So Moody has departed our rainy shores for probably just as rainy ones in NZ. And in his wake he has left a nice pile of chaos for poor old CJ. I didn’t realise how bad this actually was until our weekly meeting with Tiny from IS yesterday when she turned up with a pile of papers bigger than Tiny. We joked as we entered the meeting room that they were all of the contracts she was bringing in to discuss……oh they really are? Oh dear.
After a 2 hour hand over meeting on Friday poor old CJ (and you won’t hear me say that very often and I’ve already said it twice in this blog so you understand the extremity of the situation) was left with a trail of papers, emails and unfinished contracts that could take her quite a time to sort out. She may actually have to come into the office for a full week! Shocking! Moody has failed to file any emails, they all still sit in his in-box, he hasn’t even filed them in Outlook. I’m talking about a substantial amount of emails as well, verging on the thousands. It’s ok though because he’s printed them all off so you can spend your time trawling through the remains of the rainforest for that one key contact.
We begin our meeting which normally consists of Tiny running through all the outstanding contracts. Today her tone seems rather more agitated than usual and I get the impression she’s using the absence of Moody to vent a bit. It’s understandable though as the first on her list was 15 months over due. Ahem. The second….12 months with 5 outstanding orders against it. Right, er what exactly was Moody doing with his time? CJ jumped in to defend the Kiwi by saying that in the handover meeting he had sighed a lot and muttered “this is very embarrassing…I really should have done these by now” You think? I mean I know we can be lax about the deadlines round here but you’re pushing a year and a half on this one mate.
You can imagine what this kind of pressure has done to CJ, the sighing and head holding has increased ten fold and there was an exorbitant amount of speech marks gesturing going on. To the point that sometimes she’d go to do it and stop herself because even she realised it wasn’t necessary. Stress levels on the increase and rising…watch this space for news of explosions.
I discovered that we have a Moody replacement starting on the 14th of February, a female replacement in fact, which wasn’t expected in this male dominated environment. Tiny has the new starter forms for her and CJ had had to go to HR to ask about it. One of the guys who sits behind her was on the interview panel so she asked him and he was very vague about it all. So what background does she have? Er I dunno…. But you interviewed her!? Why is it like the flippin’ secret service round here when it comes to new staff? The first thing we hear about it is when Harley walks up to introduce them in person to you and you’re shaking their hand. I’m intrigued to see how CJ handles a new lady on her domain (careful), I don’t think she’ll like it, I think there may be claws and handbags and some peeing on the furniture going on. Oh I do look forward to that. At the moment she’s lucky to have placid old Moody who lets her obnoxious comments and bare faced rudeness go over his head but I’m not sure a woman would let it slide. Well I hope she doesn't.
A flustered and stressed CJ emerged from the meeting room 40 minutes later with a list of priorities that have suddenly become hers. She disappeared for the afternoon and I haven’t seen her since. Maybe her car broke down. Or she broke down in her car?
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