Order, counter-order, disorder

It is alleged that Gaius Petronius Arbiter once wrote that

We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralisation.

This sort of sums up my professional life at the moment. I have been sat in my office for the last hour waiting to be be told when the planned INSET (In Service Training) session booked for today will start. The session was supposed to start at 2.00pm ... but the person who is supposed to be running it has not yet turned up.

I began to do some lesson preparation ... and was then told to stop what I was doing and to go to another room where the INSET was about to start.

It didn't.

After sitting there for some time, I gave up and drifted back to my office to do some work ... and almost as soon as I had started, I was told that the INSET had been cancelled ... and I was supposed to attend a faculty meeting instead.

I am now waiting to be told when the faculty meeting will start ... and where it will be held ... which is why I have time to write a blog entry whilst I am at work.

Confusion reigned ... and we all got wet!

PS. I have just been told that the faculty meeting has been cancelled! Order, counter-order, disorder ...