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Date: 09 February 2005 12:28:45
Greetings Gentle reader and welcome to totally floored. I realise that many of you may be asking why is this blog called totally floored. Is the writer referring to the state of humanity. Well yes and no really i am but the main reason is that i the floored one works the floor in a major venue. Over the time of this i hope to regale you with many interesting stories of the adventures and shenanigans myself and my fellow floories get up. What does a floorie do i hear you ask. Well in my venue we are the hub. We are the go between. When ever the client desires anything the don't need to find the various department to action their request that's my job. Of course it is not as simple as that as we fill gaps when needed and also need to negotiate between the building and the client. For some reason 20 extra tables to be delivered in ten minutes is a reasonable request to the client. But to the crew who move the tables who may only have two guys on shift and are 500 metres away in the other end of the building it is not so reasonable.
We are the clients focal point for everything once they arrive. But at times clients forget and pass their requests through housekeepers or painters or anyone else they find and then the request comes to me and we encounter a chinese whispers sort of situation. It is one of those jobs where two days are never the same and you never know what to expect. I could be moving large pallets of freight across thick carpet whilst wearing a suit one moment and the next greeting Government ministers or other VIP's.
I hope to update about once a week or so. If things are slow i will pull stories out of the back catalogue. I do hope that this blog is quite entertaining and will have the full range of human emotion to keep you the reader still wanting to read.
Till next time,
The Floored one.