Gavin sent me one of his 'Boss Not Happy' e-mails today and nearly drove me to pencilling a resignation later. There was something he had wanted me to do, that I had not done, and then it transpired that he had not asked me to do it at all, and he should have been moaning at someone in Dorset. But then it turned out that he hadn't asked them to do it either, so actually it's his own fault.
He eventually admitted his mistake but wasn't quite as ready with an apology as he had been with an early-morning bollocking. Funny how that's true of managers. I'm sure that's a phenomenon you've encountered yourself - the negative stuff you do gets thrown at you instantly, but when they're in the wrong you're more likely to find yourself shitting gold than to find yourself hearing 'I'm sorry'.
RC 16-1-23
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