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Showing posts with label office move. Show all posts
Showing posts with label office move. Show all posts

Wednesday

Fork Fallout. Temp CVs.

Receive email from Amber regarding temp replacement for Olivia during annual leave. No CVs attached. Respond accordingly. Receive immediate phone call. Effervescent voice. Over the top. Amber. Having one of those days. Hilarious. Just send CVs now. Receive email with CV attachments. Begin review. Impressive selection. Select four within budgeted salary range. Request references.

Prepare secondary boardroom for Office Move Meeting. Abandon usual Internal Meeting Biscuit Policy and provide plain Digestive biscuits along with tea and coffee. Prep audiovisual equipment for presentation of prospective floor layouts and move initiative.

Inbox flooded with fork requests and queries. Respond suggesting Dan the man is relevant point of contact.

That is all…

Monday

Decorating Action Plan

Make executive decision RE work experience placement candidate scheme. Akil pick of bad bunch. Scheme abandoned for this year. Revisit with reconsidered approach. Place more emphasis on selection process.

Receive decorating work quote from Suit Decorator. Quick response impressive. Quote not impressive. Make further executive decision to tackle work personally. Clear personal diary for this weekend. Cancel appointments in favour of work. No appointments to cancel. Task simple.

Receive email from Managing Director’s PA regarding Office Move Meeting concerns. Managing Director is concerned no progress made on “getting something in the diary.” Anger. Respond copying in Managing Director explaining progress has been made. Forward on previous email responses to moving of meeting. Forward on previous emails relating to office move formula and process.

Receive Out of Office response from Managing Director’s PA and Managing Director. Forward all correspondence including responses to outsourced IT Manager. Receive Out of Office from outsourced IT Manager. Observe outsourced IT Manager is seated directly opposite from my position. On the phone. Approach in person. Demand resolution.

That is all…

Friday

Meeting Moved

Receive email from Managing Director’s PA. Office Move meeting moved to Tuesday AM due to diary clash. Respond pointing out that this is a repeat email. Again. Forward email from yesterday regarding frustration at continuing movement of Office Move Meeting. Add addendum at frustration of receiving repeat emails and no firm answer regarding queries raised.

Receive out of office reply.

That is all…

Thursday

Office Move update

Still no response RE taxi feedback. Send follow up allstaffer regarding importance of feedback in situation. All affected. No time to be indifferent. Expect limited response.

Receive email from Managing Director’s PA. Office Move meeting moved to Tuesday AM due to diary clash. Respond pointing out that a). This email has already been received. B). Frustration at continuing movement and insecurity of meeting. Important topic. Needs to be discussed. Additional growth needs to be acted upon asap. Attached received notification. Await response. None.

Observe Olivia and Akil sharing joke. Sharing banter. Observe Akil sharing joke and banter with other staff. Akil invited to Thursday pub session. Personal invite lacking. Contemplate going to pub anyway. Decide against. No invite. No welcome.

That is all…

Taxi Update

Receive email form Managing Director’s PA. Office Move meeting moved to Tuesday AM due to diary clash. Respond accordingly.

Send out immediate allstaffer with questionnaire referring to new taxi company. Bid to ascertain passenger satisfaction after one months service. Range of possible ratings for differing areas relating to personal and client transportation. Punctuality. Cleanliness of vehicle. Suitability of vehicle. Performance of vehicle. Performance of driver. Aptitude of driver. Cleanliness of driver. Furhter section to compare and contrast trialed firm with incumbent.

Receive email from Bald Goatee. Incumbent taxi company account manager. Monthly billing clearly shows lack of action. Apologises for not “coming back to me” sooner. Wishes to resolve issues as soon as possible. Three weeks after meeting! Respond informing Bald Goatee of trial with new company. Express concern of three week meeting feedback lead time. Question punctuality and dedication of incumbent taxi firm. Inform Bald Goatee “jury is out” on new company. Will respond accordingly upon receipt of sufficient feedback on trialed company. Note to feedback to Spikey goatee.

Inspect basement storage with newly categorised inventory. All present. All correct. Note to congratulate Akil on detail.

That is all…

Tuesday

Solenoid Electromagnetic Bolt Locking System

Engineer onsite. Burly. Blocked nose. Sniff. Sniff. Doesn’t need help. Show him doors. Leave him to it.

Receive email form Managing Director’s PA. Office Move meeting moved to Thursday PM due to diary clash. Respond accordingly.

Still no response RE my event.

Contact maintenance company to book roofing expert to attend. None available for three months. Hang up. Research original company to install single ply roof. Building new build. Roof still within warranty. Contact company. Speak to roofer. Shouts down phone. Possibly deaf. Book consultation. Attending Friday AM. Check weather forecast. Dry until Thursday PM. Possible problem. Downpour would highlight flooded area. Necessary evil.

Receive emails regarding Table Spoon Policy. As predicted not popular. Refute claims of childish behaviour.

Receive response from the Man in the Scarf. Requests meeting. Counter with cleaners to improve then meeting. No response.

Send immediate email to Olivia regarding suspicious lack of sign-in and sign-out of forks. Possible explanation requested. She’ll get back to me. Smiley face. I smile.

Solenoid Electromagnetic Bolt Locking System replaced. Complete tests. Functioning within parameters. Engineer sniffs off.

That is all…