Et Tu Brute...?
Jul. 1st, 2004 06:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hantsbearI am not in a good mood right now. Today, being the first day of the month, I have to run and dispatch a whole raft of reports, which means head down and get on with it. Unfortunaely, Sue (my no.2) was off sick, and Sylvia was out for most of the morning. There didn't appear to be an inordonate amout of calls coming in, so I put my head down and got on with my reports. At one point, one of the team comes down and asks if I could log in to take some calls, and I said to her that I would, when I had got to a stage where I could stop. Only a minute or so, but by the time I had logged on to the system, the calls subsided and I logged out. I got back to running my reports.
I had to disappear to go to the loo, and as I left the chamber of meditation, I bumped into my boss, Allan, who told me that he had just left a note on my desk asking to speak to me urgently. We went off to an empty room, and he then proceeded to tell me how he had just managed to head off a mutiny. Apparently, I had (according to my staff) been neglecting them and not supporting them. He said that they wanted me to be taking calls this morning, as they were feeling overwhelmed. He admitted that he understood that I was doing monthly reports and that the timing of this criticism was unfortunate. I mooted that the reports were important, since certain reports need to be with senior account managers by 12 noon on the first working day of the month, which he agreed with.
The thing that really pisses me off though, is the fact that certain members of my staff obviously think I am such an ogre that I cannot be approached and feel that they have to go over my head to my boss.
And it's all their fault I had to make a highly calorific chip butty tonight to cheer myself up. Pout.
I had to disappear to go to the loo, and as I left the chamber of meditation, I bumped into my boss, Allan, who told me that he had just left a note on my desk asking to speak to me urgently. We went off to an empty room, and he then proceeded to tell me how he had just managed to head off a mutiny. Apparently, I had (according to my staff) been neglecting them and not supporting them. He said that they wanted me to be taking calls this morning, as they were feeling overwhelmed. He admitted that he understood that I was doing monthly reports and that the timing of this criticism was unfortunate. I mooted that the reports were important, since certain reports need to be with senior account managers by 12 noon on the first working day of the month, which he agreed with.
The thing that really pisses me off though, is the fact that certain members of my staff obviously think I am such an ogre that I cannot be approached and feel that they have to go over my head to my boss.
And it's all their fault I had to make a highly calorific chip butty tonight to cheer myself up. Pout.
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Date: 2004-07-01 10:34 am (UTC)No order too small, every order dispatched by diver in
the shortest possible time
Have you tried this weeks special ?
Chicken in a Superlite
(comes with hidden saveloy)
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Date: 2004-07-01 10:58 am (UTC)Maybe next week, I'll try the jumbo sausage...
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Date: 2004-07-01 11:07 am (UTC)"i'n he bold!!!"
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Date: 2004-07-01 10:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-01 01:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-03 01:10 pm (UTC)And I thought you'd passed EastEnders 101!!!
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