Officially Official

Most of my staff now know that I will be leaving in a couple of months. I spoke directly to the ones I could, spoke on the phone to those that weren’t on-site, and sent personal e-mails to those I couldn’t reach by mobile. The reaction was mostly lovely, bless them. Quite a few asked if I could get them jobs at the new place, so I guess I’m not the only employee to be slightly disillusioned with life inside this company. Simone, the part-timer who also happens to be a black belt in ju-jitsu, had the nicest response: “Well, I’ll be off then. If you weren’t the boss, I’d have left last year.”
Proving that doing the right thing sometimes gets other people to do the right thing in return, and that karma may not be the joke it is often made out to be, within ten minutes of returning to my office I got a call from Gavin. He apologised for not speaking to me sooner, but said he was trying to be respectful of my current employers and not taking up too much of my time while I’m still with them. He said he’s delighted that I’m definitely joining him, and that we’ll have a meeting sometime in January with the whole management team so we can clarify the new structure and be absolutely clear about who is responsible for what. In the meantime he’ll get all the HR paperwork contract bollocks sorted so I can at least see that I have a job to go to!
Exciting, and it makes me feel more relaxed as I head into a nice long weekend.

RC 18-12-20