on my mind

Following on from my impromptu and unexpected meeting with Area Management the other week, I have now been asked to give a presentation at Head Office. They want to show me off as a shining example of how the new layout they’re doing in East Anglia is working well. Part of me (my ego) loves it, but the other part of me thinks ‘Several people lost their jobs in this change around. If I prove it works, doesn’t that mean MORE people will lose their jobs as well when this scheme is rolled out? Wouldn’t I be responsible for loads of redundancies???”

So, yeah – that’s given me something to ponder on the nights when I ain’t sleeping so well.

The good news is that it’s not until the New Year. Those Above are too busy micromanaging December sales opportunities and looking for ways to wring an extra penny or two out of our already impoverished customers to squeeze it in before Christmas. There is also then the possibility that, like so many of their previous ideas and intentions, the whole thing will get lost in its own bureaucracy and they’ll never find an aligned gap in the schedules of everyone they’d want to be there. So I’m trying to ignore it until early January, when all I’ll have to think about will be the upcoming onslaught of Easter Egg promotions and the small matter of a newborn baby at home.

RC 26-11-18