The Twilight Zone
Monday, say 8:15 Claudia?
You are about to enter another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land of imagination. Next stop, the Twilight Zone! In my Twilight Zone, the office is fully staffed, the clients read their mail and Claudia Schiffer comes round twice a day to rub me down with a copy of Whillans Tax Tables.
Back in the real world the staff numbers are dwindling so rapidly we may soon be exchanging company cars for a company skateboard. My boss said to me this morning that soon it would be just me and him, forgetting that he's off to Cornwall for a break whilst I'm off to Paris. We have one member of staff on maternity leave, one taking her final exams, one of for a month with shingles, a temp who only comes in two days a week and this morning I received a phone call to say one of our other ladies was in hospital with a suspected pulmonary embolism.
Coupled with that the two women left on my team can't stand each other and spend all the time they are in the same room sniping at each other!
Anyway these problems are minor irritations to those people in the Midlands who are seeing their homes slowly disappear beneath the waters of the Severn, Avon or Thames. They are also small beer compared with the problems of a client I saw yesterday whose husband has run up personal debts of £80,000 in two years without so much as a new suit to show for it.
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Work! Who needs it? Well, all of us, actually. This is a shame really since I know so few people who are happy at work. Last year 3 out of my wife's 4 technicians left in a 3 month period. It was traumatic at the time but eventually she got replacements who are at least as good as the ones who left.
I've more or less decided not to blog about work : nobody would believe a word of it, especially the one about the bloke who requisitioned a Ferrari just to see how far it would get. (The requisition, that is, not the Ferrari!)
Now that would have been cool - requisitioning a Ferrari!
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