Contacting our IT department, I found they were at the Katoomba depot which I'd been trying to ring since getting in that morning so we could arrange to collect the car. Shane sounded rather harrassed and would get back to us later he said. So, not being able to do anything else without my computer working, Gillian and I headed up to Katoomba to see if we could get the car.
On arrival at the depot we found it was like the Marie Celeste - it took us quite a while to find a person from Stores who could help us. He wasn't having a good morning either; not only was their phone and computer system out of order, someone had put a padlock over their padlock so they couldn't get into their yard, making accepting deliveries a problem.
Then the guy couldn't find the key for the office where the keys for the fleet cars are kept and had to call on someone else to help. Gillian and I are getting a little hysterical about all the time we are wasting by now.
The car we've been assigned is a Toyota Prius, a hybrid car and it has a few differences from normal petrol cars which the fellow tried running us through. He ran into difficulties showing us how to reverse the car - it owuldn't go. He muttered something about how it'd played up when they'd taken it down to Canberra (also our destination). Gillian and I were begging him to give us another car. Please!
Finally he worked out the car wasn't working because he had the door open. Worked fine once he'd closed it.
As you can see from the picture, we're not going to this conference anonymously.
Anyway, we got back to Springwood without incident and, computer problems meanwhile having been resolved, I was able to complete all my work by close of business.
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