Tuesday, 2 July 2019

Off to Slough I go...


Travelling today, arriving tonight, with the first activity kicking off over breakfast at 8am tomorrow. Apparently, we’ll be supplied with croissants, pastries and coffee, and all we have to bring along is ‘enthusiasm to learn.’
Can you sense the excitement and anticipation oozing from every pore of my body?
I’ve packed lots of reading material and loaded Skype on my work laptop so I can get to see my child while I’m languishing in the Hotel Hellhole for three days solid. I imagine I’ll come back with absolutely no new knowledge of any worth, and a backlog of work to get on with at all 4 garages I manage.

It’s mad to think that it was this time last year I accepted the new position. Feels hard to remember the days when I only had one filling station and half-a-dozen employees under my command! And oh, how I yearn for those days to return. Everyone who works ‘for’ me is delightful, but there are days when I wish there were less of them, and therefore less problems and less awkwardness when it comes to rota writing. Maybe it’s a task I should delegate, but I like it as it gives me a feeling of control, and an excuse to spend an afternoon in the office.
Right – I can’t delay it any longer. Time to hit the good old A14.

RC 2-7-19

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