I am currently on a business trip. I have been sent for a week, even though, TBH, the work could have been done in two days with more direction. This is my first ever business trip, and they know it, but they didn't even bloody tell the people that I was coming until a week ago, and haven't really told me what they wanted me to do.
The relationship between the head of the team and the whole bloody office I work with in London is terrible. When I arrived, he just said hello to me and that's it. That's all he's said to me the whole time I've been here. I know that he used to get on very well with my old bosses, but absolutely despises the new ones, and there seems to have been a lot of crap going on between him and the management in London (I don't know why or what it's about), so he's super uncooperative. I was basically asked by someone else in London to spy on him, and I think he suspects as much. In the past, I got on well with him, felt free to ask him questions, but not any more. One of the issues that I have been told to ask about, is around outstanding audit issues which are naturally super-sensitive. All I got told about the audit was that "someone called Sandra's looking into it. She's great". The team here has barely been with the organsation three weeks, with no overlap with the old team, so they have no clue what's going on (and hence can't answer the list of essentially pointless questions I've been given to ask). They are trying their best, and are really friendly (unlike their boss).
I have yet to adjust to the local time. My body is hours behind the local time, so I have had barely any sleep, as I haven't been able to fall asleep before 2 (but getting up at 7). I am home sick, so home sick, missing DP like crazy. DP's jealous, as he never gets sent anywhere any more for work, so any complaints don't really register. The hotel is, granted, lovely, but looks out on an industrial landscape and all the other people in there also out on business, on their own, looking miserable. It's soul-destroying.
AIBU for wanting to go home now?