G’Day!

Got a new girl started today and I seem to be in charge of her daily duties (easy). Going up in the world it seems. She’s another Aussie so I am surrounded on all sides now; it’s like being the geographical equivalent of Papua New Guinea. Very chatty and bubbly and quite young (mid 20’s perhaps? Tried to work it out from her CV but it’s hard to tell) and she’s been in the UK for 3 months now. Not sure of a suitable name as yet, this will have to be considered and vetted and put to a panel of badgers before its official, I’ll keep you posted.

Poor sod has been lumbered with all of the filing shat. Actually it pretty much reminds me of me when I started here and the bollocks we were given to do. It mainly consisted of photocopying an entire back catalogue of contracts and then throwing them away 4 weeks later. After my first day I was told to ‘slow down’ as we were being too efficient and would put ourselves out of a job within days. Fair enough but there is only so much dawdling and slowing down of photocopying you can do you know? I think I might have to have the same chat with this chick as she is storming through the filing today and I’m not sure what else to give her….

Gunner organised the temp and has now fecked off to Cape Town for the week. He emailed us all this morning to say how he’d managed to get bumped up to 1st class on his BA flight and so enjoyed dinner and cocktails in the Concorde lounge before hand, has the swankiest hotel room and a view of the sea from his desk at work. I hate him. He seems to think we can employ the Aussie beyond Crimbo with the work we have to give her but I am wondering beyond Wednesday what to give her…. Ginger might be of help but she’s off to Future Ventura on Wednesday so her brain is already on the beach and she’s got a mountain of stuff to get through. Ah well, I’ll get temp signed into the system and she can check her FaceBook for 4 days like I used to. And maybe look for a new job.

I’m quite enjoying the enthusiasm of a new person though “Yay work!” “Yay filing!” Whoooo! Go team! Nice to have someone positive sat next to you who wants to have a laugh and a natter rather than a cursing, muttering, crying (yes she has cried today), cynical person. I am of course talking about Kirstie who is having a pretty shitty Monday. The whinge factor is tipping the Richter scale today so she’s been on and on and on….. I hope the new girl doesn’t think we’re all like this or have incredibly stressful jobs like Kirstie. It’s kind of odd with Little Miss Happy sat to my left and Little Miss On The Edge of a Nervous Breakdown sat to the right. My mood swings have been quite impressive today. Maybe Happy will rub off a bit on Breakdown and she’ll chill the fuck out. I’ll have a chat to Roger Hargreaves and see what we can figure out.