, the rest of the afternoon was spent throwing myself into sorting out the pile of emails that had accumulated while I was on leave.

Let’s see what the cards have to say!