Successes and reminders of reality…
I have had one of those odd weeks.
Mixed everything really. It was productive in the sense, that I completed some of my management homework. I also had a great coaching session with one of my team who drives me insane, and then gave him a good wrap up for one of our banks who rang for references. He needs to be elsewhere, not suited to working for us, we don’t pay enough, and he wants to work with money. However I did find out that apparently it’s against the rules to give references. To be honest, I never thought to ask if we were allowed to. I just did it because he deserves to be happy. There is nothing written about it in my contract, but apparently we are not allowed to make “public” statements. Ah well. They can sack me if it’s that much of a big deal if they find out.
Then one of my other people rang me, the one who went to hospital for a stroke, turns out it’s worse. She has something else. It’s not life threatening, in a way, but it does lead me to wonder what on earth she has done to deserve the crap she has dealt with in her life.
This is something else I am annoyed with, a post from someone using a forum, that I just happen to be a member of, to bag out one of my consultants. Obviously I can’t comment due to privacy laws and this frustrates me.
” …It took a day or so of literally arguing with the “customer service” girl (that’s her title, not what she does) before I contacted the TIO… “
The reason why I know who this is, is due to the discussion I had with my consultant about this particular person, and what he wrote, and what I know are two different things. I won’t let her know what he has written, she has enough on her plate, but I will be talking to my BigBoss to see if he wants to say or do anything about it.
On the positive front, I have done well with my talk about changing a process at work. I looked at what needed changing that would make my consultant’s lives easier. I wrote about it, and then apparently it looks like this leads onto the next assignment, which is project planning 
finding something and then improving it! Awesome stuff. I actually feel excited about it. It’s good that I can still find things to be excited about over work.
June 25th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
“I actually feel excited about it. It’s good that I can still find things to be excited about over work.”
I feel the same way when trying out a new washing powder…
Give that certain person who has had a few life mishaps all th best from me.
“and what he wrote, and what I know are two different things.”
I’m seeing this more and more, also, I’ve seen people I know getting mentioned - I don’t like that.
June 25th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
no, it’s starting to get a little disturbing. some of the comments on that forum are starting to get personal.