Driving in the Bush!!

Driving in the Bush!!

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Day in the life of an Ops Manager in Africa!!

I had a transfer scheduled to leave the lodge this morning at 7am with ice for all the camps.  The transfer was supposed to be taking staff in who had been on leave.  One of them didn’t turn up and when I spoke to him he claimed he wasn’t supposed to be back in until tomorrow when he knows full well that I have no relief chef for him.  He lives too far away to send someone to go and pick him up in time either.  So I've had to make a Kitchen Porters day and promote him to head chef for this evening!!  I then opened the freezer which the ice is kept in to find it empty.  It’s Sunday and the workshop is closed on a Sunday and they’re supposed to fill up the freezer with the blocks of ice that our machine makes.  So I had to go and get our workshop manager out of bed to get the keys to get the ice.  So in reality my 0700 transfer left at 0815!!  Very annoying.

On top of that the power was going on and off all day yesterday so the aircon in my office has decided not to work today and it’s about 38 degrees.


I then finally made it to our 8am meeting at 8:45 this morning as I'd been running round like a mad woman.  It was all made worthwhile when we got marooned on the library deck when “Wonky” (who is famous for walking through the lodge) and her family decided to pay us a visit.  They walked straight through the lodge one of them actually rang the reception bell was very funny.  I unfortunately didn’t have my camera on me, we made a sneaky exit round the back and managed to get back to our offices.  Where I was thrown back into work as my radio was buzzing from the camps calling out for all sorts.

I then looked up to see an elephant just outside my office window.  What a world I've ended up living in.






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